A number of thoughts are running through my head after playing in several tournaments...

1. Why can't we explicitly invite people to public tournaments?
2. Why don't we have elimination tournaments again? I get that we're trying to do things "better" (read: differently) compared to "TOS", but between the general kludginess of the Swiss System tournaments in non- two player games and the fact that you can't set up a Round Robin tournament unless it's a two or three player game, it's making it difficult to properly fill and settle tournaments on most boards.
3. Team tournaments are a major bummer when one of your teammates gets booted. I'm still trying to think of a workable solution to this.

1. not sure
2. he was going to work on it after BAO play was going
3. that does suck. a number of alternatives have been offered up i think.

Elimination-style systems seem like a no-brainer to me.

Scramble the winners for the next round. Then I say go.

+1. In tournaments where multiple players or teams advance, I would think that scrambling would be good for discouraging longer term alliances.

I'll revisit the tournaments after the simultaneous play. Elimination tournaments are definitely on the list.

uummmmmmmm.......tom, where is team starting scenarios on the list? I am just curious, please do not take this as me being RiskyBack or anything.

I always take you as being Riskyback.

RiskyBack wrote: uummmmmmmm.......tom, where is team starting scenarios on the list? I am just curious, please do not take this as me being RiskyBack or anything.

Up to you guys really.. first off there is a bunch of minor bug fixes / feature requests queued up. The sort of thing I can get done in < 1 hour each.

After that there's (in no particular order):

• Scenario fixes that Yertle came up with (http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/1093/Scenario_Enhancements)
• Elimination tournaments
• Fixing the Swiss System tournament unfairness issue
• Public Tournament invitation system
• Fix the Friend browser and Create Game invite players page
• New Board list view - sorting, prioritising, favorites, by rating etc etc
• Newsletters

Happy to take a vote on which you guys see as top priority.

New thread to vote?

Yertle wrote: New thread to vote?

yes

well since a new thread wasn't started and i need to get this off my notepad i saved it to

in order of preference:

- Fix the Friend browser and Create Game invite players page
- Public Tournament invitation system
- Game History fixes
- Scenario fixes that Yertle came up with
    (http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/1093/Scenario_Enhancements)
- Elimination tournaments
- New Board list view - sorting, prioritising, favorites, by rating etc etc
- Fixing the Swiss System tournament unfairness issue
- Newsletters

I guess that fixes to things that are already here should come first so anything that has "Fix" in the description should be first.
I am bias because I really want to have Team Scenarios but that isn't nearly as important as fixes and also Tournament Invitation System since those are the things that will keep the site growing and playing so people will be hear to play:

Gear Wars: Episode III
Battle for the Ice Planet

right, which is why i put those at the top!
and i forgot to put rematches in there in between elimination and new board list view...

It would be nice to be able to see more map details before joining a tourney, in particular I would like to see whether I can place/transfer units to my teamate.

I'm all for the new features vote thread pls.
Team scenarios are pretty important for me.

Wallace Wishmaster wrote: I'm all for the new features vote thread pls.
Team scenarios are pretty important for me.

http://www.wargear.net/forum/showthread/1140/Voting_for_what_to_do_next_

(I moved from Support to Suggestions forum.)