Game Development Discussion: Minor Changes & QoL Updates

[Keegoz]

Proposed Minor Changes & QoL Update

Please give feedback to the following proposals:

Proposal 1:

Changing the word ‘Join’ to ‘Apply’ when attempting to click the ‘join’ button on the alliance. 

Reason for change: Reduces any confusion for new members.

*Proposal 1 has now been implemented*

Proposal 2:

World News & RP Expansion

• Add dislike button
• Add view counter
• Add sort by views dropdown
• Add go to page input by paginator
• Reduce overall size of comments on bulletins
• Fix archived 404 error (when you have >1 page of archived bulletins)

Tags:

• Add tag field to bulletin create
• Add filter by tag to search
• OR: Add bulletin categories

Reason for changes:
40-100 est active bulletin users
Engaging for new players
Growing usage
Used by a number of communities

Proposal 3:

New treaty types:

• Extension
• MDAP (Mutual Defense & Aggression Pact)

Reason for addition: More accurate treaty types and easier to understand for newer players.

Proposal 4:

Highlight alliance members when trading on the market.

Reason for addition: Easier to trade with friendly nations from a glance.

Proposal 5:

Export build button automatically copies city build into your clipboard OR remove the need to copy + paste builds.

Reason for change: It’s annoying and even more so for mobile users.

Proposal 6:

Referral bonus change. After x amount of time, you will begin to receive a small % of the revenue of the nation that referred you.

Reason for change: Current bonus isn’t worthwhile and doesn’t encourage older players to invest in newer ones.
 

Edited January 20 by Keegoz

[JadenStar10]

7 minutes ago, Keegoz said:

Export build button automatically copies city build into your clipboard OR remove the need to copy + paste builds.

Could have a copy to clipboard button to click
 

 

8 minutes ago, Keegoz said:

New treaty types:

• Extension
• Offshore

Add extension/offshore scores to main AA and give main AA limited management over those Alliances ingame.

[im317]

is extension adding time to a current treaty or a new treaty? also im glad to see my suggestion for adding a marker on trades posted by your alliance members is going to happen

[Django]

27 minutes ago, Keegoz said:

Proposal 6:

Referral bonus change. After x amount of time, you will begin to receive a small % of the revenue of the nation that referred you.

Reason for change: Current bonus isn’t worthwhile and doesn’t encourage older players to invest in newer ones.
 

So we’d be turning the game into a pyramid scheme? 

[Avatar Patrick]

I agree with all of these proposals.

[BlackAsLight]

Suggestion: move the data dumps to happen a bit after update instead of 5mins before update. 

[Shockrider1]

I like all of these. A thought on the bulletin changes: perhaps each month's top bulletin could be featured as a free Ad in-game?

[Majima Goro]

I disagree with all of these projects

[thomas IIV]

All of them are good except proposal 2 we must make sure those cursed beings called roleplayers do not spread

[Benfro]

Right now the game culture treats extensions and offshores as the same concept. Could you clarify the use case on these two different treaties? I am thinking “extension” can probably cover both situations?

[AlexW]

12 minutes ago, Benfro said:

Right now the game culture treats extensions and offshores as the same concept. Could you clarify the use case on these two different treaties? I am thinking “extension” can probably cover both situations?

Id assume its to show a difference between training alliances etc and offshore

[darkblade]

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

 

Proposal 1:

Changing the word ‘Join’ to ‘Apply’ when attempting to click the ‘join’ button on the alliance. 

Reason for change: Reduces any confusion for new members.

Much needed change.

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

 

Proposal 2:

World News & RP Expansion

• Add dislike button
• Add view counter
• Add sort by views dropdown
• Add go to page input by paginator
• Reduce overall size of comments on bulletins
• Fix archived 404 error (when you have >1 page of archived bulletins)

Don't care.

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

 

Proposal 3:

New treaty types:

• Extension
• Offshore
• MDAP (Mutual Defense & Aggression Pact)
• MnDoAP / MnDP (Mutual non-chaining Defense pact)

Reason for addition: More accurate treaty types and easier to understand for newer players.
 

I like the first 3 treaties, but I don't see the sense in the fourth one. non-chaining is more so a clause rather than part of the treaty itself just like intelligence clause.

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

Proposal 4:

Highlight alliance members when trading on the market.

Reason for addition: Easier to trade with friendly nations from a glance.
 

We have the alliance trade market for nations who want to trade with nations in their alliance.

 

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

Proposal 5:

Export build button automatically copies city build into your clipboard OR remove the need to copy + paste builds.

Reason for change: It’s annoying and even more so for mobile users.
 

