Minor Game Design annoyances (Idea Links)
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- Most of the Annoyances which have been fixed should have been removed from this article
The original thread
Audible alert for /pay
Badges which last longer than a month
Blockades
Minimap
Rehome button
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=429662#429662
- Probably should apply to sea battle as well
Sliders to show current scrolled position
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=429662#429662
- Probably should apply to sea battle as well
While paused, you should be able to toggle between "Show my board" (like normal pause), "Show score" (current blockade), and "Show the blockade board full client" (like crow's nest)
Building
Bazaar
Be able to delete chairs from stalls
Exiting a stall brings up a menu of destinations including the stalls and the entrance hall
Hide stalls which have gone dark in the stall listing
Downloading older entries changes position in records
Fort and palace
Ability to upgrade forts and palaces on outpost and medium islands to sell charts
Make the palace shoppe purchase message less generic
Manager(s)
Record cut of sales tax in building records
Housing
Ability to mark furniture as common property so that any housemates can move it
Entry/exit messages
Estate balcony arrow direction problem
List of people who are in the house
Swap order of roommates without having to remove and readd
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=426744#426744
- Could apply to shoppe and stall managers as well
Shoppe and stall
Adjust prices by more than 32767
Check current wage offers if you have already have a job there
Commit pricing changes before client times out
Commodity trading screen
Highlight own, crew or flag shoppes or stalls
Set prices from
- See Shoppe and stall (Idea Links):Management:Buy and sell prices:Set from the trading commodities screen
Show which commodities are below minimum levels
Streamline to reduce the amount of screen swapping. Also don't enforce sell price > buy price until the window is closed
Labor report screen
Copy/pasteable
Show total cost per labor type
Logs
Bid tickets changing to filled
Filter by text searches for entire words
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=471811#471811
- This means that sometimes things like <b>small need to be used
Money being paid for labor on zero-escrow orders
Pirates
Delivering orders
Taking or quitting jobs
Scroll with keyboard
Many interface limitations
Minimum coffers
Non-managers see order queue
Orders
Auto-deliver on completion
Auto-scroll to next item when delivering abandoned orders
Managers pay both labor and sales tax when placing
Ordering interface
Selecting comparison shoppe resets the order panel state
Show exact amount which would be refunded from a cancelled order
Recipes
Consistent order for listing commodities in recipe and trading screens
Show actual changes for commodity pricing modifications in building records
Tailor rack sorting bug for particular clothing items
Weavery commodity list order fix
Chat
/emote used when the current chat mode is Tell sends the emote to the scene/chat circle
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=523491#523491
- Note that it does not do so if a /tell command is used
Channels
Mute building chat
Option to automatically default to last used
Send the auto-response once then not again until it is changed or the recipient doesn't send a tell for at least 5 minutes
Log invites, jobbing invites, trade and hearty requests
Mogrifications
Don't respect gender
Use capitals at the start of sentences
Clothing
Inventory tabs should be collapsed upon log in
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=449888#449888
- Have an option to do so?
Make gold cloth look gold rather than dark yellow
Order and name fix-ups
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=415716#415716
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=475601#475601
Under miscellaneous folder
White looks gray
Colonization and governance
Governor's placing buildings interface needs a cancel button
Crews
Alphabetize the list of titles
News
Easier to use line breaks
Disconnection
Eliminate disconnect message except when aboard ship
Mute to prevent display
DND
Version to apply to hearties also
Dock interface / "Where are my vessels" screen
More convenient way to access the "Where are my vessels?" screen
Doubloons
Exchange
In palace
- Or option to buy doubloons at the current exchange rate when purchasing a badge
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=393391#393391
- The cashbox furniture item allows access to the doubloon exhange
Should use a label "buy" instead of "bid"
Records
Should indicate the poe value of the transfer and the ocean, not only the pirate name
Trading window adjustment
Fame
Shopkeeping occupies a large amount of time yet does not contribute
Familiars
Mousing over should show their color
Forums
Cannot edit posts older than 180 days
Clicking the first unread post link doesn't update the page number
- It's being worked on
Grammar of profile option to not show email address
Move to next private message after action taken on current one
No method to easily display unformatted text
Preview loses submitted information if there's a problem with the connection/webservers
Search
Results should strip out formatting tags which don't get rendered anyway
Signatures
Sort the results by date
Start when enter is pressed
Tab key should switch focus to the preview button while editing a forum post
Wrap long thread titles
Furniture
Mouse-over shows lamp color
Hearties
/pay option from hearty list
Indicate heartied flagmates when they log in
Info
/afk default message
/cwho should provide information about your crew
- Peghead said no before but times change
/rwho shows online royalty in a flag
/who
DND status
/who <piratename> should tell you where someone is on an island, if you're also on that island
/yellow command for additional accounts on Doubloon Oceans
Capitalize the Ocean in the /info command reply
Changing crews messes up the portrait displayed on the pirate info page
Flag names in crew PvP records
List of houses owned or are a roommate in
Make the vessel tab stickier so that the "OMG you've been playing too much" and jobbing notifications do not pop-up over it
Pin Ahoy! tab items
Pirate names on issue screens should be links
Island
Animals
Can no longer click on them to get a radial menu
Move them away from my booty
Replace the minimap with quick links
Should be able to edit the news from anywhere on the island
Jobbing noticeboard
Button for /vwho per entry
Highlight an entry to help tracking it when new entries appear
Labor
Meter
Missions
Don't whisk unless the pirate is actually going to change scenes
Navy
Attempting to take the helm on merchant brigs tells the pirate they need to take advanced missions to do this
- It should say that they are separate types of missions only offered on sloops
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=396072#396072
Bring back the navigation origin and destination for the right hand side display
NPPs
Battle and duty navigation stats icons are the same
Higher navy rank should grant the ability to order them to stations on any sort of navy mission
Idle ones should return to duty stations even quicker
Set sail button for navigation
Sidebar the basic ones once the generic duty one is available
Tabs for
Mute status visible everywhere
Navy ship paint color should match navy clothing color
Portraits
Certain clothes combinations end up looking like your pirate is picking their nose
Female ponytail has bangs but not in the portrait
Option to show eye expressions with and without an eyepatch
Puzzles
Alert before they start
Brawl/swordfight
Current brawl table moving up and down in lobby display
Display
Colors on mouseover
Sword type next to pirate in lobby screen
Double rotate piece key
NPPs
Chainsaw brigands should show some activity in their miniboard
Use the same sequence of breakers as players
Reduce games in the brawling lobby display which have started to only as big as required to show the number of pirates taking part
Scroll the target list to keep the current target visible
Challenges
Opponent has the option to meet your challenge using (a copy of) your sword / mug
Pressing enter after setting a wager amount doesn't "push" the OK button
Client should show when you're disconnected from the server while in a puzzle
Don't give focus to text input area on exit
Duty
Bilging
Low-level is completely different to high-level
Carpentry
Let lower levels have longer runs
Distinguish lazers from disconnected pirates at duty stations
Explicit pause stops both the "idle contribution" and the "too much time, score zero" factor
- Or perhaps not eliminate both, but reduce both?
- http://forums.puzzlepirates.com/community/mvnforum/viewthread?p=429662#429662
- See also Duty puzzles (Idea Links):Different sort of pause to avoid the idle time penalty







