@Krzychu your idea for "open games" link is interesting. The primary reason the "open games" link removing was because we are shifting away from flash on all pages.

That said, we could spend the extra time to make an HTML version of the page for members if that has more support by members and potential members.

Another reason for the dashboard is that in our testing it is easier for new players over separate pages. However if advanced older players tend to be members then bringing back the page for members might work. We just want the experience for new members to be a positive one. Development time is something we consider when adding value.

How many want the link and page? If you are not a member, would this feature be worth it to you? If we don't see support for it, it is hard to prioritize in our software roadmap.

Mercer may I direct you to this thread https://www.warlight.net/Forum/102640-hell-fizzer if you wish to see how many people want the open and my games tab :)

I think the big problem though is just the dashboard organization. The masses would probably be fine with it if there was some work done on it. Mercer - please see my mock up in there (with tabs). Perhaps that is a good solution?

In the past the respond from Fizzer on a lot of popular ideas was
it is good but a low priority
how about you pick the most popular doable uservoice ideas and say
you want this give money/coins towards the cause
so you would set a timeline and a coin goal and if enough coins are raised than you implement the feature
this way the community gets something that it really wants
and the site makes some money

@Ineffable, I don't want to hijack this thread. So please form a new thread. We could try your idea out, we can see how much support there is. Here are a few of the top requested features on Uservoice. Pick which one you want to see the most. If we have a committment of $5,000 in coins I can guarantee we will get that feature made within a month. Make a new thread with the feature and ask people to commit coins in the thread. (Donations of free coins we gave users are not allowed of course)

1) 3 v 3 Europe (no cards) Ladder
2) Peace Treaties
3) Able to see who is online
4) Add a "friends list" subset to the invite list
5) Overhall of Clan System
6) Multi-attack card
7) Deployment Limits: a Tactical Option (esp. for Multi-Attack Games)

thanks for response
I did not think you would require so much money
I was under the impression many of these are a day-2 days work tops
thanks anyway

YouTube idea:
- Under Community tab, a sub-tab titled videos is created.
- YouTube users can register their YouTube accounts and when they are registered their videos will show up there.
- This encourages the game advertised onto YouTube and current users to get more views.

An idea with this:

Every video a YouTube user puts out with Warlight in the title, they recieve 5 coins. This would further encourage people to advertise the game in other places.

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Btw, seeing any players' last 10 games is a terrible idea imo. First it can give access to many chat games players want to keep private, not to mention since the start of coin games best players tend to hide their pick preferences etc.

So maybe an option for members to only see recent Open games/Ladder games then? To be fair, coins=currency, people try to do as well as they can with it, so Sze is right.

not to mention since the start of coin games best players tend to hide their pick preferences etc.

didn't you notice Community -> Recent games tab?;p

I'm not sure I understand the intent of this. Do you want to make several, minor and easy to code features only for members, or are you also prepared to make a big additions (like whole new ladder some people mentioned)?

In any case, for the points mentioned so far:

+1 to :
Design your own Member logo
Customizable profile page
Block last seen time
An in game notepad
Create a custom scenario based on the distribution or board from a game (+2 or even +3 actually)
Multiple types of wastelands
Randomized bonus values

"Userscripts advertised" and "youtube integration" sound cool but have no idea what they mean exactly...

indifferent to :
Execlusive Username
Execlusive Forums
Promote Ladders
50 coin starter pack
50 player games
more points

-1 to :
custom color
name changes
see player last 10 games
3vs3 europe ladder
more ladder games at once

I would also add:

-advanced past game search (map, player (we already have that, but still), template(?), won / lost, format - 1vs1 / 3FFA / etc, possibly something more).

-able to play as multiple players in team games - up to 3 is enough I think - I think it was suggested in the past (by Gui I think) will try to find it in the forum / uservoice.

-able to send coins to other account - haven't thought this one through yet, not sure if can be exploited, but if i.e. 10% of the coins send is gone it might work.

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That said, we could spend the extra time to make an HTML version of the page for members if that has more support by members and potential members.

it's already done - just put "open games" tab from dashboard in another page:P

Another reason for the dashboard is that in our testing it is easier for new players over separate pages.

you are in 'no-games' so you have quite good look in dashboard. Join 10+ games and try it again.
There are some things people can get used to even if they don't like it at first (like settings icons), but no one will ever get used to scrolling down every time he want to find a decent game.

what about a "status" thing like facebook, but on our profiles. this wouldnt only be members but it would be cool for saying if your online or playing/setting up a game or tourny or sum

Please who don't understand YouTube integration:

What about it don't you understand? I've explained it 2 times

1) 3 v 3 Europe (no cards) Ladder

Indifferent

2) Peace Treaties

Sounds great, specially for diplomacy usage.

3) Able to see who is online

Indifferent

4) Add a "friends list" subset to the invite list

+1

5) Overhall of Clan System

What do you mean?

6) Multi-attack card

Sounds interesting, but then again, not too much. Mostly indifferent.

