For the Arena mode, is there ANY (reasonable) way to get some useful informations about your own (or your opponent's!) stats, ranks, badges, season history? Why not?
It's kinda frustrating - you have all the information stored in your DB anyway, why not display it, or make it accessible? Anything ELSE can be accessed for any player!
It's kinda frustrating - you have all the information stored in your DB anyway, why not display it, or make it accessible? Anything ELSE can be accessed for any player!
- You can't even see your own arena BADGE, or rank, or rank progression anywhere. You can scroll through your gaming history to find the last play of a particular game - but that's just ridiculous. (correction: I just noticed that you CAN at least see your badge, if you go to the "Play now" page and explicitly select "Arena mode". But this is not the correct place to show this, and it will not show you much (such as, a rank-sorted LIST of badges and associated games/game icons, instead of an obfuscated grid of intermingled badges and game icons of every game you ever played)
- Same for your opponent: You at the very least want to know WHICH LEAGUE he is in, so you can estimate how many points you might get/lose. The displayed blue ELO value is only marginally useful, as it is pretty much unrelated to Arena games and ranks. (here there is, to my knowledge, NO way to get this information, except WADING through pages of game statistics of each individual opponent until you accidentally stumble upon his newest arena game).
- You can't even see how many arena points you gained or lost after a game is finished, except in the two-second animation of that popup, which is only shown once.
- Your Arena game results are mixed into your unsorted list of played games, which cannot be filtered except by game title, so there is no way to distinguish your Arena stats from other games (especially with friends).
- There is no decent documentation for the Arena anywhere. The only information is being collected in some forum thread, but the badges are not explained anywhere (not as icons, anyway, only mentioned in the text somewhere. what is the black bird? what is the blue diamond?), and the scoring example is useless (it only is for opponents of the SAME league, resulting in the useless "3 x 5 / 5 = 3". What if some opponents are in DIFFERENT leagues? What if you lost agains some, but won against others? And what happens to fractional scores, are they rounded? Cut off?)
- At gaming tables, there is a table called "RANKING", showing some names and badges - but no other explanation whatsoever, and nothing is clickable except the player names. So new players have absolutely NO idea what this is about, what the badge icons mean, and how you can participate. It's not possible to see the ranking of YOUR league, unless you happen to be one of the best BGA players (because then you are shown at the top).