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I know its all been said, but the software sucks *** so ill chime in. Things that we've been talking about for two months that apparently weren't important enough to address:1. Resizable tables or some kind of mini-view!! Absolutely ridiculous that the software was released without this. If you play at multiple sites it is ESSENTIAL to smooth game play.2. Hand histories that weren't designed for maximum inconvenience? Maybe something radical like a one-step process that every other competitive site has. 3. Ever-present avatars: They are already bulky and ugly as hell, can we at least have them leave when no one is sitting there?4. Sliding bet bar that increases by increments of the blinds.5. Tourney lobbies: Haven't seen them in action yet so maybe improvements were made. Being able to see a list of all chip counts as well as where a player is seated without going to the website is very important. 6. Going to the FCP website every time I want to do something (ie. casher) sucks. How often do I go to Pokerstars.com when I play at stars? Never. 7. Simple tourney stats that I can view from the tourney table. Yet another feature that separates good sites (Stars, UB, FT) from bad that FCP lacks.8. Hot Button keys. You took away one of the only nice things from ongame...lol :club: 9. Better game selection; HORSE, razz, ect10. Software that doesn't make me feel like I'm in a cartoon. Were playing for money here, at least make it look professional.I would cut you guys some more slack because I know your under crazy pressure/deadlines, but when it's this bad and almost NOTHING was done to change problems from ongame, I wonder how thought was put into any of the original suggestions. /End rant.
^^^Everything he said except #9. Let's get all of these crazy user interface issues resolved first.
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maybe it is me, but on the old site, all i had to do is right click on the player to make notesi looked everywhere how do i make notes on the other playersthanks

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I know its all been said, but the software sucks *** so ill chime in. Things that we've been talking about for two months that apparently weren't important enough to address:1. Resizable tables or some kind of mini-view!! Absolutely ridiculous that the software was released without this. If you play at multiple sites it is ESSENTIAL to smooth game play.2. Hand histories that weren't designed for maximum inconvenience? Maybe something radical like a one-step process that every other competitive site has. 3. Ever-present avatars: They are already bulky and ugly as hell, can we at least have them leave when no one is sitting there?4. Sliding bet bar that increases by increments of the blinds.5. Tourney lobbies: Haven't seen them in action yet so maybe improvements were made. Being able to see a list of all chip counts as well as where a player is seated without going to the website is very important. 6. Going to the FCP website every time I want to do something (ie. casher) sucks. How often do I go to Pokerstars.com when I play at stars? Never. 7. Simple tourney stats that I can view from the tourney table. Yet another feature that separates good sites (Stars, UB, FT) from bad that FCP lacks.8. Hot Button keys. You took away one of the only nice things from ongame...lol :club: 9. Better game selection; HORSE, razz, ect10. Software that doesn't make me feel like I'm in a cartoon. Were playing for money here, at least make it look professional.I would cut you guys some more slack because I know your under crazy pressure/deadlines, but when it's this bad and almost NOTHING was done to change problems from ongame, I wonder how thought was put into any of the original suggestions. /End rant.
Everything he said. Especially #1,2,3,6 & 10!
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I know its just the beginning, but I have to ask this: What is the anticipated average amount of players at night (PT time). Right now as I type I see 4 possible tournies, and 351 people sitting in Cash games. Trust me I understand that everything is being done to continue us US players the ability to play, but with the broad range of bankrolls that the original FCP Members have, 351 people on late nite is not a good thing.Also I support CFINNS suggestions on the changes that need to be made. Please let us know on what future plans and projected numbers are as soon as possible, this will help us all sleep better at nite.Long Live FCP!Chaos

