EV + Started Lobby columns

Hepps

@lafayette Also this goes back to the old adage of... "Teach a man to fish". People can solve their own locked hosts themselves. I do not want to spend my days deleting peoples jambed up java issues. If they have locked their Java... close it. If you cannot press 'Cntrl' +'Alt'+'Del' then I don't feel I need to spend my days deleting peoples old hosts.

prastle

@lafayette ok that would work as well. The problem is I suspect the general users make use of it to find the new game room/table.

Hepps

@prastle Does the "In Progress" and "Awaiting Players" not address this issue?

prastle

@hepps No. The only way to discover is by trying to join a game. Personally I would change that column as well. To just waiting and started. or something quite Shorter and less wordy.

prastle

@hepps The reason in progress does nothing is because the locked bot stays in progress

Hepps

@prastle A player is going to point that out immediately. And since we have BOT numbers... finding it is hardly an issue.

prastle

@hepps we don't have host numbers Hepps If I launch four rooms they all stay the same other than comments

Hepps

@prastle Again.., your personal host gets locked... close your Java... I'm not a god damned custodian. I do not want to be sweeping up your trash for the rest of time.

LaFayette

@prastle "all stay the same other than comments"

This was my point, having ran into this issue and needing to coordinate restarts on a new port, I used the comments to indicate which was the latest game, not the start. Mods should be able to do the same, players and mods have both the same problem here of identifying which of two games is the frozen one.

prastle

@hepps HEHE and I agree completely. Just make sure you write the tutorial to teach them how to close highest java for windows/mac/etc. in a forum thread

LaFayette

I think the lock up issue is perhaps only hard to fix because you can't get the process back to the foreground to ctrl+alt+delete it, you have to kill it from task manager IIRC.

prastle

@lafayette correct
and most users get lost there.

LaFayette

Ya, started column exists and is not helping them, it's not the solution : )
Having ran into this exact problem, both as a player and mod, started column is not useful (from my experience) : )

As-is, my plan is to make the 'started' column a moderator only column. Least then that utility will not be removed, and players will benefit from less clutter on the UI.

prastle

@lafayette Oki Doki. Any thoughts on a tool box error message instead of just locking?

LaFayette

@prastle That's a bug, it's reported now: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/3729, we should have reported that some time ago (but at least we have done so now). Hard to say much more at this time.

prastle

@lafayette As a side note Maybe change the status column to Started/Waiting. Just a thought

prastle

@lafayette said in EV + Started Lobby columns:

@prastle That's a bug, it's reported now: https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/3729, we should have reported that some time ago (but at least we have done so now). Hard to say much more at this time.

Well I guess that is my fault. Since I have know about it for years. Sorry.

Hepps

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prastle

@hepps LOL as another thought if "hover" could be added to the lobby... Every column could be basically thinned to one strip except the needed ones.

LaFayette

@prastle So like if you hover it shows the full value from the table cell? Would be a decent feature IMO, same for columns titles.