Meeting Agendas

Next meeting

• Faction/Character/Relation specific behaviour on agression
• Control model: Keep it as it is or set and keep speed
• State of one engine -> no more dampening -> overwork boardcomputer
• NPCs should react on attack, no matter what their current order is or whether they are idle.
• Speculate over a God Module caring to keep the universe alive by spawning npcs/stations
• Enginetrails: People notice patterns; multi-colored, color-fading

17.04.2014

• Framerate independant weapons everything
• To sector or not to sector
• Faster reviews. One shipit by opposite OS enough?

10.04.2014

• issue grouping (label usage)
• idea and feature plan presentation
• Damage from Collision/ Damage from Shockwave / DamageForwarding inside a VC without fieldOfDamage

01.04.2014

organization & milestones

• milestones until commercial release? (move of repository?)
• fix&close all issues, build foundation for fluid future work?
• closing old wiki pages
• workflow

Architecture

• Refactoring / the GamePlay thing / disentanglement - Architecture
• GameElement (derived from Scriptable) for base class of WorldObject, Script, EventPoll, Mission, ... . World takes ownership, WorldComponents (WorldLogic, EventPoller, ...) only use them. Removal happens when GameElements request it by setting a flag, no more removeScript/Poll/WorldObject
• Bulletengine
• input
• missionsystem architecture
  • mission templates on c++ side
  • react on spawnfailure
  • how to compensate long createWorldObject time (general issue) [loading screen, yay! during mission? yeeha!]

Feature

• gameplay and aiming
• engine/speed/engineslots
• item concept. healer, scanner, shield, ...
• integrate aimhelper and ai
• faction based ai
• main menu, ingame menus

Targeting mechanisms. Users may want to

• poll through all enemies !
• select nearest enemy ! --> maybe play freelancer ;)
• poll through all objects
• select incoming missile?
• select the enemy the player attacks