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ProgrammingIdeas
Ideas for programmers
Phase-Implementation
Note: WIP = Work In Progress, which means that there is currently a programmer working on this feature. Ask in the IRC channel or the developer Google group if you want to know who, or if you want to start implementing a feature. Bug FixesSee the issue tracker. Estimated Difficulty: 1/5 to 5/5, depending on bug. GameplayDrug Casebook price effectRight now the patients will never complain about the prices set in your drug casebook. Patients should get angry and complain (or even leave without paying) if the prices are set too high, and you should in the opposite case get more (and happier) patients if you have low prices. see Issue 362 for more details Level Configurations
There are still a lot of information in the level configuration files that is not used. We don't want to use some of it, but many things are also needed. Estimated Difficulty 2/5 Epidemics
Need to decide exactly how these will work, as the original Theme Hospital implementation seems a little odd. Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 to 4/5, depending on behaviour. Earthquakes
At later levels the grounds should tremble once in a while and damage machinery. Requires that the player's view shakes. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 Patients dying by going to hellAt the moment, when patients die, they always go to heaven. Sometimes they should go to hell instead. Requires investigation of the animations used by the Grim Reaper and the Hell object. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 RatsBuildup of litter should result in rat holes appearing in walls, and rats running out of them, which the player can shoot. Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Mini GameThere is also a random mini game that would appear sometimes between level changes in the campaign. It would be a challenge to clean up a messy hospital full of rats and litter. The menus are different, the handymen cannot be picked up and there is a timer . The aim was to kill as many rats as you could before the timer ran out or before the litter had been cleaned up by the handymen. You had four different types of gun to use that would change (never sure how or why myself). The count of the killed rats would be carried forward into the next level, this could be seen in the awards at the end of the first year for the rat killing trophy. (or was this a bug?) One of your guns would produce a large explosion similar to a machine exploding. Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Graphs DialogSome new rendering primitives in C++ are required for drawing lines. Should not be too hard if you know C++. We use a library called agg. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 Town Map
Many features of the town map are implemented, but there are a few left along with a desire to improve the drawing algorithm sometime in the future. Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 Progress Report and StatusThere should be a pie chart representing the four hospitals and their shares of the total spawn rate. This also requires new rendering primitives, see the Graphs Dialog above. ChartsHall of Fame/Shame and trophies
There are still some awards which have not been implemented. Other UIAnimated Main MenuThe main menu animations are finished (?), but needs some coding (C/C++) to be implemented into the game. The animation can be found here: Forums: Main Menu Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Animated level advancementLike the animated menu, these animations are finished, but needs some coding (C/C++) to be implemented into the game. The animation video might have to be cut up, so that it matches the level progress correctly (change between levels)? The animation can be found here: Forums: Level board game Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Various cutscene videosWhen playing the original game, you would see a random video when you failed a level. New animations/videos have to be made and implemented (C/C++). The old videos can be found and watched by following the VideoList. Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Advisor being helpful in more situationsThe Advisor is a lot more helpful now, but there may still be places where he could offer some advise: feel free to say where you think he could do this. Regular players know these things, but they are very helpful for anyone who has never played this game before - or maybe not played for a long time. If you are a regular player and find him annoying, you can now turn him off with the "A" key. Estimated Difficulty: 1/5 Interface & font scalingCurrently there is no support for scaling the interface and fonts (menus and text). This would be very handy for people running on either very small or very big screens.Or who just has bad eyesight. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 RoomsDNA FixerAlien patients can now visit your hospital. There are still a few glitches to fix concerning this new disease though. Estimated Difficulty: 1/5 Jellyitis and Serious RadiationBoth rooms and their corresponding machines and diseases are implemented, but there is no special rendering for patients yet. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 ScannerThis is mostly implemented, however the Doctor should sit at the console before the scanning starts. The Doctors actions with the console should affect the scanner so that when the doctor presses some buttons -> scanner goes down, press buttons -> goes up, pulls handle -> scanner tilts. That is not possible at the moment as we need some new functionality in use_object. see issue 375 Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 ToiletsThis is implemented, however queues can build up as the room will only allow as many patients as there are loos and it does not take into account how many loos are free when paitents vacate them and wash their hands or queue to wash hands. see issue 703 and issue 775 Estimated Difficulty: 1/5 Operating theatreThis room is implemented, however there are a couple of small issues. 