[REQ] Personal Challenges

[cothyso]

Please add another tab with Personal Challenges to the other 3 already existing tabs for the multiplayer menu with a list of all challenges issued by other players to you only. This would also require an additional edit box in the Issue a Challenge dialog, containing the name of the challenged player (optional).

This would greately help the tournaments/campaigns, and also would clean up the Find Challenge list, which is a bit of show stopper for a newbie player, with 99% of the games listed in there as being locked with a password.

[keithmartinsmith]

The games list looks empty as all new open challenges tend to be taken up in a few seconds. So all a new player has to do is issue one. As FOG challenges are so popular the open challenge list will almost always look empty! Keith

[cothyso]

it doesn't matter what a newbie should do, it only matter how he does and how he feels like. I am not a newbie, but when I am looking at a few pages of locked challenges, it is unsettling. and I know I can post a new challenge.

and besides this psychological factor, there's still the most important aspect: it will greatly help tournaments and campaign players to easily find the games they need to play.

I know I have to play with player B, but he has posted 5 games, all with the same army and same points, which one should I pick? try the password he communicate me to all of them, instead simply pick the one it is for me from my own personal list?

[Morbio]

it doesn't matter what a newbie should do, it only matter how he does and how he feels like. I am not a newbie, but when I am looking at a few pages of locked challenges, it is unsettling. and I know I can post a new challenge.

and besides this psychological factor, there's still the most important aspect: it will greatly help tournaments and campaign players to easily find the games they need to play.

I know I have to play with player B, but he has posted 5 games, all with the same army and same points, which one should I pick? try the password he communicate me to all of them, instead simply pick the one it is for me from my own personal list?

It sounds like a good idea to me. I hate it when I go to look for the challenge that someone has sent me and there are 5 or 6 there and so I have to work my way through them trying passwords. Each time I'm rejected I'm never sure if it's because I've misspelt the password (initial letter caps is the common one) or because it is not my game.

Fundamentally, why would I want to see all the personal challenges on a list? It could be argued whether I should be able to see challenges between other players.

One compromise option would be to change the current list to only display open challenges and those relevant to me. Of course, it would require a new field for the player to enter his opponents name at the time of posting the challenge (I'd prefer a drop-down selection preferably ), but that shouldn't be a challenge to do.