Conquer Club

ender516 wrote:

Queen_Herpes wrote:I would support watching games if the following could be included in the suggestion:
-players cannot watch foggy games (for obvious reasons)
-at the bottom of the game page, the name of the players who are "browsing" or "watching" the game are listed (just as they are listed on forum thread pages to designate who is browsing the particular forum topic.)
-foes are prevented from watching your games AND foes are prevented from commenting in your game chat

Make all that happen and I'd support a watch list.

Are you aware that you can, right now, watch a foggy game? If you are not a player, you cannot see any numbers on the map, and the log is full of question marks, but you can see how many troops were awarded for holding some number of territories, or some unidentified zone.

ender516 wrote:I agree that it might be nice to see who is looking in on a game, but that should include players as well as kibbitzers.

ender516 wrote:I also agree with your thoughts on foes. Currently foes are filtered out of your game chat, but I don't know if they are prevented from putting in something that other players in your game can see.

ender516 wrote:Until this sort of thing is added to the site, there are add-ins to do this sort of thing: Saved Searches For Internet Explorer Script and New Greasemonky Script - Saved Searchs. With a saved search, you should be able to go to the Game Finder page, click to run a search which finds the games of interest, then Enter Game and bob's your uncle.

Namor wrote:Concise description:

• A set of 10 buttons added to the top of the page, along side the 'Home,Instructions,Scoreboard,etc' , that provide a quick link to chosen forum threads.

Specifics:

• When clicking the 'Bookmark' button at the bottom of a thread, as well as the link being placed in the bookmark folder, the user could have the option to assign the link to a number from 0 to 10 (0 being unassigned)
  
  The buttons would simply be numbered 1-10... and hovering the mouse over each would display the thread name.
  
  One click could then take the user directly to the front page of the watched thread.
  
  With a 'Manage Quick Links' page, the user could direct the link to the 'First unread post' if so desired, also on this page he/she could copy and paste a link straight into one of the buttons.

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• It would cut down on the number of pages that sometimes need to be navigated through, in order to arrive at a desired thread
• I know that at present this can be achieved with <Control Panel> <Manage Bookmarks> <Watched link>, but for those that have to rely on limited Broadband usage, it would be a godsend. Going via Control Panel, Manage Bookmarks, may only use around 6-10 Kb, but if you've done that a few hundred times in a month, then it all adds up.
• The user could have a direct link to their Clan forum or a particular thread from it. Instead of clicking 'Forum' at the top of page and scrolling down to the 'Clans' section.
• It could also be possible to assign a quick link to a particular game number that the user might be constantly checking. Speed games could have a quick link, instead of keeping a separate tab open.

Namor wrote:I have suggested something that could be added to the site, that might be the sort of thing you're looking for.

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=105510&start=0

Namor wrote:Concise description:

• A set of 10 buttons added to the top of the page, along side the 'Home,Instructions,Scoreboard,etc' , that provide a quick link to chosen forum threads.

Specifics:

• When clicking the 'Bookmark' button at the bottom of a thread, as well as the link being placed in the bookmark folder, the user could have the option to assign the link to a number from 0 to 10 (0 being unassigned)
  
  The buttons would simply be numbered 1-10... and hovering the mouse over each would display the thread name.
  
  One click could then take the user directly to the front page of the watched thread.
  
  With a 'Manage Quick Links' page, the user could direct the link to the 'First unread post' if so desired, also on this page he/she could copy and paste a link straight into one of the buttons.

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• It would cut down on the number of pages that sometimes need to be navigated through, in order to arrive at a desired thread
• I know that at present this can be achieved with <Control Panel> <Manage Bookmarks> <Watched link>, but for those that have to rely on limited Broadband usage, it would be a godsend. Going via Control Panel, Manage Bookmarks, may only use around 6-10 Kb, but if you've done that a few hundred times in a month, then it all adds up.
• The user could have a direct link to their Clan forum or a particular thread from it. Instead of clicking 'Forum' at the top of page and scrolling down to the 'Clans' section.
• It could also be possible to assign a quick link to a particular game number that the user might be constantly checking. Speed games could have a quick link, instead of keeping a separate tab open.

