[Approved] BC needs more access

[Rocko]

TSP said it better then i can,...
<TSP> well, you get just a general "This planet contains allied planets ..." message when you view a gal with a member in it
<TSP> when a BC views a gal they see an A by the names of all planets in F-Crew
<TSP> but if somebody is a recruit in F-Crew but not a full member they won't have an A, but the "... allied planets ..." message will appear

BC's should be able to see people who arn't full members yet,.. either as a smaller letter 'a' or a message at the bottom saying there are people there who are still a part of the alliance.

(and before someone starts, i would have checked our bot, but since the ticks have stopped, wakeys off playing with it, but i shouldnt have to check OUR bot, to see if theres allied members in there,.. i'd be better off searching for targets WITHOUT BC status)

[Kal]

its on the todo list to happen at some point

[Rocko]

,... splendid,.... way to burst my rant kal,... couldn't u have waited a little while before giving me the good news,...

[wakey]

It was on the todo list at the start of last round Kal and you said it would be in this round. Surely its not more than what 20 lines of code max to put an R next to recruits and turn the ask HC message on for members

Someone on the coding team must have been able to spend 30 mins coding this in the development time

[Kal]

there are things on the todo list that have been their for several rounds.

This is simply not a priority feature

[wakey]

Originally Posted by Kal

there are things on the todo list that have been their for several rounds.

This is simply not a priority feature

The amount of help it can give to smaller alliances and players in these alliances for the time needed to implement it should make it a higher priority than it is. One of the hardest things for an alliance is getting the tools in place, you require a techie and the resources to host these tools and these people can be difficult to find and the resources can be expensive for the alliance to obtain, the better the tools PA offers the easier it makes for alliances to take the first step while they work towards getting their own tools

[The Real Arfy]

Of course, I know nothing about PA's coding or db structure but tbh I would have thought its about 30 characters worth of work.

[Doorsdown]

shouldn't be that much code actually

this is roughly what needs to be added to the display method

if(memeber.status=="recruit")
     echo("R");
else
     echo("A");

wheres the problem

[Rocko]

maybe for a day, some of these less priority things could be delt with,.. thus improving the quality of the game in small ways,....
without knowing your todo list, i don't know,.. would it ruin PA forever, if even half a day was spent on some of these lesser priority things??

[Kal]

u think we have half a day of coding time?

[Kal]

i've moved this to the "to for next round if possible list"

[Doorsdown]

Originally Posted by Kal

i've moved this to the "to for next round if possible list"

while thats great would it not be hard to implement that i did in the display method. you have to have the access level stored some where so just checking that would be simple. and while your not going to give the code away anytime soon this is a good example of how pa could have some of its players fix some of these small issuse by writing some code that pish only has to implement.

[Dotatrix]

Originally Posted by Kal

i've moved this to the "to for next round if possible list"

aka "we will never do it" ?

[TheRat]

To be honest Kal, it would have taken a coder as long to fix as you spent on switching it from one list to another.

[jerome]

why are you all surprised at the passive "positivity" shown here

[Rocko]

Originally Posted by Doorsdown

while thats great would it not be hard to implement that i did in the display method. you have to have the access level stored some where so just checking that would be simple. and while your not going to give the code away anytime soon this is a good example of how pa could have some of its players fix some of these small issuse by writing some code that pish only has to implement.

sounds like a good idea to me,... thus it isn't half a day of coding, it's half a day of checking a code and then putting it in,... and since i don't know whats more important,.. yes i do think you have half a day to do some of these smaller things,..
what's so important at the mo that it's taking all the attention of the coders most of the time???
(sorry for my lack of knowledge on the subject of coding, and what you have to code at the moment,.. i'm just asking)

[TheRat]

Whoever spends half a day coding this feature should be shot on sight.

[Doorsdown]

they could get tons of little issuse like this done in half a day

[berzerker]

Originally Posted by Kal

there are things on the todo list that have been their for several rounds.

This is simply not a priority feature

Just being curious, but what else is on this list?

[wakey]

Remove the negative ship bug is probally on the "Todo if time permits" list. But then thats been on there since about r2 and the perm fix never appears, just the mid round fix thats removed when the new codes rolled out

[Kal]

todo list had 4 levels

priority 1 is immediate issues that must be either a) fixed before a round can start or b) fixed during the current round as they are critival

priority 2 are the things we would like in the next round

priority 3 are the things that will happen for the enxt round if everything magically goes right

priority 4 are the things that might happen one day if we stop finding problems with old code or get some major investment



the discussed feature is currently priority 2, it was previously priority 3.

[Rocko]

so im assuming you have some critical coding that the coders are doing at the moment??

[Ultimate Newbie]

Originally Posted by Rocko

so im assuming you have some critical coding that the coders are doing at the moment??

Fleets page springs to mind...

[Rocko]

thought that was sorted now,... ahh well,.. as i said before, i don't know anything about coding, or how long coding takes, etc,