letting Members play more than 5 games at once on the ladders

Why would you want more than 5 games from a ladder at once? 6 is a bit much.

+1 for less restrictive API
-1 for any members only ladder - why play with only part of opponents, whole community is, in overall, much stronger
-1 for user defined colours - will be confusing when player with #0000FF meet #0000EE
-1 for more games at once - will give more possibilites to stall
+1 for hiding 'last seen' option
+1 for more frequent change names

also
there is now possible to change the color that you or an opponent appears as on your own screen -> but this is only temporary and even refresh reverts the changes back. Storing it on WL servers so one can change colors for whole game would be nice feature for members

and forget about the most important thing:

give members possibility to enable 'open games' link :P

well Gnuffone... I will never know why these lottery games are so popular, why they have been invented... This is a complete mystery for me :p

I have nothing in particular against diplo but... lol... my 5th wish would to hide the diplo games in the same way you can hide lottery games. They don't play the same game ;) and they pollute the open games tab! But sorry I'm digressing again. it's an user-voice thing I guess. And sorry if I hurt the diplo players. hehe ^^

My ideas are not very original. I can't think to anything better though.

About colors... just a tip: Human eye see more nuances in green than in all the others colors put together. We need more greens I guess.

@Krzychu: what do you mean by "enable 'open games' link"?

i think they play lottery for gain access to ladder. Or they just like lottery LOL

About colors... just a tip: Human eye see more nuances in green than in all the others colors put together. We need more greens I guess.

:OO really? never heard of that. but i think in reserve colour there are already lot of more green version.

I think krzychu meant to be able to have a separate window dedicated to open games, like it was before.

Edited 8/5/2015 08:22:37

I agree with all ofMercers ideas but non members need to get it some way

Levels?

Third Type of Sound Notifications - Highly Critical Sounds?

I'd like to have the option to disable every other sound notification other than the new turn one (or even better, bening able to set the volume for every sound notification)

How about Execlusive Username with Membership?

This is cool but what if GoldFinger2 then gets a Membership the day after GoldFinger and wants his name to be GoldFinger again? Also, someone may want to troll someone else and steal their username

See the last 10 past games of any WarLight player?

Why only the last 10? :( Let us see them all!

ah ok! yes! a dedicated window for "free" open games was better!

lol "That was better before!!!"


About colors and green it's a true fact. WL surely used the RGB system to create and chose colors range. I don't think I'm bringing something new.

well ok, i didn't know that :)

See the last 10 past games of any WarLight player?

Members can see all recent games of any player, non-members can only see the first X (say 5) recent games*. Also the ability to sort the games by ladder, open, 1v1, 2v2 and more, would be nice.

*Non-members should have full access to their own recent game page.

A 3v3 ladder exists for all to use already, which does include 2 EU templates. Join CSL!

Execlusive Forums for Members only?

Why not? However why stop there, as you know warlight have a chat (a very unsuccessful one), how about you create an integrated chat and make it members only? (or have a members only sub-part). Adding features like this doesn't take anything away from the non-payers, but still gives much more value to the membership.


See the last 10 past games of any WarLight player?

This would allow for a lot of snooking, chat games are still used a lot, and are frequently created too. If the PM system was improved then the chat-games would not be necessary and I think this would be a good thing. Need to improve the PM system first though imo.


Promote Ladders on the promoted game section?
This doesn't sound like a member-only thing :p Honestly not sue what you're thinking about specifically? If you're thinking of making the ladder be based of coin games.. I'd say make a new coin-ladder *which kind of exists with the coin leaderboard).


Exclusive Username
No, just no. There's no such thing as a person who likes their name taken away. How would you feel if somebody payed $ forcing you to change your name. What if two members want the same username? I think warlight allowing anyone to pick whatever name they want is great, don't take that away. Friends can always find you with your userid.


third Type of Sound Notifications - Highly Critical Sounds?
If there's already a sound for it, then I don't see the point. If you're thinking cool sounds (for example when using bomb-card, or airlift) then yeah I think that'd be cool. Imagine playing a bomb card with a huge satisfying sound- this could be good :D

Larger games, and more colors is something I'd love to see added for members. Why isn't this already a thing?

Edited 8/5/2015 09:59:42

-about the reserved name i believe the first member to reserve a name would get it, probably this would block the name for other members as well, but well... thats life.
Possibly adding a limit of blocking 1 name per year or somethign liek that would block trolls

-Can anyoen give some more info on youtube several of us dont understand, and mercer asked for it

-if the see the past 10 games would only be for finnished games would that solve the pirvate chat games problema?

-exclusive forum? i dont see a proble in it, but why the waste of time and space?

-new ladder, i would prefer a ffa ladder, but there isnt much lvoe for it and its possibly harder to make

-i thought about somethign while reading the posts and cant remember it anymore


Mercer comign out possibly means taht fizer has been reading the forum during the past 3 days, thats a good thing

@Mercer & Pink what didn't I previously explain about the YouTube idea? What questions about how it would be implemented it whatever.

I don't think 3v3 EU should be member exculsive. That template is like the blood of warlight, almost as much as Strat 1v1, and should be open to everyone.

Well I actually like the idea of exclusive names for members. I think you're overestimating trolls potential here. I mean, do you seriously believe, that someone will pay 30$ or so, only to make you change your name ? I somehow doubt it.

And about more, that 1 member having the same name: player, who bought membership earlier should have priority with keeping it over the one who did it later. And that will be probably only few cases, that you can count on fingers of one hand..

Basically all games, that you can think of, doesn't allow for more, than 1 player having the same name, and everyone are fine with it. I don't see, why all of the sudden it would be impossible to implement in Warlight.

Maybe one restriction is, that you can reserve only one name per account. Otherwise someone with membership will cause chaos everytime he change his name.

Yeah, members changing their name could cause havoc. I think one way of dealing with that is grandfathering names. Reserving a name would merely make it so that nobody can create an account or change their name to that name. But it wouldn't impact anyone who already has that name.

Exclusive names is a no-no in my book. (unless it applies to all old players, so only new accounts and name changing is restricted. Oh, and you should always be allowed to change your name to one of your previous ones, even if that name is "taken" by a member)

For seeing the last games of any player topic.

1. For chat game you must always use team chat or PM, if not you are technically posting it publicly, since everyone has access.
2. Recent games is of course only for finished games.

Edited 8/5/2015 12:46:59

+1 to access to reserve colours, less restrictive API, more frequent name changes

-1 to exclusive usernames & last 10 games

Some other suggestions:

- An in game notepad

- Create a custom scenario based on the distribution or board from a game with one click (ofc you would have to fill in behind the fog yourself if past picking stage)

- Be able to sort finished RT Ladder games by template

- Have votes on Seasonal and RT Ladder templates and only allow members to vote

Edited 8/5/2015 13:14:07

What about a team chat for 1v1 game so we can make notes in game?