Road Map

Note: Displaying what has to be done before moving to next version

0.1

• Spawn animals and let them have an effect
• pick up/drop animals at nests
• Send GCM messages from server to client on events (attack, other helped/destroyed, animal occure at nest, animal destory nest, animal disappear)
• Make notifications (app not active) or dialogs (app active) from GCM messages from server
• Handle back pressed on register/validate device dialog
• Model for food location is no consistent. Depends a bit on map area shown
• Select amount when dropping warriors

0.2

• Clean up interaction when nest becomes de-colonized
• Use only GPS location if available, not network location
• Ability to go to map from nest view
• Ability to go to map from event view
• Display if follow/not follow mode. Fixed in 0.2.6
• Merge network actions that are the same or one disables the other. Fixed in 0.2.7
• Really stable network handling
• Setting for notifications, device specific
• Let food in inventory slowly turn bad
• Display the expire on items in inventory (i.e. animals - how long until they die)
• Warriors in inventory eat from food in inventory, and start to starve if they run out of food. No Limit on number of warriors in inventory.
• Warriors dropped on ground slowly die
• Ability to display custom message in notification/event (system messages etc)
• Adapt wiki to how things works now, add marks on what might be future stuff
• Make a getting started wiki page

0.3

• Description on all actions, fixed in 0.2.8
• Filters/sort on nests view
• Chat - one public and one for each species
• Good images for items
• Good images for actions
• Good launcher image
• Up-to-date screen shots and decent info in google play

ALL data will be reset.

• Fix urgent bugs found during reset

Web service

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• Displaying current score for world, all countries, all regions and player list
• Displaying historic score for world, all countries and all regions

1.1

• Focus on text input in set name dialog
• Display secret capacity at controlled nest, fixed in 1.0.4
• Bugfix: show a proper message in the log of the player who destroyed at an enemies nest, fixed in 1.0.6
• Bugfix: Maybe switched(?) the messages when someone attacked you and did or did not kill all ants?, fixed on server
• 30/30 to be able to swarm (but it still only takes 20/20), fixed in 1.0.6
• Center on location seems buggy. How it should work: Marked: always center on location. Not marked: Keep displaying the area without scrolling. Fixed in 1.0.10
• Display entered info from other players in a user dialog, Fixed in 1.0.10
• Required name on nest (colonize/gain control) - will be fixed on server after 1.0.6 is released
• Show colony name in colony orders dialog, fixed in 1.0.6
• Show more info in controlled colony list (ants/food/capacity/if attacked by animal), in 1.0.11
• Inventory list: Show how "full" you are of that item (i.e. your capacity too), 1.0.10(?)
• Taxonomy change: Use "Sabotage" instead of the "Destroy" actions where you don't completely destroy. Fixed in 1.0.10
• Bugfix: Sorting by Size (population) in German version
• Test to: List persons under the team score to have fewer options in the prop down. Done in 1.0.10
• Also test to create individual score for each area. Fixed on server.
• Some kind of simplifications to set many colony orders. Idea: Store setting and fast apply on long press when ordered by orders expired, or something.
• Correct text in event log when you destroy at another players nest. Fixed in 1.0.10
• Show individual scores on Country/Regional too
• Make a difference between killed animal by warriors and self dead animal. So players see the purpose of warriors in the nest.. Done in 1.0.13
• Sort colonies by country and area. Also display them in the colony list (small font). Done in 1.0.13
• Change sabotage to use the bigger radius instead. Done in 1.0.13
• Fix: Change the map objects placing routine so that it don't freeze the app, somehow. Fix was to only display visible stuff. Done in 1.0.14
• Tag people in chat, 1.0.16
• Links from existing messages and user info to tag people in chat/species chat., 1.0.16
• Notification when tagged in message Tagged, 1.0.16
• Link to tag person from user dialog (opened from score list), 1.0.17
• Fix: Correct title on tagged notification.
• Competition, among overlapping nest zoc, for food.
  • Food +/- also depend on competing nests on the area. I.e. the 0.4-ratio is not constant.
  • Idea: Warn on low food level instead? - one warning on ratio, and one on starve
• Show info about teams, just as with players.

• Make better notifications when app is not active, not just a dummy
• Sort colonies by country and area. Also display them in the colony list (small font)

1.x

• Adjust google play dependencies to only load needed ones, so it no longer requires permission GET_ACCOUNTS.
• Ability to view older events (only last week right now), fixed in 1.1.5
• Notifications when colonies are out of orders.
• Show more detailed area level of nests. Fixed in 1.1.13
• When using Go to location (of event or nest) it should disable follow my location. Fixed in 1.1.14
• Show clusters of colonies when zoomed out. Could be pre calculated. My idea of a box per country/area? Fixed in 1.2
• Ability to go to display user info dialog from that players colony dialog colony, fixed in 1.2.6 (or erlier?)
• Show local teams stats when selecting a country. Fixed in 1.2.7
• Ability to do fine adjustments on colony orders with + and -

• Bugfix: Item on ground-dialog not updating distance on location change, or is it?
• Share link to app-function (with text about what colony to join or select other)
• More types of animals (See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insectivore)
  • Ability to move big animals by scaring them (they can not be picked up)
• Computer generated black nests, that you may attack
• Things you may find/get that may help you in some way (boost pack). When used you get X for some time or once. Some ides:
  • Breeding pack (double the amount of swarms you carry, beyond your carrying limit)
  • Backpack - increase carry capacity. (can not be stacked)
  • Nest start kit, builds a lot bigger nest
  • Nest boost kit, increases size and population.
  • Ant repellent - may be used on enemy nests
  • Attack boost for some time... or just once.
• Scroll on map stops follow mode. Normally follow but stop when user drags the map and return to follow when user presses my location.... or whatever works
• History of colony (in colony view, founded, reached pop x at time, attacked, changed owner, ant eaters etc)
• Sort colonies by distance from you(?)
• Use google account login, as in Tile Pile and cache the key on server to avoid not needed lookups.
• Display if players are active (some kind of indication like this week, this month or more than a month) - to not display to much info about a player.
• Score info on 2:nd level admin areas

See also Future Ideas