EV + Started Lobby columns

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.

prastle

@lafayette YUP!
Password becomes a P column with a Y or N
In Progress becomes IP column with a Y or N
etc.

LaFayette

@prastle I like the thinking, I'm not sure i"d go as far as abbreviations for each column, but I think that is what I"m used to speaking as opposed to what is better. IMO this is a great feature request thread to spin up, how to rename/update columns. I was thinking "waiting for players" could be shortened. On the other hand, I'm not too bothered by it, "waiting" might seem confusing if you are brand new to the game, and the players that have seen it then know that the truncated "waiting for.." is "waiting for player". On the other hand, maybe "waiting" will be just as obvious to new players. I think the topic gets a bit surprisingly involved, but we really only need to toss out suggestions and then decide which ones are the top considerations and then pick between them (Ron is deciding vote if deadlocked).

For this topic, a code change went through that will hide the started column for non-moderator players. It's kind of an interesting compromise for now. I learned/read from DOET (design of everyday things, great book!), that you really want every UI component to be used in every interaction. If it is only mods that use started column, then only they need to see it (ideally we'd make that configurable, but it's a bit more effort than we have to spare at the moment to go that step).

I think this topic might be settled for the moment otherwise. EV column was removed and 'bot' column was removed as well. (note; bot's are still forced to have 'automated host' in comments - I found that interesting running across that in the code, so we can still be sure a bot is not masquarading as non-bot).