(a Warlords II clone)

general programming todo list:

• heroes:
  • arriving: male/female choice
    • need to swap hero picture according to radio button
    • requires male/female to be in data file
    • also, original game had special (random) hero names per side
    • add ability to change hero name
    • hero should arrive on first turn
    • implement better chance calculation by Bob Heeter
    • add smallmap to hero offer dialog
    • highlight what city the hero is coming from on the smallmap
    • make heroes able to pop up in any city, not just first one
    • have certain armies show up with new heroes sometimes
    • bug:hero not visible after move until stack is clicked on
    • bug: we see allies show up for non-human players
  • ruins:
    • when encountering a ruin, it should announce what it encounters before fighting
    • searching a ruin should fight at most one monster
    • heroes shouldn't fight monsters at a ruin, winning should be calculated differently.
    • implement better chance calculation by Bob Heeter
    • only certain monsters should be found in a ruin
    • searching a ruin should sometimes find a sage, and no monster
    • a sage should offer money, maps, or items
    • need a ruin/temple info dialog with ruinmap on the main menu
    • successfully searching a ruin should yield an item, allies or gold
    • heroes who die at ruins leave the rest of their stack behind
    • easier random maps have more sages
    • ruins should be able to be "hidden"
  • quests:
    • when a quest demands a city sack/raze, highlight it in the city occupation dialog
    • a quest should sometimes demand that an enemy city be sacked or razed
    • quest should identify the location of the target(s) on a smallmap
    • a quest reward should be able to point to a hidden ruin
    • a quest reward should be able to point to a hidden ruin that has a particular reward (like an item)
    • need slay a single unit of TYPE quest
    • kill armies quest should specify a player
    • need an occupy-city quest
    • need a sack-and-pillage an amount of gold quest
    • a ruinsearch quest should never happen
    • city sack/occupy should expire when the target city is razed
    • should city sack/occupy expire when the target city is pillaged?
    • quest to kill army type shouldn't expire just because there are none left
    • bug: when pillaging on an occupy quest, we still get a reward
    • add new quests to action framework
    • bug: we see a quest dialog when another player's hero gets a quest (confirm?)
    • bug: crashes when getting a second quest
    • only assign the first hero in the stack a quest
    • only assign one quest per player, not one quest per hero
    • quests should have allies as a reward
    • quests should have an item as a reward
    • small map should be shown on quest completion
    • quest report should show progress of the single quest
  • temples:
    • heroes may be blessed many times, but regular units only once
    • any army can get blessed, not just heroes
    • bug: load game breaks on remembered temples from blessings
    • should have more than 0 movement points to search temples (or ruins)
  • items:
    • remove hero wearing items, instead just have a general bag of items
    • heroes should start with a battle standard
    • dropping items in water should make them go away forever
    • heroes who die should leave a bag of stuff behind
    • when hero fights a city and loses, the bag falls into the city
    • remove pictures of items
    • items should have bonsues like +4 gold per city, and stack flying, etc
  • movement:
    • heroes should be able to ride things that fly
• cities/gold/income/upkeep underneath stackinfo
• make mountains *impassable* except by flying creatures
• don't put cities on a mountain tile
• taking over city should show the units that were pillaged/sacked
• on first turn should show city occupation dialog
• boatplay:
• one can't produce a boat unit type
• one can enter the water from a port, costing a turn
• land units fighting on water fall back to a low strength (4?)
• movement of all units becomes larger when in a boat
• shortest path needs to take into account ports
• stacks should appear as boats when in the water
• movement bonus picture in stackinfo should be a boat when whole group is in the water
• armies:
  • medals are only conferred to non-ally armies who fight with heroes
  • don't allow army strength to exceed 9
  • remove army defense stat
  • remove army vitality stat
  • implement missing army bonuses, like +2 str in city
  • calculate army bonuses properly
  • remove unnecessary army "portraits"
• standardize the size of the map (rectangle, not square)
• cities should always have exactly 4 production slots
• city defense level should be separated from production slots
• add sheild-set to show who's turn it is
• add ability to change hero names at game preferences
• remove ability to select army tileset in game preferences (select per scenario, but not per player)
• city pictures are by player
• eight players should be the default at game start
• players should be able to be turned off at game start
• change default player names to correct names
