Post a replay describing in detail the errors you have encountered or the improvements you want to suggest, i will add it to the list.
This is not a game balance topic.
High priority list
Achieved 2/4
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Game crash during loading. During the loading screen the game sometimes crashes if: you ALT+TAB to the desktop, or click anywhere on the screen. (With patch 1.22 the game crash rate went from 8/10 to 3/10)
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Introduce a “reconnect to the game” feature. Allow the players who for any reason got out a game to rejoin it. This is one of the most requested feature ever, since the original games. Game crashes, pc BSODs, WIFI disconnects, electricity goes off, the reason that leads a to a dc in a game are endless.
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Add a lobby. Add a main chat room where people can talk to each other. Topic.
Normal priority list
Bugs/problems:
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Chat keyboard layout support. The game does not support other keyboard layout other than the US one. Player with UK, FR, IT and other layouts can’t type some symbols in chat (e.g: ? , ! ecc…)
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Ships sometimes get stuck in the borders of the map.
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Sometimes if a player is lagging during the loading at the beginning of the game all the ships in the map will get stuck in the hyperspace. There is no way to fix this when it happens.
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Capital ship pathing. The Capital ships get easily stuck while moving near asteroid fields.
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Build capable ships trading. In the original HW2 you were able to pass to your team mates control of your build capable ships. Some strategies developed from the community were based on this feature that is now gone.
Improvements:
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Add a spectator mode, with a spectator UI. This feature will allow players to spectate the games of their friend and will make tournaments streamings (Twitch.tv) easier to do (the spectator mode is an essential feature for any potential eSport). The spectator UI should give different color for different players, access to live statistics of the players like “total RU collected”, “number of ships killed”, “number of ships built” ecc…
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Game replay system. Add a feature that make us able to record our games and re-watch it later. You could use the (above mentioned) spectator mode to view it.
Low priority list
Bugs/problems:
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If you have a multy monitor configuration and you ALT+TAB to windows while the game is running when you return to it your cursor’s movements wont be limited by the borders of the screen you are playing on, but will move on the others windows too. This deny the use of the mouse to move your game camera.
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Players’ fleet’s logo usually appears upside down in the end game scoreboard.
Improvements:
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Make the last race played the default one, by automatically selecting it when i join a new room. This wont make those player who usually play only one race have to pick it every single game.
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Show the “game host name” in a field next to the game name. The game name is used to describe the game you are going to play (2vs2, FFA, No rush, only noobs, tournament game, 3v3 ecc…). When the game name is correctly used to describe the game, there is no way to know who created it.
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Allow players to communicate with their allies through pinging on the sensor map. An example may be the League Of Legends ping system, so that you will be able to ping an ally: “Danger here”, “I’m moving my fleet there”, “Defend this position” or “Retreat”.
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Add a chat in the end game scoreboard page. It will be useful to talk to the people you have played with about the statistics, or to ask them a rematch.
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Insert a simple ranking system for players. It will help all the new players avoid awful games (bad experience equal bad game that leads to uninstall the game), and will allow experienced find each other to have awesome games easier. It does not have to be be an ELO based ranking system with ranked match making. A ranking that assign players stars from 0 to 5 based on the number of games they have won (5 games won 1 star, 10 games won 2 stars, 25 games won 3 stars 50 games won 4 stars, 100s game won 5 stars) will be more than enough.
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Increase the maximum number of characters writable per single message.
Achieved
High priority list:
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Game lobbies with password. Flag the games with password with a lock icon, and add the “Hide games with password” filter. [Patch 1.22]
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Region lock. Remove the region lock from the game, it reduces the number of players you can play with without any actual improvement to the system. Instead, introduce a restriction at the access for people with more than, for example, 300 ms of ping. The region lock will deny the possibility to play with people who live in different regions but have 50 ms of ping thanks to fiber connection, it will however allow to play players from the same country with 300+ms of ping). [Patch 1.22]
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Low priority list:
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