[Concept] Cryptocurrencies for Fallout 4

[gir489]

I had an idea while working on the Cheat Terminal, to use an in-game terminal as a connection to the crypto world. Have it be like an exchange. This would teach potential investors the concept of percentages, fees, gains, and I was even thinking of making the user have to pay capital gains taxes, but this wouldn't make sense since no gubment anymore.

 

It would require F4SE, since it would need to consume an API for the currency prices for USD, and either trade with old world currency 1:1 for the current price, or 10:1 for Bottlecaps.

 

Example API: https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=USD&limit=10

 

This part is easy.

 

The hard part seems to be for me to get input from the user that isn't a whole bunch of menus. For people like me that have been in the crypto game since the very start (late 2009), trading for whole coins is a quick way to fall in to a FOMO trap. Any market is always about percentage gains, and forcing the user to deal with whole numbers or arbitrary decimal places is a quick way for them to fall in to the trap.

 

An idea I had to get around this, was to have a menu for whole numbers, hundres, thousands, etc. Then for decimals, have tenths, hundrenths, thousanths, etc.

 

The idea being you could 1:1 your real crypto portfolio in to the mod, and get rich twice. IRL rich and FO4 rich.

 

However, two problems stemmed from this. Entering an exact value such as 2.49945100 took almost 10 minutes, and by the time I was done entering it, ETH had already spiked again to where I couldn't afford it with the original set price money I had requested. And, I can't give the user fractions of bottlecaps.

 

Some ideas/criticisms are welcome.

Edited February 9, 2018 by gir489

[Veriner]

Can someone tell me how to mix your bitcoin so no one can see the transactions?