Free Premium & Game Invitations

[TheOtherOne]

could it be possible to add the invite to the "start a game" page?

[Mr_Adams]

not applicable to speed games I see.

[Night Strike]

not applicable to speed games I see.

Game invitations are not available for speed games.

(4th paragraph of 1st post)

[lackattack]

It would be nice if the PM stated what type of game it is. For instance I've been experimenting with it for tournament games but I understand from one of my players that he had a lot of these come in and almost missed that this was for a tournament. I believe the PM current states "You're Invited to a Game!" but if we could add in the type (Tournament, Private, Public) before the word Game it would be helpful.

I added the tournament name to the PM, like this:

I reserved a spot for you on Team 1 in game 3438782 (Tournament: Feudal Doubles Tournament).

Also, when you view the game you'll be able to see all the details including the game label.

[barterer2002]

Great, thanks Lack

[Night Strike]

Perhaps it would also be good to have the tournament invite override the Yes/No option on the Game Settings screen.

[barterer2002]

Or at the very least notify the TO that this player isn't accepting invites.

[Beckytheblondie]

I join a quads game with team 1 reserved by creator. I invite three members to join me on team two. One of my invites declines leaving an open spot. Creator quickly after invites an unknown player to join my team, I think. I didn't invite another player.

Is this legal?

[potiusmori]

There should be a "Reserved/Unreserved" radio button in Game Finder with "Unreserved" checked as default. Now when I do a game search for public games I get a whole page of Reserved games which I can't join and don't care about. This should be fixed, it's like forgetting to click "public" and seeing all the private games you can't join.

I agree. and if you go to join a game, there are always 3-5 stipes at the top that say "game XXXXXX is fully reserved" or something like that.

and then about 30 of Klobber's stupid circus maximus games.

There's not even stripes saying Fully reserved in some situations. I just did a search i typically do (2 players, open, public) and the first ten hits are 1 player and -reserved-. I'm confident I'm not invited to them, so I'd prefer not to see them. I'm thirding the request (it seems) that reserved games are either shown only if you're the invitee or an option made in game finder to exclude them entirely.

Also, I'm curious if the reservation feature will be used to lock-out open games if the time limit is extended past 24 hours. If I had premium & a player I didn't want to be my teammate (but didn't care to make a foe) joined my team, I might just send out an invite to a dud account or friend and let it sit as long as I could with the hope of encouraging that player to move on to another game.

[cyrenius]

Game Invitations

The spot is automatically reserved for 24 hours and the player is sent a PM with instructions. You can invite players into public games and private games.

It is almost 48 hours since I invited someone to a game and the spot it's still reserved

Game 5298357

[GenuineEarlGrey]

It is almost 48 hours since I invited someone to a game and the spot it's still reserved

Seem to have a similar situation in Game 5297618

Many thanks for the addition

E.G.

[lackattack]

I must have forgotten to update a file. Looks like they are expiring now...

[flexmaster33]

nice work...I look forward to that feature as a T.O...makes sending out reminders much easier.

[potiusmori]

Oh... Idea/Annoyance I'm seeing with the reservation system.

I've seen a few games now where it's set up as follows:
(2 player map)
slot 1: -open-
slot 2: -reserved-

Is there any point in maintaining reservations when no other players are holding slots (outside of possibly a tournament game)? Shouldn't the game, upon last "active" player leaves the reservations be removed/game destroyed, similar as to what happens when the last player leaves a game without reservations?

Liking the idea though. great addition.

[yowzer14]

There should be a "Reserved/Unreserved" radio button in Game Finder with "Unreserved" checked as default. Now when I do a game search for public games I get a whole page of Reserved games which I can't join and don't care about. This should be fixed, it's like forgetting to click "public" and seeing all the private games you can't join.

Definitely something that should be added to the "Game Finder" page. Would reduce the pages of games that are not available to join. I agree, a simple checkbox before submitting or perhaps just not showing games that you are not a reserved player for and therefore cannot Join into.