Suggestions - Auto phase after draw and simplified lib view.

[Springtime]

first off I love this game. Its great being able to play a game I love on the psp and I've been playing since 0.4. I Think the recent polish the game recieved with the new themes has really taken the game into an amazing direction, but while playing the game I came up with a few suggestions for this game, one involving stretching the themeing to the library system, but first something that frustrates me at least once every game.

I know that quite a few times I have been frustrated due to drawing a card, then thinking the phase has shifted, start tapping mana to cast a spell, only to find that its still the draw phase and the mana wasted. Its been said that there is is no undo option for Wagic for untapping your lands, so I was thinking a better option would be a toggleable option in the options menu "automatically move to main phase after draw." so that those of us who are less then attentive all the time can elect to give up the ability to cast instants after drawing a card in the draw step for the ability to not waste mana unexpectedly, not to mention saving my teeth from wearing down as I grit them in frustration.

Second option is more of a graphic tweak but one I think can really save some memory and speed up viewing of the library. As it is now, the library fetches card images as they rotate, showing 5 on screen at a time. I think it would be better if it used a wheel like diagrammed below to move through the library, as it will only load one card at a time allowing for faster scrolling. Also, It would be helpful if the library was sorted alphabetically if you could use the L and R buttons to skip to the next letter of the alphabet or maybe the left and right directional buttons since the new wheel diagrammed below would use the up and down buttons for movement.



this is a mock up I made in MSpaint. I believe it would be a better system myself and I hope everyone else agrees.

Thank you for listening to my suggestions!

[Szei]

Even after all this time (I've played Wagic since version 0.3 and have spent well over 200 hours on it), I still mis-tap my mana right before the mainphase as you do. It can be extremely frustrating when I'm in a close game and I screw up this way. This doesn't happen as much as it used to, but I still mess up once every 10/20 games (a large percentage considering how much time I've had to get used to the game). I'll actually be quite surprised if this doesn't happen to anyone else.

The problem with the deck system is that, though I like your idea, I feel that the current system is still reasonably usable and would prefer other things to be worked on before this. However, if the deck building system is redone (and it will have to be eventually since large collections prove unwieldy to navigate through without some sort of quick jump system like the one suggested in your concept) I do like your proposal.

I'm interested what wololo and others have to say about this.

[wololo]

the recently introduced filters should fix the most urgent issues with Deck building.
I don't dislike your idea but I think it needs to be refined, which will probably happen if/when one of the devs wants to take on the "redoing the editor" task.

Other suggestions were made, that involve thumbnails, which could be mixed with your idea somehow.

Regarding Drawing: yes, happens to me all the time too. My current idea is to add a stupid ability that forces a menu to show up whenever you click on a card during the draw phase. Haven't found the time to work on that yet.

[Yorien]

Yorien says:

Wololo, you could also use the same idea Shandalar had:

Game by default ONLY stops on Main Phase (pre), Combat, Main Phase (post), unless:

a) There's some card or effect in play that happens ONLY on an "unnatural playing phase", and thus, requires a decision to be made in that phase (unkeep, draw, end...).
b) You place a CHECK on a particular phase for "always stop in this phase".

This way, people who doesn't want to play all phases can skip unwanted ones, while people wanting more control may CHECK and stop on all interesting phases to them.

Yo could add the B) option as an aditional in-game choice using the start button menu, inside place the available phases (separating both your's and enemies in case you want to play on some phase of your oponent's turn) and a checkbox (or yes/no choice) next to them.

[kingofsmut95]

I agree that there should be some system to
check or uncheck which phases the game will stop.
Maybe have a game play config menu which allows you to change the stops,
the back ground, or maybe the theme, the music or something like that.

One very important place that needs to have a stop is
at the end of the opponents turn.
This will make it way easier to do things like use the Icy Manipulator, or Royal Assasin someone or
tap some extra mana into a storage battery, or generate some tokens

[wololo]

One very important place that needs to have a stop is
at the end of the opponents turn.
This will make it way easier to do things like use the Icy Manipulator, or Royal Assasin someone or
tap some extra mana into a storage battery, or generate some tokens

This option already exists, check the option menu