Agree with this.

14 hours ago, Keegoz said:

Proposal 6:

Referral bonus change. After x amount of time, you will begin to receive a small % of the revenue of the nation that referred you.

Reason for change: Current bonus isn’t worthwhile and doesn’t encourage older players to invest in newer ones.
 

I think this is potentially a good idea but that will depends on the percentage of revenue, if it's daily weekly etc, and if we're talking resource revenue, cash revenue, or both.

[Dwight k Schrute]

On 12/6/2023 at 6:12 AM, Keegoz said:

Proposed Minor Changes & QoL Update

Please give feedback to the following proposals:

Proposal 1:

Changing the word ‘Join’ to ‘Apply’ when attempting to click the ‘join’ button on the alliance. 

Reason for change: Reduces any confusion for new members.

Proposal 2:

World News & RP Expansion

• Add dislike button
• Add view counter
• Add sort by views dropdown
• Add go to page input by paginator
• Reduce overall size of comments on bulletins
• Fix archived 404 error (when you have >1 page of archived bulletins)

Tags:

• Add tag field to bulletin create
• Add filter by tag to search
• OR: Add bulletin categories

Reason for changes:
40-100 est active bulletin users
Engaging for new players
Growing usage
Used by a number of communities

Proposal 3:

New treaty types:

• Extension
• Offshore
• MDAP (Mutual Defense & Aggression Pact)
• MnDoAP / MnDP (Mutual non-chaining Defense pact)

Reason for addition: More accurate treaty types and easier to understand for newer players.

Proposal 4:

Highlight alliance members when trading on the market.

Reason for addition: Easier to trade with friendly nations from a glance.

Proposal 5:

Export build button automatically copies city build into your clipboard OR remove the need to copy + paste builds.

Reason for change: It’s annoying and even more so for mobile users.

Proposal 6:

Referral bonus change. After x amount of time, you will begin to receive a small % of the revenue of the nation that referred you.

Reason for change: Current bonus isn’t worthwhile and doesn’t encourage older players to invest in newer ones.
 

What about the mndoapqrstuvwxyz treaty😐

[Rowald]

This all sounds good but aren't "Offshore" relations going to be used by raiders to find alliances with loot? It might be better to at least merge it into "Extension"

Also yes non-chaining is more of a term in the treaty than a treaty type by itself

Edited December 9, 2023 by Rowald

[Raphael]

On 12/6/2023 at 1:12 AM, Keegoz said:

World News & RP Expansion

• Add dislike button
• Add view counter
• Add sort by views dropdown
• Add go to page input by paginator
• Reduce overall size of comments on bulletins
• Fix archived 404 error (when you have >1 page of archived bulletins)

Tags:

• Add tag field to bulletin create
• Add filter by tag to search
• OR: Add bulletin categories

Is it not possible to just make the bulletins function like in-game forums? Even potentially connect them to the forums?

As they are now, it's impossible to really see anything but the most-liked or newest -- and I don't think sorting by views or dislikes would improve that. I definitely think anything that gives the game a direct-connect feature to the text-based politics of the metagame would be a huge benefit to player retention and engagement.

Edited December 15, 2023 by Raphael

[Jesus Prime]

Is this just planning or are the features coming out soon? Looks great interested in the possibilities of new extension types!

[Keegoz]

On 12/22/2023 at 6:44 AM, R.E.P said:

Is this just planning or are the features coming out soon? Looks great interested in the possibilities of new extension types!

It's just a discussion to seek community feedback. Suggestions may or may not be introduced in future updates.

[Keegoz]

Proposal 1, has now been implemented.

[Rageproject]

As has been said, the treaty additions are good — but we really only need Extension and MDAP. Offshores are extensions of alliances. No need to sub-classify them. And Jaden’s suggestion of allowing main alliances to have limited access/control over extensions would be great. If it can be done, there’s a lot of value in leaders having remote access to manage an extension. Even better if other high gov could be assigned access. Basically it’s like enabling a custodian or guardian role.

[Keegoz]

Extensions treaty type has been added to the game.

[-Nero-]

On 12/6/2023 at 1:12 AM, Keegoz said:

Export build button automatically copies city build into your clipboard OR remove the need to copy + paste builds.

Reason for change: It’s annoying and even more so for mobile users.

This would be very easy to do, Sheepy plz add.

[Keegoz]

On 12/6/2023 at 2:12 PM, Keegoz said:

Proposal 4:

Highlight alliance members when trading on the market.

Reason for addition: Easier to trade with friendly nations from a glance.

This has been coded, although I am unsure if it is live or just on the test server. Will update again when I get confirmation.