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Feature Request: Eventlist

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Kyren:
Ahoy!

Have a look at the following pictures:
Bigger Versions: Link, and Link

I'm, again, suggesting that we get an announcement board or other means to effectively and easily organize events ingame. No, the Steam groups aren't sufficient, no, the forum here isn't sufficient either - if you organize an event for a small group of players, such as the competitive scene that is active in the forum anyways, it'll be fine. If you organize anything where you want broad community participation, or where you want many players that don't get involved on Steam or in the forum to see it all you can do is post in the lobby. Whoever is in the lobby at that point might see it. Whoever is in matches will not see it.

Now we could expect every player to come to the Steam groups and the forum, but I wouldn't. We have many active, helpful and committed players ingame that like to spend their time there and would sooner not check the forum or a Steam group. If you look at total numbers, that's the majority of GoIO players. We need a way to announce and organize events with this majority - Teaching events would be the foremost profiteer of such a thing, tournaments could point players to the forum registration with a description of the event!

That GoIO brings out new features such as weapons and ships in a quick pace is great for getting older players back into the game and newer ones to have a look, but we have nothing ingame to get in touch with those players, we have nearly nothing to make sure they stay with GoIO ingame. I blame a lot of the drop outs we have on missing social features ingame. Yes, you don't get people to run GoIO again after half a year with a eventlist. But you get people who come in new to stay longer if they can sign up for a event and participate.

Rainer Zu Fall:

--- Quote from: Kyren on August 19, 2013, 12:40:47 pm --- Yes, you don't get people to run GoIO again after half a year with a eventlist. But you get people who come in new to stay longer if they can sign up for a event and participate.

--- End quote ---

Not only that - training will improve much more by finally organizing it, so it won't result in pure chaos. New players that don't only see when there will be dev matches or cogs or anything like that but can take a look when there's a training match will become better at playing, thus reducing rage for crewmates playing with those as well as their gameplay experience in a positive way.

evodoc:
I like that. I would also like an ingame Twitter reader, where people can check out for example the changelog and such. The chat was filled with "what has changed" qustions right after the patch.

Keyvias:
I like it.
I know server messages are already reported in there, but I'm assuming that you're talking about an event list that you can use to join games through.

Rainer Zu Fall:
Not only that, Keyvias - people that aren't online by that time server announcements are happening can still see when what will happen. "When are the dev matches beginning?" might belong to the past, since you could adjust the time simply to your needs and everyone, doesn't matter if in a lobby, in a running match or still offline, can see what will be happening and when it will happen.

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