Anaryl's suggestions for new featurs improvements for FAF

[thygrrr]

1. Ranked map preferences.

Partially planned.

2. Allowing us to use IRC commands in FAF. Simple really, j/ mode +v /motd that kinda thing.

Planned.

3.Profiles. I know its not a big deal but it would be nice.

Planned.

4. An instant messenger for our friends/clan list. At the moment our friends list is kinda useless. If there was a little widget thing which showed us the status of our friends that would be awesome. Probably asking too much, but i dont imagine its particularly hard to code.

Elaborate, maybe draw up a mockup. I was considering better "friend came online" notifications. There may be user chat channels (pretty much planned), and there may be clan support some day. There are definitely going to be friend list invites.

5. The ability to upload replays. GPGnets vault is good but there's no upload functionality. If there was a simple way to send a replay file through FAF that would be awesome. I know the functionality exists in irc, so it shouldnt be very hard to allow this.

Planned.

6. A way to download the mods like we can with the map, by double clicking the game. I understand there were some issues with this with GPGnet.

Yes, that's a biggie and I've told others off because of this. But I am not against at least listing the mods that a game uses, somehow, and not permit people from joining if they don't have the mods activated by the host.

7. There is no number seven.

Oh that's already implemented.

8. There should be an option to have a ranked challenge on the map of our choice. Why not? It's silly this was never implemented in GPGnet.

Will probably come with game invites.

9. A referendum on trueskill. People like and understand ELO, I think we should discuss it.

TrueSkill is better than Elo, so we could explain it a bit better maybe, but that's it..

10. Tournament support.

Planned. (seriously, and in a really cool way)

[Doompants]

FWIW, I think #7 is one of the main reasons I prefer FAF to GPGnet..

[SpinDrah]

1. Ranked map preferences. This is a big one, and I have heard this from a few people. We really need to be able to see and select the ranked pool. Furthermore, an improvement over GPGnet, we should be able to simply select which maps we like and which we dont. In order to make it so people dont just have the one map set into their preferences, perhaps a rule should be that we have an equal number of likes dislikes and neutrals. That way we are still forced to play maps we are ambivalent about.

hmm, I kind of like that its just random. I think thats what ranked is about, not only playing the kind of maps you like.

9. A referendum on trueskill. People like and understand ELO, I think we should discuss it.

Trueskill is better, if people don't understand it they should spend a few minutes reading up on it.

[Ze_PilOt]

I think people are confused about the score, not trueskill itself.

But it's only there for debug, it will disappear once I'm sure that all score problems are solved.