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Would be nice if search function in forum gave more than 2 pages of results. Been searching for some old forums today. The search function in the forum only gives you 2 pages worth of responses, which is frequently not enough to find what you are looking for. I had to search by username of those whom I thought might have created forum. I only found this one by accident, because it was listed under someone's username search.
Which reminds me: You don't want people to post suggestions for the site under one of the "bug" forums, yet it is not clear where you do want site bugs and suggestions posted. -
Do you want site bugs here too? Well, I'm known to be blind, I must have missed it.
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I don't know if this has been suggested before, but it kind of makes sense (well to me at least).
Basically, the walkthrough pages have 12 videos split into 4 rows of three, but each chapter of AB has 15 levels.
Would it be too hard to change the template of the walkthroughs to 5 rows of 3 so that we have 15 walkthroughs a page, making 1 page for each chapter.
This could also possibly help with navigation, that I am less sure of, but it does seem to be more sensible to have 1 page per chapter. -
Actually, there are several instances where 15 is not the magic number per page...Christmas for instance, last year's Summer Pignic, and a whole host of others....however, I agree that there should be a correlation of one page of levels per page here...that shouldn't be too hard. I also think they should be in the same order numerically instead of backwards like they are now.
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@CmdrBond This is a pretty good idea. As @heathen said, 15 is not always perfect, but it is certainly true more often than not.
@heathen You have expressed this before. We are actually working on that a bit right now, but it's not going to happen super soon. We have a few other projects that are ranking higher. -
@AMslimfordy - I know that I mentioned it before, and I didn't mean to sound pushy or a broken record by saying it again. I only said it to extend the metaphor of the pages here mimicking the setup/pages/chapters of the game, thus making it easier to navigate/find what you are looking for.
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I too would prefer ascending over descending order - just sayin ;p
OK, 15 is not the magic number, I suggested it as I presumed a common template is used and 15 is the modal figure.
If you can do 1 chapter a page with varying episode counts, even better. -
@BirdsMakeMeAngry.
Quote: "For all of us angry birds addicts who need to get higher than the average on all levels. It would be nice to have a place to list all of the levels that we are under the average on. Maybe on the "Your Leaderboards" page or on the profile page somewhere. Along these lines if we could get a nightly or weekly email with this list that would be nice also. Would be easier than going through all of the leaderboards to find them.
Just want to let you know ABN is an awesome site. Great work!
Thank you."
Just a thought - but this might be the best work around for the time being.
1. Hover of your username in the top right hand corner and select "Your Boards"
2. Choose the edition you wish to check
3. Scroll to the bottom and press the button entitled "Show all leaderboards on one page"
4. Scroll back to the top and click the header "Off avg by" twice to sort in descending order.
5. Add page to your favourites (I think you will need cookies enabled for this bit to work) so that every time you come back to this page it repeats the sort conditions.
6. Repeat for all other editions of AB that you are playing.
You now have a 1 stop shop for your average score requirements.
HTH -
You will have to select the header for each episode under each edition. Bit of a faff but better than nothing.
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Thumbs up for you guys. Great work.
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Stupid question time - but why are the Golden Egg leader boards separated out from AB/AB:S?
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@CmdrBond because ABS golden eggs are season eggs. ABO golden eggs are normal golden eggs.
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I understand that - that is not what I meant.
Take, for example, Haunted Hogs - the "Golden Eggs" do not show or contribute to the episode leaderboard. To me it eould make sense for the GE's for each episode to be listed with that episode in the leaderboards.
Maybe I am not thinking about it in the right way. -
@CmdrBond @Harrystar6
The reason why Golden Eggs are not included within any particular episode actually makes quite a bit of sense. In ABo, there are Golden Eggs that aren't obtained in any episode (e.g., the one under the White Bird in the instructions screen). Also, scores from Golden Egg levels are not counted toward episodic scores (e.g., in Haunted Hogs, your total score is only the regular 30 levels). We wanted to make sure the Total Score that appears on-site is the same as appears on your Episode Selection screen. -
OK - that make sense - I forgot about the non-episodic GE's
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Just a thought, but like we have a Danger Addict badge for people who have managed to get "Score Addict" on AB:Sp - Danger Zone, is there any chance we might have a Jedi Master badge for those who manage to do the same on AB:SW - Path of the Jedi?
