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Share your creative ideas / Game mechanics suggestions from a girl's point of view
« on: May 30, 2010, 02:16:07 AM »
Hello developers and fellow chatters,
Yesterday I was showing a new girl around and it made me realize that some of the game mechanics are not very girl friendly. Since the idea should be to encourage more girls to play here (to satisfy all those horny men right?
, I thought I'd share some thoughts with you on this. To be clear: it's just ideas on game mechanics, so not on the sex interactions in the rooms (which I think are already great, and there are a lot of posts about that already).
1) Every girl gets swamped, especially premium users. One very easy and user friendly way to fix this, is to let a user choose the maximum amount of people in her chat window. That way, everybody can decide for themselves. All users above the threshold will get a polite message, simple and clear.
2) The amount of text space for your introduction (the text below your avatar) is way too limited. As a girl I like to make very clear beforehand what I like and I can't simply because the number of characters you can use is too limited. Why not let the user decide? I understand the need of a limit somewhere, but make it in the order of 1000-2000 characters.
3) The gift system is a nice way to encourage girls to participate. Only thing is, when a guy is nice enough to give you one, you first have to become friends (logout - login), and then you cannot see the gift when it is added (unless you logout - login again). Since I'm guessing (from developers point of view) these are both profile updates (to a database?), I understand why you have to in the current situation, but why not make an in-game update button for your profile? So when you click the update button, your profile will be reloaded, without you having to go through the hassle of logging out/in.
4) There's a lot to do about cold invites. Most people hate them, some people like them, but for a (new) girl they can be intimidating. Again: why not let the user decide? You can add a check option to the profile (something like "No cold invites") and when people have it checked, they cannot get any. To develop this, you could check whether the requesting person is currently in a chat session with the requested person. If not, an invite is not possible. I admit this will not solve the problem entirely - someone could say "Hello" and send you a semi-cold invite - but it's a start.
That's all for now, maybe some more ideas will come to me later. I hope it is appreciated
X Carli
Yesterday I was showing a new girl around and it made me realize that some of the game mechanics are not very girl friendly. Since the idea should be to encourage more girls to play here (to satisfy all those horny men right?
, I thought I'd share some thoughts with you on this. To be clear: it's just ideas on game mechanics, so not on the sex interactions in the rooms (which I think are already great, and there are a lot of posts about that already).1) Every girl gets swamped, especially premium users. One very easy and user friendly way to fix this, is to let a user choose the maximum amount of people in her chat window. That way, everybody can decide for themselves. All users above the threshold will get a polite message, simple and clear.
2) The amount of text space for your introduction (the text below your avatar) is way too limited. As a girl I like to make very clear beforehand what I like and I can't simply because the number of characters you can use is too limited. Why not let the user decide? I understand the need of a limit somewhere, but make it in the order of 1000-2000 characters.
3) The gift system is a nice way to encourage girls to participate. Only thing is, when a guy is nice enough to give you one, you first have to become friends (logout - login), and then you cannot see the gift when it is added (unless you logout - login again). Since I'm guessing (from developers point of view) these are both profile updates (to a database?), I understand why you have to in the current situation, but why not make an in-game update button for your profile? So when you click the update button, your profile will be reloaded, without you having to go through the hassle of logging out/in.
4) There's a lot to do about cold invites. Most people hate them, some people like them, but for a (new) girl they can be intimidating. Again: why not let the user decide? You can add a check option to the profile (something like "No cold invites") and when people have it checked, they cannot get any. To develop this, you could check whether the requesting person is currently in a chat session with the requested person. If not, an invite is not possible. I admit this will not solve the problem entirely - someone could say "Hello" and send you a semi-cold invite - but it's a start.
That's all for now, maybe some more ideas will come to me later. I hope it is appreciated
X Carli