roadmap.md

Roadmap

This list here is non-exhaustive, but also non-declarative planning for features.

Nearest todo

• CODE
  • Roads
    • improvement to performance
      • use of threadpools
      • data check by chunks, with smart system going outwards from chunk player spawn in
    • checks for placement and potential routes (roads should not always go in all 8 directions, see mountains or bridges?)
  • GUI
    • fix Nico's GUI text size
    • create proper theme with custom colours
  • Entities moving
    • make list of entities on particular tile and let player select entity
    • when selected, let player move the entity and show the "path" with cost per tile (and summed up)
      • make movement "accumulate" travel points and let this reset only after travel is done (meaning if you change route during travel, it would keep the progress)
  • Locations
    • make locations' ownership binding possible on factions' file (also via Tiled)
      • colours could be inherited from banners, randomised, or custom - in the last case however we would need to make them work with palette registry and make a way for OL to know what index to point at (see #6 GH's issue that has similar concern re: colours)
  • Settlements
    • list of resources in the particular tile/settlement, with amounts
  • Emscripten pipeline to support Linux/MacOS?
  • Factions
    • button to special mode where it would show faction alignment through colours
      • colours would need to be a part of palette somehow
  • Other
    • fix palette issue
    • check optionality of data (both in Tiled exporter and OL's importer)
• TILESETS
  • more regular textured tiles (actual meadow, trees v2, grass?, singular tree?)
  • mountains & cliffs
    • hill type following these?
  • more vanilla regions
  • split off PTR map at that point (and include PTR regions then!)
• TILED INTEGRATION & TOOLING
  • plugin for specific shifting
    • single ID shift (e.g. 5 -> 30)
      • useful for changes like moving that dumb rock
    • mass ID shift (.toml file with A -> B pairs)
      • will be super useful for future landmass tileset?
  • deAI current plugin for god's sake
    • fix negative moves

0.1.0

• Locations (only the ones that can easily have no assignment, e.g. forts)
  • A way to build empty forts to showcase structure & tie them to permanent map data
    • Route mode should be turned into architecture mode?
  • ...if we set kingdom struct, we may go with assignments even, dunno
  • TODO: Make something to indicate their type (e.g. if it's fort or something else) and how this reflects further relation (e.g. how ruined fort is connected to fort)
    • probably should work like deforestation does for landscape (repair data?)
  • showcase? make a way for in-game placement of location on map
• Settlements system added
  • There should be a button "create settlement" that is enabled:
    • when you don't have any settlements as a kingdom
    • when you highlighted settler
  • ...depending on option above, you'd be able to pick any area, or one that settler stands on?
  • optionally, you could be introduced to settler entity first and do initial settlement via settler (so the system is more coherent)
• Save-wise (later) it would make sense to keep names of tilesets in Map struct
• Making sure .oldata tiles can be skipped or not have a name

0.2.0

• More tiles
  • Natural
    • rivers
  • Features
    • bridges
• Expanding tile data (.oldata) with more base info?

0.?

• Being able to dump Map object into file and load it afterwards (savegame)
• Scaling up? (60x60 tiles, 15x15 map view, x2 scale (the same system that showcases tile highlight))