Make map more playable

[tdauth]

Multiple games have shown that there are some issues:

• Player colors. Enemy should have not red and blue. Use white and black?
• Don't invert players or units from the beginning.
• Only allow full shared control if a player is not present.
• Don't change the owner of inverted units but mark them with some special effect attached.
• Limit the time of inversion by the Turnstile machine and give it a cooldown (improves performance and less confusion).
• Increase the map size a bit. Otherwise, enemy will attack too soon.
• Decrease supply limit to 50 per player.
• Increase gold costs of vehicles.
• Decrease training and upgrade time (the whole game only lasts about 30 minutes).
• Move the Algorithm and fake Algorithm locations to the center of the map (otherwise too hard to conquer).
• Decrease the damage of the airplane's nuclear strike.
• Add an ability to conquer vehicles (kicks out the unit).
• Add a small intro video which lasts about 2 minutes maximum and explains the game and the turnstile machine.
• Add chat commands like "-players", "-kick X", "-zoom XXX".
• Revive heroes in the container not the barracks.
• Add separate shop buildings.
• Add different icons for units (very confusing for vehicles and buildings turrets etc.).
• Add upgrades which improve armor and damage etc.
• Add hero abilities, see https://github.com/tdauth/tenet/issues/25
• Remove the invert ability from containers.
• Remove the clock item as long as it does not work.
• Add some more useful items to the shop for heroes.
• Start the train automatically in the beginning with some unit in it (so players see how it works?).
• Fix missile start position for tanks.
• Add some more terrain looking like Stalsk-12 (urban Doodads). Houses which can be conquered like Orc burrows and belonging to player Vehicles.
• Add a text message when entering the red room: "Stay here to get inverted!".
• Invert spells: rockets, stinger, healing, repairing etc. (all custom spells??).
• Limit number of buildings: Container could be limited to 1 and give 50 supply? 2 barracks, 2 factories?
• Protect the Algorithm by some creeps in the beginning.
• Update loading screen according to the changes. Explain inversion in a simpler way. Only relevant information on the screen.

Host the map multiple times to get much more input.

[tdauth]

Remove the multiboard if not debugging the map. It adds confusion. We have the "Inversion" timer now. Fix https://github.com/tdauth/tenet/issues/29 and https://github.com/tdauth/tenet/issues/32 Remove the full shared control if there is at least one human player (check in the leave event).

Try to improve the inversion and recording performance. Check if we can avoid storing certain stuff or further reduce the number of units. Since we know how long we could invert the time, we could add a constant MAX_INVERSION_OFFSET = 30 and drop ALL changes before that time. This might massively improve the performance for a longer game?

Less units will always help.

Add the hero abilities: https://github.com/tdauth/tenet/issues/25 Inversion might come later.

Fix inverting the conquering of the turnstile machine.

Help to orient in the beginning?

Fix the inversion of Neils team.

[tdauth]

Another idea to make inversion more likely is to add the following scenario.

Random inverted troops are spawned and protect some gold to go somewhere. These troops can be killed and the gold bars can be captured only if the time is inverted at the right time.