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blckiechan

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Post Wed Feb 23, 2011 5:10 am

Some minor improvements

So I love the game play on Haypi, but feel like a few tweeks would really improve the accessibility and ease of gaming on the phone. I use an android for reference

1) Global information bar - it would be nice if the UI was tweeked to have a global bar which displays important information from screens that are not up. For instance, consolidating the WC or AC and events on the city screen, war timers on the chat screens, etc.

I know managing the tabs seperates the men from the boys, but this is already halfway done on the city screen with WC and world events, it'd be nice to have it everywhere.

2) Configuration - Why can't we have some simple options to change Haypi as needed. Examples: font size on chat, no color backgrounds, simple city view vs. more detailed view, etc. If you made the global bar, configuration of what to show on it would be awesome.

3) Scouting emails - It would be wonderful if the title of the scout report (or the user) showed the coords and/or person's name as the title. This would speed up sorting through emails and deleting ones you don't want.

4) Saving emails - Could we put an option to save the email to a file on our phone so we could keep awesome battle reports, or important guild messages. User messages i can copy, but system messages I can't. I would like to do it all natively in the app however.

5) Chat notifications - If a global bar was implemented this might not be an issue, but with the extra space on the city bar, a simple icon flashing when you have a pm and some sort of indication of AC being active would be awesome.

6) Audio & Physical alerts - could we implement some sounds and/or physical feedback for certain alerts. Even better, add some options on which ones we would get alerted to.

That's all for now.
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Caladan

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Post Wed Feb 23, 2011 7:28 am

Re: Some minor improvements

1) As you said, most of this stuff is already implemented in the city screen. I feel like other screens, especially chat screens would become much too cluttered with this. Now if you are talking about a dropdown menu or something similar with this info, well, it seem like it be just about as easy to go back to the city screen. I do agree that it would be nice to get notifications when attacks (wether by you or against you) are, say, 1 min from landing.

2) I believe that this is a coding issue. I don't really know much about it, but I think what you are talking about is called "macros," and from what I understand, Haypi is not set up to handle them. It would probably make the game much, much slower.

3)Completely agree. On a similar note, the type of oasis, how long you hunted, etc, would be nice on a hunt report.

4) I agree that this would be nice. In the mean time, you can take screen shots. On an iPhone, you do it by holding the home and power button down at the same time. Not sure how you do it on an Android phone.

5) Agree. This is somewhat done already with the chat line in the city view, but it would be nice to know when AC is active if you have a bunch of pm's.

6) Might be nice, but plain old text notifications are fine for me.
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