How to propose features
Before suggesting new features, read the table below to determine if your idea is already planned for a future version. If you do not find your idea you can either share it with the Robot Battle Registry or submit a feature request in the bug database.
Planned features
This represents my best guess about when various features will be implemented. I will try to update this table as new test versions are released.
O = already implemented
P = planned feature
? = under consideration
X = will not implement
| Feature | 1.4.1 | 1.5.1 | |
| Game Play | |||
| Variable sized rectangular arenas (not just square) | O | ||
| Very large arenas (could fit thousands of robots) | O | ||
| Any number of robots per match | O | ||
| Robot IDs during match | O | ||
| Teams | O | ||
| IFF identification | O | ||
| Communication between robots | O | ||
| Configurable robot starting positions | O | ||
| Configurable robot starting aims | O | ||
| Reuse first game's starting position and aim | O | ||
| Configurable cease fire at game starts | O | ||
| Control over cookie & mine creation rate | O | ||
| Control over game timeouts | O | ||
| Scan detection event | O | ||
| DtcWall event | O | ||
| X/Y position of self | O | ||
| Speed of detect/collision/ping target | X | ||
| Heading of detect/collision/ping target | O | ||
| Bonus energy for killing robots | ? | ||
| Stop on collision | O | ||
| Variable gun cooling (depending on fire energy used) | O | ||
| New movement equations (decelerated stop, not always accelerating) | O | ||
| Greatly expanded statistics variables (log-able) | O | ||
| Limited distance radar/missiles | O | ||
| New game styles (tag, race, capture the flag, zone control, etc) | P | ||
| Shields | ? | ||
| Terrain and other map features | ? | ||
| UI/General | |||
| Improved performance (about 30x faster then 1.3) | O | ||
| Log of match results | O | ||
| Floating match points/places windows | O | ||
| Floating robot energy window | O | ||
| Improved inspector window | O | ||
| Energy bands below robots | O | ||
| Match specification files (load lists) | O | ||
| Save and load in-process matches | O | ||
| OLE automation | P | ||
| Customizable arena background image | O | ||
| Better animation | O | ||
| Better sound effects | O | ||
| Configurable graphics size | O | ||
| Scrollable arena | O | ||
| Arena Overview window (radar view) | O | ||
| Skinnable robots (custom images) | O | ||
| Command line options | O | ||
| Full-screen mode | P | ||
| Follow robot animation mode | P | ||
| Scripting Language | |||
| Dynamic arrays | O | ||
| Associative arrays | O | ||
| Dynamic properties | O | ||
| While loops | O | ||
| String manipulation | O | ||
| Assert commend | O | ||
| _stack and _line system variable for debugging | O | ||
| #Includes | P | ||
| Constants | P | ||
| Scope | P | ||
| Subroutine arguments and return values | P | ||
