Victor Sullivan wrote:I'm not so sure I understand some of your suggestions, vodean:
I can understand at least some of them:
[*]search by continent, not just country Why would I want this feature? What purpose does this serve?
Some border are porous, especially in Unified (EEC) Europe. If I was curious how well European players are doing, I wouldn't want to have to go through every country individually, not just because there are so many of them, but becase they are unreliable. Many people live in Holland and work in Germany, or live in Slovenia but work in Italy, and so on. Can't speak for vodean, of course, but I can imagine myself being curious about how European players are doing as a group.
[*]search for favorite map On the scoreboard??
If you were trying to prove a theory, for instance, that people who like complex tend to score higher than people than people who like simple maps. Or if your favourite map is not very popular and you're trying to find new opponents.
[*]search for # of forum posts What?? Why???
Some people see this as a point of pride. Personally, I prefer to be known for quality, not quantity, but for many people quantity is everything, and they want to know how they measure up. Look through recent newspapers and see how many people are trying to set a new world record for "most Chicken McNuggets impaled on a single chopstick" or whatever, and you'll see how ubiquitous this obsession with numerical records is.
[*]search by rank (find a place [on the scoreboard]) Doesn't the scoreboard already do this?
No, it puts everyone in order, but you have to guess where a breakpoint is. So, if the break between Lieutenants and Sergeants is on Page Six, you will have to manually flip pages to find that out. And if you want to know how many Lieutenants there are in total, you will have to count them.
