TODO List

[cjshmyr]

These are high-level, and even if checked off it's probably not 100%. Can be broken up if work's done in smaller chunks, and stuff's definitely missing. Use ref/rules.ini as a reference! A few may have been committed without a PR on accident.

Mod

• Update mod to release-20180923
• Update mod to release-20181215
• Update mod to playtest-20190106
• Use the custom logo by kerbiter.

Factions

• Allies and Soviet
• Countries
• Faction flag - discuss, use old allies logo color?

Tech tree

• Lazily restore original tech tree (expansion units still showing up, and so are ants)
• Fully restore original tech tree (fix above) (Add aftermath.ini for reference #7)
• Restore aftermath unit tech tree (may want to tie into lobby option)
• Add a checkbox that implemets some campaign units (Volkov, Chitzkoi and Phase Transport) and helicarrier in skirmish.
• Tech levels (Add Tech Levels #30, Add fake building's tech levels. #31)

Game

• Starting credits (Add cash options from 2500 to 10000 #27)
• Starting units (Add original starting units #28)
• Original maps (Add original maps and a small shellmap #37)
• Counterstrike maps (Add 10 maps from Counterstrike expansion #108, 10 more Counterstrike maps #109, 10 More Counterstrike maps #112, 40 Counterstrike maps #119, Add remaining 36 Counterstrike maps #125)
• Aftermath maps (20 Aftermath Maps #111, 20 More Aftermath maps #123, 30 more aftermath maps #124, Add the last 30 Aftermath maps #127 some maps needs scripting and yaml changes)
• Match original game speed values
• Build queues (buildings, infantry, vehicle, aircraft)
• Clean up build palette order to be sensible (Remove defence tab and reorder structures tab #23, Fix build palette order. #36, ...)
• AI (original RA AI is awful, tweak hacky AI for now)
• Build radius as a lobby option (off by default, requires bleed engine version)
• Aftermath units as a lobby option (off by default, but move to on later)
• Hidden units as a lobby option (off by default)
• Disable leaving husks; Possibly later, leave husks as a lobby option (off by default)
• Crate spawning (Remove crate dropping badger #24)
• Crate effects (Added original crate powers #53, Some more changes to crates #58, Add A-Bomb Crates. #181)
• Ore/Gem quantities
• Radar bin colors, discuss if we change to original
• Fog of war as a lobby option (off by default) (Disable fog as default #25)
• Terrain: discuss desert, temperate terrain expansion
• Trees burning, does the original scorch to the ground? Discuss
• Redeploy MCV as a lobby option (hidden rules.ini thing)

Structures

• Building bibs (Bibs (remove minibibs), build adjacency #17)
• Build adjacency rules (Bibs (remove minibibs), build adjacency #17, Remove baseprovider (build radius) from conyard #19)
• Adjust cost, health, power consumption (Adjust structure cost, health, power consumption #2)
• Adjust vision (Disabled mcv redeployment, adjusted vision #16)
• Adjust build production acceleration rate
• Adjust low power production speed penalty
• Pillbox/camo pillbox + radius circles (Pillbox stuff #6)
• Camo Pillbox show no remap to enemies.
• Fakes (Enable fakes and remove ones original didn't have #21, Fake building adjustments #44)
• Move silo, defenses, walls into buildings queue (Remove defence tab and reorder structures tab #23)
• Remove cash ticks (seems hard coded on Selling though) (Remove Cash Ticks from Refinery and Crates #32)
• Remove building death animations (Remove building death animations #35)
• Discuss/remove ally repair?
• Discuss original game make animations speed (slower slightly in originals?)
• Building survivors when destroyed

Walls

• Discuss, keep line build?
• Adjust values (Disabled mcv redeployment, adjusted vision #16)

