Dominion Strategy Forum
Dominion => Dominion Online at Shuffle iT => Dominion General Discussion => Goko Dominion Online => Topic started by: jsh357 on April 18, 2014, 09:36:21 am
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For those of you who don't read the MakingFun forums, looks like there was a relatively significant update today:
http://forum.makingfun.com/showthread.php?4599-Release-Notes-4-17-2014
This update includes:
- Improved card highlighting
- Made it less likely to accidentally trash a trash a card thinking that you're playing it (for instance, when an opponent plays Bishop) by making the entire card to trash glow red
- Similarly, when you need to discard the whole card glows orange
- Similarly, when you can reveal a card, the whole card glows blue
- Made it clearer that you are possessing an opponent by outlining moveable cards in pink. Also, the background color gets a pink tinge.
- In some cases cards are given a white-blue outline, like when the card will be Throne Roomed or King's Courted.
- Improved Show All Cards user interface for Wishing Well, Contraband, Journeyman, Doctor, and Rebuild
- Previously there were so many cards to choose from that it was difficult and time-consuming to find the one you wanted. Now the area only shows the action cards that are in the current game and only those cards you couldn't select on the main screen, such as individual Ruins and Knights. The button now says "Show More Cards"
- According to the rules, you should be able to choose any card. That card doesn't have to be in the current game, which is useful, for example, after you have played a Wishing Well, but don't want the top card in your hand. To represent a card that's not in the game, the Ace of Spades is selectable.
- If you want to get out of the Show More Cards area, you can click a Done button.
- Fixed bug with Edit profile where it asked you for a password when logged in with Google+ or Twitter authentication.
- Your quit count is now unchanged if you quit against a bot
- Adjusted AI so bots don't go crazy buying potions
- Fixes system notifications, so you can be warned that the site is going down
- Fixes problems with in-box promotional cards
- Problem detection dialogs
- Display an informational error message when the game is not connecting properly
- Tests for proper HTML5 support and puts up a message when it is not there
- Fixes problem with infinite "Lost Network Connection" dialogs
- If you're underage, make it clearer why you can't create an account
- Adjust avatar placement in tutorial map
- Fixed Abandon Changes button
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Wow, I don't really like that Ace of Spades. It doesn't fit in with the rest of the graphics well.
Also I fear Hamlet and Jack will still cause problems with accidental discarding/trashing, I'd prefer having it ask for confirmation if your move seems unlikely.
Tests fro proper HTML5 support sound intriguing though.
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Also I fear Hamlet and Jack will still cause problems with accidental discarding/trashing, I'd prefer having it ask for confirmation if your move seems unlikely.
I think asking an AI to make that call is a bad idea. False positives (did you really want to discard your Bishop?) would be annoying and false negatives (I wanted to play that Ruined Library!) would still happen.
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I've suggested to them many times that the solution to misclicks like these is to make it so that the only thing clicking on the card itself ever does it plays the card. If you're doing anything else (discarding, trashing, etc.) then they should have arrows over the card (or something similar) that you have to click to do those things. All of this other stuff they're doing is still useful, but now you have to go through that extra mental step of moving your mouse cursor to some different place than normal when you're doing something different than normal.
I believe this is why we didn't have this type of problem on isotropic.
I've suggested this to them before, but I suppose this is a step in the right direction.
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salvager doesn't work anymore for the most part, the chat is still broken and i can't load user information by cklicking on avatars anymore
dunno, for me it doesn't do anything yet. the to-trash cards glow red.... whatever
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I edited the OP to give it bullet points matching the those in the MakingFun post. I think it's a little nicer looking that way.
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salvager doesn't work anymore for the most part, the chat is still broken and i can't load user information by cklicking on avatars anymore
http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=8163.msg369146#msg369146
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(Easiest respect ever)
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My favorite thing ever is the ace of spades.
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My favorite thing ever is the ace of spades.
I wonder how long before some player posts on Making Fun's forums (or maybe here) asking why in the heck they can wish for Ace of Spades when they play Wishing Well.
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I wonder how long before some player posts on Making Fun's forums (or maybe here) asking why in the heck they can wish for Ace of Spades when they play Wishing Well.
I think that's a price worth paying.
I am not thrilled with the glowing red. I am mentioning it in case someone wants to chime in. I haven't blown it in the few games I've played with it but I don't think it's doing the trick. I think a big X over the card would be better.
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For me, making mistakes by clicking on cards hasn't been much of a problem in a while. The button placement is my real nemesis.
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For me, making mistakes by clicking on cards hasn't been much of a problem in a while. The button placement is my real nemesis.
I'd much rather have the End Turn button always in the same place, same size, and nothing else ever be there. A similar "reserved spot" for the Done Playing Actions button, Play Treasures, Coin Token, etc. I mean I know they're trying to conserve space but why not have two columns of buttons or something?
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Is it just me, or did the update bring about lag during the buy phase?