Small things I believe would help a lot
Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2011 5:47 pm
So this is just my own list of things that I think could use a little improvement:
Interface:
- In the hosting/joining section when you arrange teams, I think the "other options" is unnecessary and those options should just be visible right away, there is a lot of space available next to the list of players, also team arranging is core and not just an "other" option.
- When hosting/joining lan games it should show your own IP, instead of you having to go to a website or something to find it, something I think should be simple to implement.
- When joining a game on lan what is the big box called "available local games" used for? i might just be doing something wrong, but when I connect with hamachi it doesn't show any available games, I need to simply click the connect button.
- the "sever hostname" field seems worded wrong, again I might just be doing it wrong, but from my experience this is where you put the IP of the one you want to connect to, and therefore having it say server hostname with localhost as default is very misleading, and it took me a long time to figure out this was where you put the IP.
- The front screen need to be more inviting currently I do not know what to improve it with, but the plain grass field, is just to boring.
Website:
- The wiki should be an extra option to go to, but in general the website needs to be a little more clean and user friendly as well as more attractive for the average gamer (that does not know what Linux is, but just know that free games are nice). As I can webdesign I might upload an example of what I mean up sometime in the near future.
Game mechanics:
- It would be nice with more options on the flags to customize tactics with, for example having and option on warflag to require swimmers or fast runners of certain levels, this makes it way easier to plan strategic attacks instead of just having a warflag and watching 3 units go over the sea while the rest with different running speed tries to go in the normal way.
When all this is said I really think this game is great and I will continue playing it, for a long time.
Interface:
- In the hosting/joining section when you arrange teams, I think the "other options" is unnecessary and those options should just be visible right away, there is a lot of space available next to the list of players, also team arranging is core and not just an "other" option.
- When hosting/joining lan games it should show your own IP, instead of you having to go to a website or something to find it, something I think should be simple to implement.
- When joining a game on lan what is the big box called "available local games" used for? i might just be doing something wrong, but when I connect with hamachi it doesn't show any available games, I need to simply click the connect button.
- the "sever hostname" field seems worded wrong, again I might just be doing it wrong, but from my experience this is where you put the IP of the one you want to connect to, and therefore having it say server hostname with localhost as default is very misleading, and it took me a long time to figure out this was where you put the IP.
- The front screen need to be more inviting currently I do not know what to improve it with, but the plain grass field, is just to boring.
Website:
- The wiki should be an extra option to go to, but in general the website needs to be a little more clean and user friendly as well as more attractive for the average gamer (that does not know what Linux is, but just know that free games are nice). As I can webdesign I might upload an example of what I mean up sometime in the near future.
Game mechanics:
- It would be nice with more options on the flags to customize tactics with, for example having and option on warflag to require swimmers or fast runners of certain levels, this makes it way easier to plan strategic attacks instead of just having a warflag and watching 3 units go over the sea while the rest with different running speed tries to go in the normal way.
When all this is said I really think this game is great and I will continue playing it, for a long time.