06-28-2016, 08:04 PM | #101 |
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another main problem (touched on in my wordz,) is that ffr seems... almost pathologically quite *enthusiastically* set on letting u browse absolutely every page on the website from absolutely every page on the website, which feels confusing. your pages need to be properly organised, with main information up front, and subsets of said information within those bits of information. having for example, each individual aspect of "settings" be on a settings page that is just a single click will not lose any traffic
ALSO if anyone has access to who browses where and how (pr0nskunk~) it should be very easy for you to see which pages people are most often browsing, and which pages are being browsed where, to where. if nobody is clicking "wiki news" from the top bar, that is unimportant. if *tons* of people are clicking thru tons of pages just to find a basic thing that is also on the top bar, this needs to be forefronted way more Last edited by s1rnight; 06-28-2016 at 08:07 PM.. |
06-28-2016, 08:18 PM | #102 |
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also i'm heartily for reposting this client back on kongregate, it seems rather absurd that this hasnt been suggested until now; even ppl who do not visit the site help to popularise FFR memetically. there is really no downside there, even if the upside ranges from good to small
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06-28-2016, 08:30 PM | #103 |
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kong makes profits
putting ffr on kong helps kong make profit and idk |
06-28-2016, 08:40 PM | #104 |
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oh, that; is it really a breach of non-profit? :X *we're* not making any money off of it after all
(if it was already *on* kongregate i can't rly see that being an issue, unless the "non-profit" clause is new) Last edited by s1rnight; 06-28-2016 at 08:44 PM.. |
06-28-2016, 09:24 PM | #105 |
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I definitely agree with not making the Song Submission menu a thing. It certainly wasn't my idea, and I was sort of alarmed when I first saw that appear. Technically speaking, the process of submitting a file for FFR is background work; it's not a feature, and it's certainly not something that most people would care about. It's a menu that solely conveniences the few who actually contribute to FFR The Game, and the menu was probably created out of that narrow train of thought.
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06-28-2016, 09:56 PM | #106 |
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Money money money. Always the issue.
Remember the good ol' days when we had FF7 Battle theme and that song from chrono cross? Ahhhhh And lets not forget when ffr was tryna be like bemani style and we had user submitted (Mostly shit) Stepmania (Or R2, whatever) files. Thats off topic tho... Is there ANY hope that changes will be implemented this time around? Like psychoangel said, this isnt the first suggestion for a new& improved ffr. Or will this, too, blow away like a fart in the wind? |
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i understand this looks like raw sewage and is missing quite a bit, but what if on first visit or until opted out of, the homepage did something like this?
current layout could have a switch to simplified ver. link somewhere idk
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Why are the legacy songs still in the game? Fix or remove them. Or HIDE them really well. There are some super stinkers in the MISC section as well like "Submission rules" as well that NEED to not exist. Imagine a new player coming in and playing THAT or anything from Legacy for the first time? They would never visit this site again. Last edited by Figlar20k; 06-29-2016 at 12:21 AM.. |
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The major problems (having read the flood of messages sent earlier):
1. I've introduced FFR to MANY people, and most of them don't find it amusing. Some might create an account and play for a week or two. One played for about a year, but quit due to the lagging issue. SO, for normal gamers FFR doesn't quite hit it like it does to us. solution: FFR needs more content, not more to FIFFER THE GAME but actually more games, but here we come to the second issue: 2. FFR doesn't have enough of active staff. Having a handful of staff to do a shitload of unpaid work makes the site run slowly, WAY too slowly (even though it seems to be way faster now than it used to). An overhaul to FIFFER THE GAME code is impossible..? 3. FFR is not being marketed efficiently. Having a fb-page or other useless social media pages (I apologize, I'm not a social media user) are just pages, not ads. How do people find these if they are not actively searching? On the other hand, I have no idea how to do this differently. Altough putting FFR to kongregate or newgrounds sounds good. MY SUGGESTION OF PLAY BUTTON SUGGESTIONWouldn't it be cool if the profile chat was also next to the ACTUAL GAME WINDOW? There could also be a couple of channels instead of like 1. (Like one for EMG rivalry, one for D1 etc) EDIT: By the way, not everybody is interested of the tokens. Everything not game related to me is waste of time. I used tips how to get the damn tokens because I just wanted to play them. Antiskilling tokens suck ass, but they are okay because there aren't too many and I know there are people who like them. (But I do love the secret songs, there should be way more of them) As a side note of game terminology, I still haven't got any idea of some of the terms because they aren't ALL written somewhere
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Have you personally talked to the owner? Stop spreading things you can't actually confirm. You sat there in PMs giving me an attitude about how he was the reason the new site design couldn't be implemented and that you heard it from "two staff members" one of which you wouldn't even name, lol. Only to be disproven shortly after. The last thing this site needs is more rumors going around. So why don't you leave it to the actual staff to answer site related questions. Making suggestions is one thing, but don't spread information that could easily be false. |
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06-29-2016, 07:16 AM | #114 |
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wasnt there going to be a bootstrap site update?
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06-29-2016, 07:45 AM | #115 | |
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Development has been the biggest area that has lacked communication, even within it's own staff. I've asked Max to make a thread to address what happened to these old projects that the community does know about. That way it's clarified what actually happened with the projects and if there's any plan to try to continue them. I think at this point it should be clarified to the community what the current plan of action is, what is being done to improve the site currently and any information on any projects that people were expecting. I'm going to speculate that most of them were dropped because people up and left from the dev team, but again just speculating. |
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Also the lag seriously turns me personally off the game. I can't imagine for a new player who comes here for the first time and their only experience is a lagfest especially when you try to turn anything to fullscreen. Is there really absolutely no way to remove the lag issues? Seems crazy in this day and age that it's still such a serious problem for some people (me included) Last edited by Figlar20k; 06-29-2016 at 10:54 AM.. |
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It's also unfortunately one that will not disappear until the game is rebuilt on a new platform. I do recall something that one of the devs was working on as a test, and I think it revolved around HTML5? Also, a very basic implementation of a usable/interactive engine was also programmed on SMleaderboards as a chart viewer (where you can tap along to stuff as if you were playing it) by Wafles. So, it's not to say that it can't be done -- it's a matter of creating the new platform, then linking all of the content to it; actually, it goes beyond that, because all of the files are converted in frames for Flash and well, that would go out the window. There's a lot to think about for the creation of something like this... Last edited by TC_Halogen; 06-29-2016 at 11:00 AM.. |
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It's good that you're thinking about it, but when you're doing something from scratch, it's hard to take anything seriously until there's at least some sort of actual schematic for both the design and/or the (flow of) programming. Anyone can conceive the idea of wanting to build an engine on a platform. It's also worth asking if Unity is the best choice for something like this in the first place. This is something that experienced FFR developers and/or developers who do things for other reasons might be able to elaborate on. |
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