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At this time there are no plans. We do not know how difficult that Score Addict achievement is.
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Fair enough.
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Nice to see we Have a Jedi Addict badge after all, thank you - now to go and get it :D
Going through some of the walkthroughs, I noticed something. I don't know if it is in your plans, or even if you think it worthwhile changing as it would be a bit of work to start with, but I am a little confused as to the reason you have ALL the walkthroughs in the same directory.
For example, AB:SW Death Star 2-33 and AB:Rio Smugglers' Plane 12-13
You have them both in root directory of this site "http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/"
They are only distinguished by their file names
angry-birds-star-wars-death-star-level-2-33-walkthrough
and
angry-birds-rio-smugglers-plane-walkthrough-level-12-13
Now to me it would make more sense to use a directory tree to manage these, so you would have
"http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/"
then /walkthrough/
then /verison/ (so in this case /AngryBirdsStarWars/ or /AngryBirdsRio/)
then /episode/ (so /DeathStar/ or /SmugglersDen/)
and finally /chapter/ (/2-33/ or /12-13/)
Which would make
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-star-wars-death-star-level-2-33-walkthrough
and
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/angry-birds-rio-smugglers-plane-walkthrough-level-12-13
become
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/walkthrough/AngryBirdsStarWars/DeathStar/2-33/
and
http://www.angrybirdsnest.com/walkthrough/AngryBirdsRio/SmugglersDen/12-13/
I know it is a big change in the site, but in terms of future housekeeping, to me at least, it seems to make more sense.
I will not be offended if you decide to remain with the status-quo ;) -
@CmdrBond While I do understand your point, it would be a net negative, I believe. Foremost, it makes the URLs unnecessarily long and cumbersome. And second, making such a change would require the creation of redirects for every one of those posts, since any previously-referenced links would otherwise be rendered dead.
The setup you reference does exist for general categories, however. It's beneficial to our hierarchy and taxonomy. It would not be as effective for final-tier posts, IMO. -
Fair enough - it was just something I noticed and thought I would mention.
ATEOTD you guys have to maintain the site, so what you you think is best is fine by me. -
I don't know if its talked about in these pages, but I would be curious to see a total line at the bottom of each of the leaderboards to add up the total average scores and total high scores.
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I don't think this is a necessary or useful tool. Those numbers have no mathematical or statistical value.
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Dunno if it has been suggested before, or if it is feasable.
I only use "my" leaderboards, so I am not sure on the others, but like the "star" link in the RH column that links to the 3 star walkthrough, is there any chance of adding a similar link for the Feather walkthrough?
Similarly, is there any chance of putting a link under the 3 star video to the feather walkthrough and vice versa.
I find myself having to either complete a section with 3 stars and then work on the feather, or have 2 tabs open to quickly move between star and feather walkthroughs.
Yours hopefully. -
AB:SW icon not always showing on the walkthrough pages.
I don't know if this is something to do with my account - as I have noticed it on 4 different computers in several different browsers and on my phones browsers. -
You may want to clear your browsers cache.
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1) We are limited in the amount of horizontal space on the leaderboard, so this is not possible I don't think.
2) I'm working on this currently. It's a major task.
3) Try a hard refresh or clearing your Internet cache. -
Thank you for looking into it.
I will try cleaning my cache, but it is happening on several different machines, OS'es and browsers. -
I know that you are limited with space on the page but it would be nice if you could make list of the most popular artcles and walkthroughs in terms of comments, although some comments often can be irrelevant (like cool, awesome, thanks etc.). I came across that idea seeing comments on recent Seasons episode where we have almost 100 comments on walkthroughs for each level.
