Shouldn't the broken Team Search menu be a priority?
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Amish_Justice,
Posted on: 2011-06-20 14:38 in Player Questions
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The reason soloists in a mission appear as if on a team is because they are on one, as far as the game is concerned. A team of one but still a team.
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Originally Posted by Amish_Justice
I used to love playing this game, but I am so frustrated with the updated Team Member search menu, that I'm finding myself starting up other games rather than struggling to find a pick up group in CoH.
Why is it taking so long for the game developers to deal with the many problems with the Team Search window? Why do people in Supergroup bases still show up as if they're in mission? Why do people who are solo in a mission look exactly the same as members of a team? http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4210915/What...low%20Mean.jpg Yellow has essentially no meaning any more, because players colored yellow could be solos in a mission, members of a team, or people on a Task force. Useless! And why is there no ability to filter search results based on what someone is actually doing, as opposed to what they've set as what they want to do? How bout being able to filter OUT people who are on a Task Force? How bout a filter for Team Leaders? How bout a filter for people not a team? Why isn't this a priority? |
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Negaduck: I see you found the crumb. I knew you'd never notice the huge flag.
I just realized that this should probably have been directed to the Development forum. Gonna take it over there instead.
Actually it goes in Suggestions and Ideas. Development is for specific bugs or feedback on things they're working to add already.
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Eh, I don't know. It's directed at bugs (and yeah, the SG base being "in a mission" - or missions saying "supergroup base!") I'd say qualify as bugs.
If he were looking at adjustments, adding/changing functionality, a new UI, that sort of thing, then it'd be S&I. (Though that last paragraph does do that, most of it is "Why is this still broken?" Which is a legitimate question.)
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I consider the entire search window as a bug. The entire thing is so laughably flawed, I just assumed that a patch would repair its functionality and make it useful again. I'm just a little stunned that it hasn't been fixed after all this time.
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Originally Posted by Lemur Lad
Actually it goes in Suggestions and Ideas. Development is for specific bugs or feedback on things they're working to add already.
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I've ranted about this every time I see a new Dance Emote. Seriously? We have 300 Emotes and we STILL can't have a decent Team Search?
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Apparantly going free to play is more important.
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Originally Posted by Amish_Justice
Why isn't this a priority?
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proabbly because more and more people are fidning teams via global channels. or through global friends.
Its probably an issue that only affects a few since the vast majority of people... At least the server I live on... use the global channels iover blind searches using the find memebr button.
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Probably because you can't animate away a programmig issue - at least this one.|
Originally Posted by Comicsluvr
I've ranted about this every time I see a new Dance Emote. Seriously? We have 300 Emotes and we STILL can't have a decent Team Search?
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Seriously, you should know better than to presume animators automatically have programming skills.
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Perhaps, with Free-play users being unable to message or use global channels, the search window will have to be revamped entirely to allow new Free-players to find teams.
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Originally Posted by Forbin_Project
Apparantly going free to play is more important.
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Useful again? Other than a lack of easy to find in-game explanation of the colors, I find it has only gained functionality.|
Originally Posted by Amish_Justice
I consider the entire search window as a bug. The entire thing is so laughably flawed, I just assumed that a patch would repair its functionality and make it useful again. I'm just a little stunned that it hasn't been fixed after all this time.
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It's currently WAI.
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The problem is that many of the colors don't actually express any useful information. Yellow is assigned to players on any teams of any sort, including task forces (which couldn't invite you), normal pick-up groups, people socializing, and players solo in mission. Just a separate color for players in Task Forces would be beneficial, since they can neither be invited to teams, nor can they add players to their existing teams.|
Originally Posted by Rajani Isa
Useful again? Other than a lack of easy to find in-game explanation of the colors, I find it has only gained functionality.
It's currently WAI. |
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4210915/What...low%20Mean.jpg
In a search window like this, "ShinHwa" is clearly soloing in mission, but appreciates teaming. Meanwhile, there's no way to tell if other yellow names are working on a team, or couple possibly appreciate some backup. Finally, I don't know that I've ever known exactly what "dark grey" is supposed to mean? What is "Faulty Design" actually doing in Grandville?
Nothing, apparently. Not set to doing anything, most likely solo.
Now, I agree some improvements would be nice (the ability to auto-exclude people Not LFT (i.e. red) for example, from the search results) especially with F2P but other than a legend, actual functionality would require coding time - porbably x2 (once for the team system i.e. sorting out solos in missions vs. teams vs TF mode; once more for the team window to pick it up).
if you want to make sure the devs hear it, /bug and choose suggestion.
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I used to love playing this game, but I am so frustrated with the updated Team Member search menu, that I'm finding myself starting up other games rather than struggling to find a pick up group in CoH.
Why is it taking so long for the game developers to deal with the many problems with the Team Search window?
Why do people in Supergroup bases still show up as if they're in mission?
Why do people who are solo in a mission look exactly the same as members of a team?
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4210915/What...low%20Mean.jpg
Yellow has essentially no meaning any more, because players colored yellow could be solos in a mission, members of a team, or people on a Task force. Useless!
And why is there no ability to filter search results based on what someone is actually doing, as opposed to what they've set as what they want to do? How bout being able to filter OUT people who are on a Task Force? How bout a filter for Team Leaders? How bout a filter for people not a team?
Why isn't this a priority?