75 GameplayFeatureStatus

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Table of Contents

• Planned features for Part 1
• Information below is very outdated

Planned features for Part 1

The following features are planned for 0 A.D. part 1, roughly in order of priority. Note: the list does not include everything that will be done, only some of the more interesting/important features. For more details on graphics features, see GraphicsFeatureStatus.

Feature	Relevant link(s)	Status

Tech / Research--Unlocking (units/buildings unlocks)	#3	complete

Improved collada importer	#886 #243 #802	complete

Tech / Research--Stats Modification	#3 #1358 #1376 #1410 #1462	complete

~~Random peace and battle track cycling	#961 #1223	complete

Healing	#999	complete

Land / Water Trading	#30	complete

Battle detection	#1425	complete

Attack Bonuses (Paper-Rock-Scissors)	#1067	complete

~~Building Construction	#21 #576	complete

Tributes	#7	complete

~~Replay / Record	#9	complete

Units on Walls	#26 #797	complete

Triggers	#52 #53	complete

Custom multiplayer lobby server	#1504	complete

~~Capturing Buildings	#996	complete

Destruction Dust (Dust gets kicked up; leaves rubble decal for X amount of time)	#819 #1166	complete

Distance Fog	#276	complete

~~I18n localisation	#67	complete

~~Additional and randomly choose menu backgrounds	#2993	complete

~~Garrisoned unit projectiles	#818	complete

Bloom	forum topic	complete

Diplomacy	#7	complete

Entity alignment to terrain grid e.g. Units stay upright when going up hills.	#12	complete

Civ Bonuses and Team Bonuses	#2445 #4082	complete

Sound code redesign / refactoring	#961 #1223 #1712 #1944 #1955 #1961 #1962	mostly complete

Pretty selection footprints	#824 #1368 #1517	mostly complete

Mac OS compatibility	#514 #741 #847 #931 #947 #1112 #1147 #1320 #1326 #1554 #1593 #1917 #2304 #2851 #3969	mostly complete

Walls: Click-Drag (free placement)	#619 #786 #1217 #1449 #1529 #1565 #1566	mostly complete

Advanced obstruction boxes	#914 #1032 #1121	mostly complete

Save game	#702 #1088? #1089 #1090 #1324 #1666	partially complete

Advanced AI (AI that can handle islands and other difficult cases)	#973 #3003	partially complete

Atlas improvements (Delete brush, forest brushes, double-click, band-boxing, etc.)	#96 #664 #678 #679 #944 #1122 #1213 #1943 #3414	partially complete

Island maps (AI, ship movement, pathfinding)	#3002	partially complete

Simple wave and splash sprites and particles.	#48 #1572	partially complete

Usable mod support	#190 #304 #1838 #1940 #2019 #4027	partially complete

Shader effects	#1429 #1493 #1497 forum topic	partially complete

Formation Bonuses ~~and Behavior	#592 #593 #600 #3523	partially complete

Different Game Modes ("Default", Classic, Others?)	#1649 #2459 #2160	partially complete

Social features in multiplayer lobby (clans, chat, leaderboards)	#2668 #2516 #2448	partially complete

Relics	#4386 #28	partially complete

Performance improvement	See GamePerformance	WIP

Converting Units (Females, Animals, etc.)	#997	WIP

Terrain flattening under buildings	#21 #2264	WIP

Building damage/fire	#131
Running & Charging	#994
Directional Attack Bonuses (for flanking, ramming etc.)
Concealment / Ambush--Simple (Iberians gain attack bonus vs. enemy troops in Column Formation)	#3177
Trample Damage	#995
Ship ramming	#305
Unique tech trees for each Faction
Building snapping	#3920
Advanced Ship movement (Dynamic ship animations, 3-point turns, turning radii, etc.)	#940
Advanced Water effects: A rolling water plane, etc.	#48 #1572
Cliffs	#97 #993
Dynamic ship animations (Included in "Advanced ship movement")
Automated Explore	#29
Improved Ship movement (basic animations, formations, and movement improvements)	#940

Reseeding farm queue at the Farmstead.		Cancelled in favor of infinite farms #1318

## Likely Cut from Part 1 The following features will not be a focus for completing part 1, however there is always the chance they might be included as an OS contribution or if all the above are finished.

Feature	Relevant ticket(s)	Status
Ship boarding/capturing		Cut
Campaigns: Narrative	#4387	Cut
Reinforcements		Cut
Walls: Curtain Walls (centered on the Civic Centre)		Cut
Dynamically baked textures		Cut
Campaigns: Strategic ("Imperial Campaign" turn-based strategic map)		Cut
New combat system	#4545	Cut

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Information below is very outdated

This is an attempt at a reasonably comprehensive list of desired gameplay features, roughly categorised and split into small sections, with links to various sources of documentation and code.

