Lamplighter game

DIALOG

• easy add lines and make dialog trees
• generate dialog tree on the fly for squad join and leave

CONTROLS

• wasd movement
• left shift sprint
• e interact
• q drop (if holding item)
• f swap hand and back items
• g swap hand and belt items
• ] switch timescale in .5 increments up to 10x speed
• scroll wheel or , . to zoom in/out the camera
• left click to use held item
• right click TODO (mybe make use belt item)
• walk into items to pick up / hold (if they are marked as "pickup")

Game Layout

Status's

• * means implimented and working
• resource cost n is TBD

Victory Conditions

n can be user set, defaults to 5

must get n points to win points can come and go based on world status

points are calculated at the end of each day or when a vote is called

town having 3+ greater population than all other towns = 1 pt

• towns can start with different populations, some migth have an advantage to get to this

town mayor having ownership of a town (1 point each)

• game starts with all mayors/players having 1 point
• can get more points by taking over another town in any way
  • can be bought out
  • can be fighted out
  • can be churched out (negotiate and put church in town)
  • can be a trade partner and vote on which mayor is main one

town is voted as current capitol of the island = 1pt

• determined by town "score" which is made up of wealth and population and size
• every x days a town can pay to call a vote, this then picks the capitol (they can loose the vote)

town has 1 of all possible buildings built and worked in it = 1pt

• if town is on water, must have a dock
• if town is by mines, all mines must be worked
• must have alchemist
• must have blacksmith
• must have shop
• must have houses
• must have shops

town has trade route with 2 other towns = 1pt each

• if town a has route with b,c to get next point, must have routes with d,e
• some towns can start with a trade route as an advantage

town has monument built 1 point each

• monument is super expensive building that buffs all townsfolk in an area

town has most of a stat of all towns (1 point per two stats met) (.5 point per stat met, but 2.5 is rounded down to 2 points given)

• most mana in the world and magic buildings (floating lights built etc)
• most wealth in world (town has most gold)
• most ore
• most metal
• most wood
• most farms

Towns

Each has its own resource generation and economy

Can set the faction of all its residents when they move in/ generate

Professions

• Mayor
  • is the player or npc owns a town, if dies title passes to another townsperson
  • wanders the town center and is the leader to talk to
• Farmer
  • Mans farms
• Woodcutter
  • chops trees
  • works lumbermill
• Blacksmith
  • Works blacksmith
• Miner
  • Works mines
• Gaurd
  • Gaurds Posts
  • Gaurds Traders
• Shopkeeper
  • Works shops
• Trader
  • Goes on trade routes
• Bandit
  • Bandits shit
• Lampligher
  • Lights roads
• Alchemist
  • Works alchemist

Building List

• House
  • Ideal state: 1 house per resident
  • Cannot recruit new people to town unless houses > residents in the town
  • If house is destroyed, residents will share
  • Building costs:
    • wood n
    • stone n
    • metal 1
• Farm
  • Location for farmers to work
  • Max 3 farmers per farm
  • Makes 1.5 food resource per person working the farm, up to max of 3x1.5=4.5
  • Food resource is required for a residents work to be done
    • Residents will still work and act normally, but each needs 1 food per day do do work / work to be turned into resources at end of day
    • Farms get priority for food resource > resources made conversion, then calculated for other buildings
    • Farms cost 1 food to run, but if food = 0 they will still run
  • Building costs:
    • wood n
• Shop
  • Location for Shopkeepers to work
  • Makes money resource for the town per shop that is open
  • Can buy town resources at shop for trade route
  • Max 1 trade route per shop
  • Generates up to 3 items depending on other buildings in town (if they are worked)
    • Sells potions if potion maker in town
    • Sells weapons if blacksmith in town
    • Sells magic items if both alchmist and blacksmith in town
  • Building costs:
    • wood n
    • metal 1
• Blacksmith
  • Refines Ore resource into metal resouce
  • If worked, allows shops to sell weapons and tools
  • Building costs:
    • stone n
    • metal n
• Lumbermill
  • Is worked by lumberjack
    • Lumberjack will go cut tree, then return to mill to preduce 1 wood unit per day per lumberjack
  • 2 Lumberjacks can work 1 lumbermill
  • Building costs:
    • stone n
    • wood n
    • metal n
• Alchomist
  • Worked by alchomists
  • If worked allows shops to sell potions
  • Building costs:
    • wood n
    • stone n
    • metal 1
• Mine
  • Generates Stone and Ore resources
    • 1:.25 ratio of stone to ore
    • only 1 is produced per work unit, with 75% being stone, 25% being ore
  • N miners can work the mine
    • Each miner working generates 1 unit of work
  • Has chance to injure miners per day
  • Building costs:
    • N/A cannot be built, all mines will be premade
• Warehouse (might skip it)
  • Controlls the amount of each resource that at town can store
  • Wood and food excess decay over time
  • More can be built to increase town storage
    • resource decay always the same
    • only needs to be built more when generation is high enough
  • Building costs:
    • Wood n
    • Stone n
• Lamplighter House
  • Same building as house, but is home of existing lamplighters, spawns a new one if their owner is killed
  • Ambient building
  • Building costs:
    • N/A All will be preplaced and cannot be deleted, as they are owned by lamplighters
• Guard Post
  • Location that Guards can be assigned to
  • When assigned they will wait there and be on lookout for enemies
  • Building costs:
    • wood n
• Fences and Walls
  • Are barriers that cost wood to build
  • Can be burnt down by bandit raids (walls harder to do so)
• Docks
  • New characters arrive at docks and either go on thier own quests or join villages
  • source of new residents
  • Building costs TBD if allowed to be built
• Church
  • can be visited to replenish mana
  • Building costs:
    • Wood n

TODO LIST

* = started

• better dialog and HUD (add background to text)
• right click to use belt item
• quests for npcs to do complex tasks
• split charactercontroller tasks/professions into their own classes
• Shop dialog generation
• town resources*
• create all buildings in list
• split all building types into own classes from main building controller
• add more items
• make buildings "unlockable" in build tool instead of all available at start
• make the controls / key inputs configurable
• fix bugs with the entering town/switching characters
• do all TODO in the code
• raids on towns
• bandits on roads
• lampligher jobs based on quests