Adding simple roadmap for time factor

design-document/other_ideas/time_factor.md

@@ -50,4 +50,60 @@ On one hand this would likely make trading and similar UI-heavy gameplay legs mo
 
 But on the other hand  some players might really dislike this feature, like if they are more interested in actually flying their ship. **So it would be important to provide some settings for this feature, like a slider that would act as a multiplier for these times.** Which could be set to zero to allow for things to happen instantly. Which could then be tied into other aspects of difficulty or rewards, to make it worthwhile. 
 
-The UI of this would likely live on the station screen and ship info screen as a queue with progress bars, and ways to assign crews to jobs or to interact with the other possibilities. 
+The UI of this would likely live on the station screen and ship info screen as a queue with progress bars, and ways to assign crews to jobs or to interact with the other possibilities. 
+
+# Possible implementation roadmap
+
+## Minimal viable implementation
+
+### 1 - Things take time
+
+- Introduce time factor to actions:
+
+  - Loading and unloading of cargo
+    - Cargo mass and fragility could govern job time
+
+  - Installing and uninstalling equipment
+    - Equipment size class and complexity (price) could govern job time
+
+  - Servicing and maintenance
+    - Ship and equipment size, complexity could govern job time
+
+  - Loading and unloading of fuel
+
+- **UI**: queue on Station Screen that displays the job, and time left.
+
+  - Button to set "alarm" that would stop time accel when job is done
+
+  - Last job always stops time accel
+
+  - Done jobs play notification and then deleted from queue (Maybe after a couple of minutes, so the player can see what's - finished?)
+
+- **Setting** for "difficulty"
+  - 0 - nothing takes time, game works the same as now. Queue is never shown
+  - 1 - things take the predefined time we set up after balancing the gameplay
+  - some steps between 0 and 1 to finetune (0.25, 0.5, 0.75 for example)
+
+### 2 - Crew assignment to manage time
+
+- Players can assign crew to queue jobs
+- Number of assigned crew governs speed of job
+  - 0: station crew does it slowly
+  - Number of crew decreases job time by 0.8x for each additional crew (diminishing returns)
+  - Crew skills could govern how effective they are in a given type of job
+    - Intelligence: 0.9x for repairs
+    - Strength: 0.9x for handling cargo
+  - Player skills could also affect job times in a similar way (but then they should level up by time or something similar)
+- Jobs could have crew member limits (based on cargo bay size, slot size, etc)
+- **UI:** Provide crew slots for each job card in the queue. 
+  - Either a numerical slider
+  - Or specific crew selector, if skill governs their effectiveness
+
+### 3 - Equipment to manage time
+
+- Some equipment could provide speed upgrades for job times (eg 0.75x)
+  - Cargo crane decreases cargo load times 
+  - Maintenance workshop decreases servicing and maintenance (could go into an S2 utility slot, or to a cabin slot for example
+    - Tangent: This equipment would provide field repair and maintenance in-flight too, with similar time factors)
+    - With UI in he Infoview screen
+  - Upgraded fuel pumps decrease fuel load times. (could go into utility slot)