SUGGESTIONS FOR VP4 ONLINE.

[AlytPool]

It would be nice to see the "walk back" key working imediatly after our shots. A way zo zoom out very quck.

I love "walk back" key.

[deraltefritz]

[deraltefritz]

[AlytPool]

[ingmu]

[ingmu]

One Pocket Stats

There lacks 1P stats, naturally because of the game itself. I've thought it for a while and finally came up with an idea: Scores.
Record the scores in a match and stats them by something like "points lost per game" or "points lost per game won".
How many points you lost in a winning game can partly represent how well you play in 1P.

[ingmu]

break rule in carom
http://celeris.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=2774

It's getting more necessary coz people are making good runs on break.

[deraltefritz]

Option to disallow jump shots under game -> advanced.

In real life, some house/tournament rules disallow jump shots for particular games, some allow jump shots only with the regular cue (i.e. no special jump cues).
Could we get such options ?

Thanks

[Romario11]

average shot time stat

[ingmu]

snooker stats: (amounts of) 50+ Breaks, Century Breaks

[ingmu]

Vote for re-rack in snooker when 5 consecutive turns with no balls touching rail after CB hit OB or potted.

Compulsory re-rack when more consecutive turns.

[ingmu]

Replay Hot keys

Hot keys (keyboard, not mouse) for replay functions.

Watching replay is like watching a game, we may like to change view (use "v" - the in-game hot key) sometimes.
We also click forward several times in a match replay.

It's not convenient now that we have to Alt to use the mouse, and then Alt again to switch back in-game many times.

[deraltefritz]

When there are screens like "designate ball on" or "choose pocket" or any other call shot screen, even the other players in the room can't do anything. They see the same cue stick to select things (but obviously can't select anything), and can't type. That could be implemented a bit more convenient, so that other players in the room can continue viewing around and chat.

[deraltefritz]

See here http://celeris.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=2887

PS URL command not working here?

[AlytPool]

Thanks a lot for the implementation of "foul and a miss" rule in snooker!

Fantastic

[Andreas Binz]

Is the foul and miss rule now reworked and better implemented ? Since the last update ? What exactly is better now ?

[AlytPool]

[Andreas Binz]

Sure it is more work to write changelogs but it would better to see what is the difference to the prevous version.
Still related to your rating sounds very good.

[AlytPool]

Snooker resign.

Well now since people cant resign with "escape/resign" (some players not aware about ctrl+R), players just force quit. Sometime they dont really do it on purpose but it's really annoying to battle 30min with someone and not get rewarded by rating points.

(i'm not pointing the fact that even ctrl+r option is still broken sometime, yes, even more than 3 snooker behind, with ctrl+r, when it's your turn)

When the game will be public and crowded, you can be sure that a lot more playerd will abuse of that silly rule.

[deraltefritz]

Russian billiards or whatever the different versions of this game are called --> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_pyramid
This game has it:
http://www.billiards3d.net/
The Russian market isn't too small, and the engine probably already allows for that type of games.

And again, table and stroke imperfections.
This game will have those:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Shooters-Pool/254277547961451
and is probably going to be a good alternative for anyone seeking more realistic gameplay (i.e. no rolling shots across table, etc)

[dayveed]

I thought of something, i'm using Google Diary (or calendar) many times a day, there is an option to share public calendar's friend, i thought about sharing tournaments calendar would be cool !

Another point, i found no link of this forum on the vpool portal website, is it somewhere ?

Thanks for reading

[AlMightyBob]

There really should be a prominent link to this forum somewhere on the portal. A forum like this is great for recorded discussion and that would drive more people here.

For an actual suggestion, I think something should be done to encourage tournament entries. At the moment, most people wait till 5-10 mins before the thing starts. That's fine but I believe most people wait because they want to see roughly how many entries there will be to help decide if it's worth their time. I suggest that, for example, the first 8 people to sign up to a 64 max tourney would receive a 10% discount on the entry fee. Players that decide to sign up in advance get a reduced price and are encouraged to enter and players deciding at the last moment will see a fuller tournament and are encouraged to enter. It doesn't have to be 8 players and it doesn't have to be 10% but you get the idea.

[9balldotcom]

I agree

[HertogJan]

Hi,

I would like to be able to change from player to spectator and back again when in a 'challenge' game without having to leave the room.

[deraltefritz]

Rankings:

I would guess that the majority of people cannot play ladder & tournaments every day, so there isn't really a chance for them to get anywhere to the top in the existing leader boards.
So why not show a column with "money won minus money spent"? If you have only time to play in one or two tournaments per week, but you get in the money quite often, it would show in that column.

Statistics:
Runout from break / break money made / break fouls / racks run are very difficult to compare, as the total number of breaks/racks varies extremely between players. It could be a percentage of that total number, just as Ave Balls Made is.