ChickenBrick Studios Forum

[magik]

As a owner of a G2 it has been brought to my attention limitation that G1 users have advantages of

1. The biggest offence is texting: with the G2 you actually leave the playing field to do this and depending on how well you type, responding may take 20sec or better
Fix? possibly making the keyboard transparent so if I see action i can exit and resume response later.

2. Wisper with G2 almost impossible unless the game is empty, by the time u figure out the correct spelling (capital, underscore, o or 0, etc) the game is over
Fix? Possibly a simple /r which will automatically respond to wisper and possibly a drop down list of friends in game to avoide typing there name to save time.

3. When phone rings i get kicked off probably a problem across the board maybe a disabel option; sucks when ur about to capture the flag and get booted off, or option to accept call would be nice.

4. not sure your dept but track ball to touchy i use items i dont want to.

5. Waiting for another b*tch session lol about problems and improvments.
hope impact at least listens
thanks Rob

[superman]

Trackball is touchy with g1 as well

The g2 should have ariplain mode it won't let calls through I don't use cus work calls a lot but I think it works

[magik]

If i use airplane mode it will cancel all data transmission

[Phantasm]

With phone calls and texts, that's everyone. I agree its annoying. I have panda firewall from the market. It only blocks people you know, but you can turn it on and off, so if you have a friend or stalker that likes to annoy you and break into your game, you can try that. I'm sure there are other call blockers out there on the market, look for the ones to stop stalkers.

[starr]

Yes the g1 tracball is sensitive too and in the game b4 the trackball was used to look around the map. At first I thought the trackball idea wasn't good but I have gotten used to it, but I'm pretty sure u can use the old way too. Press and hold on your char and ur action bar will pop up then slide ur finger to the item u want to use. That's the other option. I also think there deff needs to be something done for g2 (mytouch) users. A transparent type screen would b the best option cause u can still see what ur doing and also read names if u need to whisper. I can't think of a better option.

[impact]

Unfortunately, a lot of the stuff there is a bit out of our scope. Just in the sense that we don't want to reimplement a lot of functionality that has a small connection to the game (like a virtual keyboard). I understand the problem, but we're very focused on game development, and taking a week to learn how to write a _decent_ virtual keyboard, just to have it tied in isn't something for us

That being said, its possible that theres a virtual keyboard in the market you can select thats semi-transparent and would suit your needs...