Minor information parcing to produce faster game play [Done]
Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2007 4:19 pmHere are a list of a few minor things to change in the interface that should make it much faster to play.
When asking if we want to trade in cards, in escalating mode, tell us how many we will get if we trade in.
In the Game Log, do the math for us and put an entry that gives the total number of troops that someone had to deploy. In some of these maps they get bonuses from 10 sources, and it is nice to see a total, not have to figure it in your head.
I played a different version of this game and it had a great feature. You could click a button and a popup would come up, this popup would list all the players, total number of armies, total number of countries, total size of largest connected holdings, number of bonus areas held. All of this information is open to the public on the map but it takes a minute or two to study to get it....adding this will make game play much faster. It also let you get this same data for the end of any round, and even get a graph of this data for all rounds. When you know the history it makes it better.
On the "my games" menu can you have it sort the games, instead of by game number but by how long you have to play. First list all the games where it is your turn, sort this by time left to play, then list all the games where it is not your turn. Then you always just can click the top one on the list to play the most urgent game. Also on the "my games" menu can you list the current round number.
BTW is there a list somewhere of the items that are being worked on, so that we don't bother posting things they are already being worked on.
When asking if we want to trade in cards, in escalating mode, tell us how many we will get if we trade in.
In the Game Log, do the math for us and put an entry that gives the total number of troops that someone had to deploy. In some of these maps they get bonuses from 10 sources, and it is nice to see a total, not have to figure it in your head.
I played a different version of this game and it had a great feature. You could click a button and a popup would come up, this popup would list all the players, total number of armies, total number of countries, total size of largest connected holdings, number of bonus areas held. All of this information is open to the public on the map but it takes a minute or two to study to get it....adding this will make game play much faster. It also let you get this same data for the end of any round, and even get a graph of this data for all rounds. When you know the history it makes it better.
On the "my games" menu can you have it sort the games, instead of by game number but by how long you have to play. First list all the games where it is your turn, sort this by time left to play, then list all the games where it is not your turn. Then you always just can click the top one on the list to play the most urgent game. Also on the "my games" menu can you list the current round number.
BTW is there a list somewhere of the items that are being worked on, so that we don't bother posting things they are already being worked on.