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I would appreciate it if ABN search improved.
For example, when I search "Angry Birds Star Wars Walkthrough 1-3", these are the results:
"Angry Birds Star Wars available now! Try it,you will"
"Angry Birds Star Wars Complete Golden Droids and Bonus Levels Guide"
"Angry Birds Star Wars Jumps to Lightspeed on November 8th"
"It’s official! Angry Birds Star Wars Coming Soon!"
"Angry Birds Star Wars Official Gameplay Trailer"
I just searched for a walkthrough...
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It's far more logical to just go to our Star Wars walkthroughs (either view the dropdown menu in the top-left or the quick-nav on the right).
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Howabout adding percentage to the leaderboard Your Rank line? i.e.,
Your Rank: 367 out of 4,066 (top 9%)
Trying to reach number 1 is a goal, but just reaching top 10% or 20% can also be a personal goal. -
@fogride I agree that many people may have this as a goal, but since it is easily calculable, it may not be necessary for us to display it.
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That's actually a great idea - and while you can calculate it yourself, to see it displayed for each level of an episode would be very cool!
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You forget that you're asking a mathematician to add a column that is simple arithmetic. Any kindergardener should be able to calculate 5 and 10% in their head. ; ) Well, maybe since the advent of personal computers, people can no longer do simple arithmetic.
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Yet we have a "+/- Avg" column right next to the "Your Score" and "Average" columns, when simple subtraction would do.
On the other hand, I understand if adding percent would introduce too much clutter. -
@fogride that's for every individual level though. It sounded to me like you wanted the episode rank. If you are proposing for each individual level, I would say we don't have the horizontal space for a new column.
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Not for each individual level, for episode rank. My reference to +/- average was an example of other simple math which is presented on the website. Various leaderboards have several rankings on one page and for each ranking I need to find a kindergartener to compute my ranking percentage. Just a suggestion, no biggie.
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Another thing I think would be nice is when a user goes the their respective leader board, it shows "Total Scores Entered:1,543 out of 1,627". even though I have never played the Lite and Free versions. (not sure I can even play them since I am an android user). I would like to see the total number of levels to only include the Episodes where I have entered at least one score.
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@sparty83 Hrm, interesting idea. I have to say though, that we just rolled out a massive update to the Leaderboards and need to do quite a bit of bug squashing first ;)
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On own leaderboard, why still have flag columm and all label NA, NA? can remove it right.
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Is it desirable and possible to change the ranking formula? When several people have the same score on a level/ episode/ game, I’d expect them to also share the same rank. Currently they don’t.
This looks particularly silly with Space, Egg 6, where there is pretty much a fixed score of 25k points. As it is, 817 people have a trophy ‘Top score!’ for this level but their ranking is a random number anywhere between 1st and 817th place. Does it make sense? No. How can you have a top score and be ranked 817th?! it does not make sense!
If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! -
@PJng Good idea. Not efficient there.
@burpie We have a mock-up of code for that. We just went though a major overhaul to speed up the Leaderboards, which was necessary before adding any such code. Our primary issue is that it could drastically slow down the Leaderboards, so we want to optimize the code before pushing anything Le. -
As an adder to PJng's request to remove the N/A from user's leaderboards. Would be great if it was swapped out for a Feather Icon that would link to the ME/SE walkthroughs.
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@PJng My mock-up takes these into account. (No guarantee that my coding will be used, but nonetheless.)
Under the "Leader" column, instead of saying "ABNUser" it would read "# Users Tied".
In the "Rank" column, it would read, say, "1 T" where the T obviously stands for a tie in ranking. -
I keep seeing people without avatars, even on the main site. So maybe you could make a tutorial or a forum on how to create an avatar, as in how to get the artwork, for those who aren't artistic and/or knowledgable in how to collect images on the net.
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