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News on the mission career addition

Added 2021-07-31 19:37:36 +0000 UTC

A couple of weeks ago, I mentioned that I was starting to work on a mission career addition to the Archaeology Kit.

Well, the work-in-progress continues. I have more missions now with more variety in the types objectives you need to accomplish.

One type of mission I'm working on this weekend is an expedition-type situation. You go to a specific lot, a few other Archaeologists show up and everyone starts looking for dig piles and digging up artifacts.

I'm trying to think of some things that can be done during one of these expeditions. Finding dig piles and excavating things are some obvious objectives, but I'd like some more.

If your role is to lead the expedition, maybe delivering an archaeological lecture to your 'staff' at the beginning of it or collecting dirt clumps from them throughout the situation for later extraction. Assigning them to work specific dig piles, perhaps?

It will be a bit longer before this addition is ready for release. I've put together some tools for myself to help speed the development of each mission gig, but it's still taking me longer than I'd like each time.

I've been trying to avoid having the objectives be too repetitive, like two different missions requiring the exact same activity but in different regions, though maybe that's how to build up a larger library of them for the picker to choose to display.

More suggestions would be welcome in the comments below!