[Idea] Treasures. For forum quests or just as a cache.

[kerbiloid]

Inspired by the Secret Code Game thread.

 

Local places with buried treasures.
Like in Heroes of Might and Magic, when you have a puzzle with a map, where a treasure position is marked. But not necessary with a puzzle.

Can be randomly generated or intentionally planted like an invisible flag by one player and shared between others with the same mod installed.

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Say, Alice gets to some point on her choice, opens menu with "Plant flag" and other stuff, and selects menu item "Bury a treasure".
The she selects how much money does she want to dig.
If KIS installed - she also can add anything she wants from KIS inventory to the treasure.

She can write some text in a text field - a remark letter left in the treasure.

After the treasure is complete, she clicks "Done", and gets a long Base64-encoded string (looks like T65TRWIHWIG546GYW4GG...UY95T95G87=) with encrypted position, remark and item list of the treasure.
(Of course, items get removed from her inventory.) 
No visible markers are planted neither from Kerbal eyes, nor on the map. 
This string is just stored in the mod ini file with treasures list.

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She can return later and grab them back. 

Say, she remembers its position (coordinates or visually).
She goes to the treasure place and selects in the menu "Dig up a treasure.". 

If some treasure from the list exists inside several meters radius from her current position, then she gets this treasure into her stock wallet or into her KIS inventory.
Treasure gets removed from her list.

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She can share this treasure between other players with this mod installed. 
(As KSP is a standalone game, of course this means that many people can get the same treasure, but as it's standalone, this is not a problem).

Then Alice goes to the forum and posts:
"People, I have digged a treasure for you: T65TRWIHWIG546GYW4GG...UY95T95G87=.
Who solves my puzzle will receive a tip where to search.
Here is my puzzle: (any puzzle she wants: text, picture, absolutely anything)."

Bob reads the forum and reads this.
He opens the mod dialog and adds this T65TRWIHWIG546GYW4GG...UY95T95G87= string to his treasure list. 
Now he has this treasure in his game but still doesn't know where to find it.
He solves the Alice's puzzle, gets the tip like "Near the old runway, twenty steps to the north from the runway tower and ten steps towards the big stone" (or just the dull coordinates).
He goes to that point, and does that "Dig up a treasure." 
If he solved the puzzle correctly and if Alice is not a liar, he gets the loot which is encoded in this string. Treasure gets removed from his list.

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So, this can be a competition between players: who will find a published treasure first.
The remark letter in the treasure is an evidence: who published this secret letter text first, is the winner.

Edited January 25, 2017 by kerbiloid