Units

• Adjust cost, build time, speed, vision (Adjusted cost, hp, armor, custombuild time, and vision. #10, Adjusted cost, hp, turn speed, and vision #12, Adjusted cost, hp, turn speeds. Removed vision & contrails #13, Adjusted cost, hp, and vision. #29, any left?)
• Adjust rate of turn, turret rate
• Remove infantry squish evasion (Guaranteed infantry squishes #18)
• Validate proper vehicles can crush infantry (Adjust Tracked and Crusher status of units #72)
• Allied Spy logic
• Allied Thief logic (Thief infiltration for Refinery & Silo #33, Make Thief buildable #34, is it stealing the right amount?)
• Determine if cargo didn't die when APC was blown up (Make APC Drop Cargo on Death #40)
• Determine if infantry emit on sell
• Minelayers (AP and AT)
• Engineers (classic behavior) (updated fcom,miss,hosp,bio #3 required amount of engis is possibly incorrect Adjust values according to mplayer.ini #56)
• Flamethrower infantry (restore original projectile) (Adjust flamer weapons #20)
• Aircraft entering shroud (Don't let Aircaraft to enter Shroud #26)
• Helipad comes with a free helicopter. (Update mod to release-20230225. #207)
• Reveal on fire
• Sellable units on service depot (7ab6dab, fa6e852, 9b705b3, 543e700)
• Adjust harvester and mammoth tank self heal rates

Weapons

• Adjust weapon damage, range (Adjusted damage, range, and reload delays. #5, More weapon changes to match original #67, any left?))
• Explosions (Changed some weapons to use large explosion as in original #59, ...)

Superpowers

• Allied GPS
• Chronosphere (Change Chrono and IC to Match Original #4)
• Iron curtain (Change Chrono and IC to Match Original #4)
• Parabombs
• Sonar pulse
• A-Bomb

OpenRA RA Mod leftovers

• Remove bounties (initial commit, Removed GivesBounty from Ships #14)
• Remove veterancy (Remove veterancy #9)
• Remove complex logic from tech buildings, restore original values (hospitals, forward command centers, etc...) (updated fcom,miss,hosp,bio #3)
• Remove low power overlay (Remove low power overlay #39), power down (Remove CanPowerDown: from all structures #41)
• Remove any other RA remnants (disable-player-experience.yaml, veterancy art, etc...)
• Installer - re-use RA mod content location

UI

• New sidebar (in progress by warman)

Cleanup

• Potentially use sequence inheritance for civilian artwork PR (Add Original Civilian Artworks #65) (Fixed by Use Inherits for civilian sequences #69)

Fixes from upstream

• Burnt tree radar color: Burnt Trees using RadarColor from trees OpenRA#14584
• V2 aim: Fix for V2 Rocket Launcher facings OpenRA#14393
• Remove Aircraft Husks and Attack Bomber planes from map editor.
• Make Army Value graph actually work.

[MustaphaTR]

Do we wanna change default value of FoW to off?

[cjshmyr]

My vote would be off but can be swayed, what do you guys think?

Definitely leave the setting there though regardless.

[ghost]

With aircraft having no vision they'd be flying around blind under the fog. So unless we give the aircraft some vision, I think this needs to be turned off by default.

[MustaphaTR]

I wanna ask some other things about removing things original didn't have:

• Building death animations.
• Cash texts on refinery and crates.
• Engi's Remap.
• Losing prerequisite when losing provider. (In original, for example once you get V2 by getting radar, you can still build V2s after losing the radar dome).

[cjshmyr]

1&2: Fine with being removed.
3: Can this be treated as a quality of life improvement?
4: Not a huge fan of keeping the original's behavior on this one. I think there's a few features we should treat/note as QOL improvements. Edit: Indifferent after thinking about it, could be nice to support both but would want to discuss implementation of the original in any case first.

[ghost]

Anyone recall how RevealOnFire was setup? I know for sure the defense structures & long range units had it, but can't seem to recall seeing it on infantry or tanks.
Also the trait's default value of 25 ticks seems way too fast from what I remember.

[cjshmyr]

@FrameLimiter @MustaphaTR moving this repository to the OpenRA organization.

