Myriad Lite Roadmap

Unless my RL finances change, I (Allen Kerensky) may have to suspend my personal development work on Myriad Lite.

A community is welcome to form up and take over with the new open licensing established in Preview 6.

Preview 1: Shooting (June 2011)

• HUD
• Character Sheet Loader
• Non-Powered Armor
• Firearm
• Bullet
• Ranged Combat Skill Handler
• Opposed Test Handler
• Practice Target

Preview 2: Fists, Melee, Healing (June 2011)

• Healing
• Melee Weapon
• Built in Fist Fighter
• Close Combat Skill Handler
• Hovertext Meter

Preview 3: Commenting (August 2011)

• Heavily Commented Code

Preview 4: Quests ( Sept. 2011 )

• Contributed: BAM Adventure Giver NPC
• Contributed: BAM Collision Goal
• Contributed: BAM Location Goal
• Contributed: BAM Touch Goal
• HUD BAM Module
• Holster
• Power Armor

Preview 5: Character Builder (Feb. 2012)

• HUD Unopposed Test Handler
• Region CSVs Servers
• Region Settings Server
• Region Templates Server
• Character Builder
• Narrators
• Contributed: BAM-compatible Traps

Preview 6: Modular HUD, NPCs, Re-icense (August 2012)

The focus of preview 6 is creating the rest of the foundation roleplaying platform and lay the groundwork for character builder/updater: modularize HUD to work around script memory constraints, NPCs, and re-license

• Improved Armor HUD Module
• Improved Armor Attachment
• Myriad Lite v0.1.1
• Rumor Server
• Rumor HUD Module
• Myriad Lite v0.1.2
• CSV Server: Equipment with defined Resource Point costs
• HUD Module Character Sheet Loader with support for default or region specific character sheets
• Myriad Lite v0.1.3
• HUD Module Close Combat Skill (Fist Fighter / Melee)
• Myriad Lite v0.1.4
• HUD Module Ranged Combat Skill (Firearms)
• Myriad Lite v0.1.5
• HUD Module Character Sheet Loader with drop down menu for multiple characters per region if needed
• Myriad Lite v0.1.6
• Update character sheet module to pick default character sheet if drop down menu is ignored
• Add ESTATE= keyword to region setting server
• HUD Module Damage and Health
• Myriad Lite v0.1.7
• Turret script for autofire - Myriad damage to players
• Add ESTATE= check to Character Sheet Module
• HUD Module Damage and Health Movelock
• HUD Module Talker/Emoter
• Add PROGRESSION= options to Region Settings Server
• Add base stats to all example skills for random progression, publish new Skills CSV and Skills CSV Server Code
• HUD Module World Effect Library Language (WELL)
• Add dice roller to Talker/Emoter (Myriad Lite v0.1.9 20120704)
• BAM Adventure Giver NPC generates Rumors
• BAM Collision Goal Rumors
• BAM Location Goal generates Rumors
• BAM Touch Goal generates Rumors
• Narrator generates Rumors
• NPC Goons framework built, need more design and input
• Meter code moved from HUD into its own Module
• Meter Attach: Custom format strings
• Meter Attach: Species/Career/Faction support
• Region Status Board for character health/combat stats
• Add RESPAWNPOINT to region server, notecard, and client for osTeleportAgent configuration
• Add DEATHPOINT to region server, notecard, and client for osTeleportAgent configuration
• Add TeleportAgentHome or osTeleportAgent to DEATHPOINT on die, RESPAWNPOINT on respawn into Module_Resilience
• Relicense in CC-BY and BSD for full OpenSim adoption (4 previews early!)

Preview 7: Character Builder/Updater

The focus of Preview 7 will be to finish the character builder/updater started in Preview 5 and 6.

• Create Myriad Adventurer Handbook
• Create Myriad Region Owners Handbook
• Develop a persistent character sheet database which runs in-world
• Split out the character notecard reader/menu from the base character sheet module
• Convert Module Character Sheet to PPMA

DEV IN PROGRESS

• Convert Myriad Lite to PPMA
• Convert Module Armor to PPMA
• Convert Module BAM to PPMA
• Convert Module Character Notecard to PPMA
• Convert Module Meter to PPMA
• Convert Module Progression to PPMA
• Convert Module Resilience to PPMA
• Convert Module Rumors to PPMA
• Convert Module Skill Close Combat to PPMA
• Convert Module Skill Ranged Combat to PPMA
• Convert Module WELL to PPMA

• Implement PPMA for the character builder
• Character Builder Controller - rewrite to load/store/control in correlation with region servers and character sheet module
• Character Builder integration with updated character sheet module
  • Points-Based Creator - loads/stores intial points to character sheet module
  • Template-Based Creator - loads/stores initial templates and remaining GP to/from character sheet module
  • Random Creator - loads/stores random allocations and spends to/from character sheet module
• Progression (client in testing, character updater in testing)
  • Level-Based Progression (client in testing, character updater pending)
  • Gradual Progression (client in testing, character updater not started)
  • Random Progression (client in testing, character updater not started)

Preview 8: Critters and Conflicts

The focus for Preview 8 will be to provide the opponents to fight and NPCs to interact with and remaining combat systems

• NPC Critters/Goons (Revised)
• NPC Specialists
• NPC Detailed
• Social Combat
• Mortal Combat Stunts
• Social Combat Quotes

Preview 9: Setting Specifics

The focus of this preview will be to build out all of the setting-specific parts of the core Myriad RPG book.

NOTE: The ORDER of development is being revised due to survey results.

• Implement Medieval setting specifics
  • Statistics
  • Resiliences
  • Templates
  • Boons
  • Flaws
  • Skills
  • Special Effect Abilities including Magic, Occult, and Psionic abilities
  • Equipment

• Implement Modern setting specifics
  • Statistics
  • Resiliences
  • Templates
  • Boons
  • Flaws
  • Skills
  • Special Effect Abilities including Magic, Occult, and Psionic abilities
  • Equipment

• Implement Futuristic setting specifics
  • Statistics
  • Resiliences
  • Templates
  • Boons
  • Flaws
  • Skills
  • Special Effect Abilities including Magic, Occult, and Psionic abilities
  • Equipment

• Implement any remaining Universal setting specifics
  • Statistics
  • Resiliences
  • Templates
  • Boons
  • Flaws
  • Skills
  • Special Effect Abilities including Magic, Occult, and Psionic abilities
  • Equipment

Preview 10: Cleanup and Release 1.0

The focus of Preview 10 will be 3 things:

1. Visit all scripts to update message formats and processing to use a universal format/specification.
2. Embed updater capabilities
3. Fix remaining script-by-script minor issues such as OpenSim-compatible attach/detach, region change and teleport script restart, etc.

• Design universal Myriad message format to be used between all Myriad scripts
• Revised Armor Module to avoid lack of opensim detach
• Revised attachment code to reset/resume after changed teleport and changed region events
• Revised server code to reset/resume after changed region restart events
• Updaters (possible llLoadRemoteScriptPin setup)
• Final bugfixes
• Release 1.0 to Community Development

Beyond 1.0: Expansions

• Resource Gathering
• Crop Harvesting
• Crafting
• Technology Tree
• Roleplay Currency
• Intersim Trade and Economics
• Expanded vehicle combat
• Your suggestions here...