Development:Roadmap:0.6.0

Task List

Bugfixing

• Sourceforge Bug Tracker

list of bugs included for this release:

• The economic system needs a review (see forum thread)

Multiplayer

• Multi-player support beta [ace123]
• Server list support, ala Quake

Engine

• Get mac building under a unified central build file (if it doesn't use ./configure)
• Implement opcode's Ray Collider for ray-mesh collisions. [safemode, ONGOING]
• Rewrite vssetup so that it parses sane XML, leading the way to a more understandable config file setup.
• Fix multi-ship ownership loopholes.
• Faction level AI (or at least the imitation of one)
• Cubemap environment to replace sphere meshes [safemode, NOT STARTED]
• Make ships (ai too) dock sanely. (auto way points?) Super big ships cant dock inside small docking bays.

Python

• Make jumpoint wireframes HUD only. Allow for selective disabling/enabling of jump points via python.
• New campaigns. Some to put you into different factions to start out with (and thus different systems/ships).

Artwork

• Normal maps (for shaders) support for all units in game
• Cockpit graphics for all units.
• 8 faces for shields and cargo hud [pyramid, PENDING]
• Revision of planet types [pyramid, PENDING]
• File extensions review and standardization [pyramid, PENDING]
• Supplement missing cargo graphics and improvement of low-quality cargo graphics
• Improvement of space backgrounds
• Improvement of some low-quality star images
• Improve shield graphics for Target VDU [pyramid, PENDING]

Unsorted Items

• Stats rebalance
  • See Development:Rebalance for detailed task list and information
  • Rebalance Countdown forums thread
  • Announcement and discussion in the forum
• Fine-tuning SPEC
  • Forum threads
    SPEC drive changes (thread started by pincushionman)
    spec system
• Inter-system SPEC travel (without jump nodes)
• Keyboard remap
  • Keyboard Bindings (thread started by Silverain)
  • See Manual:Keyboard layout for graphics/templates for new bindings
  • See Manual:Config:Advanced for the binding-syntax in the config file
• A hierarchical fidelity model for physics simulation so as to expand the number of objects that can be concurrently simulated [ This may already have been done in 0.5, Verification?]
  • Benifit: Improved ship spawn distances/locations
• Space dust
  • A forum discussion on the pros and cons of space debris and other means to get a feeling for speed
• Bump mapping (req. small engine rewrite? or transition to another rendering engine?)
• Re-working cargo organization?
• Phasing out all XMESH files
• Phasing out Launcher.exe (nearly done)