Downtime Activity Brainstorming Thread

[Scheveningen]

My first project returning to freelance development will be trying to add more activities that can be directly taken advantage of for those playing off-duty or otherwise playing a normal job role but has an opportunity within the course of their shift to simply take a break and unwind. A spaceman should ideally not have to be dependent on the cook or a bartender/barista to get some interaction and exist in a gathering space.

Before anyone posts their ideas, keep in mind a few guidelines.

1. The activity in question cannot be used to somehow gain a mechanical or economic advantage to the wider ship. So even if the idea is to rework gambling to be more interesting, the investment/return should be neutral or worse.
2. The activity cannot be too complex for even an experienced developer to take on as a project alone.
3. The activity shouldn't resemble something you can't already do for shipside already.

[Peppermint]

The VR games used for some old events would be cool. Albeit in small numbers so they don't have too many people using them at one time and taking away from the round.

[greenjoe]

Some ideas I have:

NERF guns (of course with a lore-friendly name): Brightly colored toy guns that fire foam round. Do no damage when they hit someone but show a message in chat.
Fencing: Either as a Holodeck setting, or some fencing supplies stored somewhere, fencing foils would do minimal damage (not really any more then other generic stuff around the ship does. fencing armor would protect from it, safety first after all), but show a message in chat.
Football: Footballs that are kick-able like Schlorrrgos, and a football pitch holodeck setting.
More card games: I've seen a number of different card game types on different servers, some of those may be neat to port. One example is a game similar to Cards against Humanity.
Gym: Treadmills for the gym?

[wowzewow]

I guess you could re-use some of my ideas from here.

Some new ones :

Departmental Exchange Program (self explanatory)

Musical Chairs (I've implemented picking up chair code and there's plenty of jukeboxes...)

Spin-The-Bottle

 

Edited September 24, 2022 by wowzewow

[Evandorf]

I think a dart board would be fun. Put it in the lounge for drunken patrons to make bad decisions with and generate work for medical.

[Boggle08]

Aurora will continue to be far away from Magnum Opus status, so long as it is bereft of a fishing minigame.

Edited September 26, 2022 by Boggle08

[Evandorf]

3 hours ago, Boggle08 said:

Aurora will continue to be far away from Magnum Opus status, so long as it is bereft of a fishing minigame.

We can already see shoals of carp on sensors. Just throw out a line as we drive by. 

[Evandorf]

How about a body mod/tatoo salon? Possibly near the rec area, there's a decent maint space above cryo. Basically lets someone give you body markings outside of character creation.

[Scheveningen]

Pushing pause on my working on this until something related to a current situation I'm dealing with atm resolves itself.