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I know its just the beginning, but I have to ask this: What is the anticipated average amount of players at night (PT time). Right now as I type I see 4 possible tournies, and 351 people sitting in Cash games. Trust me I understand that everything is being done to continue us US players the ability to play, but with the broad range of bankrolls that the original FCP Members have, 351 people on late nite is not a good thing.Also I support CFINNS suggestions on the changes that need to be made. Please let us know on what future plans and projected numbers are as soon as possible, this will help us all sleep better at nite.Long Live FCP!Chaos
Asking for things like this is unreasonable.I think the point of this thread is to focus on issues with the software/program.If they can work that out and turn this in to a kick as.s poker site, the traffic will take care of itself.I must say I don't think it looks promising at this point, and I deposited, and then cashed out on the very same day, leaving in only a minimal amount in case any cool tourney opportunities spring up.When they're up against pokerstars as the "option" for U.S. players, they have some pretty high standards to live up to, and I must say, this beta version is "straight up, ghetto". There are a LOT of things that need a LOT of work, and in my opinion, they should have left the site offline until it was at least respectable, which this is not.
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Asking for things like this is unreasonable.I think the point of this thread is to focus on issues with the software/program.If they can work that out and turn this in to a kick as.s poker site, the traffic will take care of itself.I must say I don't think it looks promising at this point, and I deposited, and then cashed out on the very same day, leaving in only a minimal amount in case any cool tourney opportunities spring up.When they're up against pokerstars as the "option" for U.S. players, they have some pretty high standards to live up to, and I must say, this beta version is "straight up, ghetto". There are a LOT of things that need a LOT of work, and in my opinion, they should have left the site offline until it was at least respectable, which this is not.
I understand estimating amount of users is unreasonable, however having only 350 players online at nite will not attract or be a profitable solution. I myself will play on FCP over pokerstars just because of the support and future I see at FCP, however anyone trying to make a income or a consistency of an income is truly weighing their options.Yes you can offer bonuses but like we have found out on many sites before they are nearly impossible to clear with very low amounts of traffic.I am not asking for miracles just maybe a hint of a plan and projective goals that FCP has. Like any other business a plan must be in place, and with us supporting these plans, I think a little need to know is not too much to ask.
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Look at the amount of (albeit tiny ones that I've never even heard of) sites that are supposedly signed up to be in this new network.They're expecting to get a very high volume of players.They certainly have their work cut out for them. I hope that they're able to figure it out, but at this point, I'll be at stars until further notice.

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I understand estimating amount of users is unreasonable, however having only 350 players online at nite will not attract or be a profitable solution. I myself will play on FCP over pokerstars just because of the support and future I see at FCP, however anyone trying to make a income or a consistency of an income is truly weighing their options.Yes you can offer bonuses but like we have found out on many sites before they are nearly impossible to clear with very low amounts of traffic.I am not asking for miracles just maybe a hint of a plan and projective goals that FCP has. Like any other business a plan must be in place, and with us supporting these plans, I think a little need to know is not too much to ask.
The sites that will provide the bulk of the traffic for the Digital Gaming Network have't joined yet but over the next weeks will be joining to help provide the player base that is needed.We can't make announcements for those sites or the DGN .
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i also just remembered something regarding player notes:assuming taking notes on other players is a feature that will be implemented later, it's VERY useful to be able to view those notes just by hovering over that player's sn or avatar rather than having to right click and go to the note editing screen to see what you've already typed. this is one of few things that aggravates me about stars.most of the other suggestions seem pretty universal. i'm planning on going through each little bit of the software and will give a very detailed "report" later.

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I must say I don't think it looks promising at this point, this beta version is "straight up, ghetto". There are a LOT of things that need a LOT of work, and in my opinion, they should have left the site offline until it was at least respectable, which this is not.
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I can't play with this software.Knowing that this is the beta version gives me hope and I'll leave my money on the site until January. Hopefully the platform will be completely revamped and I can support FCP and make some money. I'm not confident that a system wide reprogramming is even possible no matter how good the support is.This makes me sad.

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Much overlap with previous suggestions, with a priority on them:Level 1: Won't play unless this is fixed** Rake is too high for low buy-in tournaments. Why would I pay $1 rake for a $5 tournament when I could just go to another site and play for half that rake? Same with $9/1 instead of $10/1.Level 2: Will significantly deter me from playing here** Resizeable tables. This is a biggie.** Must be able to find our current rank in a tournament** Chat window needs to be bigger and the dealer messages need to be clearer and more complete. See Ongame software as an example -- the docking chatbox was slick.** Get rid of exit popup on the cash games warning us about buyin amounts. It's obvious once you do it once or twice.** Need to make it clearer whose turn it is to act. ** Need to make it clearer if we have preselected an action. It's too subtle right now. Again, see the old Ongame software for ideas.** Just steal the instant hand history window from PokerStars, it doesn't get any better than that.** The info from the dealer in the chat box has lots of meaningless verbiage, and useful stuff is not there. I should be able to recreate the hand as I saw it from the chatbox.Level 3: Makes playing less pleasant, but doesn't affect my decision to play here** Make the slider bar only stop at multiples of the current minraise amount, so you can't bet weird amounts without typing.** Tournament information screen should show number of hours/minutes until start so we don't have to do time zoneconversions in our head.** Need a quicker way to find my online balanceLevel 4: Aesthetic/spelling level errors** Current skin cuts off the heads of the players at the top.Level 5: The wishlist** Allow users to submit skins for other users to download. They must display FCP prominently, and must be politicallycorrect, and cannot offend any pros or FCP members.** Show probabilities on all-ins once cards are revealed.

