Now that Warlight is constructively abandoned, what were some features that should have been implemented or attended to while there was still a chance of revival?

I'll Start:
-Clan System
No usable forum, management of members activity, different level roles of leaders. Clan Wars are getting tedious and the incentive structure around Clan Wars conflicts with having large clans that people want to interract with.

-Forum Editing
Really, using quasi html coding to make font changes?

-Idle Battles
Several battles not starting b/c not enough members when AI could have easily been substituted, no reward structure, easily manipulable by those upgrading different artifacts to get advantages.

-No 4D Maps
Everyone here know how much we wanted 3D maps (Warzones latest and final update over 5 months ago), but what we really wanted were 4D maps.

-Card Graphics
We really need better graphics on the cards, maybe something simple like a green outline that clearly states what the card does.

is this a joke post?

@approximation of pi: I may be a jolly old elf, but that doesn't mean that I'm a joker.

Edited 10/18/2023 14:21:27

If you are being serious:

Clan system

Join the queue https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warzone-features/suggestions/7085564-overhall-of-clan-system

Forum Editing

We already have bold, italic, line break, quote, lists, list items, no markup and images (member-only to embed). What else do you need?

Card Graphics
We really need better graphics on the cards, maybe something simple like a green outline that clearly states what the card does.

If unclear what cards do, go to Game > Settings > Full Settings > Cards or https://www.warzone.com/wiki/Category:Cards

Edited 10/18/2023 14:34:58

Dan, I think it should be intuitive upon looking at the card what it does. I shouldnt need to go to a wiki. Just a quick glance. Don't need cartoon graphics. Something simple like a green outline around a +5 for a reinforcement card.

It says +5 there.
There are descriptions already there.. Not to mention those question marks that lead you to the wiki.
What even is wrong with the forum thread fonts? If you don't like typing, install muli's userscript

Edited 10/18/2023 14:55:20

Even clicking the card gives a basic description (Game > Cards / hotkey B).
What are your designs or design ideas to represent what each of the cards?
Currently the only clear one is reinforcements due to its simplicity.
The current designs look good and you get information about what they do very easily if you just click.

The RT Diplo scene has never been more alive!!! The notion that this game is dying is a lie. RT Diplo will save it!

On the one hand, it has been 3.5 months since the most recent major update, which was a QoL update. If you count only gameplay feature updates, then it is 5 months already. An update would be really welcomed.

On the other, despite no updates and lot of issues, some of the spheres are increasing activity:
- Clan Wars have a race for top-1 again and some drama
- Clan League is starting
- Diplo scene is alive (while it definitely should not!)

If you don't like typing, install muli's userscript.

Thats just it. How hard is it for the Developer to have working directly on the website.

The big problem with this is that the Developer plays like Ol' Testament God, smiteing those that do things against his wishes.... creates an imperfect world where we have free choice, and when we make choices he doesn't agree with, smoten.

Make a script that shows people who has blacklisted you? Smoten.
Post several forum posts in a row because he didn't install automatic spam prevention? Smoten.

But the good news is that this Ol' Testament God is now asleep and uncaring of his creation. Maybe the Trademark battle got the best of him.

If you want more proof that Warzone is dead, just look at the "Notable Forum Post" list, where over half displayed on the dashboard are "Map of the Week" threads that no one even engages with.

Why do we need Muli to write a userscript? That should be a native feature!

Why do we need a idle battle reminder bot? That could be a default feature just like the CW notifications!

Why is the sorting of current CW ranks at https://www.warzone.com/Clans/War wrong and we need https://wz-cw.5smith.ru/ to have an overview of current CW stats?


I mean on the one hand side it is nice that the community is able (and tolerated) to help themselves somehow. On the other hand those features proved accepted and widely used, so they could and should be integrated into WZ.

The reason why there isn't a script that tells you who has you on their blocklist is because then you could continue to do stuff that they blocklisted you for.

Outright preventing several posts in a row is bad, prevents commenting. On the other hand, making threads in quick succession is, more often than not, spam.

If you're asking for ability to turn of various chat room messages, the chat room was never meant to be fully featured. So I created https://warlight.uservoice.com/forums/77051-warzone-features/suggestions/45968599-global-and-clan-chat-api to make custom chat rooms where you should have all the relevant information to disable certain messages at your own will.

Notable forum posts are decided by voting (the thumbs up and down arrows).

If you insist Warzone is dying then there's no point to disagree with you. Forum likely has less than 0.0001% of all active players. Number of games and accounts created and remain active are better indicators, as well as people in various discord servers.

so just from i've been reading in the global chat it sounds like this site basically needs a community mod, a product owner, and a developer.
and it sounds like fizzer can only wear two of these hats from what people are saying, probably due to time constraints. which would mean that an additional person is needed. has anyone ever discussed this with fizzer?

so just from what i've read, it probably makes sense that the community mod is product owner as well as he is closest to the players and hears all their feedback. needs to be someone who can translate and document the ideas and feedback in a way the developer can just take and put into code. the second person would be the developer. and from what people are saying fizzer could be either of these 2 people but has to decide and bring someone in for the other role...

just summing up the otherwise lost ideas of the chat ;)

Dan,

You seem to be missing the point.

This is a post-mortem.

Its not up for debate that Warlight is dead, its just a memorial service.

Looking at all of the stuff that was done to this game that no one was asking for, meanwhile ignoring everything that the community wants.

You keep reinforcing that point with your posts.

it seems the post you actually wanted to make is "Goodbye my friends, it was nice to meet you. I enjoyed the more than 14,000 games with ya all, but I don't like this site anymore, so I'm leaving."

bye.

So since WZ is Fizzers indie child, Fizzer needs a community mod is hat I’m getting from this thread, other than the fact a dude is saying a game is dying when it’s clearly alive

You see, in years past, the creator would come up with different statistics, obscuring all of the underlying data underneath, to state unequivically that Warlight wasn't dead. I guess this is just another bit of confirmation.

So now that the premise is validated, what else should have been done?

Kept the name as WarLight

I still call it Warlight…

this game is alive. just because it isn't the top 10 doesn't mean it's dead.