Epicmafia

Making user experience a bit better

over 10 years

Hey, Zapph here. I've thinking about a couple of ideas that could make User Exp. a tad better so i'd like to see what you think about it. "User Experience improvements" are self explanatory, they help the visibility of certain mechanics or improve certain aspects in one way or another.

Easy to access notes

I'm gonna be honest here, i don't use notes at all. And that is most likely due to having to click on someone and then going to the Notes tab, which even may be buggy at times. What i propose is a simple icon next to everyone's name, it could be a pencil, a notebook, bla bla. A grayed out icon would let you know you haven't written anything about that player while a bolded icon shows the contrary.

Example:

New Hammer statistic

If you are the Hammer of an end game lynch, and it grants your party a win, you will be granted a +1 on your Hammer Level. This new System can take various paths, one of them is giving people a hammer achievement icon that would be swapped every time to advance a level. For instance, Bronce, Silver, Gold, Platinum Hammers, etc. Another possibility is giving people a % of successful decisive Hammers in their profile.

That's it for now, i have a couple more but i'm out of time atm.

Would any of these additions help EM?

Yeah, and you still suck at this game Zapph

No, because you suck at mafia, Zapph

Miloo7

over 10 years

Grizzlyman says

in the first screen who can edit those note can i make nots on ur page that only I can see or is that for u to make notes on ur own page?

If you wanna post something for everyone to see, you can just post it on your profile so 'Notes' would be an option to keep game review links, links to forums your following, notes to self,...

gistofeverything says

..it could be global, as long as people had the choice to his their online status etc.

Sure

GuyFawkes85

over 10 years

Nice ideas!! I like the "leagues" idea and also Miloo's ones :)

gistofeverything

over 10 years

I actually really like the second idea, and think that it could be global, as long as people had the choice to his their online status etc.

Grizzlyman

over 10 years

in the first screen who can edit those note can i make nots on ur page that only I can see or is that for u to make notes on ur own page? I dont really get it...

The 2nd idea is pretty cool though I like it.

Miloo7

over 10 years

So, I had to dig through google to find this. I'd like to add my 'Notes' option to this thread: http://imgur.com/c9rUpG9

And this is my new suggestion: adding a small online/offline status for mods so we know who we can PM or make contact with at the time: http://imgur.com/xL0ga2x

Grizzlyman

over 10 years

Yeah pretty much exactly that Gist

Another cool idea is to have some kind of league system. So you would have the top 50 players in division 1 and they can play only against each other. The bottom 5 get each week get replaced with the top 5 players from division below or even just the training competition say.

I feel that this would create a truly competitive environment as every will be playing to a high level to show they deserve their place in the division. It will also mean that people can say they are in the top X of active play which is a cool thing to say.

I'm not sure how feasible this is or if the player base is large enough to support it but I don't see why it couldn't be done.

I'm going to repeat my other suggestions as the previous post was removed.

Make notes persistent please, they really should be this could be such useful feature.

replace the arrows that are used in multi set-ups with a drop down list I want to be able to show/hide the entire list of possible setups there are in the game I am in.

gistofeverything

over 10 years

Like League's LeaverBuster thing? Because that would be *ella rad.

Grizzlyman

over 10 years

My other post got removed =(.

Another suggestion that I would really like to see is stricter penalties for suicides and vegs. especially in ranked and comp games. I think suicides should count as loss's in people's stat's, even if your team ends up winning. This would further discourage the behaviour.

Also think after consecutive sui's a timed lock out should kick in. After two consecutive sui's a 10 min lockout. after 3 a 30 min lockout and after 5 a 24 hour lockout. This would combat trolls who make loads of accounts so they can join every game in a lobby and sui as soon as they start. This behaviour It makes it impossible to play. The lock out stops this much quicker than just wait for the troll to use all their hearts. I feel it would be a very effective method to combat the sui trolls and wouldnt really have a negative effect on legitimate players. No sui's 3 times in a row unless they are a troll.

Zapph

over 10 years

Grizzlyman says

I also like your ideas on notes. But what I REEEEALLY want is persistent notes. I want to be able to make a note of some ones play style in one game and have the note be accessible in every game I see them in in the future. Does that make sense?

I totally thought they were persistent. As i said i don't really use them but being able to at least tag trolls to avoid em in games would be pretty nice.

Arcbell

over 10 years

I track my mylo/lylo hammer accuracy. Used to have it displayed on my profile. I only count gold heart games where my vote matters and there are at least 2 possible mafia. Even if I'm lynched, I'll still count it as correct if I forced the hammer between myself and a mafia when there was more than one possibility.

It's kinda humbling to see that I only get it right 58% of the time at lylo/mylo when mafia isn't confirmed.

shelter

over 10 years

I think it's a fun hack, but not necessary. Majority of hammers won't be relevant as town usually bw's a lead instead of giving one person the hammer.

This may even encourage people to fight and slow roll until kicks just so they can snipe the hammer.

admin

over 10 years

yeah i can keep track of hammer stats

HSOWA

over 10 years

I'm not sure how I feel about the whole hammer stat idea... I mean, sure, it'll cool and all, but, really, in actual gameplay, I think it would just screw over the village by allowing maf to KNOW by and actual STAT who is most likely to ml and win them the game.

deletedover 10 years

"Another possibility is giving people a % of successful decisive Hammers in their profile." ill dig this