New jobs for computer terminals

[Han.]

Location: Downtown offices near biker's bar / El Corrupto Grande Bank
Activity: Players who have the job there can interact with terminals to access a "mini-game" (same style as the buy menu from shops if no new UI to be added), after responding them correctly like 5 times in a row, that player gets paid and receives a small cooldown to interact with the terminals again.

This interaction could be a randomized and simple math operation for the bank, and/or a Fallout like hacking for the downtown offices. These areas would have space for multiple workers and roleplaying between the cooldowns.

[Klaus]

I'm not too sure about this.

I need more of an explanation how these mini-games would look and work.

[Han.]

To simulate working at the bank, terminals there would have an interaction similar to the /buy menus we have. At the top of the menu it would show a randomized and simple math operation. The menus would give the player a randomized 5 + 3 for example and a list of possible answers. A basic "quiz" menu to simulate the work that requires attention (You won't just speedrun answers without reading for cash). 5 correct answers and you get paid for the work with a minute cooldown.

For the office terminals, similar flow. It would randomize codes you need to select from the list such as "AXLZP", only one being correct. At the top it would tell you two characters included in the correct code, you need to figure which one is the right one 5 times so you can get paid.

That's an initial idea for HOW they would work. It's simple and functional, other ideas can be discussed but if we go with this one it's not too demanding to implement, we have a good base with existing and similar functions. I kept it simplified to not overcomplicate and demand much for these new activities IF accepted.

[Nylez]

This idea would be fantastic if we forced players to work together while doing this job.

Having to activate 3 different computers around the office with a specific key code at the same time to even be able to start the job (Therefore you need 3 people at least.)

And we could even go a step further and force one of the 3 people to leave the office and find a working computer somewhere else because you need to download data over there and transfer it back to the office.

I think a lot of possibilities can be created out of this if we truly brainstorm within the possibilities of VCMP.

[Han.]

I like the idea of a cooperative mode for these jobs, but i don't think we should lock it like that.

Ideally both. You can do it alone (even if more people are using the other terminals around) OR do with others for a better and shared reward. Initially if implemented, i'd vote for keeping it simple, and maybe in a future implementation add these extras.