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Much overlap with previous suggestions, with a priority on them:Level 1: Won't play unless this is fixed** Rake is too high for low buy-in tournaments. Why would I pay $1 rake for a $5 tournament when I could just go to another site and play for half that rake? Same with $9/1 instead of $10/1.Level 2: Will significantly deter me from playing here** Resizeable tables. This is a biggie.** Must be able to find our current rank in a tournament** Chat window needs to be bigger and the dealer messages need to be clearer and more complete. See Ongame software as an example -- the docking chatbox was slick.** Get rid of exit popup on the cash games warning us about buyin amounts. It's obvious once you do it once or twice.** Need to make it clearer whose turn it is to act. ** Need to make it clearer if we have preselected an action. It's too subtle right now. Again, see the old Ongame software for ideas.** Just steal the instant hand history window from PokerStars, it doesn't get any better than that.** The info from the dealer in the chat box has lots of meaningless verbiage, and useful stuff is not there. I should be able to recreate the hand as I saw it from the chatbox.Level 3: Makes playing less pleasant, but doesn't affect my decision to play here** Make the slider bar only stop at multiples of the current minraise amount, so you can't bet weird amounts without typing.** Tournament information screen should show number of hours/minutes until start so we don't have to do time zoneconversions in our head.** Need a quicker way to find my online balanceLevel 4: Aesthetic/spelling level errors** Current skin cuts off the heads of the players at the top.Level 5: The wishlist** Allow users to submit skins for other users to download. They must display FCP prominently, and must be politicallycorrect, and cannot offend any pros or FCP members.** Show probabilities on all-ins once cards are revealed.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, and yes. I don't think I could have put my thoughts into words any better than this.....nh.The only thing I'll add is to support a dpi of 120 - a very low priority, but it makes everything look too cluttered and changing it is a pain in the ... This has never been an issue on any other poker software...See thread here for example Text formatting issues
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I played the freeroll tonight and noticed to problems that really irritated me.1. About every 10 or 15 minutes I would be sit out of action. I don't know what was causing this, but when this happened it would not blink the table to let me know action was required and I missed several hands. (at different times) I also noticed this happen to others a few times as they would tell us in chat the the software just sit them out or folded a hand if they had been dealt. This in my mind is a major flaw. If Bob reads this I do have a hand number written down if that will help.2. Right around the bubble I kept getting switched tables. Like every few hands. This happened several times within 10 to 15 hands. Each time I got moved it would be one to three in front of the bb. I would play through the bb and then get moved back to 2 in front of the bb. I don't know if this is normal or just random, but that was very annoying. Especially when blinds were so big and I ended up having the blinds about 3 times in the same amount of time that others had them once maybe twice.I noticed that the buy-ins for tourneys were chanced. 9 + 1's went to 10 + 1's, which is what they were. What I can't understand is why $5 sit n gos have a $1 fee. Twice the % of the $10 ones. Can someone explain this to me? If this how it will remain?

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  • [*]I want the amount I have down to the penny, not rounded down to the nearest dollar
Yes this needs to be implimented NOW, right now!! ;)Seriously tho, Cfinn and WonderfulSplash and others posts nailed most of my concerns already! I also share bdc30's sentiments regarding the "straight up, ghetto" feel. Might have been better to wait with the launch until they had an atleast half decent product.And 2 suggestions to add:I really liked the ongame feature where you could use the scroll button (on the mouse) to decide your betsize and the abillity to create your own ring table.Good luck fcp
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re-connection needs to be better.table stayed stuck after a very short disconnect problem. (stars just flashed a reconnecting dialog for a few secs)I had to close the table and reopen. It did remember i was sitting there tho when it came back.

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how about slowing down the cards when players are all-in? sometimes i cant even tell what all the cards were and what the winning hand was. just a thought to add some 'real game' feel
I agree. I find the cards are moving a little too fast. Hard to follow.
  • new poker room
  • custom avatars
  • new cards
  • something has to be done with the cashier. You should be able to access through the main lobby. not another IE window, then have to login, it sucks.

