I just wanted to share a quick Roadmap for EMPerish so that the community get's an idea for the direction the game is heading and also to get excited about upcoming features and additions to the game. This Roadmap can always change or things can move around, so it's not set in stone.
Item Images
- Add Images to all items to give a better sense of imagery (complete)
- Expected Release: Late April / Early May (complete)
Inventory/Equip Management
- Easier way to visualize and manage your items (complete)
- Use less UI Real Estate(complete)
- Easier way to visual currently equipped items and get a sense of what a user is wearing and looks like.(complete)
- Expected Release: Late April / Early May (complete)
Game/User Statistics
- Ability to view the world statistics (complete)
- Active users (complete)
- Total users (complete)
- Total knocked out users (complete)
- Keep track of recent event stats in the world (complete)
- How many items currently found / dropped (complete)
- How many steps taken by the whole community (complete)
- etc (complete)
- Expected Release: Mid May / Late May (complete)
Player Profile and Exp System Achievements
- Able to view other users profile and see their equipped items like clothes, weapons etc.
- Able to view other users stats and achievements
- Player stats will have effect of different actions
- Stamina - Chance not to use AP
- Lumberjack - Increase chance of chopping trees and getting double the logs
- Scavenger - Increase chance of finding items
- etc
- World Leaderboards - highest levels etc
- Expected Release: Mid May / Late May
Map Management
- Easier way to visualize your usable items as well as seeing dropped items
- Easier way to pickup dropped items - able to select how many items to pickup etc.
- Able to view users moving live
- Update Chat or Recent events without refreshing page
- Expected Release: Late May/ Early June
World Communication
- Ability to communicate over long distances using Morse code radios
- Can transmit Morse code and users with a radio can receive message
- User will need to manually translate received messages
- Batteries required
- Need to level Electrician skill to build a radio by dismantling electronics for parts
- Expected Release: Late May/ Early June
Bushcraft Survival
- Large focus on surviving off the grid
- Ability to live off the land deep in the forest
- Hunting for food
- Farming for food
- Ability to craft weapons and materials from items found in the forest
- Water barrels and Seeding your own crops
- Expected Release: Late June
Groups / Allies Manager
- Allow of creating a groups or alliances to work together
- Managing user build areas
- Managing allowing other user inside the building
- etc.
- Expected Release: Late June
Seasons and Day Night Cycle
- Take into account the month and day
- Different clothes because you are freezing during the winter or overheating in summer
- Too hot during summer - use more thirst during summer
- Use more hunger during winter
- Can't grow crops during the winter - struggling food supplies. Water freezes during winter, harder to find water supply
- Night time harder to search areas - will need flashlight
- Time will also turn empty crop fields > grass fields > forest and vice versa. Idea is that less active areas will slowly get overgrown
- Chopping trees down to create a grass field or a crop land to farm
- Expected Release: Late July
War and Territory Control
- Control certain rare areas of the map like Water supplies - solar panel farm. Wars during winter for supplies that were gathered during the summer.
- Burn down and destroy other users objects - set fire to homes
- Expected Release: After July
User World Building
- Ability to destroy buildings
- New user built items - homes - dirt roads - bikes - roads - dig farms - dig trenches - outposts
- Maintenance of user built buildings
- Expected Release: After July
This Road map is not final and things can always change or be moved around etc. I just wanted to share the direction I envision the game to go. If you have any suggestions or ideas then please do not hesitate to let me know