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| Mr. Alpha test... (Tom) |
| [16911] by "Whit" (12-230-42-67.client.attbi.com) on Sat 19 Oct 2002 02:08:56 [ reply ] |
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Yer asking for feedback... and I can only give it based on my own screen no idea how it works on others...
but on MY screen - after a game is played and you go back ... your at the TOP of the screen... in order to see if the next game has started you have to move your mouse over and then scroll down a bit ... to get to the list of games in progress.. This only takes a few seconds BUT when your playing 'against' someone and they've started the new game, those few seconds make quite a difference. Idealy, the list of games in progress should be at the top - or at least be able to be seen in the top screen, meaning at the very least the 2nd set of stats would go under it. Just a helpful hint. This game is greeeeeat by the way.... :) A suggestion for the future? I think there should be a max # of people per game - not at all an issue NOW - not enough players... but in the future you might consider a max # of players set at either 3 or 4.... ie if someone tries to join a game in progress and there are 4 already playing it'll say "Sorry game has max # of players" As I said this isn't an issue yet... we've only had 4 playing one game a few times. Not sure if you want to set the max at 3 .. or 4... but definately 4 max. Now if you want to get REALLY fancy with this thing? I don't even know if THIS is possible or not, but it'd be really nice to have a way to NOT show the tiles on one board (more later??) until 2 have joined... lemme explain why This really doesn't matter to me personally cause if I'm playing with someone who's the slower typer - I wait and let THEM start the game (ie get the intitial advantage...) I type very fast - so I like to do things that way. But - getting a few moments to see all the tiles and start to type them in as the other person is (scrolling down to find the list of games...hitting restore to see which game you started...and so on) is a huge advantage.... and that's fine. BUT as this game gets really popular (and it will) it'd be really nice to have ONE board (more added later?) that doesn't show the TILES till a 2nd person joins. Here's the idea - Game 6 - Two player game. (you join... the board displays "Waiting for an opponent" See what I mean? I know this doesn't sound easy but it'd be really ideal for 'competition' games amongst some serious players - so they both see the tiles at the same time. But - how would *I* know someone else has joined - unless I hit refresh? That's the tricky part here? Don't know if you can 'refresh' my screen when soemone else joins? Well that sounds tough - perhaps this is an idea for "Game 6" - Game 6 does not display the tiles till X amount of 2nd after someone joins.... 10 seconds? See what I'm getting at? I join "Game 6" Two player only game (just naming it this for our reference) It takes 10 seconds after someone joins to display tiles - so it'd say "Refresh your screen in 10 seconds" - when the first person joins...... that might work if you can't get my previous idea going. Basically I think most of us are 'merit' based people though - in other words after a few games I will either 'start starting the games' or 'wait for the other person to start' based on how fast a typer I percieve them to be from the first few games. But that 'game 6' idea is something to think about. Well I have 10 other ideas for this but I'll let you chew on these for now LOL. Whit |