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Color buttons in lobby, show current usage

Open SimonN opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Problem: With many people in the room, it's not clear what colors are already taken. Usually, in free-for-all, you want some unusued color and don't care about the distribution otherwise.

Idea: Show on each color button if it is already used, or how many players use it.

SimonN avatar Jan 17 '21 19:01 SimonN

Related idea: Instead of a list of players, have big color buttons. Clicking a color button adds your name on that color button. This will also accomplish the original goal: Make it obvious which colors are already taken.

I'm 50:50 about what's better. The used screen space will be roughly the same.

SimonN avatar Jun 29 '21 20:06 SimonN

Lix 0.9.43 will sort the list of players. That will alleviate this issue.

First criterion: Players sort higher than observers. Second criterion: Red sorts higher than orange, yellow, ... Third criterion: Within each color, sort by player name. Ready/unready doesn't affect sorting.

SimonN avatar Mar 06 '22 17:03 SimonN