Thu Jul 22, 2010 7:12 pm
Update... feedback
I will try to keep this feedback positive. Know that I work with a lot of programmers and I get this "I have something better..." line from programmers. -Which typically means "I can't figure out how to do that, so here is my feeble attempt to convince you why you should like this" -which this update seems.
First I'll let the darkness slip, however it is too dark
The background in the chat areas and the market need to be cleaned up and lighter as well. As I scroll it feels like I have rubbed my screen in a mud puddle and is dirty. I get the design, but text has to be legible and clear first. Grunge design is like the music and Kurt Cobain -dead. moving on
Now functionality.
Before the chat lagged, now the market lags. Both are important but one is more important than the other. Pick, either you are a game with a chat, or a chat with a game. (I would suggest going with: game with chat)
-I go to market the wood list shows up the rest do not or rock and iron show up and nothing else. this tells me bad code. -same thing use to happen with chat, i would go to chat and it would act like it was loading and when it was done nothing shows up. I have to hit the resource button a couple times to get it to load the list.
There are plenty of suggestions in the suggestion area. While I think many are good, you need to fix functionality of the game first. BUT if the suggestion area is not going to be used on your end, remove it from the forum, because you are wasting player's time, your bandwidth, diskspace and pissing people off when changes are not made. -i.e. person to person trades, battle updates, troop updates, collapsible text boxes, better security on accounts, etc... I want the game to navigate clearly, pretty pictures are great, but more than that, I want functionality.
Overall this update seems like a "Marketing VP" who didn't know what they were doing and wanted to "make it pretty" -and struggled at doing that job. -OR- even worse, you have programmers being designers.
First I'll let the darkness slip, however it is too dark
The background in the chat areas and the market need to be cleaned up and lighter as well. As I scroll it feels like I have rubbed my screen in a mud puddle and is dirty. I get the design, but text has to be legible and clear first. Grunge design is like the music and Kurt Cobain -dead. moving on
Now functionality.
Before the chat lagged, now the market lags. Both are important but one is more important than the other. Pick, either you are a game with a chat, or a chat with a game. (I would suggest going with: game with chat)
-I go to market the wood list shows up the rest do not or rock and iron show up and nothing else. this tells me bad code. -same thing use to happen with chat, i would go to chat and it would act like it was loading and when it was done nothing shows up. I have to hit the resource button a couple times to get it to load the list.
There are plenty of suggestions in the suggestion area. While I think many are good, you need to fix functionality of the game first. BUT if the suggestion area is not going to be used on your end, remove it from the forum, because you are wasting player's time, your bandwidth, diskspace and pissing people off when changes are not made. -i.e. person to person trades, battle updates, troop updates, collapsible text boxes, better security on accounts, etc... I want the game to navigate clearly, pretty pictures are great, but more than that, I want functionality.
Overall this update seems like a "Marketing VP" who didn't know what they were doing and wanted to "make it pretty" -and struggled at doing that job. -OR- even worse, you have programmers being designers.
keep playing
