spacetac/TODO.md

To-Do-list

Menu/settings/saves

• Save locally first, make saving to cloud an option
• Allow to delete cloud saves
• Fix cloud save games with "Level 0 - 0 ships"

Map/story

• Add initial character creation
• Fix quickly zooming in twice preventing to display some UI parts
• Allow to change/buy ship model
• Add factions and reputation
• Allow to cancel secondary missions
• Forbid to end up with more than 5 ships in the fleet because of escorts

Character sheet

• Disable interaction during battle (except for loot screen)
• Improve eye-catching for shop and loot section
• Highlight allowed destinations during drag-and-drop, with text hints
• When transferring to another ship, if the item can't be equipped (unmatched requirements), the transfer is cancelled instead of trying cargo
• Effective skill is sometimes not updated when upgrading base skill
• Tooltip to show the sources of attributes
• Forbid to modify escorted ship
• Add merged cargo display for the whole fleet

Battle

• Add a voluntary retreat option
• Display effects description instead of attribute changes
• Display radius for area effects (both on action hover, and while action is active)
• Any displayed info should be based on a ship copy stored in ArenaShip, and in sync with current log index (not the game state ship)
• Add engine trail effect, and sound
• Fix targetting not resetting on current cursor location when using keyboard shortcuts
• Allow to skip animations, and allow no animation mode
• Find incentives to move from starting position (permanent drones ?)
• Add a "loot all" button, disable the loot button if there is no loot
• Do not focus on ship while targetting for area effects (dissociate hover and target)
• Repair drone has its activation effect sometimes displayed as permanent effect on ships in the radius
• Merge identical sticky effects
• Allow to undo last moves
• Add a battle log display

Ships models and equipments

• Add permanent effects and actions to ship models
• Add critical hit/miss
• Add damage over time effect (tricky to make intuitive)
• Move distance should increase with maneuvrability
• Chance to hit should increase with precision
• Add actions with cost dependent of distance (like current move actions)
• Add hull points to drones and make them take area damage
• "Shield Transfer" has no quality offsets

Artificial Intelligence

• Use a first batch of producers, and only if no "good" move has been fo go on with some infinite producers
• Evaluate buffs/debuffs
• Abandon fight if the AI judges there is no hope of victory
• Add combination of random small move and actual maneuver, as producer
• New duel page with producers/evaluators tweaking
• Work in a dedicated process (webworker)

Technical

• Ensure that tweens and particle emitters get destroyed once animation is done (or view changes)

Common UI

• Fix hover being stuck when the cursor exits the window, or the item moves or is hidden
• Add a standard confirm dialog
• Mobile: think UI layout so that fingers do not block the view (right and left handed)
• Mobile: display tooltips larger and on the side of screen where the finger is not
• Mobile: targetting in two times, using a draggable target indicator

Postponed

• Tutorial
• Secondary story arcs
• Replays
• Multiplayer/co-op
• Formation or deployment phase
• Add ship personality (with icons to identify ?), with reaction dialogs
• New battle internal flow: any game state change should be done through revertable events
• Animated arena background, instead of big picture
• Hide enemy information (shield, hull, weapons), until they are in play, or until a "spy" effect is used
• Invocation/reinforcements (need to up the 10 ships limit)
• Dynamic music composition