Graeme McCutcheon
Graeme McCutcheon
Sound
micropolisJS needs sound, in particular background music and effects. In addition, the UI must expose some way for the user to silence the app.
Once you introduce an airport or port, you are going to be stuck with high pollution messages ad nauseum. Perhaps we should introduce a mechanism where some tiles (e.g. parks)...
The sim should pause on a window blur, and resume on focus.
Allow the user to save multiple cities, and pick which one to load. (Watch out for that localStorage 5MB restriction though: might need to switch to IndexedDB)
Budget changes don't kick in to the following January. Instead of spending all the cash in January, we should instead spend Math.floor(1/12 costs) each month Feb-Dec and the remainder in...
If a city is built to the extent that there is insufficient power generation capacity, then the blackouts message will prove remarkably persistent, even when the problem has been solved.
This could leverage the existing saveGame infrastructure, but also needs to store things like blockMaps, sim and phase cycles, and other pieces of internal state. Clearly I would also need...