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This file lists stuff that could be done to improve the current LWB5 source
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code. It's mostly stuff that I had the intention of doing at some point but
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didn't have the time to work on or finish. Of course, this is just a list of
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ideas - feel free to ignore it altogether.
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Back-end clean up:
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* A lot of the game and site functions use older APIs that are deprecated.
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** Calls to gameAction()
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** Calls to logText()
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** There's more, but I can't remember...
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* Some of the improvements to the core library found in the forums branch
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patch should be included - most importantly the SQL query stuff. Of course
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this also implies modifying a lot of the code that actually uses SQL queries.
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* While some of it has been removed, there is still a lot of SQL in the
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various web handlers; it should be moved to the library.
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* Internal messages are sent by inserting into the database directly in many
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of the game's functions; this should be changed as there is an API for that.
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Front-end clean up:
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* When LWB5 was first written, I hadn't planned on using that much JavaScript.
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In addition, JS libraries were not as common then as they are now. Therefore
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most of the JS code is a terrible, ugly heap of spaghetti code and copy pasta.
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It should be rewritten.
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Improvements and missing features:
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* Finishing the forums rewrite (started in the forums branch patch).
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* Rewrite fleet handling - the database structure is brain dead, normalisation
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is clearly required, and it'd reduce the various checks performed wherever
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fleets are accessed.
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* Fleet trajectory is buggy, it contains a relatively easily exploitable bug.
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Needs redesign.
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* Probes never made it into the final version.
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* The IRC bot's source code should be upgraded to the latest version of
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PHP-IRC.
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