Using this Planner for other RTS?

[eMarchenko]

Hi! First of all, thank you for the amazing job!

I was curious if it is possible to reuse this project for other RTS games? To be more precise, how much work is required to:

1. Fork and remake the planner for another RTS, let's say Warcraft 3, without adding any new mechanics (i.e., the initial build might be incomplete).
2. Refactor existing codebase to be more like a library/engine with an SC2 app on top of it, so other games can easily reuse the codebase?

[BurnySc2]

Hey,

that is quite a good question to consider for other RTS games.

In https://github.com/BurnySc2/sc2-planner/blob/d4b88c289d95081b5115a69090224e725a60cdff/src/game_logic/income.ts I tried to emulate the income, which works because normally bases will be built always in the same distance to minerals and vespene, and bases usually have 2 vespene geysirs. Furthermore the construction of units, structures and upgrades is constant except for when chrono boost is used.

To name a few RTS and why you will run into issues with my approach:

• Age of Empires 4 allows construction of buildings with multiple villagers, as well as different races have different gather rate (e.g. HRE gathering faster if near a prelate).
• Supreme Commander (and Beyond All Reason) has a flowing economy where you have a steady income and are constantly spending your resources at a different rate, as well as multi construction vehicles may be used to build units and structures
• Warcraft 3 lumber income depends on how far away the lumber is (similar to AOE4 lumber)

I have yet to see how the income works in Stormgate, Immortal: Gates of Pyre and Zerospace.

Additionally you will have to keep the project up to date with the game version (patches), so you need to find a way to automate the process of updating unit cost, build time and tech-tree requirements.

For SC2 I found now roughly 3 ways: Using the Bot API, exporting and parsing XML with the map editor, or extracting the XML files directly.

Other than that, the project might be reuseable. However I am more of a backend programmer (so this progamming style might not be ideal in this project) and will prefer to not use any JS frameworks (angular, react, vue or svelte) in the future, but rather server side rendering with HTML + htmx.