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From an email to Matt. Would be interesting to hear if others agree. Try to get beyond the obviously-you-should-stop-spamming issue. ---- you gotta let me que

From an email to Matt. Would be interesting to hear if others agree. Try to get beyond the obviously-you-should-stop-spamming issue. ---- you gotta let me queue up build tasks (or it might be that i spent all my money on my first click) also is the "time" under "build" the "build time"? also, you should "ajax in" the sub tabs like research, shipyard, etc. the page will load a lot faster. You could make it feel like a desktop app depending on the transitions. I'll play it a bit more and send any more thoughts. Ohh, and you totally should try to get @levarburton on this. I would test having an "invite levar" button. that says: ".@levarburton please join my crew in starfleet command! [link]" Because you have their auth, you can make it push-button. No extra confirmation step needed. Maybe a sidebar with levar's pic, and an entry field with that default text. Also, it isn't clear whether inviting friends sends a DM. I think it does because there is a limit there. Have you included all the people that follow me? I'd just have a "select all" and a auto-complete entry field. Maybe scrape the last 10 @replies i've sent and include those people. Hell, scrape the last 10 DMs, because you know I'm willing to send them DMs.

mattmaroon 17y ago
There's no build queue in the game for game design reasons. The idea is that the game is all about attacking and taking stuff from people. You're not that far yet, but it comes into play after a couple days. If people could pay for a bunch of buildings at once, there would be a lot fewer spare resources around to attack. We may, however, do a build queue that just doesn't pay for future buildings until the time to build them comes. For now we just left that out for UI simplicity. As for the Twitter ideas, thanks. We should make it more clear that its a DM. Also prepopulating with your last replies rather than just alphabetical is f'ing brilliant. That idea alone is worth having posted here.

mattmaroon 17y ago

There's no build queue in the game for game design reasons. The idea is that the game is all about attacking and taking stuff from people. You're not that far yet, but it comes into play after a couple days. If people could pay for a bunch of buildings at once, there would be a lot fewer spare resources around to attack. We may, however, do a build queue that just doesn't pay for future buildings until the time to build them comes. For now we just left that out for UI simplicity. As for the Twitter ideas, thanks. We should make it more clear that its a DM. Also prepopulating with your last replies rather than just alphabetical is f'ing brilliant. That idea alone is worth having posted here.