Clonkonaut and me thought of introducing some project management for the current settlement development in which we prioritize and split up the big chunk of work that theoretically has to be done for settlement development into small chunks (we call "levels") of current todos. The goal is to make the entry for new people who don't have an overview of what can done in our project easier and to provide some sense of achievement.

One level is designed to take about 2 weeks but generally it counts that it's done when it's done - if we finish earlier we advance to the next level earlier. A level doesn't have to end in an update, in fact we will probably have several levels in which we make the game ready for a release (polishing, bugfixing). For fun and recognition we will name each level ;-)

Engine, script, text, graphics

Level 1

The goal of our first level is to round up the bits we need for a proper basic settlement scenario. This will probably still be topic for the next level, but the aim is to move on to making possible settlement scenario design (f.e. blood crystal) as quick as possible. This level doesn't include too much engine tasks because most of our engine coders currently have their own projects that they are working on (Peter: highres, Günther: c4script engine, Sven2: control assignment) that wouldn't make sense to include in the todos for settlement.

Elevator

Texture the elevator case - will be done by Newton
The cable reel (Objects.ocd/Items.ocd/Tools.ocd/CableReel.ocd) is heavily used even in the first scenarios but it lacks a proper graphic. obsolete for now, see Clonkonauts post below

Oven

Model and texture for the oven/kitchen. Matthiashas begun with this on base of Fungiforms sketch.
A simple inclusion of the producer library. Assign the dedicated products to the oven. The oven is a mere extra feature in gold rush, so no specific balancing is necessary.

Chemical laboratory

A model for the lab. Matthias has begun with this.
A simple inclusion of the producer library. Assign the dedicated products to the lab, remove the callbacks assigning them to the tools workshop. See that the player is fully able to construct a lab in gold rush.

Descriptions in menus

Short general descriptions for all produceable objects and buildings. Rename the previous Description-placeholders of the objects to UsageHelp or similar before. For example the dynamite bar: UsageHelp="Press [Use] to ignite. After it has been ignited, aim into the direction you want to place it and press [Use] again." as opposed to Description="Basic explosive for mining"

Display a tooltip for C4D_MouseSelect after a delay of ~1s. The text displayed shall be the Description-property of the object.
Enable descriptions for menu items in circle menus

(optional) engine-callbacks for C4D_MouseSelect-objects on hover mouse in/mouse out instead of FindObject on each mouse movement.

Polish ringmenus/menus

(optional) change ringmenu to be more like mouse gestures again: make deadzone (close button) smaller, add more tolerance towards the outside border
(optional) add possibility to make menus not-closeable (callbacks something like: RejectClose, OnClosed). And apply to the weapon chooser menu in all melee scenarios.
(optional) enchance d&d functionality

High resolution

(optional/prototype?) With the first settlement rounds moving in our scope, a proper fog-of-war would add as a really interesting and central game element

One week's gone. Just a quick reminder to every modeller out there: We'd highly appreciate anyone taking on the task to do the models for the kitchen and the lab. We even have a good sketch for the kitchen: http://forum.openclonk.org/topic_show.pl?pid=16874#pid16874

Sorry, was absent over the past few weeks - still catching up. If noone else does it, I'll take care of the showing-descriptions in menus and (still) the texturing of the elevator case.

Any progress on the chemical lab and oven? Last thing I know is that Matthias was on it.