Turf 2 Design/Suggestions - Revision history

SnapperTheTwig: /* First Person Stuff */

2020-04-27T10:39:45Z

‎First Person Stuff

SnapperTheTwig at 05:37, 3 April 2020

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SnapperTheTwig at 05:23, 31 January 2020

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NibKing at 07:54, 22 January 2020

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SnapperTheTwig at 11:49, 5 November 2019

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SnapperTheTwig at 15:08, 10 August 2019

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SnapperTheTwig at 12:23, 22 July 2019

2019-07-22T12:23:08Z

SnapperTheTwig: Initial Edit

2019-05-04T02:45:05Z

Initial Edit

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=Guidelines For This Page=
The purpose of this page is to document the developer's thoughts as what Turf 2 should be. Head to the [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|talk page]] to propose an addition.

=Base Engine=
* Multiple cities, an entire world to explore
* "Block" based buildings, height-map terrain. Underground layer.
* World divided into tiles, which may be cities, may be vacant, may be wilderness (mountain ranges, deep forests, etc). Tiles are to be irregular in shape
* Cities are to be divided into irregular tiles too. Placing a base in a tile gives building/racketerring/owning permissions for all buildings in or intersecting a tile
* Roads can be placed freeform and lot slots radiate from it (like most modern city builders)

==Modability==
The VT lotpack system should be expanded to everything
* All assets (textures, blocks, vehicles, missions) should be tag indexed (eg "VANILLA.CONCRETE_BLOCK") and defined by plaintext JSON files.
* Mod assests should have fallbacks required in case a player wants to join a server with a mod installed but does not have said mod.
* In-game mod editor (basically a ui for editing a .json)
* These changes should make modding and adding new assets trivially easy (won't break ids/maps/etc)

== Performance Goals==
* Multithreaded chunk/terrain renderer (VT uses 1 separate thread, T2 should use as many threads as possible)
* Multithreaded physics, ideally 1 thread/player. Hopefully multithreaded raycasting too.
* Draw distance to the horizon

==Artistic Goals==
* PBR rending, screenspace reflections, automatic tonemapping
* TODO: Consistent art style for people/terrain

=Economy=
The game should have 2 economic models: Simple (same as Turf 1 - build buildings, collect money) and Advanced (resource flow, GDP simulation, etc). The rest of this section refers to the Advanced mode

==Resources==
* Most buildings should create or consume some kind of resource
* Players can either collect the resource and stockpile them (requiring warehouses top store them), or sell them on the open market. Other players can raid these to steal goods.
* Players can spend the resource stockpiles to build buildings, or on upkeep on various things
* Cities can specialise in resources, giving a production bonus
* Resources are traded between cities, via roads/road and sea routes. Players can steal from freight vehicles.
* The should be very big (major) industrial buildings that act as a main industry for a city.

==Finance==
* (GDP) As factions draw income from buildings money is extracted from the economy, making the citizens poorer. Likewise players spending money will inject money into the economy
** The effect of this is that idling in a city will cause the tax base to shrink and reduce income

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 =First Person Stuff=
 ==Weapons==
 * More weapons, such as Bows/Crossbows
 * Melee weapons, such as Baseball Bats & Crowbars
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 * Fun weapons, such as a Potato Gun, or a Gun that shoots Guns
 * Utility weapons, such as Grappling Hooks (A grapple attachment could also be a weapon mod)
 ==Movement==

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 ** Bases can have an "Armory" rating that effects their force limits
 ** Bases can be used to store Commodities in a limited amount. Possibly dependent on pallets?
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 * (GDP) As factions draw income from buildings money is extracted from the economy, making the citizens poorer. Likewise players spending money will inject money into the economy
 ** The effect of this is that idling in a city will cause the tax base to shrink and reduce income
 =Warfare=
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 * Players give a morale/combat bonus to nearby units, encouraging the player to be present in battle
 * Units can be placed under the control of AI generals to auto balance front lines and take weakly or unopposed positions
 =Character Building=
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 * Perks should be replaced with a Tree
 * Players should be allowed to multiclass - eg: be able to have both a "Shotguns" build and a "Diplomacy" build
 =Base Building=
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 ** Bases can have an "Armory" rating that effects their force limits
 ** Bases can be used to store Commodities in a limited amount. Possibly dependent on pallets?

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	* Players give a morale/combat bonus to nearby units, encouraging the player to be present in battle		* Players give a morale/combat bonus to nearby units, encouraging the player to be present in battle
	* Units can be placed under the control of AI generals to auto balance front lines and take weakly or unopposed positions		* Units can be placed under the control of AI generals to auto balance front lines and take weakly or unopposed positions
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		+	=Character Building=
		+	==Perks==
		+	* Perks should be replaced with a Tree
		+	* Players should be allowed to multiclass - eg: be able to have both a "Shotguns" build and a "Diplomacy" build
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		+	=Base Building=
		+	* Players should have a reason to manually stylize their home base (and not just have empty flags)
		+	* Factions should have a Capital Base each that grant certain bonuses, have increased warscore value
		+	* Player Stylised Bases > Prefab Bases > Plain Flags
		+	** Ideas: Machine gun turrets/Rocket turrets. Must be manned to take effect
		+	** Bases can have an "Armory" rating that effects their force limits
		+	** Bases can be used to store Commodities in a limited amount. Possibly dependent on pallets?

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	* (GDP) As factions draw income from buildings money is extracted from the economy, making the citizens poorer. Likewise players spending money will inject money into the economy		* (GDP) As factions draw income from buildings money is extracted from the economy, making the citizens poorer. Likewise players spending money will inject money into the economy
	** The effect of this is that idling in a city will cause the tax base to shrink and reduce income		** The effect of this is that idling in a city will cause the tax base to shrink and reduce income
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		+	=Warfare=
		+	==Turf Wars==
		+	* Turf Wars should have some kind of casus belli system. Some kind of limited war should be available early game to fight over a single base. Late game you should be able to annex factions entirely to remove them from the city.
		+	* Rather than base attacks players/factions should be able to order squads around on the map. Squads are units of ~5 goons.
		+	* Different unit types, from street goons at the low end, to professional soldiers and armoured units at the high end. Recruiting and maintaining more advanced units will require a supply/resource chain
		+	* Players give a morale/combat bonus to nearby units, encouraging the player to be present in battle
		+	* Units can be placed under the control of AI generals to auto balance front lines and take weakly or unopposed positions

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 =Guidelines For This Page=
 The purpose of this page is to document the developer's thoughts as what Turf 2 should be. Head to the [[{{TALKPAGENAME}}|talk page]] to propose an addition.
 =Base Engine=

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 ==Resources==
 * Most buildings should create or consume some kind of resource
 * Players can either collect the resource and stockpile them (requiring warehouses top store them), or sell them on the open market. Other players can raid these to steal goods.