Roadmap

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• Rewrite the Lua NPC system
• Built-in HTTP JSON API using Lua scripts to get real-time data from the server
  • should replace the status protocol
• Rewrite admin protocol
  • allow clients to send Lua code for the server to execute
  • alternatively, store Lua scripts on the server and allow the admin protocol to run the scripts (safer)
• Add stronger hashing options
  • perhaps PBKDF2/scrypt
  • preferably without external dependencies
• Custom item attributes
• Lua scripts for quests
• XTEA SIMD
• XML tag for each flag in groups.xml with value 0 or 1 to make it more maintainable instead of a single int representing the value for all flags
• Dropping boost dependency:
  • use asio C++ library
  • monitor progress of C++17 networking
    • could take quite long before this makes it into Linux distributions like Debian GNU/Linux stable
  • consider the opposite if it can't be dropped, making more use of boost because we're depending on it anyway
• Consider major changes to map, tile and item structures to decrease memory usage
  • must not negatively affect the performance of Map::getSpectatorsInternal, Map::getPathMatching, Map::getTile or ProtocolGame::GetTileDescription
• Update all log messages to be consistent
• Rename functions and variables that begin with underscore as they are reserved
• Move old Lua functions to compat.lua
• onStepIn/onStepOut return value should matter, return false should cancel the step, default to return true
• Support custom RSA keys
  • IP Changers must support this, should be supported by the otserv:// specifier, the public key could be specified after version, e.g.:
    • otserv://shadowcores.twifysoft.net/7171/1041/publickey
• Remove const_cast where possible
• Improve database schema
  • Consider changes proposed by DevAAC: https://github.com/DevelopersPL/DevAAC/wiki/Recommended-DB-schema-changes