hi everybody,
i have some suggestions to make to further improve coconet. i hope we can discuss them and maybe kroah likes to implement some of them:
a) there could be a tool to move troops through a chain of countries with one step, i.e. from mexico to columbia. of course this only makes sense (should be available) when you own all countries inbetween.
usage: left-click mexico -> move army -> left-click columbia. then in the standard move dialog, the maximum is limited to the highest number of troops in all the countries in the chain. this should also be the default value.
b) one could play without showing the battles if one could see who attacked a country after the battle phase. there could be flags of the attacking countries unter der fire symbol, or some info in the mouseover window?
c) i find the display geography option useful, but i also have to see if there is a fortification on the country or even its worth. you could display the geography by a coloured frame or an additional number/letter. this way one could seeing worth and geography at the same time.
d) i would like an option to have the chat window fixed on screen, maybe also set its size. or can i just set Messages_Delay to a really high value to see the chat window for longer? i could not find any info on this. even better, an audio chat would be awesome, but skype also works fine...
e) i always fortify all my countries. doing this with a single button would be nice.
f) i have a 1920*1080 screen resolution and maximizing the window with the zoom * 2 option leaves a black strip at the bottom. the fullscreen option unfortunately does not change this.
g) it always bugged me that one cannot conquer ALL territories. it would be a dream come true if you could make all these colour patterned countries conquerable: northern + southern new zealand, tasmania, islands east of new guinea, iceland, sachalin (north of japan), islands east of java
and possibly join these islands with some other country: sicilia+sardinia+corsika with italy, islands north of canada with some country south of them, islands between luzon and mindanao, island south of lukien with lukien, tiny speck north of moscow.
h) a plattform to find other players and even play tournaments would be nice! has anyone experience with this? probably something like this already exists?
i) i would spend hours creating new scenarios. i would only have to know some format requirements like map size/resolution, colour limitations, country names and territory values in xml file(?) etc.
EDIT: in this other post kroah explained that this will be possible in the next version: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=119&p=615#p615 GREAT!
j) how about additional languages? i love english but maybe the game would spread more if there were additional languages. i could provide German.
i also am a c++ programmer with some years of experience, so i could write some code or do some beta testing or whatever. but kroah made it clear in some other post that help in this way is not nescessary, or is it?
so, what do you guys think?