BGS Objectives

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Allow a squadron to post BGS objectives to squadron members, and automatically distribute the objectives to all members.

To avoid overloading the poor minions valued squadron operatives, objectives should be organised into missions and each player should be able to opt in to activate a mission. A mission could include a combination of targets. Opting back out should also be possible.

The idea is that each mission should be appropriate for a particular type of playstyle - for example mixing combat and trading in a single mission, although possible, should be avoided so a player can pick the missions appropriate to their interests to help achieve the objective.

Question: Do we need the top-level 'Objective' at all? Could we simplify by just having missions containing targets...

    Objective 1
        Mission 1
            Overall Target 1
            Overall Target 2
            Individual Target 1
            Individual Target 2
        Mission 2
    Objective 2
    etc.

BGSTally should then track individual user activity against the published targets within the missions.

• Each objective and mission can have short optional notes describing the purpose etc.
• Each objective (and mission?) should have a priority and they should be presented to CMDRs in priority order. Also potentially an Emergency priority which could highlight the mission in red and display it in the in-game overlay to ALL PLAYERS whether opted in or not.
• Missions have a Type which determines their duration, purpose and target:
  • Recon (or could be Miscellaneous as a more general catch-all. Just information gathering.
  • Win War.
  • Lose War.
  • Draw War.
  • Win Election.
  • Lose Election.
  • Draw Election.
  • Boost - aim is for faction to increase INF %. May have an optional time period or % target.
  • Expand - special case of Boost where the target is to reach 75% and stay there until the expansion goes active (usually 1-2 ticks).
  • Reduce - aim is for faction to reduce INF %. (Individual objectives for this mission type will typically be to boost other factions in the system). May have an optional time period or % target.
  • Retreat - special case of Reduce where the target is to reach less than 2.5% and stay there until the retreat goes active (usually 5-6 ticks).
  • Equalise - aim is for a faction to equalise INF % with another (to get them into conflict).
• Missions can have specific targets, which are partially determined by the mission type and may be optional (e.g. Win War may have no specific targets, or it could have BV, CZ, INF targets if there is known opposition or certain settlements must be fought at). Targets are:
  • Refresh system. Visit a specific system to refresh the factions, states and INF data.
  • Refresh market. Visit a specific station and open the commodities market to refresh the market data.
  • +/- INF target for faction in system.
  • BV target for faction in system.
  • Exploration data target for faction in system.
  • Trade profit target for faction in system.
  • Ground CZ target for faction in system.
  • Named ground settlement wins and number of wins for each This could be tedious to set up!
  • Space CZ target for faction in system.
  • CB target for faction in system.
  • Murder target against faction in system.
  • Black market profit target for faction in system.
  • Mission fail target against faction in system.
• Every mission can have overall target(s) + individual player target(s). Progress should be shown to players against each of these targets. If there are no individual targets, only progress against the overall targets is shown.
• Mission targets should be either Overall or Per tick. If Per tick the mission targets reset to zero each tick. This should be the responsibility of the server to manage.
• Perhaps CZs could have a points score relating to their difficulty level: H = 3, M = 2, L = 1, then points could be used to set targets.
• Report when a player opts in / out of a mission back to the server, so admins can see how many players are working on each mission.

Endpoints

/objectives/list - GET
/objectives/enrol - POST
/objectives/unenrol - POST

Depends on #31
Required for #68

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Issue created: #287

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Closing, see issue #287