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So - I'm constantly looking for ways to improve my experience when I play something, whether it be to make things more efficient or to provide some QoL features or the like, and this is a suggestion that's no different and incorporates both. However, this is a more major one so I'm a bit hesitant of providing it in the first place. This would also be something I'd probably code myself if I wasn't limited by site admin access, as I'm requesting the addition of another subpage.
To start, basically when I play Pokefarm, either on mobile or desktop, I leave a lot of tabs open, which I'm sure a lot of other users do also. It's simply a lot easier to multitask and pop over from your active tab to refresh the lab or collect your training bags while mass clicking or hatch the eggs in your party, whatever, if you keep the respective page open. And while this is mostly fine, as some of the buttons don't dissapear from the page when you click on them (such as the lab refresh button), others do. Meaning the user needs to refresh the entire page when they want to preform that action again, which seems unnecessary and puts a bit of extra strain on Pokefarm's servers. Additionally, some of these pages need to be refreshed on server reset, and the easiest way for me to handle that is by closing my browser and reopening all the tabs at once.
My typical Pokefarm window (I start with 16 tabs)
My suggestion then would be to add an additional customizable page to Pokefarm (referred to as the Action Center in this post) with the main functions from the other pages as the content. Users can choose which pages they'd like to have in their Action Center and which sections from those pages. This would cut down drastically the number of pages the player would keep open and the need to refresh each individual page. In addition, if all the buttons on the page do not disable or disappear on click (i.e. the training bag collection button) and instead are persistent (i.e. the lab refresh button), the user wouldn't even be required to refresh the page at all.
To clarify on the sections I refer to of what the user could add to their Action Center, here's an example of how I'd build my Action Center, with the sections I'd include and the order I'd list them:
- "Party" from the Party page (the 6 slots)
- "Eggs" from the Lab page
- "Pokemon" from the Daycare page
- "Eggs" from the Daycare page
- "Shelter Area" from the Shelter page
- "Wonder Trade" from the Trade page
- "Collection Area" from the Trade page
- "Missions" from the Scour page
- "Garden" from the Garden page
- "Your Pokéwalker" from the Walker page
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I first wanted to say that is a really well written and thought out post.
That also being said, I feel like you may be in a minority with how many tabs you normally have open at once on the site (though I am very happy to admit being wrong) and this seems like a monumental amount of work for something a fairly small subset of the player base would ever use.
I am a pretty hardcore player and I almost never have more than one tab open at a time, the only exception was being when I was the TR leader and I needed to have my forum post open to edit in one tab and the stuff I was editing easy to see in another.
I'll second Raziya on the tabs things - I generally only have two tabs open, one for clicking and one for everything else, though I will frequently open and close other tabs when needed, which wouldn't really lend itself well to this feature since I don't want them to stay open if I'm not using them.
But also, I don't think I would want to have multiple things open on the same screen - I think it would get too crowded and I would rather switch between tabs to let each tab have the full screen. On the rare occasion I do need two PFQ tabs visible at the same time, all I have to do is open them in two separate windows on my computer, which gives me more flexibility since I can open any page rather than only certain pages that are available through this feature.
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QUOTE originally posted by Raziya
I first wanted to say that is a really well written and thought out post.
That also being said, I feel like you may be in a minority with how many tabs you normally have open at once on the site (though I am very happy to admit being wrong) and this seems like a monumental amount of work for something a fairly small subset of the player base would ever use.
I am a pretty hardcore player and I almost never have more than one tab open at a time, the only exception was being when I was the TR leader and I needed to have my forum post open to edit in one tab and the stuff I was editing easy to see in another.
QUOTE originally posted by Kahuna
I'll second Raziya on the tabs things - I generally only have two tabs open, one for clicking and one for everything else, though I will frequently open and close other tabs when needed, which wouldn't really lend itself well to this feature since I don't want them to stay open if I'm not using them.
But also, I don't think I would want to have multiple things open on the same screen - I think it would get too crowded and I would rather switch between tabs to let each tab have the full screen. On the rare occasion I do need two PFQ tabs visible at the same time, all I have to do is open them in two separate windows on my computer, which gives me more flexibility since I can open any page rather than only certain pages that are available through this feature.
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