How the roadmap works
The roadmap is our plan for every Plexa game and service, kept up to date by the people building it. Here is how to read it.
The five stages
- Now: being worked on today. Developers are on it and it moves every week.
- Next: planned, and starts when what is in Now is done.
- Later: we want to do it, but it has not started and has no date.
- Shipped: it is out. The date is the day it went live.
- Dropped: we decided not to do it, and the page says why.
Dates
We only give a date when we are sure of it, so most items have none. That is on purpose: a date we miss helps nobody.
Where there is a date, it is on the item, on the timeline and in its history.
When plans change
Plans change. When something public moves further away or is dropped, we have to write down why before the change will save, and that reason goes on the item page and in What changed for everyone to read.
Something that has been public cannot be deleted, only dropped with a reason. Management can take an item down if it was posted by mistake.
Progress bars
Items being built show how far along they are. The bar counts the parts listed under What is included. When an item has no list, it counts the developers' own tasks for it.
It is a rough guide, not a countdown: the last parts often take the longest.
Updates
The developer leading an item, and the people who edit the roadmap, post short dated updates on it as work moves on. The newest are on the home page.
How we choose what to build
We look at what players ask for and vote on in the launcher, what breaks most often, what keeps our servers healthy, and what the team can build well. When an item comes from player ideas, its page lists them.
Bugs and ideas
Bug reports, ideas and mod requests are all in the Plexa Launcher, under Development. Every valid bug report earns 100 Plexa Points, and security exploits reported privately earn 1,000. Reports about the Balkan servers do not earn points.
Bugs are fixed all the time and are not all listed here. The roadmap is for bigger pieces of work.
Follow along
What changed lists every change, newest first. The feed at /feed.xml brings changes and updates to any feed reader, and /api/roadmap.json has everything public for tools and bots.
Questions
- Why is there no date on most things?
- Because we only promise dates we are sure of. If something matters to you, follow its page: updates appear as work moves on.
- Can I ask for something to be added?
- Yes. Post it as an idea in the Plexa Launcher under Development, and vote on the ideas you like. Ideas we take on are listed on their roadmap item.
- Who decides what goes on the roadmap?
- Management, with the developers who build it. Staff named as editors write and publish items.
- Something moved further away. Why?
- The reason is on its page and in What changed. A public item cannot move further away without one.
- Is everything you work on here?
- Not everything. Small fixes and changes happen every day without an item. The roadmap is for the bigger things, and for anything we have said in public.
Found a bug or have an idea?
Bug reports, ideas and mod requests are all in the Plexa Launcher, under Development.