foob
08-10-2009, 08:51 AM
Not much really, just a little more to help the clan feature on the way. I imagine some of this has been mentioned before or already planned but a forum search turned up nothing so im posting just in case.
1) Clan Calendar.
As a clan leader of a rather big community (a very forum where at least 20+ people have beta accounts, and more are begging to join) it is very hard to organise games for a specific time. We have users all around the world and although we have both the forum and an IRC channel, they are used by the entire community and not just the HoN'ers. Trying to organise people together to be on at a certain time is pretty hard right now and being able to have a calendar ingame that leader/officers can modify but everyone can see. This lets us plan clan events for days/weeks in advance and will severely improve the organisation of clans in this game.
2) Clan Announcements
Sort of an extension on the clan calendar above. Just a simple feature that will announce a message to everyone in a clan once they log in. Even just being able to change a topic in the chat channels or something would suffice.
3) Appoint Clan Leader
I actually created the clan and as such i am the leader, but the person who owns the forum should actually be the leader. Currently i see no way of directly passing the leadership of the clan over to him without me leaving and rejoining the clan.
4) Editable pages within the clan
This one i dont see happening at all, because it would (i would assume) a hell of a lot just to implement, and a hell of a lot to serve. But a cool idea nontheless. Have a section within each clan that leaders and officers can edit freely and players can edit with authorisation from leader/officer. Think of it like a mini-wiki for each clan, but allow it to use stuff from the game itself.
For example, i could write a small page for my clan to read that would be a build for Thunderbringer, telling people what stat progression to take and what items to buy, but i could embed the pictures/descriptions used in the game itself. So i could have "Buy Bottle" and then it would have a picture of the bottle, which when hovered over by the mouse it would display the game stats/description of the bottle along with the cost.
I must admit though, a forum could do that just as easily, its just me being mega-lazy.
5) Move "Leave Clan" option from under "View Stats" on selfclick menu.
pretty self explanatory. more than once have i nearly left the clan and forfeit my leadership because i tried to view my own stats.
6) Clan Roster/public stats
Again probably something already planned, but the ability to have a page in which all the players of a clan could be shown in a publically-locatable page, and show the stats for each member, possibly having an internal/ladder ranking for each one. For example, i could go to the clan search page, search for my clan and find all of the members, and check the stats on each. An internal clan ranking system could be used as well, but i imagine you've already thought of that.
7) Member Notes
A simple feature that lets officers add notes to any member of the clan. My primary function would be to add the forum names of people in my clan who have different account names, but could be used for many other things.
8) Clan Matchmaking
Basically just a lazy way of finding pug clan matches. Pick five/four/three people from you clan, click the button and be matched to another clan of a similar average ELO rating to your own. game options can be voted for in the game lobby once everyone has joined, or can be set previously before matchmaking.
9) *new* option not to display clantags. soooooooooo many pubbies leave us in games because theys imply dont want to face up against a clan. i wouldve imagined this has been mentioned quite a bit though.
i could probably think of more,but this has probably gotten very long winded and if there is anything else to add at a later date, ill add it. other suggestions welcome.
1) Clan Calendar.
As a clan leader of a rather big community (a very forum where at least 20+ people have beta accounts, and more are begging to join) it is very hard to organise games for a specific time. We have users all around the world and although we have both the forum and an IRC channel, they are used by the entire community and not just the HoN'ers. Trying to organise people together to be on at a certain time is pretty hard right now and being able to have a calendar ingame that leader/officers can modify but everyone can see. This lets us plan clan events for days/weeks in advance and will severely improve the organisation of clans in this game.
2) Clan Announcements
Sort of an extension on the clan calendar above. Just a simple feature that will announce a message to everyone in a clan once they log in. Even just being able to change a topic in the chat channels or something would suffice.
3) Appoint Clan Leader
I actually created the clan and as such i am the leader, but the person who owns the forum should actually be the leader. Currently i see no way of directly passing the leadership of the clan over to him without me leaving and rejoining the clan.
4) Editable pages within the clan
This one i dont see happening at all, because it would (i would assume) a hell of a lot just to implement, and a hell of a lot to serve. But a cool idea nontheless. Have a section within each clan that leaders and officers can edit freely and players can edit with authorisation from leader/officer. Think of it like a mini-wiki for each clan, but allow it to use stuff from the game itself.
For example, i could write a small page for my clan to read that would be a build for Thunderbringer, telling people what stat progression to take and what items to buy, but i could embed the pictures/descriptions used in the game itself. So i could have "Buy Bottle" and then it would have a picture of the bottle, which when hovered over by the mouse it would display the game stats/description of the bottle along with the cost.
I must admit though, a forum could do that just as easily, its just me being mega-lazy.
5) Move "Leave Clan" option from under "View Stats" on selfclick menu.
pretty self explanatory. more than once have i nearly left the clan and forfeit my leadership because i tried to view my own stats.
6) Clan Roster/public stats
Again probably something already planned, but the ability to have a page in which all the players of a clan could be shown in a publically-locatable page, and show the stats for each member, possibly having an internal/ladder ranking for each one. For example, i could go to the clan search page, search for my clan and find all of the members, and check the stats on each. An internal clan ranking system could be used as well, but i imagine you've already thought of that.
7) Member Notes
A simple feature that lets officers add notes to any member of the clan. My primary function would be to add the forum names of people in my clan who have different account names, but could be used for many other things.
8) Clan Matchmaking
Basically just a lazy way of finding pug clan matches. Pick five/four/three people from you clan, click the button and be matched to another clan of a similar average ELO rating to your own. game options can be voted for in the game lobby once everyone has joined, or can be set previously before matchmaking.
9) *new* option not to display clantags. soooooooooo many pubbies leave us in games because theys imply dont want to face up against a clan. i wouldve imagined this has been mentioned quite a bit though.
i could probably think of more,but this has probably gotten very long winded and if there is anything else to add at a later date, ill add it. other suggestions welcome.