Suggestions for Improving the Player Experience

[SwiftyLS]

There are only two things i would like to see and i feel it would help new people that want to play.

firstly, i dont know if this is possible.. but some how make it where you do not have to have a window open in the browser to join the game.

and lastly. Add a feature in the game that when clicked. it brings up a list of worlds and how many are connected to the world, so people that are alone can find others easily

[DylanCheetah]

Since this post is unrelated to our talent acquisition thread, I will be splitting it into a separate topic.

[DylanCheetah]

Also moving this to a more suitable board.

[DylanCheetah]

There are only two things i would like to see and i feel it would help new people that want to play.

firstly, i dont know if this is possible.. but some how make it where you do not have to have a window open in the browser to join the game.

and lastly. Add a feature in the game that when clicked. it brings up a list of worlds and how many are connected to the world, so people that are alone can find others easily

The play page was added to address a security issue which we are currently working to resolve. Also, the ads on it are likely providing the majority of the funding needed to pay operational costs since not many people use the forum anymore. Changing it would require the security issue to be fixed and more people to start using the forum again.

Adding a way to see how many people are playing on each map would be possible and is something which was in the predecessor of this game.

[BloodWinsAll]

I think both suggestions are actually really good ones! While Dylan is right that the 'Play Game' tab was created as a security feature, and contributes ads to pay for the servers, it would be really nice to see that go away.

It has been brought up before and I think improving QOL for players will help bring people back to the game. Ads aside, it's a bit tedious to log in to the tab and then log into the game. If the page must stay, perhaps make a way for the login to transfer to the client. (For example, the emufer.al server is run off discord and after logging in through that opening the client doesn't prompt another log in.

I also think the mini-map system could be redone to be better. If the map can track friends/the player there should be a pretty easy to way add an overlay marker to portal locations which would be sooo nice for navigating. Add in that you can see which maps have players actively in them is nice! I think most people hang in TG because its the first place that is populated and with the lowered population of the game, people might not branch out to see if others might be in other maps (as they usually are empty anyways). Adding in a player count to maps might help with shifting players to other locations instead of just TG.

Some other features that would be nice: making the group feature more like a guild feature. Allow for there to be an in-game hierarchy which allows for multiple people to run the group and recruit people instead of just the group owner. Juggling a recruiter account is tedious and it would be much better to have "officers" who can run that kind of thing. It would definitely improve in-game group maintenance which might persuade some people to utilize in-game RP more.

[DylanCheetah]

I think both suggestions are actually really good ones! While Dylan is right that the 'Play Game' tab was created as a security feature, and contributes ads to pay for the servers, it would be really nice to see that go away.

It has been brought up before and I think improving QOL for players will help bring people back to the game. Ads aside, it's a bit tedious to log in to the tab and then log into the game. If the page must stay, perhaps make a way for the login to transfer to the client. (For example, the emufer.al server is run off discord and after logging in through that opening the client doesn't prompt another log in.

I also think the mini-map system could be redone to be better. If the map can track friends/the player there should be a pretty easy to way add an overlay marker to portal locations which would be sooo nice for navigating. Add in that you can see which maps have players actively in them is nice! I think most people hang in TG because its the first place that is populated and with the lowered population of the game, people might not branch out to see if others might be in other maps (as they usually are empty anyways). Adding in a player count to maps might help with shifting players to other locations instead of just TG.

Some other features that would be nice: making the group feature more like a guild feature. Allow for there to be an in-game hierarchy which allows for multiple people to run the group and recruit people instead of just the group owner. Juggling a recruiter account is tedious and it would be much better to have "officers" who can run that kind of thing. It would definitely improve in-game group maintenance which might persuade some people to utilize in-game RP more.

Discord uses OAuth2. There are multiple 3d-party games which use OAuth2 to log in such as League of Legends. To put it simply, such games open a browser window to a login page which sends an access token to the game client after a successful login request. And if the user is already logged in, then the login page automatically sends the access token to the game client with no user intervention. It would need to be discussed with the rest of the development team and researched though. Normally the page shown after logging in doesn't have to remain open, so it would need to be done in a slightly different manner.

Impressive Title had the portal locations marked on its minimap, so there's no reason why FH couldn't. Same with the number of players in each map.

Adding some sort of permissions system to groups could be possible. It would need to be discussed with the rest of the development team and researched ofc.