Roadmap

[thombruce]

Combat

• Ship-to-ship Combat #53
• Weapon variety
  • Ballistic cannon (2376318)
  • Beam weapon #69
  • EMP/Environmental weapon
  • Railgun (accurate, high damage; longer reload)
  • Missiles
    • Explosive (impact, timed, vicinity)
    • Heat-seeking
    • AI-assisted (like heat-seeking but more focused - pursues single target, maybe, instead of closest heat-source)
• Power-ups? E.g. Better accuracy, higher fire rate, increased damage, etc.
• Enemy variety
• Rescue/Capture/Salvage Gameplay #52
• Heat damage (Sun damages ships over time) #78

Careers

• Asteroid mining
• Transport/logistics
• Science/exploration - collecting and analysing samples, gaining knowledge about worlds/entities
  • Making that research useful/rewarding (perhaps knowledge can be quantified as the player gains it, and individual knowledge units could be reported or sold to others)
  • One obvious idea is to allow planets to be claimed on discovery - they could then be improved/terraformed and sold to either governments or commercial bodies; the more knowledge you have about a planet, the higher the price you could expect to sell it for as you dress up its worth (consider also allowing the player to omit crucial details - inflating the price of an undesirable planet at the cost of respect and trustworthiness [the more trust and respect you have, the easier you'll be able to find buyers if this is a career path that is desirable to you])

World

• Model Sol system ("The Solar System") #51
• Interior spaces, living quarters
• Pets
• Crew
• Planetary landings
• Procedural Space #10
  • Planet Variety #84
• Megastructures/Engineering/Wormholes and Warp Gates
• Evolving systems #86

Story

• Narrative and dialogue