Botanica/docs/ROADMAP.md

Future development after Plant Laboratory

M0–M4 establish a local illustrated plant laboratory with deterministic genetics, original vector rendering, persistent breeding and a traceable collection.

Future milestones should be designed and gated separately:

1. Authentication, ownership enforcement for real accounts, access control, request throttling and deployment hardening before public exposure. The current fixed sandbox owner is not authentication.
2. Greenhouse progression: pots, seeds, resources and an explicit economy, with server-authoritative transactions.
3. Offline progression based on persisted event timestamps; test clock changes, retries and race conditions before adding automation.
4. Research, upgrades and achievements, with versioned balance rules and migration policies.
5. Additional species with authored botanical grammars, family-scoped allele catalogs and explicitly approved hybrid rules.
6. Social trading or multiplayer only after account security, provenance and economic invariants have been reviewed.

Do not add these systems implicitly to the laboratory. Preserve stored genomes, seeds, versions and ancestry as the model evolves. Future rarity policy changes require an explicit, reviewed recomputation migration rather than silently changing birth classifications.