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I'm filling out my profile right now, and here are some things that came up for me:
1) The Game Location (State) field is awkward for non-americans. Do I enter BC or British Columbia? Some clarification text would be helpful. Bear in mind that the long name is rough because peepul cant spel, and the abbreviation is rough because they're sometimes subject to interpretation.
2) The Currently Playing field should be a checkbox to allow multiple selections. I'm playing in two 3.5 games and a 4e game.
3) The Days of the week and Times available to play could be merged into a 28-option grid of checkboxes. My availability is different on weekends than it is on weekdays.
I hope this helps!
-blarg
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1) The Game Location (State) field is awkward for non-americans. Do I enter BC or British Columbia? Some clarification text would be helpful. Bear in mind that the long name is rough because peepul cant spel, and the abbreviation is rough because they're sometimes subject to interpretation.
Do you want to play with people living in British Columbia that can't spell 'British Columbia'?
I must say it freaked me out when it started insisting I fill out the questionaire, since (apparently) I'd turned on 'looking for games' 6 1/2 years ago and forgot all about it. Since it's up at the top, I was getting increasingly annoyed at it insisting I fill out info for some reason. Fortunately, I stopped being a 'user' long enough to actually look at the page and see why I was being clueless.
1) The Game Location (State) field is awkward for non-americans. Do I enter BC or British Columbia? Some clarification text would be helpful. Bear in mind that the long name is rough because peepul cant spel, and the abbreviation is rough because they're sometimes subject to interpretation.
I agree. Unfortunately, there's no way to have every county/state/province in the world, so for non-US states, we're stuck with a text box which relies on people to spell their own address ocrrectly.
But then, do you really want to play in a game with someone who can't spell their own address?
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2) The Currently Playing field should be a checkbox to allow multiple selections. I'm playing in two 3.5 games and a 4e game.
That's a perfectly reasonable change - I'll get that done.
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3) The Days of the week and Times available to play could be merged into a 28-option grid of checkboxes. My availability is different on weekends than it is on weekdays.
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Last edited by Brown Jenkin; 5th August 2008 at 09:50 PM..
1. The links to this thread on the Gamers Seeking Gamers section page are missing the "h" in the http:
2. Where is HERO System?
Edit: not trying to be rude, just concise.
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When i read gamers seeking games i first thought !oh a new system on the forums to find a game to play pbp! great!. to then realize it was for games over the table, face to face.
Maybe a title as Gamers seeking 'tabletop or Real life' games, would make it more clear.DH[/quote]
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I was just going to ask about those of us who run online games, not PBP. I didn't see an option obvious to me for online anywhere in there but thought it would be nice.
When i read gamers seeking games i first thought !oh a new system on the forums to find a game to play pbp! great!. to then realize it was for games over the table, face to face.
Maybe a title as Gamers seeking 'tabletop or Real life' games, would make it more clear.DH
Hmmm. It says Gamers seeking Gamers, not Gamers seeking Games.
I was just going to ask about those of us who run online games, not PBP. I didn't see an option obvious to me for online anywhere in there but thought it would be nice.
Good point. Online and PBP games never even occurred to me! I'll get that added.
The link to this thread in the big, "Hey Community Supporters!" box is missing the h in the http.
Also, the text boxes for misc information (like My Character and Game Details) are much bigger than the section borders. Changing the size of the window doesn't seem to make a difference. I'm using IE right now, so it may be different in other browsers.
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I like that idea, but it would be nice to have checkboxes that would check all times for a certain day or all days for a certain time. That way you don't have to check a ton of boxes if you're available all day long for certain days.
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Strangely I think I'd be okay with having a PC die by a bear exploding out of his head. --Awayfarer, after having his PC put a furry ball from a Bag of Tricks into his mouth.
I like that idea, but it would be nice to have checkboxes that would check all times for a certain day or all days for a certain time. That way you don't have to check a ton of boxes if you're available all day long for certain days.
I think you broke the profile editor... at least I cannot edit it any longer without getting this error (screenshot attached).
Furthermore, I think the search screen is an awfully long screen to scroll around. Especially the two big boxes for games (now playing/interested in). It would go a long way to put them next to each other.
However, after three failed attempts, I finally got it.
In each case I neglected a single field (or in one case, I left out part of an email address). The system rejected the entire update, so everything I wrote got erased. You need something that updates each field as your write it, so this problem doesn't happpen.
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