Bold markers for changes to Eliminated or Recently Finished

by **ender516** on Tue May 24, 2011 12:20 pm

Concise description:

Add a bold marker to the Eliminated and Recently Finished buttons on the My Games page to highlight changes in status on either of those tabs.

Specifics/Details:

Much like the markers in the Interaction Menu which indicate new PMs in your mailbox and new posts on your wall, I would like to see something that indicates that an Active game has moved to the Eliminated or Recently Finished category.
Once you had visited the appropriate tab, the marker would be cleared until the next change.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
Other users of the site who agree with the following will benefit.

I can generally discern when I am out of a game by the note that I "can leave ratings for N members!" But if I decide not to leave ratings (like in a Battle Royale) or if I have already left ratings for everyone in a game, this count does not reflect the situation fully. I find it annoying to go to these tabs repeatedly just to note, "Oh, yeah, this game is still dragging on without me." Give me a quick clear way to see that there is something in these categories that I have not seen.

by **shieldgenerator7** on Wed May 25, 2011 12:41 pm

I think this idea sounds cool, but less important to implement immediately compared to other ideas.
This would be a handy feature.

by **kabuki.mono** on Thu Jun 02, 2011 10:33 am

Great idea! Easy - simple yet so effective

by **greenoaks** on Thu Jun 02, 2011 12:30 pm

in the meantime someone could create it as an add-on.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Fri Jun 10, 2011 3:58 pm

Ah, yes! I do like this idea. It would also be nice for those times when one day you're a cadet and the next a cook and you don't know why!

-Sully

by **DoomYoshi** on Fri Jun 10, 2011 4:33 pm

Great Idea! How come I never thought of that?

by **Darwins_Bane** on Tue Jun 14, 2011 10:21 pm

Maybe it would be better to add a bracketed number or something? to indicate the number of games that have that changed into the folder. As soon as you click on the game it could change, that way if you have several you have been eliminated in, then you could easily determine which ones are new. (sometimes if you have a lot of the same maps, it can get confusing.)

by **ender516** on Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:42 am

Darwins_Bane wrote:Maybe it would be better to add a bracketed number or something? to indicate the number of games that have that changed into the folder. As soon as you click on the game it could change, that way if you have several you have been eliminated in, then you could easily determine which ones are new. (sometimes if you have a lot of the same maps, it can get confusing.)

Oh, absolutely. This is what I was suggesting when I referred to the indicators for your inbox or your wall. They show, for example,

Inbox [2 new]

by **AndyDufresne** on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:16 pm

It is indeed a pretty good idea!

--Andy

by **Darwins_Bane** on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:21 pm

My point was more, about how the current tags work. You know how on your inbox, if you have [8 new] and you click on it and read the first one, then the message that there are new ones goes away, even though you still have 7 new messages? I was wondering if you wanted that [x new] tag to disappear after you click on the eliminated tab, or persist until you have visited the games in question.

by **Victor Sullivan** on Thu Jun 16, 2011 4:23 pm

I'd say disappear, just because having to go into each game would be a nuisance if you didn't want to.

-Sully

by **ender516** on Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:04 pm

I thought the count for your inbox stayed until you had read the PMs. I will have to watch that next time. (Problem is, I seldom have more than one new PM at a time.)

Perhaps there could be an indication on the games on the eliminated/recently finished tabs, marking the ones you have not entered since they reached that tab, just like unread PMs have a coloured title or icon (or something, I forget just what). You might then want a way to select games and clear the mark without going into the games, if you just want to speed things along.

by **drunkmonkey** on Mon Jun 20, 2011 8:08 am

I like this suggestion.

The [x new] message on the Inbox does go away after you open your Inbox (you don't even have to read a message). If this is implemented, I would like the same to happen after you click on "Eliminated" or "Recently Finished".