lacuna reboot

Features we would like to see in a game reboot

Lacuna Expanse Reboot ideas page

There is a risk of second system syndrome where we add more features and fail to deliver so treat this as a wish-list of possible ideas. Some of the ideas are only going to be possible with a reboot (e.g. rebalance Essentia, plans etc.) and would be difficult to implement later so these should have priority. Other ideas may be possible to be implemented later.

Links to other ideas pages

Miscellaneous

Ensure that empire names in Lacuna-1 cannot be chosen in Lacuna-2 except by their existing owners.
Images that may be useful in end-of-days (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/a08uw6pqqpszkh6/AACweBTQ5ztl2OgivN8SzPbha?dl=0)
It should be able to flip a captitol, AI or Player. like when a fissure explodes on the captitol, the player 'escapes' to a new planet to start again.
Introduce the concept that a planet has limited resources. Once mined out production drops significantly. Colony need then to relocate or to supply chain from elsewhere. This is modeled here https://www.boundless.com/biology/textbooks/boundless-biology-textbook/population-and-community-ecology-45/environmental-limits-to-population-growth-251/logistic-population-growth-930-12186/
Lottery payout should vary.
- If more people purchase Essentia then the lottery payout should increase proportionatly
- The more people playing the lottery in a zone, the higher the payout in that zone
Incentives for existing players to move to new server
- Medals for 'long service'
- Increased base affinity points over the standard 45 based on length of service.

Performance

There are some changes we can make on efficiency to make the code more responsive.

Only send status/empire/body blocks on request, or if there is a change
Instead of sending all data, just send changes for the above.
Farm off changes to body (updates) out of web request into a scheduled job.

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