Future Ideas...

[Trasion]

I am super bored tonight, and have nothing better to do. So I'm going to give you guys a few ideas on what to add next. I know you guys are busy, so it doesn't need to be done immediately (or at all), but I'm just going to drop some suggestions, and try to be helpful.

1) Tournament System - Allow members (not guests) to setup a tournament. They invite a bunch of other members into it, and they have a week to all play. They can play at different times, and only get 3 chances. Out of the 3 times they play, their top score is recorded. The person with the highest score is given the win. (just for fun, doesn't need to be coded at all if you don't want)

2) Highscores System - When you play a game, it keeps track of your highscores, and ranks you. (this should come before the Tournament System). I will try to code this for you guys.

3) Automatically Verified - Games take long enough to add, but then you have to edit each one manually and put a "1" in the "active?" box. It takes me forever, and that is a huge turn off for this script. I suggest having the default as active, and if you want, you can change it to unactive. (if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know now, I need it badly). This feature should be implemented soon, as it would be a quick fix, and very helpful.

I will post more ideas as time comes, and I test out new features!

[Trasion]

3) Automatically Verified - Games take long enough to add, but then you have to edit each one manually and put a "1" in the "active?" box. It takes me forever, and that is a huge turn off for this script. I suggest having the default as active, and if you want, you can change it to unactive. (if anyone knows how to do this, please let me know now, I need it badly). This feature should be implemented soon, as it would be a quick fix, and very helpful.

I am trying to add hundreds of new games to my website. This part quoted above is ridiculous! It needs to be fixed, soon, please. It should be a minor change, but I do not know where to change it.

[kurt]

A few minutes break time lol.

1) Hmmmmm good idea. Why didn't I think of it? It will need to be tied to the high score system as the high score system will need to update the toury stats. This is why we try to plan way ahead lol, to make things easier in the long run.

2) Yes, we definatly need it, and already had it planned for. If you have it coded it would be that much easier on us. It will need to be easily modified though by beginners like me, so we can tie the tournament system into it with ease.

3) You can go in through phpMyAdmin and set the default to '1' if you're omfortable doing so. If not I will attempt to write out a mod to the code to automaticaly do it while uploading games. It was done that way for 2 reasons though. First to give the person uploading a chance to test it before taking it live(glitches do happen) though the code is not yet in place. We might be able to code the settings to give a choice in it though. The second reason is that we are planning ona small feature in the near future that automaticaly updates a few games each time you run it, and it could be run by cron job, to make it look like you're adding games every day even if you are not. We can try to make it a choice in the settings though.

Thanks for the input!

[Trasion]

Thank you, I didn't know I could do it through PhpMyAdmin, I'll go do that now!

[Trasion]

Another idea I had.

After the highscores are made, instead of having 'Top User', and organizing by their plays, have it go by the highest scores.

[Robbie]

We do sell game packs that can be added easier than 1 at a time, for the benefit of others seeing this thread .

[Trasion]

But they all cost money. How many have you sold so far? I wouldn't by one. They should be free, and come with the software.. Then I'd use them all. As for now, it's so hard to go find games myself.

[Adam LaCombe]

Trust me when or if you start to build any kind of script after all the work you want at least some money lol.
And yea I here what you're saying, I always thought everything should be free too but.. if you don't have much money or dont wanna buy them you could always check out http://www.freegamesforyourwebsite.com/
But you will have to upload them one by one

[Trasion]

I know. I just think they should be.

I've been using Wolfpack actually (http://www.forums.wolfpackarcade.com/index.php?autocom=arcade)

But I can only download 40 a day, and I hit my limit. 6 hours to go until I can download 40 more! 

[becksa]

Lol these guys cant do everything for free mate, they have to pay for hosting etc

[kurt]

There is another problem with us giving the game packs away. The extra bandwidth charges. As it is, we don't make a whole lot of money off them. And what little we have made is being saved towards another project that could be of great benefit to all our users. We expect that one to be a bit more expensive to start, not to mention run. But I won't give that one away just yet

Maybe later today after I have woke up I can spill the beans and post what all we have planned for features and upgrades to FAS. Maybe that will help people to understand part of why we move as slow and with as much foresight as we can manage.

[Trasion]

I understand man.

I just would love to have all those games for free, it'd be pretty cool. But yeah, I understand where you're coming from. Host costs can be quite high, as well as the domain. Then there's always some things that you made need to buy (help with coding something maybe).

Keep selling them. I was just wondering about them, because I'd love them for free haha.