clwars

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• clwars

Text based trading/adventure sim.

** Description CL-Wars is a text based game made for fun, highly inspired by Space Trader, Drug Wars, FTL, Roguelikes, STALKER, WH40k, and many more.

In CL-Wars you are a rogue trader on the edge of an poorly charted and unfriendly galaxy. Ply your wares, capture archeotech, and purge xenomorphs in the fires of your guns.

NOTE: This 'game' is just a playground for me to play with Lisp. It is not a reference for 'good'/idomatic CL software and is not really intended to be useful or playable.

** Systems *** Systems

• Ship Systems/Combat
  • TODO:
  • Basic combat system, perhaps like battleship
  • Basic 'move to new sector' system
  • Shields recharge after combat
  • System for repairing hull
  • Notes:
  • Hull Integrity
    • When 0 game over
  • Repulsor Shield
    • Each % of shield integrity reduces damage by some %
  • Warp Drive
    • How far you can jump per 1 fuel
  • Reactors
    • Powers warp drive and warp field
    • Will always have some power, but if power is too low you with have to jump without a warp field
  • Munitions
    • Ammo for weapons
  • Warp Field
    • Jumping without a warp field will have random effects
• Weapons Systems
  • Weapons have attributes depending on type
  • Plasma Weapon
  • High hull damage, low shield damage
  • Beam Weapon
  • High shield damage, low hull damage
  • Explosive Weapon
  • Average hull damage, average shield damage
• Money/Economy/Items
  • TODO
  • [X] Basic buy/sell mechanics
  • Stretch - trade interface for 'friendly' ships
  • Overhaul buy/sell interface for archeotech specific information
  • Stretch - Random $x*$x ASCII image to represent archeotech
  • [X] Variable economy between sectors ('random' prices)
  • Define how archeotech works (random buffs/characteristics)
    • Archeotech display menu
  • Notes
  • Used to upgrade ship components/crew
  • Can trade spice (variable cost in systems), but your crew will consume it based on their happiness
  • Can trade archeotech (AT has characteristics that may be desireable to different planetary systems)
• Crew Systems
  • TODO:
  • [-] Implemention of crew buffs
    • [X] Add buff objects
    • Resolve buff integration into various systems
  • Food
  • Moral
  • Weapons
    • These should be updated on insertion into crew?
  • Shields
  • Crew consumes gruel on some regular cadence (per action/jump/etc)
  • Crew will consume spice (if available)
    • Spice increases moral but can be destabilizing to sanity
  • Implementation of crew member buff charateristics
  • Sanity/Moral (impacted by availability of spice and/or horrors of the warp)
    • What happens when these get low?
  • Crew members can die (you lose their buff, no other consequence)
  • Recruit new crew members at trading stations (cost?)
• Hazard/Boon/Sector System
  • TODO:
  • Encapsulate sector attrs
  • Encapsulate boon/hazard attrs
  • Interface for interacting with boons/hazards
  • Basic system to jump to new sector
  • What happens if you jump with a low power warp shield?
  • Notes:
  • Each sector contains a hazard and a boon
    • A hazard is a combat encounter or some kind of negative event
    • The boon is some kind of positive event
    • The likelihood of either depends on sanity calculation
    • Perhaps flesh out equipment system for 'boon' hunting