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6.7 KiB
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239 lines
6.7 KiB
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# Specific projects
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## Currently working on:
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- first: remove object array
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- first: sticky particles
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- clickable buttons
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- planet outfitter
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## Small jobs
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- 🌟 clean up and document short sprite sections
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- 🌟 Better planet desc formatting
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- Procedural suns
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- 🌟 Back arrow -> reverse
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- No wobble for ai ships & autopilot
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- 🌟 User-configurable outfit space types
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- 🌟 Sticky radar
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- Configurable radar
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- 🌟 Ship damage events, unify spawners
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- Better landing animation (slow down)
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- Land from farther away
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- Ship collapse: damage + force events
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- Redesign UI elements
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- Background haze: 3d perlin?
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- nova dust parallax
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- Motion blur
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- 🌟 Generate outlines and colliders
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- Then: outline self in status
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- Reverse engines + flares
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- Turn flares (physics by location?)
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- Angled engines & guns
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- Fix effect interaction with sprite sections
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## Misc fixes & Optimizations
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- 🌟 Better errors when content/asset dirs don't exist
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- Clear `// TODO:` comments
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- Correct drawing order (player on top, landing ships)
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- Faster handles (better than a hashmap?)
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- Check for handle leaks
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- 🌟 Log/warning system
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- Clean up & faster frame timings
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- 🌟 Handle lost focus
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- User config file
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- 🌟 Document content
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- 🌟 Clean up content: one ship per file, autodetect
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- CLI: pack sprites(?), check content, content location, logs, etc
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- Better WGSL preprocessor?
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- Projectile performance
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- Starfield clusters, shader instead of an array?
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- Collider groups for factions? (projectile optimization)
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- Better error when sprite is missing from atlas
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## 🌟 Player selection
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- Planet name, ring, and distance
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- Selection UI (around game object)
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- Selection UI (radar arrow)
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- Selection keys
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- Select ships
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- Selection UI (HUD)
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- attack selected ship, even if friendly
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## 🌟 Planet outfitter
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- UI, show ship on land
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- Money
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- Display name != key
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- then: non-removable outfits
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- then: cargo space
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- then: collectible flotsam
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- then: mass from cargo and outfits
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- then: space conversion
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- then: heat + energy stats
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- then: damage type (heat, energy, disrupt, etc)
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- then: debuffs
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- then: assign guns to points
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- then: guns with consumable ammunition
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- then: enable/disable weapons
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## Ship Spawning
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- requires: Basic ship AI (disable collision for now?)
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- requires: Fleets
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- Spawn ships from planets
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- Land ships on planets (destroy)
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- Start with player on planet, respawn
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## Debris (requires: flotsam)
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- Destroyed ships leave debris
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- Destructible & floatingdebris
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- Orbiting debris: asteroids
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- ES-style asteroid field (how should we do this?)
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## Camera physics
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- lookahead
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- damping
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- Don't jump when landing/taking off
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- wobble / ship thrown when hit?
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- UI/effects when damaged?
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- Focus important objects
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## Sprite reels
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- Sprite reels in content
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- Trigger sprite reel during collapse sequence
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- Trigger sprite reel when firing (requires: non-removable outfits)
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- then: ship tint
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- then: frame timing randomness
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- then: leaks during collapse (needs particle physics)
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- then: passive engine glow, ease in/out
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- Sprite color variation
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## Texture loading
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- loading screen & menu
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- GPU limits?
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- Cache direcory
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- How to pack?
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## Particle physics
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- Particles should stick to their ships. How?
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- Particle compute shader
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- Land and unland particles
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- Effect on fire gun
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- Particle / sprite color variation
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## Sound effects
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- Sound effects
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- User-configurable music (?, game config or user config?)
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## Specific Jobs
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- Correct depth order
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- Land from farther away
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- Prevent collisions on unlanding
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- UI: text arranger
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- loading screen, menus
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- Indicators (planet names, enemy ship stats)
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- Start documenting
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- Check for handle leaks
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- Don't allocate each frame
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- Sound system
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- Ship death debris
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- Sprite reels
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- random start frame
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- ship leaks
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- Ship death damage and force events
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- Gun fire effect
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- Sprite color variation
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- Multi-particle effects
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- Better loading
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- incremental?
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- Higher texture limit (16 x 8096 x 8096 isn't enough)
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- GPU limits? (texture size, texture number, particle/sprite limits)
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- Particles when a ship is damaged (events)
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- Sticky radar
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- Arbitrary size resource names
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# Ideas and long-term goals
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## Features (not soon)
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- Multiplayer
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- Configure key bindings, controller support
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- Save game state
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- Dynamic relationships (get angry when attacked)
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- Jump between systems
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- Story: how?
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- Conversations, trade, missions
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- Lightweight whole-universe simulation
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- Documentation site & front page
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- Dynamic lighting (planets & ships)
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- Lens flare?
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- Active abilities
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- Galaxy date system, slowly orbiting planets
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- Parallelize frame computations
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- Advanced AI: avoid collisions
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## Game & Story
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- How to keep player in system bounds, what to do if they fly far away
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- Max chase distance, physics-enforced area?
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- (Soft limits, you shouldn't go too far unless you decide to.)
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- Enforce: silently teleport to the other end
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- How to handle death -- save scum should not be the norm (hollow knight?)
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- Locks and keys -> variation?
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- Hard to get outfits you've lost (hollow knight's charms do this very well)
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- Missions: hunt scary targets
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- The world exists outside of the system you're in
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- (large-scale dynamics)
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- How does information travel?
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- Communication timer: destroy a ship fast, nobody needs to know
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- Do we want to pay crew?
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- How should ship capturing work?
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- Enemy motivations
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- Where does money come from?
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- Changing map paths? How?
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- Actions against one faction affect another, dynamic relationships
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## Write and Document
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- Parallax
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- Starfield & tiling
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- How the game is drawn
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- transforming game coordinates to screen
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- how angles work
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- Computation flow
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- Physics pipeline
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- Outfit pipeline
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- Collision detection
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- Ship AI
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- Handles
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- Content specification and pipeline
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- How packer and optimizations work, and why
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- How big should sprite resolutions be? How about frame rate?
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- Naming: atlas, sprite, image, frame, texture
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- Outfits may not change unless you've landed. They might not change ever for CC ships!
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- All angle adjustments happen in content & shaders
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- Reserved texture: index zero
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## Ideas
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- Improvements over ES
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- Better visuals
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- More interesting combat
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- More interesting missions
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- Big fleets shouldn't be broken (should the player even have a fleet?)
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- ES Enemies don't have a real motivation.
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- Death matters - save-scumming shouldn't be normal
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- More interesting trading?
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- Death penalty
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- Find your wreckage when you die (dark souls/HK)
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- Lose some outfits, lose ship? Real risk for going out! (HK does this well)
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- Damage to ship subsystems
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- Soft and highly armored ship points
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- Repair your own ship
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