Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-20T20:14:49+02:00

galacticfear wrote:
...the purpose is to play against your FAF peers rather than just anyone on the internet...

The problem I see with this is the current problem. You get into a game, start tetris vs. person two in the lobby, the lobby fills, but you want 10 minutes to finish tetris.

Lesser of two evils, I guess. I do agree it would be fun to have an integrated tetris game... and we could probably grab one off Github royalty free. *hint hint*

Statistics: Posted by codepants — 20 Feb 2015, 20:14

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-20T13:16:54+02:00

codepants wrote:
Put your browser over 2/3 of your screen and the FAF find games windows over 1/3 so you can see your game and the number of people in it.

I foresee people getting really into tetris and complaints coming of them hurrying up to finish their game.

I *would*, however, kill for the ability to watch replays while in a lobby and get a notification when the lobby fills.

Maybe just an external notification when the lobby fills would resolve both of these issues?

Well sure I basically do that now when I browse the internet in a lobby, but as I have already said, the purpose is to play against your FAF peers rather than just anyone on the internet. But yes I too would prefer the replay ability... or sandboxing

Statistics: Posted by galacticfear — 20 Feb 2015, 13:16

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-19T08:18:05+02:00

Maybe a "bomberman" sprite game with ACUs as the titular character and Energy Storage as bombs.

Statistics: Posted by Quarian — 19 Feb 2015, 08:18

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-19T00:53:30+02:00

belatedcube wrote:
codepants wrote:What's wrong with alt+tab?

it is annoying to pull it back up and find an almost full lobby and people complaining. with galacticfear's idea it would inform you when someone joins.

like right now I just got pinged saying that the lobby I am hosting is filling up

Put your browser over 2/3 of your screen and the FAF find games windows over 1/3 so you can see your game and the number of people in it.

I foresee people getting really into tetris and complaints coming of them hurrying up to finish their game.

I *would*, however, kill for the ability to watch replays while in a lobby and get a notification when the lobby fills.

Maybe just an external notification when the lobby fills would resolve both of these issues?

Statistics: Posted by codepants — 19 Feb 2015, 00:53

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-18T20:39:16+02:00

Myxir wrote:
galacticfear wrote:I think that would be only possible if you managed to get two .exes to run at the same time.

you can launch the FA (faf version) offline from C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe while playing games on faf, you actually can watch replays but you have to download them first

I always use that exe for sandboxing in single player, but I don't think that allows you to run multiple of them? Dunno I will have to test.

Statistics: Posted by galacticfear — 18 Feb 2015, 20:39

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-18T20:17:42+02:00

galacticfear wrote:
I think that would be only possible if you managed to get two .exes to run at the same time.

you can launch the FA (faf version) offline from C:\ProgramData\FAForever\bin\ForgedAlliance.exe while playing games on faf, you actually can watch replays but you have to download them first

Statistics: Posted by Myxir — 18 Feb 2015, 20:17

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T21:15:48+02:00

i think the problem is that we atm cannot be notified when someone joins the game that you join/host
a good idea would be a pop-up when someone joins, just like the popup when a buddy comes online.

Then we can alt+tab and do whatever we want ^^
Profit ...

Statistics: Posted by Syraxtra — 17 Feb 2015, 21:15

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T19:11:39+02:00

Vee wrote:
galacticfear wrote:I think that would be only possible if you managed to get two .exes to run at the same time.

Or if the lobby was a separate program, and forgedalliance.exe only started at the last moment (like with ladder automatch).

that would also help, when you x in lobby, just check something, forget for a few second about the game, come back and see that you have lost 20 sec.

Statistics: Posted by keyser — 17 Feb 2015, 19:11

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T18:02:56+02:00

Yeah i remember there were the sudoku mod on Vanilla, with a specific ranked, and stats

Statistics: Posted by Lu_Xun_17 — 17 Feb 2015, 18:02

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T17:51:38+02:00

galacticfear wrote:
I think that would be only possible if you managed to get two .exes to run at the same time.

Or if the lobby was a separate program, and forgedalliance.exe only started at the last moment (like with ladder automatch).

Statistics: Posted by Vee — 17 Feb 2015, 17:51

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T15:38:49+02:00

Ok, I see alot of people including me would love integrated speed chess. Im sure you can find a free code for chess for any coding language somewhere on the internet, the real question is who knows how to do this and can be the messiah and actually do the work? Maybe wait for the setons council to settle down and then make a poll for community to decide how important is this feature.

Statistics: Posted by Petricpwnz — 17 Feb 2015, 15:38

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T15:13:30+02:00

I think that would be only possible if you managed to get two .exes to run at the same time.

Statistics: Posted by galacticfear — 17 Feb 2015, 15:13

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T15:10:38+02:00

Vee wrote:
The ability to watch replays when you are sitting in a lobby.

+1 would just be perfect..

Statistics: Posted by Hellcat — 17 Feb 2015, 15:10

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T13:50:46+02:00

The ability to watch replays when you are sitting in a lobby.

Statistics: Posted by Vee — 17 Feb 2015, 13:50

Re: Integrated tetris game

2015-02-17T12:01:49+02:00

codepants wrote:
What's wrong with alt+tab?

Its not the same as competing against other faf players in the lobby/in general

Statistics: Posted by galacticfear — 17 Feb 2015, 12:01