7) Deployment Limits: a Tactical Option (esp. for Multi-Attack Games)

Indifferent

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Mail threads with more people is a great idea. I'd also like the option to add a player to a mail thread after it has been created.

YES, excellent idea here.

The name change idea is essential for members I think. Give them the option of changing their name every 30 days like it used to be. This won't inspire people to buy memberships by itself but when added with these other ideas, it makes membership much more tempting to some.

+1

More colors would be nice, even to just choose between the 50 already made for the large games.

To be honest, it sounds fun to mess around with more varied colors.

Seeing the last 10 games of any warlight player is a good idea. In a lot of chat games, many players already use team chat to discuss with others. With this change, all clans would likely use games with team chat, so it is not a big deal. Also it may help catch alts, and might be interesting to watch some of the games.

Was very indifferent til now, good thinking on catching alts. +1.

The possiblity of leveling up faster (1.5x normal rate) is something that makes no difference to me but some people would enjoy it more, and I can't see how it would hurt, and it should be easy to implement.

Yeah, it'd be quite a incentive for lower level members to reach the "soft cap" (level 56).

Ben's video integration idea is really cool too.

I'm still indifferent towards this youtube thing, but might as well give it a +1 as it can be good for some people to learn from WL videos.

ooh I have an Idea
give me the damn tabs you took away back.

How about Execlusive Username with Membership?

Doesn`t sound like the best idea to me although I personally don`t really care if it happens or not.

Execlusive Forums for Members only?

Not sure how often it will be used, but it sounds like a good idea.

See the last 10 past games of any WarLight player?

If you want to implant something like this, do it like MightySpeck suggested

Promote Ladders on the promoted game section?

Sound be implanted, but for every player, not as a member-only feature.

Third Type of Sound Notifications - Highly Critical Sounds?

I don`t see the point of this.

Design your own Member logo.

Customizable profile page (different colors and stuff)

use leagues/ranks for profile picture frame

Tbh, I think customization will result in getting the most new members, and I think it is a good feature. Although what we have now is OK, I always like personalizing my profile.

Make your own custom color (primary and secondary) (Red Blue Green 0-255 thing)

This will result in very similar colours, but if they are just a tad different WL might not see them as different. If this happens in a big game with multiple people this will be annoying. I also don`t really see the point of it. Aren`t the colours we have right now good enough?

Comes with a 50 coin starter pack

I think giving a few additional coins would be good. I would personally say just another 100

50 player games

If there is a demand for it I don`t care, but I think it would require creating new colours and that might be a problem ;)

YouTube integration for members only (Could be a decent thing to give to all of us)

Don`t really care.

Ability to block last seen time (Incognito mode to an extent, I don't really like this one, just throwing it out)

I personally don`t care, but people seem to want it so put it in :p

Name changes every 2 levels

Make it like once every 50 days or so. I think the freedom to change your name is quite nice.

Level up faster (not that levels matter when you are member). A 150% modifier would not hurt.

As levels don`t matter for a member I don`t really see the point of it.

What about a member ladder?

Don`t see the use of it tbh.

Mail threads with more than 20 people

Jup, would be very nice.

Giving color priority to the older player, not the level. That would encourage customer loyalty and discourage these lottery games.

Maybe make it so that members always have colour adventage over non-members?

A 3vs3 Europe ladder!

One of the most wanted things for a long time on WL, implanting this would always be a good idea.

An in game notepad

Yes, sounds like a good idea.

I wouldn't mind more customizable options with wastelands though (multiple different eastelands).

I didn`t realise that I missed this until I read that. Now I want it, badly... Please make this possible somehow.

Randomized bonus values

Yes

Add a "friends list" subset to the invite list

Tbh, sounds great for this ;)

advanced past game search

Tbh almost everything needs a more advanced search, but I guess this would be a nice start. Although this doesn`t have my priority.
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One thing I would like to add:

More flexible/usefull vacations
Give members 70 days of vacation, instead of 7 vacations of 10 days. This will make it more flexible when you go out for a weekend or something. If you can`t do that than at least change it from 7 vacation of 10 days to 6 of 14 days or something. I don`t know how things are in the US, but here it is pretty common to go on vacation for 2 weeks. If you don`t have internet, putting up a vacation of 10 days is useless. But 14 days max (or maybe 15) seems better than 10 days. Although I would rather have the "X amount of days" option for the members.


Sorry for that massive post :D

Here is a potato:

Why such an ugly potato? At least give them a perfect potato like mine for reading your whole post :P

I agree with everything JSA said on the fourth page, with a single exception: As far as unique names, I think that it would be a good idea starting now. That is, current players don't get their name jacked, and a member changing their name doesn't kick other players out, but new players and name changes cannot be to anything a member has (unless you are a member).

Also, this may be an obvious question, but will current members receive any of these perks should they be implemented?

@Mercer: I created that forum post for you.
https://www.warlight.net/Forum/103118-uservoice-changes-rushed

I would hope current members get the same perks. Otherwise it is overlooking a lot of people who donated to WL (some more than once).