0025922: Reintroduce beacon factions, but in a new way.

ID	Project	Category		Date Submitted	Last Update

0025922	AI War 2	Gameplay Idea		Dec 14, 2021 5:08 pm	Apr 18, 2022 9:43 pm

Reporter	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	Daniexpert
Status	resolved	Resolution	fixed
Fixed in Version	4.023 Beacon Expansiveness

Summary	0025922: Reintroduce beacon factions, but in a new way.
Description	Beacon faction design: 1. No factions are marked as "beacon factions," that's not a thing. PlayerDiscoverable, etc, to be removed. 2. Instead, we have a variety of beacon objects that are seeded by tag. These are all part of the NaturalObject faction. 3. Each of these has a specific hack that players can do against it. This hack is all xml-defined beyond the first one, so setting up a new faction is just xml. 4. Add a new set of sub-data under the faction object, which includes data on how the faction would be configured. This includes custom settings, difficulty levels, allegiance, and whatever else. These each have display-names and descriptions that explain what they are in however much or little detail we want (somewhere in the middle is probably ideal). 5. When hacking one of these beacons, they are linked to a single faction based on their hack, and it shows a list of options with the appropriate descriptions to get the various styles of that faction that you might want. 6. Xml-oriented folks can add more of these pieces of data, hopefully, and for more factions as well. Note to self, in code look for //BEACON_TODO all over the place.
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Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
Dec 14, 2021 5:08 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	New Issue
Dec 14, 2021 5:09 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Relationship added	child of 0025897
Dec 14, 2021 5:09 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Description Updated
Dec 14, 2021 5:16 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Description Updated
Feb 2, 2022 2:24 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Relationship added	related to 0026220
Apr 18, 2022 9:43 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Assigned To	=> Daniexpert
Apr 18, 2022 9:43 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Status	new => resolved
Apr 18, 2022 9:43 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Resolution	open => fixed
Apr 18, 2022 9:43 pm	Chris_McElligottPark	Fixed in Version	=> 4.023 Beacon Expansiveness

related to	0026220	resolved	Chris_McElligottPark	Can beacons return?
child of	0025897	acknowledged	Chris_McElligottPark	Parent: Other desired items prior to "Complete Edition" launch.