ImlightImlight Todo
Bottlenecks & Performance
- Synchronous Socket I/O
- Database should use in-memory cache with periodic DB sync
- Use pooled sessions rather than instantiation each time
- ReceiveProtocolDispatcher cache
- Improving ReceiveProtocolDispatcher
- ZoneActor batch zone broadcast
- Player A moves → MoveService processes instantly → adds to zone broadcast batch
- Every 10ms → zone sends batched updates to all players
- Each player receives 1 packet with multiple moves instead of multiple individual packets
- GetActiveWizard can be cached
- GetActiveAccount can be cached
Combat
- Combat hand:
- Treasure cards
- Commands to add/remove a spell (TC)
- "X" out item cards in deck
- Combat effects:
- Fizzling
- Damage
- Healing
- Area-of-effect spells
- Reshuffle
- Pacify
- Provoke
- Global spells
- Stealing hanging effects
- Self damage (Sacrifice and Immolate)
- Per pip spells
- Pip donation spells
- Minions:
- Minion cards
- Spawning minions
- Minion AI
- Stealing health from minion
- Sacrifice minion for pips
- Sacrifice minion for health
- Reserved spots for group members
- Critical strikes
- Critical blocks
- PvP
- Casual matches
- Ranked matches
Social
- Friends List:
- Adding/removing a friend
- Teleporting to a friend
- Buddy stats
- Buddy Stats CRC
- Reporting others
- Ignoring others
- Groups
- Group chat
- Trading treasure cards
- Best friends
- Whispering
Shops
- Treasure card shops
- Potion shop
- Gardening vendors
- Recipe vendors
- Bazaar
- Professors
Zones
- Being kicked off a mount in non-mount areas
- Dungeons
- Tower sigils
- Krokotopia secret shop
- Chests
- Silver chests
- Realms
- Changing realms
Drop Tables
- After combat rewards
- Tool to remake drop tables
- Minigame rewards
Pets
- Make an understanding of how the client expects the pet behavior to be shipped
- Looking through pet objects to find hatch status
- Equipping pets
- Discarding pets
- Pet renaming
- Pet dyes
- Pets being capable of leveling up (or aging as the game puts it)
- Pets being able to add to canonical effects
- Pet snacks
- Pet Training
- Pet talents
- Pet powers
- Feeding pets snacks
- Pet Minigames:
- Dance Game
- Gobbler Drop
- Cannon Game
- Maze Game
- Grumpy Gobblers
- Way of the Ninja Pig
- Pet Derby:
- Practice Pet Derby
- Ranked Pet Derby
Progression
- Starting with school spells
- Leveling up naturally
- Gaining experience
- Badges
- Titles
Quests
- Tutorial
- Quest Givers:
- '!' above NPC heads
- Quest requirements
- Changing NPC wizbang on quest status change
- Accepting quests from NPCs
- Saving quests persistently
- Seeing quests on game server attach
- Quest helper
- Request quest dialog button
- Quest start results
- Quest end results
- Automatically starting dialog of next quest
- Goals:
- Activation results
- Completion results
- "New Goal" text
- Kill mobs
- Kill & collect
- Speak to NPC
- Madlibs
- Achieve rank (level)
- Waypoint:
- Enter zone
- Exit zone
- Enter volume
- Exit volume
Equipment
- Seamstress
- Banking
- Elixirs
- Time limited mounts
- Jewel socketing
Crafting
- Recipes
- Crafting station
- Crafting slots
- Crafting titles
Player Housing
TIP
Imlight should have social elements before starting this branch.
- Need a system to know what house belongs to which player
- Need to add a new collection to dragon database to save a house persistently. A
Wizardshould only keep track of their housing instance ID which points to their house - Housing previews
- Buying/selling a house
- Teleporting home
- Being able to teleport to your house
- House decorations
- House decorations being saved persistently
- PvP sigils
Gardening
- Seeds
- Plant needs
- Plant phases (young/mature/elder)
- Gardening titles
Guilds
- Creating a guild
- Guild chat
- Guild halls
Additional Features
- Fishing
- Castle Magic
- Rate my stitch
- Multi-person mounts
- Raids
- Pixie Post
- Team Up system
- True friend codes
- Patch Server
Packet Captures Needed
- Using treasure cards
- Treasure card vendor
- Sunken City played in full
- PvP duel
- Opening a wooden chest
- Playing a silver chest minigame
- Seamstress