Purpose

• to give something to look for - important both early on and for long term players
• to hide expensive team wrecking stuff from newbies players temporarily
• to reward active players and reward victory more
• to give feeling of identification with commander and self improvement

Overview

• after each game, player is given XP points
• XP are used to level up, each level up can be used to unlock one item
• unlocks/upgrades auto apply to all games except when its turned off by modoptions

Scoring and cost proposal

Scoring

• for winning game 20 + 9`*` teamEloGain/(2 + winning_team_size)
• for losing game 10 + 3`*` (32-teamEloLose) / (2 + losing_team_size)
• 150XP for achieving top score in a mission
• playing multiplayer chickens or missions 20XP, winning chickens or MP mission 40XP
• points awarded based on personal best in a singleplayer or multiplayer chicken game, based on queen anger, + damage dealt to queen + time taken to kill queen.

Leveling

• cost = level`*`80 + 20 `*` level^2

Unlocks

• new commander type (recon etc)
• module for given commander type. Cost of morph is based on modules selected for commander.
• non-essential factories
• superweapon

Feedback and presentation

• each game has webpage showing what XP each player got and what awards
• player without ZKL can be sent PM by autohost informing him about his progress after a game or on leveling up
• upon level up player can visit site and pick unlock - list of items to buy
• each player has personal webpage which shows his choices, his level, his XP, his lobby time rank, his current planetwars rank and his elo skill rank.
• personal page also show statistics like chickens killed, awards counts, missions won
• there are rating tables based on various measured statistics

Proposed list

• Factories
• Shieldbot, jumpjet, plane, specops
• Defenses
• Newton, Chainsaw, Screamer, Anni, DDM
• Units
• Scythe, Dominatrix, Panther, Goliath, Black Dawn, Licho, Krow, Reef
• Superweapons
• EMP missile, Behemoth, Bertha, Starlight
• Mechs
• Bantha, Jugglenaut, Detriment
• Misc.
• Adv fus

Advanced/future stuff

• player can shuffle modules on commander (pick which one to use - you might want to use less to have cheaper morph)
• ability to "sell" unlock - probably one per level
• commander banners with self made avatar/logo (unlockable too). Size of banner can reflect some stats like level or elo