To do

[Dr Brain]

Items with groundwork already laid

• Holy brick
  
• Block brick (not practical, but when has that ever stopped us from making an item?)
  
• Flashbangs
  
• Super & shields?
  
• Antiwarp on lanc, if it's not already.
  
• Thor storms
  

 

Items needing additional functionality

• Score reset item
  
• Omega 13
  
• Turrets placeable by engineers (weasels?). Could have lots of fun stuff, like repel turret, antiwarp turret, or x-radar turret when integrated with outgoing packet rewriter. These turrets need to have a damage system (talk to smong?)
  
• portal turret?
  
• Anti brick warp method (either warp back, or brick holes). Possibly an item?
  
• Decoy burst
  

 

ASSS core changes

• Create a function akin to putmap to upload lvzs. (?putlvz?)
  
• Incoming/Outgoing packet rewrite ability. Would allow: undetectable cloak (or cloak grades), energy scanning countermeasures, team-level x-radar.
  
• Superarenas. Most awesome unimplemented idea in ASSS. True Stargate and B5 are only the tip of the iceberg.
  
• Flag core & superarena integration research. Test what can be done to a contiuum client as far as lying about flag positions.
  

 

HSCore changes

• Test arena?
  
• Fix spawner for 0.40. May already have completed this and forgotten.
  
• Team module needs rewriting to work with subarenas and to fix public/private size bugs.
  
• Ship hull purchases may not be flexible for subarenas. Provide an option for non-buyable hulls to have items (reuse initial items setting?). Talk to d1 about his points module and possibly merge the modules.
  
• Sort ?shipstatus's output (and -v too) for more consistent viewing.
  
• ?shipinfo needs more data. This is annoying to code.
  
• Variable prices on items. Needs to be done right the first time, or could send the zone into economic chaos.
  
• Ship "account" to move hulls between squaddies. This may be a bad idea.
  
• Item accounts too? At least local ones. Maybe move things onto the spec hull? That may actually solve a lot of other sharing problems to have a global hull.
  
• Cannot sell flag for items/ships in the database for granted things.
  
• Weight. Did I already add this?
  
• Spawner additions needed for Cerium's item system.
  
• Stipend module
  
• Test spawner for support of built-in continuum spawning modes (for subarenas)
  

 

HS non-core modules

• Interdiction module. Integrate with hs_warp for interdiction removal information? Could get destination info too for more refined tracking.
  
• Sector map module. Integrate with region chunks holding lvz data.
  
• Fine module for more consistent fining of evildoers.
  
• Swear to **** and auto fine integration. Need to make sure that the first few fines are $0. Better make sure mods know to punish for cir!@#$%^&*vention.
  
• Flag modules. FR, !@#$%^&*ult, ctf
  
• Antideath respawn lvz to prevent surprise "cloak"
  
• PD needs a better firing algorithm.
  
• Lock flag team from new players during flag vic conditions.
  

 

Attach changes

• Attach item for greater control over attach conditions. May need to warp players back if they don't have access... Or disable attaching via F7 entirely.
  
• Summoner and Infiltrator need to be reworked to allow attaching to non-lancs. Integrate with "attach item" idea.
  
• Attach conditions are virtually unchecked. Could be a lot of problems lurking there.
  
• Research into how continuum interprets attach packets. Could be cool things lurking there.
  
• Fix pointdefense attach system. It shouldn't interfere with attaching to other ships.
  
• Anti-attach region code (for tw hub type situations)
  

 

Balancing

• Flag game rewards kinda suck.
  

 

Zone grapics

• Interdimensional needs to be reimaged for better framerate and compression.
  
• Hypertunnels need a moving cloud background, with multiple layers for neat flythrough. Hopefully mostly black so the gate graphics look decent. Will be tricky to get it to wrap properly.
  
• Jump graphics have a noticeable edge to them. Should be reimaged to remove that.
  
• New Tileset
  
• Antideath cross
  

 

Subarenas

• Casino
  
• Event subarenas
  
• Redo foosball items and settings
  
• Turf test
  

 

Staff

• Redo mod access levels
  
• Provide better support for mod aliasing
  

 

Website

• talk to steig about the domain
  
• Chatnut (does polix still want a copy for ssforum?)
  

 

References

• http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=14643
  
• Read this topic, as it seems to have a lot of nifties: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=13559
  
• Variable prices link: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15283
  
• http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=16900
  
• http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15627 may have points still relevant
  
• http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=16932 (maybe)
  
• Ceriums item system needs reevaluating: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=17023
  
• Read http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=15312 more carefully. There may be ideas worth implementing.
  
• http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=17439 (balancing issues, mostly)
  
• look into overcharger: http://www.ssforum.net/index.php?showtopic=13426
  

 

Notes:

• Energy can be seen after respawn for short period of time.
  

 

Bugs

• Sparse brick!
  
• Zone crashes
  

Edited May 12, 2008 by Dr Brain

[Dr Brain]

The above should be a complete list of tasks I'm working on for the zone.

 

If your idea isn't on here, it means I'm not currently considering it. If you think I should be, post a link to the dev topic that mentions it.