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Chainsaw



Joined: Aug 31, 2005

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 22:49 Reply with quote Back to top

I just went out of a Major because I misclicked on a turnover die (skull) when aiming to select a push from a 2D block. Literally the last block of the half before I equalized and took it to OT!

Now... you can't legislate for stupid. However, people are fallible. It would be nice if you had a bit of logic when choosing block dice that said, "Are you sure? This will result in a turnover."

Pseudocode time!

Code:
if ((selecteddie == blockdie1 && blockdie1.result == "skull" && blockdie2.result != "skull") ||
    (selecteddie == blockdie2 && blockdie2.result == "skull" && blockdie1.result != "skull")) {
    // probably a misclick!
    new YesNoDialog("Are you sure? This will result in a turnover.");
}


Of course you also would want to check for the block skill and both downs.

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Seventyone



Joined: Dec 02, 2010

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 22:52 Reply with quote Back to top

ouch

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delusional



Joined: Jan 18, 2013

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 23:08 Reply with quote Back to top

It's a wish, but a good one.

I can't think of a reason why someone would click skull on a block on their own player.
amazingprizzini



Joined: Dec 08, 2009

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 23:23 Reply with quote Back to top

I think there's the really weird scenario where you need both players to stay in the square where they are at, and were hoping for a both down?

It's...possible, I guess?
HandyKaufman



Joined: Jan 08, 2017

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 23:42 Reply with quote Back to top

Maybe even just separating the dice with several pixels could help.

Misclicks are a huge difference between here and TT and they really suck... Sorry dood.
ramchop



Joined: Oct 12, 2013

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 23:49
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How far do you take it though? More common misclicks are dodges. Do you want an "Are you sure?" for a 6+ dodge?, a 5+?, 4+...?
ersatzniere



Joined: Jan 02, 2007

Post   Posted: Feb 05, 2019 - 23:57 Reply with quote Back to top

Guess that was a leap too far. Would have loved to see frogs go further.
Chainsaw



Joined: Aug 31, 2005

Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 02:58 Reply with quote Back to top

ramchop wrote:
How far do you take it though? More common misclicks are dodges. Do you want an "Are you sure?" for a 6+ dodge?, a 5+?, 4+...?

Yeah, I was thinking about that in the car as I drove afterwards.

Unfortunately dodges are something that probably are a bit easier to misclick and harder to mitigate against.

I only brought this up as I regard this a relatively obvious and simply solved issue.

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Chainsaw



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Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 02:59 Reply with quote Back to top

HandyKaufman wrote:
Maybe even just separating the dice with several pixels could help.

Misclicks are a huge difference between here and TT and they really suck... Sorry dood.


Also a good idea, the separation.

Yeah, I've lost a large number of games on misclicks. Probably if it were a statistic then it'd be an embarrasing one for me. I can think of 3 games in Majors alone that I have lost on a misclick.

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ArrestedDevelopment



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Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 07:57 Reply with quote Back to top

I genuinely wonder how much of this was down to being frustrated at pace of play and clicking faster to get through your own turns at speed.

I know it happens to me sometimes.

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kummo



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Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 08:59 Reply with quote Back to top

delusional wrote:
I can't think of a reason why someone would click skull on a block on their own player.


To avoid surf. Thats about only place i can think to take skull. Especially if i'm high armor player, don't have apo and opponent lacks mightyblow.
ArrestedDevelopment



Joined: Sep 14, 2015

Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 09:20 Reply with quote Back to top

To avoid surf, to avoid a clawmb hit when surrounded and can't dodge.

and of course - because you're tilted: in which case "are you sure" is just going to be even more annoying Very Happy

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bghandras



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Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 11:37 Reply with quote Back to top

delusional wrote:
It's a wish, but a good one.

I can't think of a reason why someone would click skull on a block on their own player.

It has happened to me multiple times that it was better to click skull than lets say push. For example, blitzing a baller on the goalline, and did not want to force a score. Especially if the target had sidestep, and i had a marking specialist next to the baller, so moving is not trivial the following turn.

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Nextflux



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Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 12:34 Reply with quote Back to top

Another Idea could be to increase the size of the client.
When I played Cyanide (long time ago now) I could finish a turn on 2 minutes, here on fumbbl it is really hard to do that, partly (I think) because the size of the client, while in BB2 the size of the pich take the whole screen, and the client we use on fumbbl cant be resized to become bigger. The small squares makes it so easy to missclick.
Chainsaw



Joined: Aug 31, 2005

Post   Posted: Feb 06, 2019 - 13:47 Reply with quote Back to top

ArrestedDevelopment wrote:
I genuinely wonder how much of this was down to being frustrated at pace of play and clicking faster to get through your own turns at speed.

I know it happens to me sometimes.


Wink

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