1. Surgeons are only using one side of the sink to wash their hands, both sides should be used and if they wash hands at the same time they should stand next to each other - see issue 694 . 2. Picking up one of the surgeons in the middle of an operation can cause and error - see issue 838 . Ideally it should not be possible to interupt the operation or if you do the operation should be aborted and the patient should get dressed and re-join the queue. 3. Surgeons do not pair up, so will instead opt to go to seperate rooms and both wait for a second surgeon to join them. This did also happen in TH, but I am sure we can do it better - see issue 776 . Ideally they should go to a theatre where there is already a surgeon waiting before going to an empty theatre. 4. The placement of the xray viewer has caused problems if there was an object that blocked its path to the door. This has been fixed (sort of), but it would be better if small objects were passable (see notes on radiators) Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 MiscellaneousMachine DamageMachines that are over used and not being repared often enough should start to smoke / smoulder. Smoke comes in two phases with there being a little to start with and lots when the machine is close to exploding. The explosion should also be animated with a large fire plume effect. Estimated Difficulty: 3/5 Editing a roomMost of this is implemented, however there are still a couple of things that need adding. When you click on "edit room" button, the room should flash when you hover the cursor over a room and a blue skeleton effect frame should appear on the room about to be editied and remain once you start to edit the room. (it does disappear once you click on the cross and the room walls become fully blue) - see issue 271 Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 Staff replacementIt should be possible to drop a new staff member in a room and for the current one to leave. At the moment they will both leave - see issue 470 Note: One of the developers did start something for this a couple of years ago, which could give anyone picking this up an head start. Estimated Difficulty: 1/5 Radiators and other one tile objectsAll these objects should be passable apart from the edge where the object is i.e. it should be possible to walk in the same square as a radiator that is placed against a wall, so long as you don't walk through the radiator. This applies to fire extinguishers and bins. Fixing this would allow different room layouts to be possible as at the moment they are blocked by the game if the placement causes any part of the hospital to be blocked. - see issue 250 and issue 342 Estimated Difficulty: 2/5 Graphical scalingCurrently there is no support for scaling the graphics in linux or when using SDL on Windows. Currently one can scale (zoom) the graphics on Windows by running OpenGL or DirectX. This would be very handy for people running on either very small or big screens. Or who just has bad eyesight. Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Announcement Queue SystemThere are times when the announcements overlap each other, at times there can be three or more at the same time; which makes it hard to know what has been said. Advisor messages are now queued (priorities may need tweaking), we need a similar system for announcements so that information accouncements get a higher priority to random funny announcements. Estimated Difficulty: 4/5 Key bindingsKey bindings are currently configured in various places. There is also a key mapping file to allow the player to choose some for themselves. However, this has already caused a conflict i.e. A is used to turn off and on the Advisor. In the key mapping file A is offered as an alternative for navigating the map inplace of arrow keys. It would be better if they were all in the same place (and maybe they should also be the same as TH), maybe in a config file. Then in addition there could be a user interface menu, so that they could be changed easily and independently by the player. Listed below are the bindings from Theme Hospital and the equivalent from CorsixTH; if there is one. (add a comment if any have been missed)
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patients only drop litter if they've bought a drink, otherwise they have nothing to drop
The "gameplay" section should be added "earthquake" part. In the original game, the screen will shake when the earthquake warning or occuring.
The "goals" part in "gameplay" section should not be deleted, because it's possible to lose a game. In the original game to the end of the year, there will be "Hall of Fame/Shame and trophies", when reached failure conditions, the game failed. Then quit, load save or restart the game.
That has more to do with the Hall of Fame/Shame and trophies section than actual goals.
I think the player should be allowed to use garbage cans in the halls as that is logical and that should effect dropped waste. Maybe add an award in for effective use of garbage?
Its says that aliens only come from an emergency. Aliens can walk in just like other patients in the original game. They queue up just the same, they don't sit on benches, just hang around near the door to the GP office and when they sit in the GP room they will appear normal until they stand up again.
Is this up-to-date anymore? If an issue would be opened for each item in the list still not implemented fully. And the issue would be linked from this page. This would speed up claiming the features and ease the conversation on the matter. Just a thought :)
I wondered whether we should add a small table under each programming idea that is WiP to indicate who is working on it, when the target date is, when it was last confirmed etc. So if someone started something and then you didn't hear anything for a while you would know that it was no longer being worked on.
In TH, the screen can not leave the hospital. However, in CTH, the screen can even go to the highway.
I always thought of that as an improvement on the original. In TH you could not zoom in and out either, I also see that as an improvement.