Donelladan wrote:Will we have the option for the new design of the "my games" page or will it be compulsory change ? I think I'll prefer the old one.
I am a supporter of most of the new changes made up to now and like the way CC is going. But I have to say I am surprised by this change, there is some features not working correctly - polymorphic deadbeat - map inspect for map with the conditional border for example that should be fixed. There is extremely good suggestion in the suggestion forum that could nicely improve the game. But I don't think anyone asked to change the my games page so why doing smthg which is not demanded while there is stuff to do?
Some comments from the Beta Testers forum which may answer your question:
bigWham wrote:Central Command is the old "My Games" page reworked for the modern world.
Aside from looking better, Central Command uses responsive design which you will see if you resize your browser. The main stimulus for this redesign was to make this page work better on mobile devices, small screens, and in situations, such as a Facebook Tab, where there is limited space available.
(emphasis added -- DK)bigWham wrote:I appreciate that it's a dramatic change and that initially many people will dislike it. However, CC's current My Games page was created in 2006 and basically hasn't changed since... except to add more game settings. It is outmoded, not well structured from an information-design point of view, unattractive, and does not work with small screens.
This change should be better for new players ... since it is more in line with what you get on today's internet. Actually though, the change was not so much for new players but for the need to make this page work more flexibly in a wide variety of scenarios... such as a cell phone or a Facebook Tab.
Donelladan wrote:But I don't think anyone asked to change the my games page so why doing smthg which is not demanded while there is stuff to do?
Actually, demands to upgrade the basic UI are commonplace. Comments such as the following have been repeated by hundreds of people as far back as I can remember:
Subject: Is CC Declining?Army of GOD wrote:I still think the biggest problem is the UI. Site looks like it did in 2006. Looks older than saxi.
Still, cosmetic change is not what this is about. The basic need for the change is, as BW said above, to continue to make CC more scalable in on a multi-platform Internet. As fewer people get their internet from traditional desktop computers and more people get it from phones and tablets, the scalability is a stronger need.
The small tweaks that you mention -- stuff like polymorphic deadbeat not working properly -- do get some of BW's attention. For instance, just a couple of weeks ago he fixed the problem with Panel-mode autosnapshots, and they are now taken at the end of a turn as people wanted, not at the beginning of a turn, as they originally did. Those little tweaks are happening all the time, without any big hoopla or fanfare. But little tweaks won't bring the patient back. Only major surgery will do that.