[Freeciv-Dev] Re: suggestion on how to improve the game

[Karl-Ingo Friese <kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Lukasz,

yes - I notice the same. Especialy before begining of a game
people are often on another virtual screen or have the window
iconified. A popup can help here - but even better would be
- a sound. This could also be plaid in game when you try to
tell someone who is in heavy war that you want an alliance
with him but he never responds since he has simply no time
to check his personal messages. Popups would be wrong in this
case (you do not want a popup in the middle of a sea battle)
but a "/ring" cmd that plays a sound (or even a simple beep)
on that callers machine would defenitely help.

Just my few coppers,
Ingo

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001, Lukasz Szelag wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have one suggestion that would improve this great game.
>
> I think that adding the ability to notify players about events (such as a new 
> player has joined)
> in the pregame state would be an excellent idea. Preferably it could be done 
> be displaying a popup
> window. I have been playing this game many times and from this perspective I 
> can tell that it is
> very common that once a player connects to the server he is waiting for more 
> players to join. In
> the meantime he usually does some other tasks and may not nottice that 
> another player(s) joins the
> game. People who join the game usually exit if they don't see any "activity" 
> in the chat window
> (or nobody is responding). I'm using Linux and multiple workspaces and 
> usually start freeciv on
> its own workspace. When I'm doing other things (in a different workspace) I 
> may not notice when
> players join and possibly miss the fact that the game has been started by 
> someone already. For that
> reason adding the ability to subscribe to various events (as for now I can 
> see "a player joined"
> event very appropriate) would be a nice feature. When I'm on a different 
> workspace I could see a
> popup window and immediately switch to freeciv.
>
> Luk
>

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Karl-Ingo Friese
kif@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx