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The Unknown Horizons project aims at creating a free and open source realtime economy simulation with strategy elements in an isometric 2D engine loosely oriented towards Sunflowers' Anno / A.D. series.

Design Document

Terrain

• Island Concept
• Climate
• Fertility
• Resource deposits

Ingame GUI

• Head-up-Display for Resources

Map navigation

• Rotating the view
• Minimap
• Zoom
• Scrolling

Menus

• Start menu interface
• Build menu
• Tear menu
• Buildings menu
• Trade Tab

Onscreen features

• Fog of war
• Settlement range
• "The Wheel"
• Message System
• Player Statistics (for Multiplayer)

Specification of new Features

Save/Load game

Multiplayer

• Overview
• Sharing maps

Campaign

• Overview
• Tutorial

Lists of available buildings

• Building ideas

Details

• Shops, Stores
• Farms and plantations
• Fishermen/Fishing Port
• Market place
• Storages
• Lookout
• Signal fire

Combat/Battle

• Combat
• Health System

Units

• Building units
• Navigating units
• Speed of units
• Grouping of units
• List of units
• Fighting units

Details

• Animals
• Peoples
• Buildings

Diplomacy

Artificial intelligence

• Ships
  • Trade ships
  • Free traders
  • Pirates

Development of buildings (and units)

• Automatic building development
• Manual building updates
• List of building updates

Buildings, Settlement

• Founding settlements
• Extending settlements

Buildsystem

• Building streets
• Building walls
• Building houses
• Autotear rules

Tiers

• First tier - Sailors
• Second tier - Pioneers
• Third tier - Settlers
• Fourth tier - Citizens
• Fifth tier - Merchants
• Sixth tier - Aristocrats

Economy

• Running costs
• Decommissioning
• Working resources
• Purifying resources

Fulfilling citizens' needs

• Settler happiness
• Settler taxing
• Supply citizens with resources
• Supply citizens with services
• Supply buildings with goods

Balance

Animations

Audio

• Voices
• Sounds