0.4.3 Features Discussion Thread

[hhyyrylainen]

I made a milestone on github: Release 0.4.3 Milestone · GitHub I also set the tentative due date to be December 31, 2019.

And added issues:

@tjwhale

Gui. Lets move to the new design which looks awesome and get that change finished.

New gui v3

@tjwhale

think the tooltips are really helpful there so I think it would make sense to do dynamic tooltips which recalculate what they say based on patch conditions and maybe warn the player if an organelle is useless.

Make editor tooltips dynamic

@tjwhale

Lets put Nick’s energy bar in the editor too which shows how much energy you are producing vs how much you are using when still or moving, I think that will help a lot with cell design.

Add an energy balance bar to the editor

@tjwhale

Let’s have a final discussion about species splitting and moving patches, resolve that and then implement it so we have AI species migration.

Add AI migration to auto-evo

@tjwhale

Lets get the basic pilus in

“opened on 12 Apr 2018”

Add basic pilus

@tjwhale

Several people have brought up that compounds are too abundant from dead cells late game. I think we should address that by working on the AI to teach it to stop moving when it’s low on ATP, get it to more actively seek out energy sources and get small cells to run away more effectively.

Reimplement microbe AI

@tjwhale

Also we should change the spawn system so giant clouds of large Eukaryotes are rare (though they are great occasionally)

I think this is this bug (I opened an issue for it now, but I was pretty sure I had done that before?):

Eukaryotes seem to spawn in bacteria swarms

@tjwhale

I think Lysosomes could have a place in that so lets keep discussing them, we need a good design for them.

I’ll open an issue once this is decided.

@tjwhale

We can also reduce the speed of cells being engulfed.

Being engulfed should debuff movement

@tjwhale

Lets work on the star and planet generation, get some gui for that made and then discuss what sort of disasters we want and how we want the planets to evolve over time. I’m hopeful I can do most of the implementation on that.

Add the planet generator to the game

Add new game options

@tjwhale

Re backgrounds I think it’s cool if we can improve them, I think we need a bit of a plan of how we’re going to do that, I’m not sure what the options are so it’s great if anyone wants to work on them and maybe experiment with what is possible.

I think we need some experimentation to happen before a direction can be selected. But I’ll open an generic issue to remind about this:

Improve backgrounds

@tjwhale

I think gato said they are working on an appearance tab so that’s a cool thing to include too.

Add appearance tab in editor.

@tjwhale

hh your list of small features looks nice to put in for when people are looking for something. Also your personal todo list looks cool, it would be great if you could put pilus relatively high up on it.

Added those and also added this one:

Patch report should show the populations with external effects

Also I put a few of those issues I want to work on to the release (and assigned them to myself)