I thought this would be a nice thieves guild type adventure. I'm still thinking that would be a nice low level repeating task kind of job, but I came up with something a little more interesting.
What if I could start a conversation with someone in a bar and that would populate the world with clues to a hidden object. I would have to find a map in a hidden chest in a lost library that pointed me to the locations of a ruin that had a chest with another map to a lost lab where that object had been left in a research bench.
What I'm really looking for is the ability to use the FCS to place chests/items in remote locations on the map via scripts in the dialogue editor. That would give us the ability to use dialogue mods to make quests that players could write and share.
We could script a job from the assassins guild to find a wanderer someplace in the swamps and take his watch as proof of the deed.
We could script "Deliver my daughter to worlds end where she will be safe." from the HN bartender.
Or the farmer that wants magic beans bought only from the southern hive.
Or the get my husband out of slavery and bring him back to me.
to take that a step further, if we had the ability to trigger world level events/variables:
What if that object were the Emperor's Cup/amulet/crown. An item that meant whoever owned it was the "rightful" emperor of Kenshi!
Obviously if you sold it to the thieves they would pay outrageously for it. But then it would also be sold for even more to another party.
Whoever owned it would have two things happen. Little by little they would start to attract more followers from all the various factions. Those who recognize it as proof of their legitimate claim.
They would also become the instant target of all manner of invasions, assassination plots, theft attempts, ect...
All the factions would be trying to get their hands on it. It would pitch the stability of Kenshi into utter chaos.
And then you could steal it again and sell it to someone else.
What if another object was a HN relic that proclaimed you the Holy Phoenix?
These would require some kind of world level scripting access. something that would allow us to trigger invasions and spawn in new squads ect...
But the options for user generated content/stories/quests would become epic.
Just over sharing what the things that pop into my mind while I'm enjoying the game.