Wishlist

General wishes (with comments)

• jack-audio-connection-kit support

Why? For sound input? Sound output already uses SDL

--Nct 14:04, 7 December 2005 (PST)

SDL doesn't work well with jackd. I've tried, unless you know of a way. some people must use jackd do to the cards they have, such as me (the m-audio 1010LT) and glob2 doesn't work with it for sound

--AppleBoy 09:06, 10 December 2005 (PST)

• a VoIP solution for in game talking

Already implemented for Linux, just need to implement system-specific code for OS X and Win32

--Nct 14:05, 7 December 2005 (PST)

• revamped tutorial and campaigns

from AppleBoy:

• ysagoon online renamed to something cooler
• a new meta server setup that allows the linking of multiple ones for redundancy

basically something like battlnet from blizzard, where you can choose your location and connect to that one

• have the metaserver deny you access if you aren't running the latest version
• have a seperate metaserver for testing versions
• level4 towers able to attack air! necessity!
• before the game, be able to choose the following:

1. fruit vision enabled or disabled? - reason being sometimes a person will turn it on to turn the tables when they are loosing because they have more fruit (ok, I do this to others, but still)
2. fog of war?
3. allies (still changeable in game)

from forums:

• look over the strength of level3 buildings, maybe too weak?
• is the issue where the AI will still allow it's buildings to be surrounded by wood or wheat?

New gameplay ideas

from Steph:

Magician

We can have a new unit, let's call it magician, caster or shadow for now. This unit will undiscover the map around it for the enemy (i.e., recreate black). When upgraded, it could kill explorers. This way, the information control get a first place in glob2's gameplay. Ideally, it should be linked to papyrus. I still don't know how it should be done (by a building, an upgrade, a continuous consumption, per shot consumption, ...). On the implementation side, this effectively bring ranged weapon ability to units. Nevertheless, it should be implementable in a reasonable time if we use the bullet code.

God actions

We can have global effects. For instance, buildings providing prestige could recharge some global action capacities, which can be used globally. I can imagine:

• mass conversion (convert all units on an area of map)
• garden of eden (a nice way to recreate wheat !)
• holy forest (you always loved trees didn't you ?)
• mass depression (remove all happyness of units on an area of map)
• eye of god (reveal the whole map)

Singularity Obelisks

We can have a new building, the singularity obelisk. It would allow any globule to instantly travel to any other obelisk. This would allow the unit to get a shorten way in some situations, for instance to go from one island to another.

This can be not-too-hardly implemented by modifiying the gradient computation system so that when it encounters an obelisk, it looks around all other obelisks belonging to this player or its allies (obelisk sharing being a question to discuss) to see if there is a lower value for its target (or higher, depending the gradient algorithm conventions).

Of course, an obelisk would be hard to build, and perhaps would consume, let say, papyrus ;-) (so that the Archwizards in it can write and cast spells to maintain singularity). We could even imagine to make the obelisks quite dangerous so that if they reserve of papyrus fall to zero singularity collapses and make a lot of damage around.

Out of game wishes

from anonymous:

• Update AUTHORS file: please add yourself in it if you have contributed something that has been added to releases.
• Go through bugtracker and forum to compile a more thorough list of all bugs, document them, close fixed ones, etc.
• Finish moving everything over to globulation2.org