Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Lobby Design

2015-04-01T13:26:18+02:00

Col_Walter_Kurtz wrote:
I'm professionally involved in PR type issues, but have no coding or design skills unfortunately.

That is also needed,
atm we have no concept of the Lobby

Only several ideas ....

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 01 Apr 2015, 13:26

Re: Lobby Design

2015-04-01T11:24:51+02:00

Dragonfire wrote:
What are your skills?

I'm professionally involved in PR type issues, but have no coding or design skills unfortunately.

Statistics: Posted by Col_Walter_Kurtz — 01 Apr 2015, 11:24

Re: Lobby Design

2015-03-31T21:32:08+02:00

I also refer to my Ressource Overview:

viewtopic.php?f=45&t=8586&p=81866#p81866

Special "Homepage Rework":
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6726

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 31 Mar 2015, 21:32

Re: Lobby Design

2015-03-31T21:18:39+02:00

I know and keep a big focus on that, but atm I have not the time and we focus on more important things.
If we have a cool UI and many many users, but our server is slow and crash often it is not funny for everybody
But you are welcome to help us

What are your skills?

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 31 Mar 2015, 21:18

Re: Lobby Design

2015-03-30T10:55:48+02:00

So what about a graphical redesign?

Just looking at the homepage (and equivalent part of the lobby) makes me cringe. It looks so outdated, it must have scared away a huge number of potential new players. Just image that you never played FA before and then opening faforever.com. It's not a good advertisement for the game, the awesome platform FAF actually is, and the community.

I say this will all respect to the (former) coders and designers, without them we wouldn't even have FA today. And I also understand that "cleaning up" the server code is the primary goal right now (taking into consideration that visionik is running FAF on $700,- worth of server hardware a month). All I'm saying is that you should not underestimate the impact of aesthetics. If you don't look like a modern, professional platform, you will not attract new players and all the technical optimizations in the world are going to be pointless.

Statistics: Posted by Col_Walter_Kurtz — 30 Mar 2015, 10:55

Re: Lobby Design

2014-11-12T18:24:16+02:00

backlink:
viewtopic.php?f=42&t=8870&p=85763#p85740

Find Games Thread:
/viewtopic.php?p=85036#p84670

all:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pqkde9sjgi08 ... 4ZQ3a?dl=0

PS.: Current state ...

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 12 Nov 2014, 18:24

Re: Lobby Design

2014-11-12T13:29:17+02:00

I was directed to this thread after making a post in the "Suggestions" forum regarding the "Find Games" tab.

I don't want to repost everything that I said in that here, and I'm unable to post any URLs. Hmmm... it might let me with internal links? Let's see!

/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=8870

Gonna click preview and see... it didn't complain, so, here goes posting!

Statistics: Posted by MinisterPhobia — 12 Nov 2014, 13:29

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-29T21:13:05+02:00

odin002 wrote:
Some ideas since it's the good timing for that :
-see the number of games played in the stats on the lobby when you do "view player statistics in the chat"
-see deviation maybe?

A solution when you wait in a game for people, like the chat in game is also on the lobby, annoying to alt tab. And even better if we have a message when the game is full.

But maybe you only want to do the design, and not adding other features. Whatever, I've tried at least.

static page is planned
static, e.g. played maps count are extra not there
deviation from your rating? you have the game quality and I did not want to mark games because of rating

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 29 Oct 2014, 21:13

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-29T21:02:27+02:00

Some ideas since it's the good timing for that :
-see the number of games played in the stats on the lobby when you do "view player statistics in the chat"
-see deviation maybe?

A solution when you wait in a game for people, like the chat in game is also on the lobby, annoying to alt tab. And even better if we have a message when the game is full.

But maybe you only want to do the design, and not adding other features. Whatever, I've tried at least.

Statistics: Posted by odin002 — 29 Oct 2014, 21:02

Re: Lobby Design

2014-11-12T18:30:47+02:00

If you press on the button with the three dots an assistant appear.

E.g. for the Map Selection:
map_selection.png

Similar frame/panel can be used for the ladder map selection:
ladder_map_selection.png

All mockups:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pqkde9sjgi08 ... 4ZQ3a?dl=0

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 29 Oct 2014, 12:57

Re: Lobby Design

2014-11-12T18:29:58+02:00

Aarhun wrote:
And what about just facilitate the creation of game title ?
Two optional fields which will add a suffix to the title with the "recommended ranked range" by the game creator.
(No obligation of following it like today)
It could just standardize the game titles and add the possibility to sort them by recommended rank.

Exactly was I said!
Only a visual seperated area for ranking, no restriction.

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 29 Oct 2014, 10:11

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-29T10:02:43+02:00

And what about just facilitate the creation of game title ?
Two optional fields which will add a suffix to the title with the "recommended ranked range" by the game creator.
(No obligation of following it like today)
It could just standardize the game titles and add the possibility to sort them by recommended rank.

Statistics: Posted by Aarhun — 29 Oct 2014, 10:02

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-29T08:55:08+02:00

Dragonfire wrote:
Xinnony wrote:But i not like "You can define a ranking range"

Nearly ALL games have a ranking range in the title ...
"all welcome"
"1.1k+"
"<1000"

That is very annoying...
From Usability view you have two information in the title: "the ranking range" and a "title"
It is hard to filter and sort the games ...

The rating range is only a visual gimmick.
If we have a optional ranking (you can disable the rating range) maybe the focus go more
on to the title, mods, map, balance and not on the rating in the title ...
And people don't add rating ranges in the title ...

But yes, the "Seton Council" must decide.

This has been discussed many times, and even coded if I remember correctly, but dismissed because a lot people has a very good argument : it will make joining games very hard if it's a hard restriction.

The way I choose (but abandoned) is to make matchmaker for team game (code still there) + the possibility to choose a specific map for it, and make custom entirely rating free.

Remember the rating system for custom was implemented at the start of FAF with a custom team matchmaker in mind, and rating were displayed to the user to do it manually until it was made. It was never my attention to make a way to restrict games to a range of people or create endless discussions for balancing teams.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 29 Oct 2014, 08:55

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-28T20:40:55+02:00

Dragonfire wrote:
Xinnony wrote:But i not like "You can define a ranking range"

Nearly ALL games have a ranking range in the title ...
"all welcome"
"1.1k+"
"<1000"

That is very annoying...
From Usability view you have two information in the title: "the ranking range" and a "title"
It is hard to filter and sort the games ...

The rating range is only a visual gimmick.
If we have a optional ranking (you can disable the rating range) maybe the focus go more
on to the title, mods, map, balance and not on the rating in the title ...
And people don't add rating ranges in the title ...

But yes, the "Seton Council" must decide.

And the players do not play ranked not be able to join a game ...
While seeing my nickname, the hoster accept me because in not play ranked.

Statistics: Posted by Xinnony — 28 Oct 2014, 20:40

Re: Lobby Design

2014-10-28T19:31:25+02:00

Xinnony wrote:
But i not like "You can define a ranking range"

Nearly ALL games have a ranking range in the title ...
"all welcome"
"1.1k+"
"<1000"

That is very annoying...
From Usability view you have two information in the title: "the ranking range" and a "title"
It is hard to filter and sort the games ...

The rating range is only a visual gimmick.
If we have a optional ranking (you can disable the rating range) maybe the focus go more
on to the title, mods, map, balance and not on the rating in the title ...
And people don't add rating ranges in the title ...

But yes, the "Seton Council" must decide.

Statistics: Posted by Dragonfire — 28 Oct 2014, 19:31