Exocaching

[ATMLVE]

Some of you may be aware of Geocaching, and if you are then I'm suggesting an in-game version and you already know where I'm going. If you don't know what Geocaching is, I suggest you look it up because you might be interested, and you can almost definitely get involved.

 

Anyway, given the nature of Dual Universe I think it would be awesome to create a system of Exocaching. That is, you would go out into the universe and build a little something on a random spot of a planet or asteroid. You would then mark this location on the central Exocach database, and any other player could see the location in the database and go and find your cach, and put their name there to say they found it.

 

They could be easy, like a big pink monument in a sandy desert, or difficult, such as a little pedestal inside a small natural cave in the same said desert. They could simply be small creations with the names of the those that have found it, or they could provide clues as to the whereabouts of other cachs which aren't in the database, meaning you would have to find the first one to find all the next ones. You could even make whole treasure hunts out of them for other people to find! Although, the point of most cachs is that they don't contain anything valuable, so as to deter theft/vandalism and promote fun.

 

This sort of thing would require:

- Coordinate systems, i.e. 'xy' on planet 8 of the system at 'xyz'

- A method of keeping text in-game, i.e. minecraft signs

 

It would also need willing participants, though that isn't up to the devs. For a game like DU, where everything is made by the players and there is a huge multiplayer galaxy to explore and discover, I think this could add something fun for people to do.

 

See any reasons as to why this wouldn't work? Think it would require other features on the developers part? Is this something you would be interested in?

[Kurosawa]

awesome idea, the dynamic of Geocaching ingame could be quite fun and dynamic on many level

[Lethys]

+1

Lure the victims to me

[ShinyMagnemite]

This could also be a way to spread some lore bits throughout the game, such as some debris from other ark ships scattered around other planets.  Such as in Assassin's Creed or SWTOR.  Then you spend hours on end looking for all the damn lore objects to please yourself and get a title/rank?

Pretty popular in WoW still, I believe...



In EVE, don't people use cargo containers or something as bait or in-game ads for their corp?  I'd rather not see this exocaching system abused and have a +million Minecraft-like signs around the starting zone.

[Anaximander]

So... a scavenger hunt in space? I'm game.

[Anonymous]

Take a thing, leave a thing should def be in there too nothing valuable like you say.