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Researcher indicator

rhon (GB1)rhon (GB1) Guest, GB1 Posts: 1,542
It would really help co-op leaders if we could have an indicator, a coloured dot perhaps, next to members who have taken a Researcher whether with dollars or gold.

Of course this doesn't solve the problem of farmers who take a place in the wrong research, but that is another problem :) which could be solved by giving the leader the ability to lock down the other researches
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  • borana albania (INT1)borana albania (INT1) Posts: 1,945
    edited 05.05.2014
    That's a good idea
  • Farmer MaxwellFarmer Maxwell Posts: 56
    edited 05.05.2014
    It is an excellent idea! Then the leader could boot who doesn't research.
  • Cloud Dancer (US1)Cloud Dancer (US1) US1 Posts: 51
    edited 06.05.2014
    I like this idea, but before GGS works on this I would first like to see notification of when research has been completed.
    There have been a couple of times I have failed to hire a researcher because I have been offline when one research ends and I didn't realize it was time to hire a new researcher.
  • HuzurCiftligi (TR1)HuzurCiftligi (TR1) Posts: 532
    edited 06.05.2014
    This is a great idea :)
  • agueda3agueda3 Posts: 583
    edited 06.05.2014
    I like this idea, but before GGS works on this I would first like to see notification of when research has been completed.
    There have been a couple of times I have failed to hire a researcher because I have been offline when one research ends and I didn't realize it was time to hire a new researcher.

    I was offline when research was completed and at login i get a pop up saying was done ! And can't we already see what players bought their spot in research ? When i go to my co-op next research i can see the 11/18 spots and who was that took part in it....
  • rhon (GB1)rhon (GB1) Guest, GB1 Posts: 1,542
    edited 06.05.2014
    It is an excellent idea! Then the leader could boot who doesn't research.
    Oh dear :( I wasn't thinking of it as a booting tool. Just an aid see who needed a gentle reminder, a bit of a prod
    agueda3 wrote: »
    I was offline when research was completed and at login i get a pop up saying was done ! And can't we already see what players bought their spot in research ? When i go to my co-op next research i can see the 11/18 spots and who was that took part in it....
    Yes you can see when you go to the Research in question. But when you get to bigger numbers, with several pages of Researchers it is very difficult to tally who is in and who isn't

    For example our current research needs 54 Researchers, that's 6 pages. And we have 5 pages of members. It takes a long time to mark off who has been prompt and who is being laggardly
  • Latten (DE1)Latten (DE1) Posts: 6,246
    edited 06.05.2014
    I don't think we're going to do this - we don't really want a "big brother" situation when it comes to Coop leaders, and especially no "who paid gold and who didn't" kind of deal. So yeah, I probably gotta say 'no' for now.
  • rhon (GB1)rhon (GB1) Guest, GB1 Posts: 1,542
    edited 06.05.2014
    Ok :(

    I never mentioned gold :( and its something that is already being done by co-op leaders. It was just a suggestion to make the leadership easier. Who to remind. I can't see how it is more Big Brother than the shovels. Less really as shovels ARE being used by some to decide who needs to be booted, even if that was not the original intent of shovels

    But thanks for reading the suggestion
  • Uncle Willy (AU1)Uncle Willy (AU1) AU1 Posts: 74
    edited 06.05.2014
    Personally I don't mind a couple'a clicks to see the Researcher Details page.

    Happy Harvests
    Uncle Beginner
    Opps I mean
    Uncle Willy ^^
  • rhinanarhinana Posts: 561
    edited 06.05.2014
    That's really too bad that this idea is not being considered. If anything, at least being able to check past (completed) researches to see who signed up would be nice.
  • Adrienne_chilisAdrienne_chilis Posts: 141
    edited 07.05.2014
    Love the idea of putting a dot next to the players name who have joined research. Just today I had to write a list of all our coop members than go to the research field to see who hadn't participated. What a huge time saver this would be.
  • rie222rie222 Posts: 1,074
    edited 08.05.2014
    oh it would make my life so much easier if i knew who signed who didn't. we have to make lists to figure out who did who didn't. I don't think latten understood Samty completely. And on top of it newer members (sometimes the more experience ones) end up in the wrong research. So i get the lock on the research thing. We had a "big brother" issue as well. So I understand what Latten may be reffering too. Telling people if they can and cannot use gold on research. Is that what you mean Latten. I wholeheartedly don't think Samty meant putting a lock down on telling people they cannot use their gold on research. I think she meant so that people wouldn't sign into the wrong research. I don't think anyone wants to stop anyone spending gold. I disagreed with the person in our coop who wanted to redirect people's intention to donations pointing out that sometimes people's funds were low and telling them they couldn't use their gold was like being "big brother in our coop. I couldn't agree more. I think Samty is onto something here though. I always have to fish around my coop researches for people who have signed into the wrong places.
  • rhon (GB1)rhon (GB1) Guest, GB1 Posts: 1,542
    edited 08.05.2014
    Samty wrote: »
    ....Of course this doesn't solve the problem of farmers who take a place in the wrong research, but that is another problem :) which could be solved by giving the leader the ability to lock down the other researches
    Yes I do think Latten misunderstood me :( as my suggestion has no connection to gold use whatever

    Next week's update actually addresses this second part of my suggestion. Although I was suggesting the leader could lock the Researches he didn't want places taken in, the next update goes a good way towards that by making the wanted research more obvious
    Change of pre-selected researches in the cooperative menu

    A lot of players have asked us to find a way to show what research is going to be tackled next.
    From now on, the first research you see after clicking the research tab is always going to be the one that has the least missing researchers needed to start this research. So if you want to research pigs and there is only 1 researcher left to start it, this research is going to be the first one shown to everybody
    .
  • XGN EASTS1DE (US1)XGN EASTS1DE (US1) Posts: 343
    edited 08.05.2014
    See what leaders should do since it is troubling to see every time if someone is taking part in the research. Is to open up a word document or something and wrote down everyones name and say you do ten research projects and for example xgn virus only did one or two. You warn him or her. Then if it continues just get rid of them. *using word would be easier because you can reset the number count*
  • PINJO1986 (NL1)PINJO1986 (NL1) NL1 Posts: 1,852
    edited 08.05.2014
    I think it will be a good idea, but with all updates there comes other things that we don't like. You can be finished with research in under 5 minutes if you got 60 members in cooperation.
    Make a list of persons in excel, make it small and you just put an X behind the name that is in the research. I think it will cost 4 minutes to put all of the names in en not even 1 minute to search for all the players that are in the research and put an X behind there names.

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