You could paste a link to the games you're watching straight into a 'Quicklink' button, thus enabling you to check a particular game with one click.

Of course, you could only watch 10 games at any given time, but there is room for more than ten buttons.

Maybe, if lack is unable to implement this, it could be incorporated into BoB?

AAFitz wrote:if you use firefox, you can get way more than ten buttons... if you go to properties of the link, and change the name to something shorter, and more meaningful usually, you can fit 2 or 3 times that, depending upon the size of your screen

I have 20 links, some personal, some CC and still have room, and havent even had to compress very much...could probably fit 40 now that I look closely at it...

• There are several games that I like to check in on regularly. These include clan challenge games, tourney games, games where I'm actively sitting in, games where friends ask me to keep an eye on because they might miss a turn, etc..., and some games I just like to watch the action in. It is a bit tedious to search by game number each time or scroll through an entire thread to find what you are looking for. I would like to be able to easily find a few selected "important" games a little easier if possible is all.

jefjef wrote:Perhaps a way to be notified via pm when it's a specific players turn in a specific game.

Turn notification.

safariguy5 wrote:There's a plugin for that on Greasemonkey LMS.

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=97965

L M S wrote:

safariguy5 wrote:There's a plugin for that on Greasemonkey LMS.

http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=59&t=97965

My hero.

• There would be an additional tab next to the "active", "awaiting players", "eliminated", and "recently finished" tabs that would display any games that you have selected to watch.

• Players would be able to select games that they wanted to appear in their "watching" tab. Once the games were completed, they could be moved to "recently finished", or deleted from all tabs (not sure which is the best way to get rid of them once they're done)
• To select a game, I was thinking that there could be a text box at the top of the "watching" page, and players would put in the game numbers that they want to watch, the game would be listed there until it was completed, or removed by the user.

• This would enable anyone to watch games that they are not in.
• This would be especially helpful with clans because it would enable clan members and most importantly leaders to keep an eye on games that their clan in involved in during wars.

• Add a 'Watched' list of games beside the 'Active', 'Waiting on Players', etc. list.
  Add 'Watch Game' as a second option to the 'Join Game' option.

• Helps me to set aside a list of games I might want to join now or later. When I was premium, I limited myself to 20 games at a time. Now as freemium, of course, I only have 4 game slots.
  
  Of course, this might have other benefits as well. We would probably want to place a limit on how many we could put in the 'Watched' list.

• A tab in the My Games section for players to add games they would like to watch that they are not in.

• A player would be able to add to their Watch List by clicking a special in-game button for games they are not in to keep tabs on those games they find interesting.
• After the game is finished, it is removed from the list. Another tab could also be made, for Recently Finished games that were in this list, or they could be added to the regular Recently Finished list, or they could just disappear from the My Games section altogether.

• Tournament Organizers can keep an eye on their games easier
• Players will be able to "watch and learn" or even scout opposition easier

GreecePwns wrote:Concise description:

• A tab in the My Games section for players to add games they would like to watch that they are not in.

Specifics/Details:

• A player would be able to add to their Watch List by clicking a special in-game button for games they are not in to keep tabs on those games they find interesting.
• After the game is finished, it is removed from the list. Another tab could also be made, for Recently Finished games that were in this list, or they could be added to the regular Recently Finished list, or they could just disappear from the My Games section altogether.

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• Tournament Organizers can keep an eye on their games easier
• Players will be able to "watch and learn" or even scout opposition easier

IcePack wrote:That doesn't help none firefox / iPhone users.

I'd like this as a standard feature for sure!

IcePack

TheForgivenOne wrote:

IcePack wrote:That doesn't help none firefox / iPhone users.

I'd like this as a standard feature for sure!

IcePack

Did I ever say that there is no chance of it being implemented? No. I was letting him know that there is an add-on out there for it.

TheForgivenOne wrote:http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=527&t=97965

Just for you info.