Kataphractos
Well-Known Member
With player dissatisfaction at its highest point in 2019 -- and possibly an all-time high -- I thought it might be useful to review the "diaper manifesto" written by retired player SoggyShorts in July. (I've taken the liberty of combining his points into a single list, since I lack Soggy's confidence in estimating the precise number of work-hours involved.)
Three months later, which items can we cross off the to-do list? How do the introduction of the Spire and the Autumn Zodiac effect these tasks? Do they impose new tasks? And most importantly...how can we players help the developers buckle down and do the things that still need to be done?
- Add the scout icon to the main bar so players can see if it is available.
- Make the start of the chapter more obvious by having the advanced scouts tech to the left of the dividing line.
- Implement hotkeys on the fight page for selecting troops.
- Change event quests from "produce boosted T1" to "produce any T1" to make it fair for players with larger level 1 factories.
- Add blueprints to the inventory so players can see how many they have.
- Replace every "Awesome" pop-up with just a floating text.
- Replace the FA quests with the Crafting Challenge system so that collecting 1 beverage automatically gives 1 Dwarven Badge and 1 toolbox automatically gives 1 Blacksmith Badge.
- Implement the mobile features on the browser and vice-versa- there should never be such a massive imbalance between features that players are sitting in front of their PC doing visits on their phone.
- Fast visits, "auto next tournament spot", and "set all" workshops on browser like on mobile.
- Donate KP and have messages on mobile like on browser.
- Messages upgrade: autocomplete names, Sticky threads, "select all mages" add fonts/bold etc.
- Notification overhaul:split trades, visits, and other into different tabs.
- When a wonder that we donated to completes, tell us who's wonder it was.
- Chat upgrade: Add more channels such as Mages, Whisper, Gobal 1-10, Trade, Event, and Help.
- Trader upgrade: Add a cross-tier filter, allow partial trade purchases, and move trades with the best ratio to the top.
- Matchmaking: Add some basic features that allow FS and players to find each other like letting FS set recruiting status and minimum requirements while letting players filter fellowship lists by the same.
Three months later, which items can we cross off the to-do list? How do the introduction of the Spire and the Autumn Zodiac effect these tasks? Do they impose new tasks? And most importantly...how can we players help the developers buckle down and do the things that still need to be done?