• change player colours to correct colours
• add "sack" to city occupation dialog
• make sack and pillage behave properly
• remove "multifight"
• remove "advanced production"
• add diplomacy
• add ability to rename and raze cities
• add hidden map (fog of war)
• add military advisor (e.g. surely thou cannot lose!)
• need one (themed) armyset that contains all units
• add looting upon occupy. give (Enemy-Gold/(2Enemy-Cities)) to the attacker and take away twice that from the defender.
• different mouse pointer for when hovering over an owned city
• left-clicking on an owned city should bring up city info dialog
• hovering over an enemy city from a square away should have a sword mouse pointer
• make the next turn dialog show up again
• make the selector graphic be a different colour per player
• make the selector graphic smaller when dealing with single stack
• make the selector graphic rotate faster
• bug:show smallmap before initial hero, and showing city production (normal works, tiny and small maps don't)
• bug: hero gets treasure even though she's killed
• bug: fight dialog should go away when the main window does
• bug: mountains at 100% in game preferences can cause the game to crash
• bug: don't allow gold to go under zero
• bug: when deselecting units, the small selector doesn't automatically appear when there's only one unit left selected
• add ability to disband a stack
• randomly connect cities with roads
• random rivers should flow down from mountains to shore, boats can go on shore, but not land
• right-click on owned city should bring up city info
• bug: attacking city and losing leaves attackers in city
• initial capital city gets one strongest army for free
• bug: flag lengths are too long
• change fighting algorithm to not include ranged attacks
• only heroes can increase levels
• remove tile defense, is represented by army bonus
• remove ranged attacked
• editor should have ability to produce an altered army unit, e.g. quicker or stronger than the template
• vectoring:
  • add real vectoring. e.g. a unit takes 2 turns to show up in a new city.
  • make other cities appear as razed cities on vector map
  • show production/no prodouction for cities on vector map
  • show source/destination for cities on vector map
  • implement `see-all' vectoring
  • add `see-all' toggle button on vector dialog
  • add pictures for incoming vectored units
  • implement `vector to new city'
  • clicking on an owned city in the vectormap should take me to another city
  • only vector to owned cities
  • vector to planted hero standard
  • stop vectoring when stop production button is pressed
  • show razed cities on small map
  • make clickable target as big as the shield
  • limit the number of armies that can be vectored to a single city (4)
  • make ai players use vectoring
• bug: attacking an empty city segfaults
• add army info to right-click in city production window
• remember who's capital city this is, say it in city info
• bug: player dead, end of game not caught
• add "CITY is in ruins!" dialog after razing a city
• bug: an enemy attacking another city can crash the game
• can't buy an army unit when we don't have a spare slot
• bug: selecting a second unit in the city-window, yields wrong current unit image
• bug: flying movement doesn't extend to rest of stack
• prefer diagonals when calculating paths
• need bridges
• need anchor ports (water entry points that aren't cities)
• music system can randomly crash
• random map should allow 80 cities
• fight dialog should have defender on top, and attacker on bottom
• bug: shield set not updating per player turn
• bug: sometimes an army can't be selected in the stack
• random cities shouldn't be placed inside islands of mountains
• bug: ruinmap shows hidden ruins for other players
• bug: too many cities on random map
• land adjacent to water needs a different "shore" picture in the bigmap
• add fight order of armies so that certain armies fight first in battle

artwork todo list:

• change tile size to 40x40
• new title screen
• new terrain tiles
• new army icons
• new hero icon
• little flags should be 2 tiered
• draw cities as bitmaps on smallmap
• draw temples as a dot on the smallmap
• selector graphic should be more than 2 frames
• small selector graphic
• selector graphics should look cooler
• add sheild-set to show who's turn it is
• need new turn graphic
• need graphic for about window
• need many more army tiles (heroes, etc)
• need castle picture
• need ruin picture
• need temple picture
• need stone picture
• need hero arrives picture (male + female)
• need occupying a city picture
• need hero encountering a ruin picture
• need bag of items picture
• need land-connector bridge picture
• need road-connector bridge picture
• need pictures for cities/gold/income/upkeep stats underneath stackinfo
• need little captial city graphic
• need little water graphic to put under units when they're on a boat
• need little hills/flying/forest graphics to show army travel bonuses
• need military advisor picture
• small map should have land shadow
• small map should draw mountains better
• small map should draw forest better
• small map should draw swamp better
• small map selector box should be thicker