Latest revision as of 07:47, 29 May 2019

See Road Map for planned ideas and fixes.

Network

Adaptive timeout on network requests. Several good, decrease but a minimum at 1 sec? One fail, increase 2sec(?) but max at 10sec?

Competition among players

New players

People coming late into the game shall also be able to build colonies or get benefit, even in cities with lot of existing players. https://plus.google.com/+ErikMelkersson/posts/6iQhazsenvT
How to make the room for a new player in a town dominated by a Species?
Maximum controlled nests, based on level, to make people release control of colonies?

Map

Very zoomed in: See individual ants too

Ability to turn features on/off just as in ColorPlanet (https://plus.google.com/+PatrickDrechsler/posts/P1sbicd1MfC)

Send a location - Send a "ping" to your players of your species to coordinate attacks or similar. As a message in the Species Chat.

Species

Currently all species have the same properties but I am thinking about letting them have different skills.

Faster builders
Breed faster
Bigger, better warrior skills

Accidents

Cave-ins during attack killing lots of ants and losing capacity/food?

Attack

When you attack you expose your own position to everyone for 5 minutes(?) after the last attack command.

Spy ants

Build spy ants that can scout ant hills for you. If you carry them you can insert them instantly or send them to scout, but that takes time based on distance.

Defence

A defender may also be on location and can then attack the attackers warrior ants by him/herself by attacking the, on the map, exposed colony attacker. Even if the attacker stops the attack.

Manually help out (?)

By smashing ants on the map a player can kill enemy ants too, one at a time.

Loose ideas

Connecting colonies for cooperation or for genetic diversity or something. Idea from https://plus.google.com/+ErikMelkersson/posts/6iQhazsenvT<

Buildings

"Some ground building/item"

May be built by several players or a higher level player working hard? X amount of energy within a time limit (24 hours?)
- Maybe X=10k energy is reasonable. (Many players together should be able to do it fine: Example: level 14 (pretty high), May have 240 and 28 bars * 50 = 1640, fetching 28 more from colonies gives 1400 more. 3-4 such player could do it. It requires a lot of planning but it is actually manageable by single player too)
Gives advantages to nearby nests. Defense bonus? Growth? Food production?
Does the building have a color or help everyone around? I think everyone. Changed my mind: It helps everyone near but is is controlled by one species at a certain moment. Gives some kind of score bonus.
May be pushed or pulled by players, (max per time unit = simply cost a lot of energy). This way you may "steal" such a building.
The building gives a bonus score to the team holding it. You "hold" it by having it close to your colony. Must be withing X meters and at least size X. (You can not just found new colony and get control immediately). Maybe just having it in the zone of your colony and no other color is find. Also visible ok.
Needs some maintenance or they will slowly fade away.
- It has an bar fading - maybe two weeks or so to fade out totally unless someone does something about it
- Any player may use their own energy to fill it up
Who will get notifications about it? Fading/filling/moving/controlling "Subscribe" to it? No one?

Maybe later, or maybe not:

May be upgraded in levels. Best "upgrader" gets something.
May be upgraded by players "helping" it, max once per time unit. Or simply a lot of energy needed to upgrade it.

Growing fungus

Fungus

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 * How to make the room for a new player in a town dominated by a Species?
 * Maximum controlled nests, based on level, to make people release control of colonies?
-== Colonies ==
-* Idea: Ability to help a small colony more often? To get new players something to do when they are eager.
 = Map =
+Very zoomed in: See individual ants too
-* very zoomed in
+Ability to turn features on/off just as in ColorPlanet (https://plus.google.com/+PatrickDrechsler/posts/P1sbicd1MfC)
-** The same as in zoomed in but also individual ants
-* zoomed in
-** attacking enemies
-Ability to turn features on/off just as in ColorPlanet (https://plus.google.com/+PatrickDrechsler/posts/P1sbicd1MfC)
+Send a location - Send a "ping" to your players of your species to coordinate attacks or similar. As a message in the Species Chat.
 = Species =
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 * Bigger, better warrior skills
-= Actions =
+= Accidents =
-Ability to add scent track on your position for ants from colony to food
+Cave-ins during attack killing lots of ants and losing capacity/food?
-== On map ==
-* Send Location - TODO send "ping" to your players of your species to coordinate attacks or similar. As a message in the Species Chat.
 = Attack =
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 Build spy ants that can scout ant hills for you. If you carry them you can insert them instantly or send them to scout, but that takes time based on distance.
-== Do the attack ==
-* You are in range of an [[Enemy Colony]]
-* Click the colony and select "Start Attack".
-* You see a "board" with your warrior ant count and the colony population count.
-* Every second a new attack in called from the client causing counting on the server to take place
-** Both sides have casualties
-** There might be cave in-s casing colony capacity decrease and loosing ant on one or the other side.
-* The attacker may stop the attack stopping the fight.
-* If one or the other side looses all ants the fight is over.
 == Defence ==
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 == Manually help out (?) ==
 By smashing ants on the map a player can kill enemy ants too, one at a time.
-= Scent track =
-To make the ant of a nest find food faster for a while
-= Animals =
-* Animals not on a colony will move towards nearby colonies or in a random direction every time unit.
-* Show up nearby users, or on locations where users have been.
-* Notifications to nearby users (with setting)
-* Track players location every hour, to use for animal spawning
 = Loose ideas =
 * Connecting colonies for cooperation or for genetic diversity or something. Idea from https://plus.google.com/+ErikMelkersson/posts/6iQhazsenvT<
-= Badges =
-When you receive one it should be popped up as some message. In game mostly.
-Bronze: Everyone should be able to get it with very little effort
-Silver: "Average" effort
-Gold: Hard to do.
-Rainbow: Ridiculously much effort
-Checked daily?
-* Populator badges for areas: (number of ants in an area - check is very easy, just a sum)
-** 100 ants - bronze, 2'000 ants - silver, 50'000 ants - gold, 1'000'000 - rainbow
-** for country, region and maybe county.
-* Performance badges: Checked per week. Counts the best week. Check is made on actions performed the last 24*7 hours (a week). Limits for Gold, silver and bronze. The same way I check best founders today.
-** "Founder" Founding nests (20 - bronze, 50 - silver, 200 - gold, 1000 - rainbow)
-** "Helper" Helping colonies
-** "Killer" Killing colonies
-** "Saboteur" Sabotage
-** "Feeder" Give food
-== Implementation notes to myself ==
-Given badges table:
-Contain: player, level, country, region, type, datetime. Where only one of the latter three is set.
-Load my active badges on initial setup and on load others on other player info.
-Check to see if new given only checks, adds (not update) badge if better than before. "archive" badges that have been replaced.
-Notifications: Use existing notification handling. Add possibility for ref to a badge.
-Area badges:
-* insert select sum(..) on duplicate key update greatest(..)
-Performance
-*
 = Buildings =
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 * May be upgraded in levels. Best "upgrader" gets something.
 * May be upgraded by players "helping" it, max once per time unit. Or simply a lot of energy needed to upgrade it.
+= Growing fungus =
+[[Fungus]]