PvP Selection, Friends List?

[Ace-of-Spades]

First off, I apologize if this has been suggested or posted before. I looked through some of the suggestion threads and in the stickied threads and didn't see much addressing this.

I've been playing Elements for a little over a week now and think it's absolutely awesome. The user interface isn't bad at all. Sure it could use some improving, but over all I like it. As far as PvP though. I've only played a game or two of PvP with random players and that seemed fine. However, I got my brother hooked on the game now, mostly so we could play against one another, and so he could enjoy Elements himself. We've found so far though, that the selective PvP matching feature works extremely poorly. It takes us many many many attempts to finally get linked up. Perhaps we are using the matching system incorrectly, or perhaps one of us has poor internet speeds, I'm not sure. So in addition to perhaps fixing the matching system, I think implementing a "friends list" type feature would be great. You could have a list of friends (online and offline listed) and choose from them to initiate a match, or perhaps just chat/PM each other. I'm not sure how difficult this would be to implement given the current UI, but I think it would greatly add to the social aspect of the game.

Thanks for reading.

[EvaRia]

All this happens on the forums

[Ace-of-Spades]

I guess I could understand that, to a degree. I still think the forums wouldn't offer what an actual interface friends list/matching system could.

Regardless, what about the horrible selective matching system? It literally takes us dozens of attempts to get connected.

[pikachufan2164]

PvP Duel? You both need to be on the PvP Duel screen at the same time, and enter in each other's in-game name, then press OK. Eventually, the system will pair you two up, and both of you will press the OK button to start the duel.

If both of you are doing it correctly, then at least one of you has a bad connection to the servers.

[DrunkDestroyer]

Your post is a bit vague as to whether you are using PvP Duel, or hoping to luck upon each other in PvP1 or PvP2.

However, I wouldn't be surprised if this was PvP Duel, the connections never seem to be as great as they should be, and while it is much better than it used to be, it's still a while away from perfect.
From an individuals point of view, I'm pretty sure clearing the cache helps get games sorted, as well as not changing between tabs (pretty sure different windows are fine). However, its still not ideal, and as for the server and connection issues, they usually get slighltly improved upon with each update.


As to the friends list/chat room, I completely agree that something in-game should be implemented. The forums are great, and fun, but at the same time, they don't even come close to catering to the sheer number of elements players. I still think that the way to move the game forward is to expand the PvP system in the game itself, so battling with randoms and people you know is more fun, friends list and automatic PvP Duelling options.

However, at this current point in time, there hasn't been any news on a possible expansion of the PvP Game (Possibly even a PvP Lobby), but the connection issues at least will get better.

[Ace-of-Spades]

Ah sorry, I didn't realize I was being vague. Yes, I meant PvP Duel. As in, we have each others names typed in and still have difficulty getting connected for a match. Thanks for the response though. I suppose, at least the PvP system works for now. I'm sure there are more pressing things to be worked on at the moment.