bmc85uk
09-05-2010, 10:59 PM
Numbered puclic instances (townes, quest zones & public access dungeons).
This would be quite handy, if these games were numbered in the server list, it would be easier to see how many were running, which was the last instance in the list (and therefore the least likely to get more players through auto-join; I like a quiet towne sometimes), and where to join to find a person, for instance I told Vulgar about someone wanting to buy an item earlier, it would have been nice if I could have said "Yeah he's was in Trader's Haven 3" (the instance number would therefore also need to show up on the minimap dungeon name).
Population/progress/dungeon name filters.
I'd like to be able to order the list by progress and population, with some reoganisation on the hud, you could fit 2 more buttons. By removing one of the arrows next to each filter, and replacing it with a single, slimmer arrow which flipped either way, then removing 'Game' from 'Game Name', and possibly shrinking the font a little, you could free up the extra space needed to fit : Name↓Population↕Level↕Progress↕Campaign↕, then pressing the titles instead of the arrows could switch the filter up/down.
If games could be filtered by dungeon name as well, this would help find the individual map that I wanted to play, this could be included in the campaign filter, so that it would recognise a search matching either the campaign name or dungeon name.
It would also be handy if search recognised individual words as well as strings (like most search engines, they recognise each word separately unless you include them in " ", and will also recognise a mixture eg. Alien II "Mynas Tombs"), to filter the list for AO2, you'd have to type 'Part II' or the entire 'Alien Oasis: Part II' as an exact match (Alien II, Oasis II etc. wouldn't work). Later if we have other campaigns in multiple parts, it will list them (Part I and Part II etc.) all together. If search matched single words, I could type 'Alien II' and get a precise match, whereas now that would return nothing.
Any thoughts on the two ideas?
This would be quite handy, if these games were numbered in the server list, it would be easier to see how many were running, which was the last instance in the list (and therefore the least likely to get more players through auto-join; I like a quiet towne sometimes), and where to join to find a person, for instance I told Vulgar about someone wanting to buy an item earlier, it would have been nice if I could have said "Yeah he's was in Trader's Haven 3" (the instance number would therefore also need to show up on the minimap dungeon name).
Population/progress/dungeon name filters.
I'd like to be able to order the list by progress and population, with some reoganisation on the hud, you could fit 2 more buttons. By removing one of the arrows next to each filter, and replacing it with a single, slimmer arrow which flipped either way, then removing 'Game' from 'Game Name', and possibly shrinking the font a little, you could free up the extra space needed to fit : Name↓Population↕Level↕Progress↕Campaign↕, then pressing the titles instead of the arrows could switch the filter up/down.
If games could be filtered by dungeon name as well, this would help find the individual map that I wanted to play, this could be included in the campaign filter, so that it would recognise a search matching either the campaign name or dungeon name.
It would also be handy if search recognised individual words as well as strings (like most search engines, they recognise each word separately unless you include them in " ", and will also recognise a mixture eg. Alien II "Mynas Tombs"), to filter the list for AO2, you'd have to type 'Part II' or the entire 'Alien Oasis: Part II' as an exact match (Alien II, Oasis II etc. wouldn't work). Later if we have other campaigns in multiple parts, it will list them (Part I and Part II etc.) all together. If search matched single words, I could type 'Alien II' and get a precise match, whereas now that would return nothing.
Any thoughts on the two ideas?