🛣️Roadmap

Features needed for soft launch:

AI advisor:

• Suggested messages

• Adapts for current chat information

• MUCH better prompt needed to explain the entire game, not just bits and pieces like now

Reworked chat UI:

• Focus on starting new chats

• Works on mobile

• Can start working on threat survey (but not submit it) before all AI-on-AI chats have completed

In Game Tutorial

• Modals or interactive arrows with information (videos?) on how to play

• Need to update data structure around the current user, maybe a flag like "finishedTutorial"?

Wiki:

• Explanations for every gameplay stage

• Documentation for every dollar sign script

• Documentation for every AI stage

• Instructions on how to make a new map

Game to Preset functionality:

• Starting events

• roundsPlayed as a separate data structure vs lastRoundCompleted

Rebellions:

• Add a new 'sponsor rebels' or similar action type

• Add new statistics like chanceOfCoup, chanceOfElection, chanceOfCivilWar, chanceOfSeparatists

• Correctly trigger rebellions during rounds

• Add simple heuristic consequences for each type of rebellion

In game bug reporting:

• Data structure for bugs

• Functional button in the advanced menu to report a bug with description

• Easily allow admin to view bugged games

• Discord notification in a (privileged?) bug channel when someone reports

Build eval infrastructure for at least:

• chat invitations

• stat manager

• generate actions

• chat with user

• advisor

Payments

• Set up billing with stripe or someone to allow for users to pay for more tokens

New Map

• Switch to new basemap with zooms down to street level and dark mode

• Fix a ton of bugs

User Analytics:

• Funnels to answer questions like "what percent of users make it to starting a game" and "among users who start their first game, what percent of them finish the first round?"

• Good information on exactly how many users reach critical engagement thresholds like "played for at least 3 hours in the last month:

Bug List:

• Added new prompt options:

  • In troop redirection added ${numberOfRemainingTroopsInDefeatedArmy}

  • ${defeatedArmy.remainingTroops}

  • ${defeatedArmy.opposingCountries}

• In WW1 Preset, created an ocean region around South Africa so that pathfinding algorithm isn't nearly forced to go west under South America instead of east under Africa

• Made the "delete logs" button functional

• Removed user ID from chat api request body, made it based solely on verified auth cookie

• Make it so that countries can move troops within the same region from attack -> defend or vice versa

• Remove code for and delete report-uri account