Keographic Expedition Society

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Keographic Expedition Society

This "challenge" is loosely inspired by a @Hotel26 challenge which shall not be further discussed per it's own rules.

Create a vehicle and spawn it at the KSC. This vehicle should be some sort of amphibious vehicle not itself capable of sustaining controlled, powered flight.

 

Though if you wish to carry an aircraft onboard the vehicle for scouting or sightseeing, by all means go ahead.

Find somewhere interesting in the wilderness with your vehicle and claim your discovery. Name this point of interest and give us latitude and longitude coordinates so we can go there and mark it on a map.

 

 

Guidelines:

These are not hard rules but guidelines on how to avoid creating a mess or ending up lost in the wilderness.

 

1. Do visit other people's points of interest.

+1 score per point you visit.

+2 score for being the first to visit.

+3 score when the first visitor comes to a point you claimed.

+1 score when additional visitors come to a point you claimed.

 

2. Don't go ridiculously far away from the explored area where others have been or are going. You shouldn't have points of interest like a thousand kilometers from the nearest point anyone has ever visited. You will end up being very lonely and naming a lot of places nobody will go.

 

3. Do be efficient about water/land/cliffs/mountainous terrain. Don't deliberately try to claim points of interest in such a way that someone else's vehicle can't follow you without a massive detour.

 

4. Do create points of interest that are decently spaced out. If someone screenshots their vehicle somewhere it should be unambiguous which point of interest they are actually at. You shouldn't have multiple named points of interests within say a couple km of each other. If there are lots of cool features  in some place then think of a name for the whole area.

 

5. Do quicksave often. If you end up breaking down, you may send a repair crew, extra consumables, or a replacement vehicle from the KSC by air to the location you broke down at, or revert to you previous save. If for some reason this isn't possible you'll need to respawn at the KSC.

 

6. Do post pretty screenshots of points of interest.

 

7. Don't claim a point by flying there. You need your main vehicle to reach the point to claim/visit it.

 

8. Do feel free to have multiple simultaneous vehicles and crews. However, they still are all part of the same expedition and as such and can't get counted toward visiting your own claim or visiting a claim multiple times.

 

9. Don't claim a point of interest that's already been claimed if you can avoid it. This will be strictly first come first serve and duplicate points will not be considered legitimate. However, if there is a sincere dispute as to whether two points of interest are in fact the same or not, I shall attempt to provide a fair ruling as to what each point is. Alternatively, a panel of no fewer than two neutral experts (those who have visited the point(s) and are not claimant to either point) may resolve the dispute by majority vote. In the case of a tie, the one who visited either point first gets the final say.

 

10. Don't hack/cheat to move around. You should be able to legitimately trace everything's route from the KSC. This one actually is a rule.

Edited March 21, 2021 by Pds314