Forged Alliance Forever

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T15:03:11+02:00

10% of the CPU in use, most of it by writing tons of logs (134 mb yesterday)
I don't want to have more players now as there is still a lot of bugs to fix and big refactoring planned.

It's getting slightly harder to manage at this stage with so many player (restarting the updater server because of a bug = 10 PMs and issues in the tracker because updater fails )

But I'm happy it's starting to be popular. But please, no advert for now.

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 20 Feb 2012, 15:03

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T14:41:03+02:00

How is the server capacity? If there is a sudden jump in player numbers after advertising, will things fall over?

Statistics: Posted by AdmiralZeech — 20 Feb 2012, 14:41

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T14:00:27+02:00

When the time comes we should also consider trying to get mentioned on:

Reddit (may draw unwanted attention though)
StrategyInformer and similar sites
GameReplays.org
Supreme Commander & Forged Alliance Groups on Facebook
A fresh post on the GPG Forums
Facebook (i.e. create a FA Forever group, let everyone's old SupCom friends know it exists)
Steam groups & Steam (link your FAForever as a non-steam app so your steam says you're playing FA Forever)

But we're still beta, so we still have time. (but we are approaching critical user mass, meaning we can almost begin to call the goons that stay on GPGnet the "community splitters", )

Statistics: Posted by thygrrr — 20 Feb 2012, 14:00

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T11:45:31+02:00

Ze_PilOt wrote:
Kryo wrote:awesome, its really a pity that your work is only for such a "small" group of people.

The project is still in beta and not advertised outside the existing FA community.

But my crystal ball tells me that there will be some (french) articles about it around march

Hehe, nice to hear that! I hope some articles will also be written in other language mag and sites to shed some light on this awesome community driven platform.

Statistics: Posted by pip — 20 Feb 2012, 11:45

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T11:32:52+02:00

Kryo wrote:
awesome, its really a pity that your work is only for such a "small" group of people.

The project is still in beta and not advertised outside the existing FA community.

But my crystal ball tells me that there will be some (french) articles about it around march

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 20 Feb 2012, 11:32

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T11:30:44+02:00

Among other things, these are planned for "soon" :

- Passworded lobbies (later : possibility to invite someone to a game without entering a password.)
- Optional rank display : You can decide to display rank in the lobby or not (either way, the game will be rated)
- Display of the current game quality of the game (aka the "balance factor").
- Display of the best team composition when a new player join a game.

and MAYBE :

- completely private games. No display in the lobby, no livereplay. For 1v1 or clan training

Statistics: Posted by Ze_PilOt — 20 Feb 2012, 11:30

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T11:27:52+02:00

awesome, its really a pity that your work is only for such a "small" group of people.

Statistics: Posted by Kryo — 20 Feb 2012, 11:27

Re: Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T10:37:04+02:00

Kryo wrote:
If I hover my mouse above a game in the list to join, it should show a tooltip with the names and ratings of the players in the game, if its possible of course^^ (this is not important right now, but imagine it gets important, if there were more players in faf xD)

It's not possible yet, but it will be very possible soon and is already planned. Better game hosting is one of the next things we address.

Statistics: Posted by thygrrr — 20 Feb 2012, 10:37

Idea: Games List tooltips

2012-02-20T10:32:56+02:00

If I hover my mouse above a game in the list to join, it should show a tooltip with the names and ratings of the players in the game, if its possible of course^^ (this is not important right now, but imagine it gets important, if there were more players in faf xD)

Statistics: Posted by Kryo — 20 Feb 2012, 10:32