New title of webpage when start the game has been hit
Posted: 11 December 2013, 05:32
Sometimes it takes an awful lot of time until enough players are there to start the game. For example in Saboteur or Niagara or Elfenland and other games as well, I'm sure.
That makes quite a few players surf the web in another tab. But when they are in quiet places they can't switch on the sound (or don't do it anyway regardless of reasons). So they have no possibility to know when the game is about to start than to check back every minute or so. That makes the waiting time for all the others even longer, especially when the one surfing elsewhere doesnt come back in time.
So why not do what you do in-game as well: change the title of the webpage as soon as someone has clicked "start the game" so the text shown in tabs changes as well. This way the waiting time surely won't be as long as it is now because a quick glance over tells you if you need to report back already or not.
(In game it works great, when someone takes their time you can always recognize by the tab name whose turn it is)
That makes quite a few players surf the web in another tab. But when they are in quiet places they can't switch on the sound (or don't do it anyway regardless of reasons). So they have no possibility to know when the game is about to start than to check back every minute or so. That makes the waiting time for all the others even longer, especially when the one surfing elsewhere doesnt come back in time.
So why not do what you do in-game as well: change the title of the webpage as soon as someone has clicked "start the game" so the text shown in tabs changes as well. This way the waiting time surely won't be as long as it is now because a quick glance over tells you if you need to report back already or not.
(In game it works great, when someone takes their time you can always recognize by the tab name whose turn it is)