Project roadmap

Urgent

Medium priority

Performance: Leader pathfinding
- For a given squad of units, choose a leader (typically the slowest unit, tie-break with the lowest ID) and have other units in the squad follow that unit.
- This should improve clustering of units, and hopefully we can remove the centerOfMass hack to keep groups of units together.
Feature: Detect Naval map
- Currently the AI doesn't know if it's on a naval map or not, and will just sit in base forever.
Feature: Naval construction
- The AI cannot produce GAYARD/NAYARD because it doesn't know how to place naval structures efficiently.
Feature: Naval/amphibious play
- If a naval map is detected, we should try to bias towards naval units and various naval strategies (amphibious transports etc)
Feature: Superweapon usage
- Self-explanatory
Performance/Feature: Debounce BatchableActions in actionBatcher
- We have an actionBatcher to group up actions taken by units in a given tick, and submit them all at once. For example, if 5 units are being told to attack the same unit, it is submitted as one action with 5 IDs.
- This improves performance and reduces the replay size.
- There is further opportunity to improve this by remembering actions assigned across ticks and do not submit them if the same action was submitted most recently.
- This might simplify some mission logic (we can just spam unit BatchableActions safely) and also significantly reduce replay size.
- There is a light version of this in combatSquad, where it remembers the last order given for a unit and doesn't submit the same order twice in a row.

Low priority

Feature: ai.ini integration
- It would be nice to use the attack groups and logic defined in ai.ini, so the AI tries strategies such as engineer rush, terrorist rush etc.
- This might make the AI mod-friendly as well.