Creating custom player missions for roleplay purposes

[Daved27hundred]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I really like the roleplay opportunity that player diaries added and it had me thinking "What if you could create your own missions? That'd add a lot to story potential." And here I am a week after brainstorming it. I brought my ideas up to the devcord and people liked it, which tells me this is a change people would love which is enough for me to attempt it.

Solution you would like.

I envisioned my feature to be accessible through the Mission menu, where you can select a “create personal mission” option to open a new menu where you can select a goal, a value of the goal if necessary, a name for the personal mission, a custom description, and an optional deadline. After selecting everything and accepting the mission, it's given to your character.

For simplicity's sake, these missions can't involve NPCs in the same way story missions do. The set goals exclusively relate to the player. Some examples you can choose are:

• acquiring an item/amount of an item
• crafting an item (differs from the first one since it specifically requires a crafting recipe be finished)
• reaching a level in a certain skill
• construct furniture/appliance
• learning a proficiency
• killing an enemy/amount of an enemy
• reaching a location on the map I picture something similar to either the debug menu or the container item blacklist menu appearing when you've selected a goal where the player can pick their desired goal from a table containing all monsters/items/proficiencies. If they pick craft an item as their goal they'll be brought to the craft menu to pick the recipe (same applies to construct furniture/appliance). selecting a skill they'll need to pick a number from 1 to 10, and selecting a location they're brought to the map to select one. The mission is essentially ready - the name, description, deadline and value are all extra as the mission's default name will just be the goal. If the value isn't changed then it defaults to 1. Ideally you won't be able to input values <=0. Another person recommended I add a way to distinguish custom missions from regular missions, so a (C) at the start of the name or even a simple colour change in text would work.

An example of a custom mission: Bag a moose before winter I need a good source of meat to last before the snow comes in. Kill moose: 1 Time remaining: 6 weeks 4 days

Describe alternatives you have considered.

A different keybind? Accessible through a different menu like the diary or the @ menu? I'm open to lots of suggestions so please voice your thoughts.

Additional context

I can already see players making missions titled Kill that bitchass shocker who broke my leg a week ago out of anger

[ZhilkinSerg]

That's just a glorified todo list.

[Daved27hundred]

That's just a glorified todo list.

I mean....yeah, it's a roleplay mechanic that isn't necessary for gameplay, much like the Diary. But like the diary I think it's fun to give your character this level of depth that makes them more than just a drivers seat for the player