Features that are largely completed are marked like this.

Before working on a feature, it should be broken down into more detail and added as a Trac ticket (with a reference to the ticket added from this page).

"Old description" refers to technical documentation for the old simulation system; the new one has different features and different syntax, so use the documentation as inspiration and not specification.

The "current design" pages are attempts to collect and summarise the discussions and decisions about the design, in order to provide a direction for the implementation. Nothing is set in stone - the design issues can be discussed on the forums.

• Movement

  • Components: [UnitMotion]source:ps/trunk/source/simulation2/components/CCmpUnitMotion.cpp, [Pathfinder]source:ps/trunk/source/simulation2/components/CCmpPathfinder.cpp
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Move
  • Walking
  • Running/charging
    • Adds combat bonus (see #213)
  • Formations
    • Old description: XML_Formation, XML.Entity.Traits.Formation
  • Terrain conformance
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Anchor
    • Components: [Position]source:ps/trunk/source/simulation2/components/CCmpPosition.cpp
  • Pathfinding
    • Basic pathfinding
    • Better pathfinding
    • More better pathfinding
      • Impassable terrain
      • Terrain costs
      • More efficient tile-based A*
      • More efficient vertex-based A*
  • Ship movement

• Combat

  • Components: [Attack]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/Attack.js, [Armour]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/Armour.js, [UnitAI]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/UnitAI.js
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Attack, XML.Entity.Traits.Armour
  • Basic attacks
  • Secondary attacks (automatic switching between ranged and melee weapons)
  • Projectiles
    • Current design
    • Accuracy effects
  • Animation synchronisation (particularly for projectile attacks)

• Health

  • Components: [Health]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/Health.js
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Health
  • Death
  • Corpses
    • Decay
  • Healers
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Heal

• Experience

  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Promotion, XML.Entity.Traits.Rank
  • Accumulating
  • Upgrading
  • Rendering

• Resources

  • Components: [ResourceGatherer]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/ResourceGatherer.js, [ResourceSupply]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/ResourceSupply.js
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Supply, XML.Entity.Actions.Gather, List_Entities_Nature_Fauna, List_Entities_Nature_Fauna_Herd, List_Entities_Nature_Geological_Minerals
  • Basic resource gathering
  • Dropsites
  • Kill animals before gathering meat
  • Corrals
  • Fields
    • Old description: List_Entities_Player_Structures#Field
    • Decay
  • Auto-select nearby resources (when the currently targeted resource is exhausted)

• Building construction

  • Current design
  • Related tickets: #499
  • Placement constraints (on map; not on obstruction; not on water; on visible land)
  • Population effects
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Population
  • Resource usage
  • Foundations
  • Flatten terrain
  • Animation
  • Diminishing returns with more builders
  • Repair
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Repair

• Training

  • Current design
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Create, XML.Entity.Traits.Creation
  • Training queues
  • Rally points

• ~~Research ~~* Old description: XML.Tech ~~* Research queues ~~* Tech effects

• Settlements

  • Old description: List_Entities_Nature_Geological_Other

• Loot

  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Loot, XML.Entity.Actions.Loot

~~* Gates ~~* Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Lock

• Garrisoning
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Garrison

~~* Auras ~~* Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Auras ~~* Detect range entering/leaving ~~* Modify unit stats

• LOS

  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Vision
  • Determine from units
  • Render
    • Render prettily
  • Affect pathfinding

• Forests

  • Old description: List_Entities_Nature_Flora_Trees
  • Hiding

• AI

  • Components: [UnitAI]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/UnitAI.js
  • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.AI
  • Order queues
  • Stances
  • Scouting
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Scout
  • Patrolling
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Patrol
  • Escorting
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Escort
  • AI players
    • Extremely primitive AI framework
    • ~~Decent AI

• Audio

  • Old description: TDD_Audio
  • Basic sound group integration

• Territories

  • Old description: Background_Territories

• Seasons

  • Old description: Background_Seasons

• Weather

  • Old description: Background_Weather

• ~~Bartering ~~* Old description: XML.Entity.Actions.Barter

• GUI

  • Old description: TDD_GUI
  • Components: [GuiInterface]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/simulation/components/GuiInterface.js, [session GUI code]source:ps/trunk/binaries/data/mods/public/gui/session_new/
  • Unit selection
    • Selection rendering
      • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Footprint
    • Bandboxing
    • Numbered groups
  • Health bars
    • Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.Health
  • Minimap ~~* Old description: XML.Entity.Traits.MiniMap
  • ~~Go to hero unit
  • Go to idle worker
  • Detect combat
  • In-game manual

• Networking

• Hero units

• Walls

• Capturing

• Diplomacy

• Triggers

• Objectives