Roadmap

Please note: this page is old, not updated, and should be more thought of as a general outline of the direction we want to take the game in.

First milestone

Basically we want external interfaces to be stable.

• New save file format
• Separate Player from Ship (breaks Lua)
• Turn Missiles into guided Projectiles
• Module manifest
• Convert to new UI (but not redesigned HUD)
• Starsystem generation rewrite (plus custom systems)
• 3D cockpits (only visual, not functional)

Second milestone

• Gameplay stuff, redesigned UI. Dunno yet.
• Functional 3D cockpits

 

Older stuff

Pioneer has changed versioning system and will no longer release a 1.0 version. Development will continue continuously with new features and fixes added, making every new version slightly better than the one before. Below is a compiled list of features.

Warning: This list is incomplete - and under active discussion so subject to change

UI features

• Star views and navigation
  • Combine system (orbit) view into star map
  • Bookmarks, travel log
  • Maybe other streamlining as well? such as?
  • is galaxy view useful at all?

• Missions and station interface
  • Redesign the bulletin board to allow filtering and searching (e.g., adverts have tags, as shown in this old mock-up.
  • Better access to missions or BB. maybe alerts?
  • Centralise bulletin board within the station interface (ie, everything else hangs off the bulletin board; the BB is basically the station-wide-web)
    • Replace the "standard" commodity market with multiple traders/shops advertising on the BB
    • Replace the "standard" ship equipment and servicing screens with mechanics advertising on the BB
    • Replace the "standard" ship purchase screen with specialist shops advertising on the BB, plus also individual pilots posting ship-for-sale and ship-wanted adverts

• Rewrite? the HUD
• Add chase camera, padlock

Technical features

• Commodity Prices (see link for more) / Economy will be more advanced (Dynamic?)
• Weapons
  • goals: allow more than just laser bolts (beams, missiles), auto-tracking guns and turrets
  • rewrite, basically
  • conflicts with lua trade goods/equipment?

• Factions
  • Remove random generation of factions
  • Factions into translation system
• Separate Player from Ships
  • to enable shuttlecraft and remote drones
• Hitpoints: use generic HP value instead of mass. system specific damage?
• Cargo: use kg instead of tons
• AI
  • needs more higher level stuff like basic self preservation, modules must not have to implement their own (like tradeships...)
  • formations, anyone?
  • AI vs AI?

Gameplay features

• Military progression / treason.
• Something like the Scout missions the walterar has done, exploration jobs.
• No hypersace from in atmosphere / or too close to a planet surface.
• In-system hyperspace jumps to make assassination missions and piracy actually possible.
• Alternatively a Fast-As-Light drive, Shadmar has taken a hacked one I (fluffyfreak) wrote and updated it for Paragon.
• A reason to actually have Crew on the ship.
• Cargo has volume, and this is what limits a cargo hold. forum
• Allow player to buy some types of ship equipment as cargo and have it fitted elsewhere
• Ship visual customization
• Space stations
  • external docking
  • traffic rules (don't allow modules to let ships idle forever)
• Ship to ship docking / comunication
• Networking / "Fake multiplayer" Network features