#31500: "Consistency with BGA and ease of use"
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• Please copy/paste the error message you see on your screen, if any.
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
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• Please explains what you wanted to do, what you do and what happened
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Google Chrome v89
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here. Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• What was displayed on the screen when you were blocked (Blank screen? Part of the game interface? Error message?)
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Which part of the rules was not respected by the BGA adaptation
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
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• Is the rules violation visible on game replay? If yes, at which move number?
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Which was the game action you wanted to do?
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
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• What do you try to do to trigger this game action?
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• What happened when you try to do this (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• At which step of the game did the problem occurs (what was the current game instruction)?
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
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• What happened when you try to do a game action (error message, game status bar message, ...)?
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Please describe the display issue. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here.
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Please copy/paste the text displayed in English instead of your language. If you have a screenshot of this bug (good practice), you can use a picture hosting service of your choice (snipboard.io for example) to upload it and copy/paste the link here. Is this text available in the translation system? If yes, has it been translated for more than 24 hours?
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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• Please explain your suggestion precisely and concisely so that it's as easy as possible to understand what you mean.
Would be nice that action like Discard or Meld or Add to existing Meld be added at the top as a button.
• What is your browser?
Google Chrome v89
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So I think for example, that seeing the Discard/Add to meld (when applicable) button at the top would make it easier to "get used" to the game. For me an my wife, it took us some looking around in our first game.
Button I see
Draw (already there)
Pick Discard
Discard - once a card is selected
Add to Meld - once a card is selected
New Meld - when more than one card is selected
Undo
Also... the Target contract, if you play on mobile, Blue/Brown/Yellow mean nothing since you can't do move over. Maybe have an icon for Clean/Dirty/Wild....
And maybe "gray out" discard pile when you can't pick from it
That's what I see at the moment.
My philosophy in developing this game (based in part on published developer guidelines) was that people who know how to play the game would be able to figure out how it works. My observation of early (pre-alpa) playtesters has so far borne this out -- most may take a minute or two to figure out how to do something (e.g. playing required cards after taking the discard, or creating a new meld when you have too many cards for an existing meld), but game play then proceeds apace.
As far as the contract bar is concerned, I understand your concern about not understanding its meaning in the mobile setting. I'm just not sure what sort of iconography would be unambiguous (in a visual multilingual setting) to communicate the different meld types. Feel free to message me (or open a suggestion specific to that item) if you have specific iconography in mind.
Lastly, I would ask that you separate out your issues into specific separate bugs/suggestions, so that they can be separately voted on. (e.g. one for "add buttons to the top of the screen", "improve target contract display", etc.)
I've tested herloff yesterday, a game that I had no idea of the rule or whatever, and UI took a second to get used to, I don't think both option are opposite. Both can exist at the same time.
But I can understand that cost/benefit is not good for you.
Thank
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