Mindustry/TODO.md

Keep in mind that this is just a basic outline of planned features, and will be constantly changing!

3.0 Release

• [DONE] New tutorial with the power blocks
• [DONE] New SFX for specific blocks, especially turrets
• [DONE] Block drawing layers. Refactor/remove Block#drawOver(), add Layer enum. Should fix 'glitchy' lasers and conveyor clipping
• [DONE] Balance nuclear reactor, improve effectiveness as they are currently underpowered
• [DONE] Make generation frame independent
• [DONE/MOVED] Investigate issue #5 (enemies stuck in blocks) - looks like it's caused by map loading lag, needs to be fixed with a slightly different physics system
• [DONE] Faster mech movement, possibly with a "boost" key
• [DONE] Balance enemy difficulty

3.x Planned

• New save system: toggleable autosave, named slots, less clunky save UI
• Teleporter UI changes, more colors (?)
• New building tools: selection-delete, hold to place blocks in a line, one-tap delete mode (mobile). New 'tool' menu (desktop).
• Refactor Renderer, remove code for rendering platform-specific placement and move to 2 different classes
• New map format system. Each new version is a different class, convert between different versions.
• Underground conduits
• Minimap
• More indicators for when the core is damaged and/or under attack
• Fix bugs with junction not accepting blocks(low FPS)
• Fix bugs with tunnel merging and/or removing items (low FPS)

4.0 Planned

• Multiplayer framework, possibly implementation
• New look to blocks, make them less 'blocky'

Misc

• Localization support. Change all in-game strings to localized strings. Check compatibility with GWT and Android libraries.

Possible Additions

• Mech body upgrades
• Uranium extractor / uranium->iron converter
• Laser enemies
• Flying enemies that move in formation and spawn from different locations
• Fusion reactor
• Point defense turrets that take down projectiles
• Turrets fueled by lava
• Gas transporation and use
• Better enemy effects and looks
• Homing missile enemies and turrets
• Reflective shield blocks
• Tech tree with bonuses to production or turrets
• Spawn points changed into enemy bases with hostile turrets
• Unit production

Optmiziation

• Look into uses for IntMap
• Spread updating over multiple frames for large groups of specific tile entities (?)
• Optimize enemy + bullet code and check quadtree leaf parameters
• Check for unnecessary use of Timers#get()
• Optimize generator laser distribution, especially finding targets
• Optimize UI
• Check memory usage and GC, profile
• Optimize health bars and enemies in general
• Make drawing of enemies more efficient (don't call flush()?)
• Look into NodeRecord storage for pathfinder, since it's taking 2MB+ of memory!