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I read this thread and all of the notes I made while playing this morning have been mentioned.This Beta version means that there are some software guys getting little or no sleep working to improve FCP: Congrats to them. That said, keep working, the site is a mess and needs a lot of work.If the FCP poker site has the money, hire a graphic designer that has logged a few thousand hours playing poker online. The look has to improve. In this morning's SNG, 'the' most annoying thing at that table (aside from me ...) was the fact that when I knocked out a player, the Avatar remained. This is a really important change that has to be addressed quickly: Empty seats should be EMPTY. A graphic designer will be able to improve the look of the tables a lot.Population: There are not many players, so you have to encourage the few that are coming. Regular freerolls with $50 or $100 thrown in is a good idea.Rake: It looks like the rake has increased. This is a very, very poor business move on the part of FCP if it turns out to be correct. A very smart PR move would be to recognize the problem and for an introductory period, issue rakeback into player accounts based on activity during the month. If you cannot fix the problem, at least do something. It also promotes activity. It does not have to be much, but something so that players know that while you are looking at the problem, there is an activity bonus dropping in.Deposit Bonuses: I made a deposit this morning and there was zero deposit Bonus added. This has to be automatic. If there is a delay, use the fact you are doing it later to send a nice email thanking the player for the deposit and confirming that the deposit bonus has been dropped into your bonus account.Partypoker started with some of the clunkiest software in existance. They had a very strong culture of encouraging players for improvements, and they acted on those improvements on a regular basis. Set up a freeroll for everyone posting a legitimate improvement because FCP "wants" input to improve the poker site.That's it for now.

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ok, a few things now that ive played around with the software a little more...1) Do something about the players names/stack sizes to make them easier to read. It looks really bad having them just sitting there typed on top of the cartoons. And when I switch to the non cartoon skin the names&stacks should move (on top of the seats like they are on the end seats would be great).2) Opening a browser page every time i want to do something in the software HAS to go. Especially with the cashier. Having a cashier window that opens inside the software and clearly displays money in play, total in my account, how much bonus money i have should be a top priority. Its really frustrating having an IE window pop up and have to log in again just to check an account balance. If im logged into the software, i should be able to click the cashier icon and view what ever info i need.2a) The transfering money between accounts is annoying too. When i deposit, i should be able to use that money for whatever i want related to FCP without having to move it around. From cashier to poker/casino and probably back when i want to cash out. The fewer steps the better. I noticed you dont have to transfer bonus money anymore, thats a step in the right direction!3) Hand histories written and stored on my harddrive. I know that for the majority of us who use Poker Tracker this is a must as far as tracking our stats from play. Having to request HH's by email is a major hassle and one that really turns me off from playing at a site. An easy to view "last hand" type history on the table would be great too. (and dont make it open in my browser like everything else!! lol )4) Those circular buttons in the left hand corner of the table. Theres too many of them ,and its hard to tell what they are. They really clutter up the table. IMO all you really need in that spot is:- a button where i can easily reload my chips at the table- a "lobby" button- an options buttonIf i want the cashier or live support i can get there from the lobby. and if i want to exit the table, theres a big red X in the corner of the window anyways. And make them easily identified (at least for me the scrollover text doesnt really work that well)Actually, for the options that are offered, its probably better off just to add that into the lobby, id rather adjust my options from the lobby than the table anyways, and it seems i cant even do it in the lobby.I agree with a whole bunch of the other suggestions people are making. In my opinon, the LESS you can make this site look and run like ongame, the better. As far as general gripes i have with it right now, the table is WAY to cluttered, even with the cartoons off. The text on the table for The player names/stack sizes/size of the bet etc... make the software look like it was written in 1988. I know you guys can do something to make it look a little more professional.Someone said above that the rake has increased?? If so thats ridiculous. Ongame had the worst rake schedule in the business and if this is higher theres nothing more you can do to drive players away. I havent played real money cash games yet so i dont know for sure, but especially if we cant get rakeback, a higher rake than the other popular sites will definitley keep a good portion of your serious players away. (i do notice the rake on tourneys sucks $5+1? thats not gonna fly. $5+.50, $10+1, $20+2....these have been pretty much standardized across the industry.)oh yeah :club: on 6max instead of 5max tables like you had on ongame....9man tables would be better than 10 for cash games too.ok, thats about all i have for now (other than what others have said many times already!). I hope it doesnt sound like im bitching, i just wanted to point out what id like to see changed.From the looks of it, most of the "issues" we're having with the new FCP are aesthetics and should be easy to change.Keep up the good work and i hope to see FCP turn in to one of the best places to play!

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