Put down your goals here, till let's say the 15th of december :)

• fun game!
  • coherent and content-rich world
  • no senseless hacking
  • enough sugar around quests to they are more than 'kill this guy' or 'bring me X of this thing'
  • many more things to do than 'hack the next dungeon'
  • cooperative and competitive aspects, depending on the mood of the players
  • maybe don't have the player as 'hero' but 'regular citizen'
• stable
• protocol compatible with clients
• multilanguage
• visually appealing “enough”
• very easy to get started with
• in-game map building (much more integrated than current map building system)
• enable players to have a real influence on the world
• revamp player creation mechanism
• have an account linked to various characters?
• Improved Monster AI

• compatible with Crossfire's current content (maps, archetypes, …), though some breakage is allowed if needed
• dynamic archetype recollection - no need to restart the server
• better handling of media updates to client
• Better (any) sound improvement - environmental, spell effects, damage, etc
• easy to extend (plugins, scripts), keeping compatibility with current CF's system
• soft-coded rules - put the most things in configuration or easy to isolate/swap modules
• add file in map distribution which says what minimal version of archetype is, and special archetype with $id$ string so server will know if requirements are met

• crossplatform
• unit tests
• avoid lock ups (massive spells and such)
• Keep multithreading programming mind (does not mean it should be multithreaded, but design it so that could be done later)
• documentation (design stuff, things like 'how is a class prevented to use weapons: through the use of a force' etc.)
• modular code, to easily expand/change stuff
• build system that doesn't require a lot of manual tweaking

This will be written after the 15th of december, when we'll have goals decided :)