User:Inutt/CodingIdeas

Coding ideas

Please note: These are just ideas that I've had and are not necessarily well thought out, are in no particular order, have no guarantee of ever actually happening, may be either impossible or inadvisable, and may contain nuts.

☐ Empty ☑ Tick ☒ Cross For any players not on the staff side of the MUCK feel free to take a look at this list, but it may not make a great deal of sense if you haven't seen the code.

• ☑ Make indentation consistent [Happening as I edit code]

- It just makes code easier to read, enables code folding, and lining up corresponding if/then statements makes the code vastly easier to parse! (Yes, I know two of those points are the same, but it's an important one)

• ☐ Add prop to players that have womb/other private rooms so they can be found without looping through all room objects - it would just make more sense and improve efficiency
• ☐ Write a parameter checking function - basically an improved checkargs to highlight more clearly when incorrect parameters are passed
  • Check number of supplied parameters is actually on the stack
  • Check type of arguments
  • Something like "str:foo int:bar dbref:baz any:qux" checkparams
    • Check stack depth
    • Split on ' ' and foreach in reverse order
    • Split on ':' into type,name
    • If top of stack matches type, add to dict of parameters by name
    • Would be handy for checking the parameters are all present and of the specified type, instead of just pulling the top 'n' things off the stack and breaking with a generic error if the wrong things were passed in. (The check could produce a more detailed error message - "[funcname] called from line [x] of [calling program] expected parameters [x,y,z] but got [a,b,c]" or something)
• ☐ Unify use and +use
• ☐ Merge/replace hasBoxItem with findBoxItem - they both seem to do the same thing
  • hasBoxItem returns 0 or 1
  • findBoxItem returns the slot the item is found in or 0
  • findBoxItem could therefore be used for any binary checks that hasBoxItem is currently used for
  • hasBoxItem has caching due to many calls from combat code, so that would need considering if merging the functions
• ☐ Find the various places the bodypart list ({ "arms" "ass" "legs" "cock" "head" "torso" "skin" }) is referenced and centralise it.
• ☐ Add more RP details
  • Chastity belt affects player sex too not just NPCs? - Liquid/gel/goo players able to escape?
  • Scent always comes from skin, even if all other mutations are another species - maybe switch scent to the majority infection as per the new glance code
  • RP tick credit for players in womb room/zipper
• ☐ Encourage RP in more areas
  • Extend RP hotspot to multiple locations
  • Needs some kind of frequently visited/RPd at tracking system - pot log tidying process maybe keep a summary when the log is cleared?
    • Better tracking would also help implement votes still work if you change location.
• ☐ Fix rpo command, and add functionality
  • Option to randomise order
  • Indicate next person to pose?
  • Indicate previous people that posed, for rule-of-3 type groups (rule-of-n?)
• ☒ Collect all fluid production/capacity functions for milk and cum into a single library, and update existing code to refer to it as necessary [Being handled by Hex~]
• ☐ Rewrite +groin to merge actual and real size functions to remove duplicated code
• ☐ Allow setting player options directly instead of through the editplayer menu
  • Something like editplayer <option>=<value>
• ☐ Sort +gear/prove output in logical groups rather than alphabetical order
  • Keep infection props of children together, rather than having them split up by the father prop
• ☐ Use item tags to organise all items
  • Make sure to include a 'not to be handed out by +reward' tag!
    • 'availability' - used to prevent recipes showing up if they're in-progress, only available via an NPC, or other limited sources. Text field. Code (currently) only checks for existence.
    • 'reward?' - if defined, means the recipe is not valid for +reward. Should probably be renamed 'no reward'. Currently binary.
    • 'no bounty' - if defined, means the recipe is not valid for bounties (faction, top tier, makes multiple, etc). Possibly convert to enum? Code only seems to check for existence and in a couple of cases, if it contains the string "No Mako".
• ☐ Make commands consistent
  • command vs +command vs @command - IC/OOC/backend?
  • command/subcommand vs command #subcommand - second form would simplify command action naming
• ☑ Reformat xp for improved readability.
• ☐ Automated wiki update check
  • Open a +request automatically for anyone that's updated more than a threshold amount on the wiki to award mako
  • Would allow for checking it's useful and not spam
• ☐ Client-parsable navigation data
• ☐ Lore ideas:
  • Vegas
  • Los Angeles, since game takes place in California
  • How supernatural entities exist, sustain their presence, influence the world, etc.
    • How they work out of bubble, have similar powers to nanites
  • State of nanite research
    • Use of surface protocols to use nanite mesh communication system for in-bubble comm network by RSX and Zephyr
  • Headshot mutant power
  • Dr Irving NPC at Tanuki's shrine - why still so hostile after a full decade
  • Why manticore infection is only on kaiju island despite its natural size
• ☐ Make newbie status consistent (duration of 'NEW' status seems to vary depending on where you look)
  • iclocator(#2515) line 161 says two months, +vote uses a sliding scale over 6.66 months for vote bonuses
• ☐ Add current patrol points to renew patrol command
  • Perhaps also add a renew patrol number to renew to a specific number?
• ☐ Extend class/player colouring to everywhere classes/players are listed
• ☒ +request/search text - Already exists as +request/review text
• ☐ More accessibility?
  • Particularly with the ascii-art style progress bars and tables I'm adding, and colour-based information
  • Add symbols in addition/instead of colours?
  • Replace progress bars with just number?
  • There is a screenreader setting in editplayer that could be used to toggle between modes
• ☐ Update maps on the wiki
  • Could be automated?
  • Working on svg/html+css/png from tintin++ mapper
• ☐ Sort out ansi_unparseobj getting remapped to glow_unparseobj in Contents(#231) and making things confusing
• ☐ More flexible polling system
  • Allow for multiple questions per poll
    • Option A: dislike/neutral/like, Option B: dislike/neutral/like, etc
• ☐ Coding standards!
  • Where do quest variables go? Pick a location...
  • Standardise where types of variable should be kept, document it, and encourage use
  • Update all existing quests/stats/players/code to match
• ☐ Rejigger social actions
  • Could be more integrated with other things like duties, easier to find, have better requirements, more dynamic records based on city stats/player stats etc
  • Code and data could do with being organised in a simpler way to too
• ☐ Color chooser upgrade to save/restore sets of colours (mpool?)
• ☐ Add something to +haz to indicate whether or not you're in the correct location for the daily/boss bounty/RP hotspot?
• ☐ Update #dbref getGenderColor #dbref name to use the nameWithGenderColor pubdef in $lib/stdcolors
• ☐ Move $lib/stdcolors -> $lib/ui/colors