67 replies to this topic

[Darwins Dog]

I would like to see some interaction between my friends list and the unit screen. Since all of my unit mates are in my friends list it would be much easier to add them from there.

Everything I tried worked well, but I didn't have anyone else to invite at the time.

[MightyMeatShield]

There needs to be a way to distribute coffer funds to members. Especially if one gets disbanded.

[Nemesis Duck]

A. Friend icon flasing for no apparent reason. Not sure if it was supposed to be flashing but ...
1. create faction
2. invite offline friend
3. disband faction
4. create faction
5. logout exit client
6. login - friend icon is flashing, clicked and not sure why, no messages or notifications waiting
7. disband faction
8. logout exit client
9. login - friend icon not flashing
10. create faction
11. logout exit client
12. login - friend icon flashing

B. Coffer funds vanished when faction is disbanded, Should they at least go to the General?

[Will9761]

I tried to put in my unit name, "Tamarind March Guards" in but I got a message telling me that it was invalid. The filtering for pre-registered based units should really be fixed. Other than that the system looks fine. One suggestion I do have is that you should create a feature that allows Unit Leaders to use their own colors/patterns for their units so new members don't have to pay for unit colors by themselves. Because there are some people who can't pay or don't have the income to represent their group.

[Lost Perci]

As someone invited to a unit, seemed to work well and was very simple. Maybe need to look at the number of events that produce a 'flashing' alert on the social tabs! Seemed to want to inform me of events every few seconds!

Would be good if you could produce a choice of premade rank system for a Clan, Inner Sphere House or Merc Unit. Save a lot of typing.

[Cavendish]

MightyMeatShield, on 21 August 2014 - 09:34 PM, said:

There needs to be a way to distribute coffer funds to members. Especially if one gets disbanded.

Wont happen. PGI does not want us to be able to move money between accounts in any way.


My request would be:

Can we PLEASE have the "guild chat" in a window that is seperate (and allways shown regardless of where you are in the UI) from the social tab? This permanent blinking social button is terribad, having to switch to the social tab every time you want to check up on invites/guild chat is not very effective or comfortable. I want to be able to keep up with the guildchat while customizing a mech for example.

[Docta Pain]

Font is UGLY. just sayin'. And when I created my rank of "The Doc" it saved as "THE DOC"... just doesn't have the same ring ot it, too OVERBEARING AND SHOUTING AT ME THAT I'M THE DOC... I'd rather be just "The Doc".

Coffer functionality is interesting, but donation history NEEDS a filter (shouting intentionally). I want to see multilevel filtering and totals:
1-Member (will cast-outs / banished users show up???)
2-Date
3-Greater than / Less than
4-Rank (Upper Ranks vs Middle Ranks vs Recruits)

A summary of donations
1 Month
2 # Members donating
3 $ Total donated
4 $ Avg donated
5 Rank subdivision function

EDIT: Coffer donation screen needs to include rank, we (The Seraphim) have 100+ members.

EDIT 2: Coffer needs to have history. Aug 1: 50,000,000 Sep 1: 90,000,000 Current: 23,000,000. in a series of rows with most current date at the top.

So... needs a summary and a history screen since we are supposed to manage our members.

Edit 3: Coffer history needs to be exportable to Excel

Edit 4: Each member should be able to see their own lifetime donation to coffer and current month/history.

Edited by Docta Pain, 22 August 2014 - 12:47 AM.

[Docta Pain]

There needs to be a how-to add a new rank. I added "The Surgeon General" (funny huh!) to my unit and figured out I had to double click the rank and then drag and drop it where I wanted it.

the font is ugly aaaaaaaand blurry.

Rank Management needs to have a filter next to each check box in a column that can filter on functions. I should click the filter Kick Member and see every rank that can Kick Member.

[Docta Pain]

Should Member Management include other columns??? Like #Mechbays, #Mechs, C-Bills, Premium Time Active?(Y/N) & Remaining Time

Member Management needs to include Date Joined (and I would want this to be editable so it reflects that I've been a member for 2 years)

Members needs to be exportable to Excel.

Would be great if it included a history of players joined this month & kicked, banned, exited by choice... each by month.

Edited by Docta Pain, 21 August 2014 - 11:50 PM.

[Docta Pain]

There needs to be a whole 'nother section in Faction, y'all! If I'm just a member I want to see a member tree with invite functionality. Like a list with a colored bar (RANK SUCH AND SUCH) with all the members at that rank and scroll down to see another colored bar (RANK NO SO TOUGH) with all of them... and a send friend invite icon.

