Post by lawsoncycling on Aug 31, 2009 9:15:05 GMT 1
I would like to make some suggestions on what I personally think could make this game more superior than what it currently is, and would make this a unique online cycling manager experience.
A lot of these can be taken from the online cricket manager game, From The Pavillion, which is a very professional online game, with great features and great input from users. Here are some of my suggestions:
- First off, a more professional looking and streamlined forum. The current skin is pretty bad, no offense, and this may be discouraging to new users. Also, make the private forums invisible to the general user.
- In my opinion the 'news' section in the game should be renamed 'inbox' or something similar. Also, you should be able to open each new message in a new window/tab, not have to do it individually on the current tab.
- My current league has like at least 10 teams with no manager. This simply should not happen, as it makes the competition and interest of the league very small. At the moment, we have like 3-4 teams entering each race, which is pretty small. To fix this, it would be great if they automatically entered each race, with random, or not so random, rider orders.
- There should be some kind of function that discourages so many transfers. Maybe, like FTP, if you sell a cyclist soon after buying, you only get 50% of the sale price. This % rises with how long you have owned the cyclist.
- Statistics. Implement some codes that gives each manager some more interesting statistics about the current seasons and races.
- More Fun Race opportunities. Because at some points during the season, I have no races for up to 7 days, and with not many things to do (game wise), users can easily get bored. This may help the problem of so many users creating accounts and then leaving shortly after. What would be great, would be friendly fun race tours, that last weeks, or months, with some decent prizes (membership?).
That is the start of my suggestions, might add more as they come to me.
A lot of these can be taken from the online cricket manager game, From The Pavillion, which is a very professional online game, with great features and great input from users. Here are some of my suggestions:
- First off, a more professional looking and streamlined forum. The current skin is pretty bad, no offense, and this may be discouraging to new users. Also, make the private forums invisible to the general user.
- In my opinion the 'news' section in the game should be renamed 'inbox' or something similar. Also, you should be able to open each new message in a new window/tab, not have to do it individually on the current tab.
- My current league has like at least 10 teams with no manager. This simply should not happen, as it makes the competition and interest of the league very small. At the moment, we have like 3-4 teams entering each race, which is pretty small. To fix this, it would be great if they automatically entered each race, with random, or not so random, rider orders.
- There should be some kind of function that discourages so many transfers. Maybe, like FTP, if you sell a cyclist soon after buying, you only get 50% of the sale price. This % rises with how long you have owned the cyclist.
- Statistics. Implement some codes that gives each manager some more interesting statistics about the current seasons and races.
- More Fun Race opportunities. Because at some points during the season, I have no races for up to 7 days, and with not many things to do (game wise), users can easily get bored. This may help the problem of so many users creating accounts and then leaving shortly after. What would be great, would be friendly fun race tours, that last weeks, or months, with some decent prizes (membership?).
That is the start of my suggestions, might add more as they come to me.