[MustaphaTR]

Anyone recall how RevealOnFire was setup? I know for sure the defense structures & long range units had it, but can't seem to recall seeing it on infantry or tanks.

I gave some units and gun turret 1000 range with ini editing, all seems like reveal the shroud normally. Revealed shroud don't grow back, not sure what is the case in OpenRA, tryed to test by opening 2 instances, but computer is too bad to handle it. I'm not sure what to do with fog for that.

[ghost]

Some things I'm unclear on translating from the Rules.ini to OpenRA:
∙Projectile speeds
∙Unit speeds
∙Splash radiuses (Rules.ini uses 0, 1, 3, 6, 8 for their warheads)
->Medic/Mechanic's Organic/Mechanical warhead says "0" splash. Would this indicate using a splash of 0c32 since the fallout is 4x -- equaling 0c128 [infantry hitshape size]?
->OpenRA uses 0c128 splash for rifles/tanks ect. with Rules.ini using a splash of "3".
->Artillery via rules.ini says splash of 6; does this suggest a splash of 0c256?

[MustaphaTR]

Do we wanna keep the way it currently is or change the unit tooltips so it uses generic name (Enemy Structure/Vehicle/Soldier) and remove OwnerRow?

[GraionDilach]

I think you can do the permanent prereqs thingy with d2k-akin upgrades defined as freeactor for provioding them on the respectable tech buildings.

[GraionDilach]

Building survivors when they're destroyed are missing from the initial list.

[MustaphaTR]

I already have a EmitInfantryOnDeath trait for my General's Alpha mod. It is mostly a copy paste from EmitInfantryOnSell and i don't really like it, it is not really like original.

[Mailaender]

Some history: there was a dormant fork at https://github.com/Iran/ClassicRA and OpenRA/OpenRA#2633 for our early attempts to integrate it. Maybe you can learn from our failure or even re-use some stuff.

[cjshmyr]

Been out of commission for a few weeks, sorry folks.

@FrameLimiter - We might have to use approximations in some cases, if so we could store rules.ini -> yaml conversion values on a wiki page.
@MustaphaTR - I prefer the newer tooltips for multiplayer reasons, but could go either way.
@GraionDilach - Added to list, also your note about sequence inheritance for the merged civilian PR.

[cjshmyr]

@pchote has work down the pipeline that lets us support more lobby options, such as an Aftermath Units checkbox (e.g. ra mod's "Kill Bounties" PR).

Right now we're using the aftrmath.ini values for units but we are not enabling aftermath units. Perhaps we should enable these units by default right now, then bring in the checkbox after.

[MustaphaTR]

Looks like Machine Gun weapons weren't blocked by walls in original. Do we wanna change that behaviour, as it doesn't really make much sense.

[cjshmyr]

Yeah sounds good changing that if it doesn't make sense, pretty minor.

[MustaphaTR]

Hidden units as a lobby option (off by default)

What exactly are the hidden units? Volkov, chitzkoi, phase transport, helicarrier, ants?

[MustaphaTR]

What do we wanna do with Aircraft Husks here. They are nice visually, but as original planes died in midair, they didn't deal any crash damage, while they do here.

[ghost]

We could maybe just add a conditional death explosion to the aircraft so when we do "leave husks as a lobby option" we can toggle between the two behaviors.
e.g.
Unit Husks [x]: Aircraft shows an explosion when dying and has no husk (original)
Unit Husks [√]: Aircraft shows no explosion when dying but spawns a husk. (current)

[cjshmyr]

I pictured hidden units as those with build icons but not actually buildable (phase transport/helicarrier), but could expand that to what you've listed?

That husk idea sounds possible once we pull the engine upgrade in.

[GraionDilach]

Another option is to remove the damagewarhead from the aircraft husk, leaving it in as a mere cosmetic change.

[cjshmyr]

Hey guys, been a while but I won't be able to dedicate time to work on raclassic. @MustaphaTR / @FrameLimiter / others, if you guys want to change the mod's direction, todo list, or merge stuff feel free.