My suggestion for game apperance
I have some simple and cool (I think) suggestions for minor changes to the game's appearance:
1. During the game, the name of the active character disappears - only their life bar appears in the upper right corner. A good solution, in my opinion, would be to also place the hedgehog's name there, as in the picture.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BG760SRBPg953VmBTdvgoMIO0ZM4Fp3G/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QgFZDa4XZjrJn5xS182Xupv0F9YYCnry/view?usp=drive_link
An even better solution (but more technically complicated) is to place the name and life bar on the opposite side of the crosshair. Such bars would move in rotation on the opposite side of the crosshair. I'm posting my idea in the next pictures.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1qlrAzWD5b-sxpRZYXJEOEigv-csBHDPj/view?usp=drive_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ihzgYmAoAaatNBoRk_D0xIcDXvLwIwiQ/view?usp=drive_link
2. If we create teams, CPU teams only have the CPU flag... Maybe double markings would be better (the human/computer symbol and a flag)? CPU teams could have their own flags!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DN5nj9V9bgOTFvxlGzsFCOQxyOZuUhrs/view?usp=drive_link
3. And finally, one more idea - a simple team ranking with the number of wins, losses and exits from the game. Similarly for individual hedgehogs - wins, losses (win/loss ratio), exits, etc.
Thank you for your attention and please think about my suggestions.
1a. Adding the hog name in the top right corner makes sense, yes. Good, simple quality-of-life suggestion. I've just added that to Bugzilla.
1b. This idea sounds weird. I think putting name and health *at your crosshair* would be very irritating. How are you going to aim if these text bars are in the way?
2. Yes. That's been a very old suggestion, at least since 2017. But it's still relevant. It annoys me a little, too.
3. No, not now. That's very unlikely to happen. Adding a team ranking system will definitely not be "simple". It would require significant changes to our server and overall code, we need some place to show those rankings, etc. It's not impossible, it's just a lot of work. But technology aside, the far bigger difficulty is how do we avoid that the system is gamed? Without any controls in place, people could just conspire or play against themselves to farm essentially free wins. So basically we need to invent something like ranked matches which we can't fully automate; this will require some moderation to avoid this exact situation of win farming or outright cheating. We do not have those resources. And finally, I think our multiplayer community is so small at the moment that a ranking doesn't really make sense. We can debate this again when we have a much larger multiplayer community AND there is a large demand for ranked matches AND we have people willing to moderate to fight abuse. I hope you now understand this "simple" ranking is actually not simple at all.
Hi, I am a Hedgewars developer.