# Astrofarm

A farming simulator for the gemini web.

## Brainstorming

* Every player starts out with a bag of seeds and one acre of land
* Seeds take some amount of time to grow
* At any point, a player can decide to harvest the crops
* Harvesting will yield a multiplied amount of seeds and some crops
* He can trade crops and seeds at the market
* Market is regulated by players
* Crops need water to grow
* There are different kind of crops. Some grow fast and some slow. Some yield
  more than others
* Weather can influence the growth
* Players can buy land
* A field has properties: growth rate and size in acres
* Seeds take up space on a field
* Mystery seeds are seeds of an unknown kind

## Roadmap

### MVP

* Registration/login on the platform using a client certificate
* A new user receives a farm, a bag of wheat seeds and 1 acre of land
* The main page shows a random message, your current balance, a link to the
  market, your inventory and a list of your fields
* The inventory shows your seeds. When clicking an item, you can select to sell
  it, plant it or throw it away
* A seed that has been planted grows for 24 hours. It goes through 4 phases:
  seed, seedling, young crop, ready for harvesting
* When a seed is harvested that is not ready, it will be discarded. When it's
  ready, it will yield 2 wheat seeds and 4 wheat

### The market

The market offers the following products:

1 bag of wheat seeds (0.1 acres): 2 gems buy, 1 gems sell

1 wheat: 10 gems buy, 8 gems sell

1 acre field: 100 gems buy, 80 gems sell

2 acre field: 150 gems buy, 100 gems sell

### Other kinds of seeds

* Bamboo (grows fast, cheap, low yield)
* Potatoes (grows averagely, reasonably priced, high yield)
* Corn
* Melons
* Flowers
* Mystery seeds can be obtained on the market

### Plant Care

* Plants need water (some more than others)
* The market offers fertilizer that boost plant growth
* Weather affects plant growth (sunshine, cloudy, rain)

### Community

* Players can place buy/sell orders on a market
* Every item has its own overview, containing all orders
* If the price of a buy order is above that of the highest sell order, the item
  is traded
* Buy/Sell orders can be fulfilled directly
* A leaderboard shows the players with the most money or acres