After a much longer time than expected, and a seemingly endless series of work from HimalayaP1C7 and myself, Gamefinder 2.0 is at a point which we are happy to call beta.
This means that all the core functionality is in place, and should be usable by people to find and launch games through. There may still be issues and/or usability quirks, which is why I am asking for as many of you as possible to start using it to find games. The new system can be found here:
https://fumbbl.com/p/lfg2
In addition to finding issues and bugs, we are also looking for feedback on the user experience as a whole. It's clearly different from the old gamefinder, so try to remain a bit objective when you provide feedback. The intent of the redesign was to give more information to people, to allow for more flexibility in matchmaking but also to correct some problems with the old system.
Either way, please do take a peek and let us know what you think! There's a forum thread for feedback as it's easier to follow the forum than the comments to a news post.
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Posted by: Christer on Friday, June 03, 2022 - 20:19
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when i select 3 of my teams, i don't see any other team. At the same time in the old LFG i see some teams and coaches i could offer a game.
No opponents available."
i'm not sure if i did freeze anything?
we expect more than the black box to be at the top, see even more inducements and rulebook options.
Good Job.
Also, it's all nice and fancy, but I'm waiting for the Black Box option.
GF 2 is, like GF 1, a massive time-wasting system.
I don’t think there are plans to add filtering by Rank, but I’ll check again if Christer wants this at some point.
Some time ago I suggested on forums to add a filter by rank to GF, and looked like it would have been added to GF 2, hence my question about it now.
Anyway, it's not that important, I'm interested only in the Black Box, I'm not here to stare at a GF page for hours, no matter how well designed and nice looking is.
You can make a super GF 2 or 3 but people will always be the same, they want to pick. This can't be fixed by a GF. Only the Black Box can fix the picking.
Maybe I'm old and can't adapt to new things, but just adding the options to hide coaches (like the one on GF 2) and a filter by rank (to trim the list of possible opponent, for example: "Star or higher" or "Emerging Star or lower") to the old GF would have done the work.
There are lots of possible issues related to timing, so a coach leaving gamefinder or deactivating a team or hiding a match up could lead to unexpected offer failures on your side.
If you have an example of 2 teams that aren’t allowing you to make an offer, which you think should be allowed, let us know the details and it should be easy to check.
Finally, if somebody greenlights you, they could have cancelled their offer at approximately the same time you tried to accept it.
It will be tricky to get to the exact cause of these issues, however if something is happening repeatedly we have a much better chance of finding and fixing a problem.
The more time I spend on the new GF page, the more I like the old one!
:D
Getting GameFinder 2 into a usable state will help to get work on BlackBox underway, so maybe try to focus on feedback to explain bugs and suggested improvements.
Anyone here with the same issue?
One of the best new additions : being able to see ALL the opponents connected and their team list. Then you can "adjust" your own team list accordingly. Very cool.
IMHO, a very satisfying system so far.
Very good job, gentlemen.
please can the tick boxes for choosing teams to activate be a little larger :D
I'd love to see a team player count in the team summary, as I'm always counting numbers, and double checking MNG on rival teams. Easy(ier) 'open in new tab' options to get to the actual team bio in more places would be good, as my offers given and received are always running out of time as I try and look to see if it's just a mighty blow kill squad bravely offering my elves a game.
More time before offers expire! I am using both at once, atm, as game offers don't 'expire' on the old gamefinder.
Much appreciated.
Definitely +1.
I'd say it's the only "flaw" so far.
i have a couple of request and a bug report:
the bug: you can be matched with opponents that you have already met, once you accept, you receive the error notification that you are not allowed to play: would be better just not be able to challenge.
suggestions:
-the loud sound for incoming request is great, would be good to be able to activate it also for accepted requests (now is silent, on chrome)
-would be good to see the number of games needed before challenging a coach again in the gamefinder list
Just a quick note, happened last time this morning around 10/11, just in case the fix was released earlier