Author Topic: Official Feature Vote of 2007 (Read 233906 times)

Apocalypse · « **Reply #780 on:** August 13, 2007, 06:02:49 PM »

No, you can't Smack at least not to my knowledge which is pretty good about that sort of stuff.
Edit: Just noticed page 40!

Zorchenhimer · « **Reply #781 on:** August 13, 2007, 09:19:22 PM »

Quote from: SmackWaters on August 13, 2007, 05:55:09 PM

A way to find players through the server browser? Or can you already do that?

You can see who is playing on a selected server in the stand-alone browser. But there is no "search" function. When I was in school I used Kquery4 to look for LAN games (in-game didn't go to the needed extent. Very large and complicated LAN, etc.), and you could search for people there.

y00tz · « **Reply #782 on:** August 14, 2007, 12:58:05 AM »

In addition to my vote to tie Global Login accounts to the forum, I'd like to expand it to include a "Primary account name"

For example, users would have to pick ONE name for the GLS that could never be changed, it would be locked in, (Forum name) so that players can never completely change their identity, they're always linked to that one name.

Any not-so-obvious cons I'm missing?

-y00tz

edit: I was going to post this a while back, with some more thought put into it, but I just thought I'd put it out here as a vote after reading you're response in the thread for name change requests.

Fred187 · « **Reply #783 on:** August 16, 2007, 08:50:50 AM »

Will the become the new "To do" list, or will only the ones at the top get done?

KiLo · « **Reply #784 on:** August 16, 2007, 09:52:07 AM »

The ones at the top are going to be focused on first. First instance right jitspoe is working on faster in-game downloading.

y00tz · « **Reply #785 on:** August 16, 2007, 02:44:23 PM »

New request

Regarding Paintball2

Perhaps when a user enters a name that is longer than 30 characters (with "fun name" characters), they could be warned that their name may not work with a clan tag.

-y00tz

KiLo · « **Reply #786 on:** August 16, 2007, 02:50:38 PM »

Anohter new request

When a new member signs up on the forums direct them to a "welcome" thread where you have them post something about themselves.

Cobo · « **Reply #787 on:** August 16, 2007, 03:22:17 PM »

Quote from: KiLo on August 16, 2007, 02:50:38 PM

Anohter new request

When a new member signs up on the forums direct them to a "welcome" thread where you have them post something about themselves.

Sounds like another thread I would add to my 20 or so pages of unread topics.

lekky · « **Reply #788 on:** August 16, 2007, 04:53:40 PM »

I vote for when the dp game opens up, you see the latest news items from the dplogin main page. What a way to integrate every pub player into the community.

KiLo · « **Reply #789 on:** August 16, 2007, 05:01:49 PM »

Only problem is that that news is usually about a year out of date.

Cobo · « **Reply #790 on:** August 16, 2007, 05:09:51 PM »

Well, there is already a link to the news site.

jitspoe · « **Reply #791 on:** August 16, 2007, 06:46:38 PM »

Quote from: KiLo on August 16, 2007, 05:01:49 PM

Only problem is that that news is usually about a year out of date.

Hey, now. There have been a couple news updates this year!

I think the login system is probably doing more than news updates would, anyway.

Quote from: y00tz on August 16, 2007, 02:44:23 PM

New request

Regarding Paintball2

Perhaps when a user enters a name that is longer than 30 characters (with "fun name" characters), they could be warned that their name may not work with a clan tag.

-y00tz

Better yet, just limit the text box entries to 30 characters so they can't even create names that are too long.

Apocalypse · « **Reply #792 on:** August 16, 2007, 06:48:21 PM »

Quote from: y00tz on August 16, 2007, 02:44:23 PM

New request

Regarding Paintball2

Perhaps when a user enters a name that is longer than 30 characters (with "fun name" characters), they could be warned that their name may not work with a clan tag.

-y00tz

Good idea y00tz add me to that also y00tz. Also I'm going to say it again check your PMs!!!!!!

lekky · « **Reply #793 on:** August 16, 2007, 06:54:23 PM »

With the actual news item being shown, you could post your community polls, announce tournaments etc. More interaction between more people. Who has ever looked at the link to the site? I didn't even notice it for half a year!

Quote from: jitspoe on August 16, 2007, 06:46:38 PM

I think the login system is probably doing more than news updates would, anyway.

Doing more what? I don't think it would spread more news to the community than a news update when they open dp! (Does this count as a second vote then?

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Cobo · « **Reply #794 on:** August 16, 2007, 07:14:54 PM »

Quote from: lekky on August 16, 2007, 06:54:23 PM

With the actual news item being shown, you could post your community polls, announce tournaments etc. More interaction between more people. Who has ever looked at the link to the site? I didn't even notice it for half a year!

Then the problem is the menu, now imagine something like this...

webhead · « **Reply #795 on:** August 16, 2007, 10:59:12 PM »

as far as having a menu option called "Website", i don't think there's really much you could do to improve it. granted, you could put it up there with play, setup and quit, and maybe then a few more people would click on it, but i'm sure the majority (or at least me) would probably learn to easily have their eyes skip right over it.

a better option would be to call the menu option something different, such as maybe "Latest Updates" or "Community" or something.

a REALLY COOL thing to do (but maybe not terribly easy) would be to have the program check an RSS/Atom feed, and show the latest stuff from the website WITHIN THE PROGRAM. i think that would also help more people to use it, because I personally wouldn't want to click on something that would make me switch out of the game and into my browser. cuz i just don't care for that.

y00tz · « **Reply #796 on:** August 16, 2007, 11:32:34 PM »

Quote from: jitspoe on August 16, 2007, 06:46:38 PM

Better yet, just limit the text box entries to 30 characters so they can't even create names that are too long.

y00tz is a n00b. Thanks.

KnacK · « **Reply #797 on:** August 17, 2007, 05:30:29 AM »

* KnacK wonders if he should place the above quote in his own sig......

lekky · « **Reply #798 on:** August 17, 2007, 07:24:54 AM »

Quote from: webhead on August 16, 2007, 10:59:12 PM

a REALLY COOL thing to do (but maybe not terribly easy) would be to have the program check an RSS/Atom feed, and show the latest stuff from the website WITHIN THE PROGRAM.

Yes! Thats what I'm saying! If i open up dp and i get a title about a new tournament, I will most likely click it and find out more. The same goes for other community events that currently arn't even possible due to only us being able to know about them.

KnacK · « **Reply #799 on:** August 17, 2007, 09:51:04 AM »

What would be neat would be a feed that showed the top 5 or 5 latest posts in the forums or last 5 topics posted to at the welcome screen.