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Player info - generating ideas to discuss...
Hi
Something interesting to generate ideas and to discuss....
At the moment on a player's 'plinth' (the stats around the avatar) you can see some basic information about them and how many chips / how much cash they have plus occasional other information like bounties etc.
So, it would be interesting to discuss what other information might you like to be shown and why this would be useful?
Any interesting ideas?
Thanks
Sky Poker
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Red - Good player
Amber - Average player
Green - Weak player
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2. I would like the notes to come up in a bubble when you scroll onto a player , then disappear when u move your cursor off , rather than having to click notes tab all the time.
Would speed things up when making decisions IMO.
EDIT: To be fair, I haven't played in a few weeks, so maybe it has been fixed. I remember a thread from Sky_Dave about it, so I may be a touch out of date. Not sure though.
Personally I don't think the stack sizes should be in the location field anyway.....after all it is a location, perhaps separating the stack sizes from the location would be a better way forward?
Why is our location even included? most other sites just say "Germany" "Poland" or whatever
Sorry, just to interject...
This isn't what we were really referring to. We were really thinking about things that are not shown at the moment.
For example, you might show how many tables your opponent is playing.
Is that useful / relevant or do you have any other ideas?
Should be something like this imo:
You're using an girl's avatar, are you really a woman? - Yes
Really? - Yes
Are you Sure? - What you saying?
Come on now - Ok, my name's Mark/Wayne/Tommy.
In seriousness the less there the better. The only thing I could argue deserves the time, effort and focus to be added would be a mini/maxi view light/symbol for purposes of chatting. However if chat's available in mini in the future this too would be defunct.
(and completely agree with Borin Loner above that it is irritaing when someone has a "team" as their location field. There's been enough polite requests by Sky to remove these that surely you can do something to sort this out automatically now?) Also you need to do something about the location fields that, while genuine, go on to two lines and thereby cover the stack info - e.g. Newcastle-upon-Tyne or Thornton Cleveleys to note just two I've seen in the last 24 hours)
But then we are getting in to the realms of encouraging bhunting. Not that im against this.
Information that I specifcally dont want. Would be anything to do with hands entered/%flops seen/VPIP and so forth.
Thanks for the feedback. Just another thing - if (and it is an if) we did something like this in future. it wouldnt likely be visible all the time but perhaps on clicking or hovering over the avatar with your mouse.
It just allows you to make some very basic assumptions about their game. Obv it's a generalisation and we can be given evidence at a later stage to prove otherwise but most people who 1table are not as good as most people who 6+table.... ready to be shot down here lol.
Also, it's probably safe to assume that someone who is 20tabling isn't gonna be raising 79o UTG (again, could be proven wrong...). Someone 1tabling may very well do this.
I tend to check/know roughly how many tables most of my opponents play but nice to not have to check for new opponents.
You are missing the wider picture.
I hate sites that support poker tracker. I think people should be paying attention and work to get their statistical information rather than handed to them on a plate.
Plus the aforementioned information would ruin the site with loads of new competent players playing stupid numbers of tables and just playing the numbers.
Plus it might start the lesser/recereational players working on their game.
I am all for improvement in quality of software, but would hate for Sky to have an influx of sharks, a poker tracker style approach would be a step in this direction.
Although recs putting less work in on their game is a good thing and most people would have no idea what to do with the information or how to adapt (or even want to change their own game) anyway.
But yeah no HUDs
Thanks for the ideas and feedback on the ideas.
I know you can already search a player but while multi tabling it takes too much time to type a players name in the "find a player" tool in the lobby.
We already have the ability to search for players manually, so why make it compulsary for everyone?
It'll most likely just be another benefit to bumhunters. An easy way to spot where the recreational players are, a magnet for the grinders who are just looking for easy money.
If you want to search up someone, you have the power to do so. People shouldn't be forced to have even more information given away about the state of their game than there already is.
Player Avatars, Location, and those who are Chat Disabled. All steps in the right direction imho.
And I hate to sound like a snidey self-entitled SoB, but more time spent on tweaking the new software (that still needs a fair bit of work done on it, from what I've seen and heard), and less time spent on tiny improvements like the ones suggested itt, would be amazeballs. tyyyyyyyyyyyyy