I hope I don't come across as a thread-hijacker but...
your idea has given me an idea.
Since replay value is REALLY important in FusionFall
(especially since it's an MMO)
I thought maybe it would be a good idea to have a few
vending machine monsters pretend to be vending machines,
roaming around literally almost ANYWHERE on the FusionFall map
(so it's not too predictable and could induce MASS HUNTS!)
and then transform and kill you when you get close
and drop something nice. (To everyone in a few metre radius
or at least to everyone in the group.)
I think this is a cool idea because back in the Future
when I didn't have Unlimited Access, we had to just hang out
in Bad Max or Don Doom spots, talk, dance
and wait until
they respawned (would take around 45 mins to over an hour
and lots of server switching lol).
So with the same concept, a spawning vending machine monster would be cool. Maybe it doesn't have to be a monster if that takes
too much work but at least maybe a teleporting vending machine.
So as to avoid people getting bored of the limited selection
of items that could be provided, we could get user-generated
clothes/items, e.g.
making a simple t-shirt template that people can download,
modify with a graphics/drawn design and upload to FFL.
Easier than making a completely new item.
(Therefore just texture swapping.)
Dunno if the idea sounds weird but it looked cool in my mind...
Another idea is a spawning snow man that you can attack
with a snowball shooting weapon, and also if PvP was to be implemented,
then you could also throw them at other players.