Inagme-Lobby-FAF-Lobby-Interface Suggestions

[Lionhardt]

I have three suggestions to circumvent three major annoyances with hosting games. But I don't know if any of those are actually possible.

1. When on you are hosting a game and go on the desktop a notification sound rings and or the FAF or FA icon blinks when someone joins your game.

2. A feature that allows you to send a wake up sound to somebody who might be on the desktop through the FA ingame lobby. Like in TS.

3. Bring back the after game chat tab but differently. The chat tab will open as soon as you JOIN a game. It will automatically close 5 mins after either the game is over. If you leave the game lobby before the game even started it will only stay open for 1 minute. It will stay open until 5 mins after the game is over if you left before the game was over. This will make rehosts and such way more easy to pull of.


These are three things that I think would make hosting games way more pleasant.



Please spare me the "stop suggestion stuff - just do it!" nonsense. Not everyone who has a suggestion also has the skills to make it happen.

[ax0lotl]

1. When on you are hosting a game and go on the desktop a notification sound rings and or the FAF or FA icon blinks when someone joins your game.

I'd love that, for anybody in a game lobby, not only the host. The "group formed" now only sounds when the game lobby has the focus. But if filling the lobby is slow, you want to be able to do something else on your PC and be alerted when the lobby does fill up. Now you have to Alt-Tab all the time to check if people joined or not.

[RedX]

This sounds really similar to what SpringRTS does. It seemed really neat at first, but in reality it didn't seem to help much, and WOW does that ringer get annoying.

[Lionhardt]

Well, then don't make it annoyingly. A text box popping from the system tray would do too, where it says "<username> joined. x/y slots filled"

[Zock]

2. A feature that allows you to send a wake up sound to somebody who might be on the desktop through the FA ingame lobby. Like in TS.

It's there, it'll even make the person's FAF blink in the taskbar. You just need to write a pm.

[Mad`Mozart]

The change i really want for lobby is remove or at least make a box where you can select, if you want lobby to remember all recent mods to play with and host next game with those mods. Seriously, it has become really annoying turning them off every time i host a game