It would also be neat to be able to assign tags within that list (Reserve, First Battalion, etc.) of our own structure with how we organize ourselves. I want my Captain of 4th Company to be able to be associated with her reports and such in a way visible to my unit.

Overall, functionality seems lackluster and rushed for having taken so much time on it. I know that there are a lot of irons in the fire, but this could have been a really attractive feature instead of having minimal functionality.

[LennStar]

no german umlaut üäö at rank names, not testet elsewhere.

[Zeece]

Tried to create our unit in PTS Skye Rangers of Terra(what we pre-registered as). It kept validating anything with Skye in it's name as Invalid(Sky worked just fine). Checked with Niko on Twitter so now I'm report it here... <grin>

Thanks guys for all the hard work.. keep it up!


[color=#333333]GeekheadClayton[/color][color=#999999]@GeekheadClayton[/color]
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@HerbuRola So we tried the name we pre-registered for on the PTS - Skye Rangers of Terra... wouldn't let us create the unit with Skye in it - 21 Aug[/color]
[color=#333333]Nikolai Lubkiewicz[/color][color=#999999]@HerbuRola[/color]
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@GeekheadClayton Seems like a bug. Can you report it for us on the Public Test forums?[/color]

[stevemac]

One one thing I noticed other then naming with the earlier post was you cant assign any other privileges. I get locking out the disband unit and assign leader tags to the owner. But the rest of the options you should be able to elevate people to them. IE Create/Name ranks edit/delete and Order ranks. These should be assignable to other members. everything else I notices with the system as already been mentioned.

[2ndBEAST]

Something how could be nice:

• Ability to Rename Unit
  
• Ability to Change Unit Tag
  
• *Red Button* for deleting Unit, because of loss of all coffer -> Danger Action

[Cavendish]

2ndBEAST, on 22 August 2014 - 06:11 AM, said:

Something how could be nice:

• Ability to Rename Unit
  
• Ability to Change Unit Tag
  
• *Red Button* for deleting Unit, because of loss of all coffer -> Danger Action

Rename: A unit who gets notorious should have to live with their actions. If its a case of simple misspelling, sure, otherwise no.

Red Button definatly, it should be a rediculous amount of "are you sure?" boxes, and maybe require one or more officers to validate the deletion (we all know that sometimes founders of a guild/unit leaves on unfriendly terms, and I dont think that a common "warchest" should be theirs to delete just because they want drama, or if they are hacked and so on).

[Haakon Magnusson]

I love the Americas-centric worldview... at the VERY minimum unit names should support ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) characters... a lot of IC factions have them as standard, for example FRR

And same for ranks, it is Överbefälhavare Haakon Magnusson and for example Överste Siggurson of 1st Drak0ns

So, öäå are in fact needed

Edited by Haakon Magnusson, 22 August 2014 - 07:29 AM.

[Jacob Side]

For all the people asking to be able to unit invite from your friends list...

You can.

click on friend in friends list and use the unit invite

[DrunkenGrenndel]

I am unable to see the star map in the faction tab. I run AMD 7900 with Catalyst 13.9... not sure what other info you would need.

Edit: Updated to Catalyst 14.4 and no map. I am on the Inner Sphere Home tab in Faction... maybe I'm in the wrong spot?

Edited by DrunkenGrenndel, 22 August 2014 - 09:40 AM.

[MangoBogadog]

Cannot register 'Antares Scorpions', apparently it contains a filtered word. Despite it meeting your criteria for unit names.

Also could not register 'Alpha Scorpii', also contains a filtered word. But could register both 'Alpha' and 'Scorpii' as two separate units.

After I had disbanded a unit I could not use the name again as it said the name was already in use.

[SixstringSamurai]

My one biggest complaint is that this proposed system of being forced into whatever the creator is when it's made. This is extremely unit breaking and seems aimed at attempting to sabotage the hard work put forth by unit leaders. For example I like Jade Falcon but some people like Smoke Jaguar, Kurita, or nothing at all. I think this should be eliminated in favor of something more like a role aspect instead. Something like Faction Garrison Unit, Merc Corp, Independant or Clan Galaxy.

In this way a unit may operate as intended while not trampling on peoples love for a specific Faction.

Edited by SixStringSamurai, 22 August 2014 - 02:35 PM.