Population Information in other Towns

[Tintomara]

Something I'd really love would be the possibility to find out a bit more about the other towns on the map without having to go there first. Ideally, I'd love to be able to click on each town and see who is there (the same info as in nearby, except that I can't duel them until I get there). That way, instead of travelling aimlessly through lots of towns where there's no people, or just being lazy and staying in Tar Valon with the sheep, I could see that "oh, there are some people of a decent level for me in Falme, and some more in Maradon. I'll go in that direction, despite the long, boring travel time"
As an extra bonus, I'd love to see who controls the town, and even better if the clan win totals for that town was visible, but the people is the most important thing.

I could possibly see this as a benefit for donations. It's "very nice-to-have", but not critical for game play.

As an alternative, I could be happy enough if there was info on how many chars are currently in the four towns I can travel to from the place I'm in. It would be something, at least.

[Tim]

Well, one of my plans that didn't make it in v2 was to add a clans section to the heroes board. Would list the top three clans in each town, as well as the top 5-10 based on wins overall. Another thought was to rank the towns (population, shop upgrades, average level of population, etc).

I don't particularly want to make it viewable who all is where, as that's not realistic as you wouldnn't really know (yes, I know it currently says where someone is in their bio, but I might change that too). However, I may look at adding more info.

Perhaps make it so if you click on the name of the town you want to travel to in the "Travel To" box, a box pops up with general info (Town Name, population, ruler, average level, etc.)...

[Tintomara]

Jan 14, 2009 10:06:01 GMT -6 Tim said:

Well, one of my plans that didn't make it in v2 was to add a clans section to the heroes board. Would list the top three clans in each town, as well as the top 5-10 based on wins overall. Another thought was to rank the towns (population, shop upgrades, average level of population, etc).

This would definitely be very nice, yes! I'd be very happy with this.

(yes, I know it currently says where someone is in their bio, but I might change that too).

GAH! Do you mean that if I want to beat up a particular person, I might have to travel the entire map trying to find him/her? In that case, pretty please give us faster travel! Even with war horses it's way too slow for my taste! (I have very limited time in a day for playing, so I'm very sensitive to everything that takes too long...)

Perhaps make it so if you click on the name of the town you want to travel to in the "Travel To" box, a box pops up with general info (Town Name, population, ruler, average level, etc.)...

This would be better than just getting the number of chars in the town. Could be redundant if you implement the first part of your post, but then again, would make for less need to go click on the rank page, I guess

[kaldar]

I fully support faster travel ......... 5 seconds between towns should be the max for our level of attention span

And even labeling each town with number of current residents would be an improvement I would think