A system for modelling complex item systems, with an eye towards modelling spaceship parts in particular

• Input and Output are abstract properties of all components
• Performance degredation occurs by varying the output of one component
• Failure chance increases as quality degrades
• Critical Failures

• Behaviors encapsulate the state changes caused to components and/or the game environment by the utilization of an item
• Requirements represent tests which must return true in order to execute behaviors

Concrete instances of components can be declaratively specified using JSON documents:

{ "name": "UltraDerp 5001 Mk II", "spec": { "config_dict": "goes_here" } "behaviors": [], "signal_handlers": [ { "signal": "lol", "handler": "poop" } ] }

A standard API for tuning should be exposed so that different classes of items can implement different methodologies for tuning and optimizing their performance -

• Electrical level tweaking
• Sequence diagram editing

A measure of overall item quality should be developed