slouch1993
Private
Regardless of what is the thinking behind the way that trade offers are sorted, (Obviously friends before guild members before all else, and possibly by order of either fairness, or benefit to the accepter, or size, or the user's day's offer's serial number) it is declutterable.
My suggestion is to let the each user decide for themselves if they like the current setup, in which is, simply put, first you choose the offer, then you choose your counterpart.
The details are:
Let's say I have 20+ friends. let's say one day all of them wanted to trade. 3 of them sent the same identical offer (same goods ,same amounts) twice, and another 4 sent offers that were not identical to their other offers, but identical to other friends' offers, and others sent offers that were also sent by non-friends.
make every identical offer from everyone combined, or essentially duplicated offer, show only once.
On each duplicated offer, if the people that made that offer include at least one friend, put the friends icon. If they include no friends but at least one guild member, the guild member icon. Otherwise, the 3rd icon
Once a specific duplicated offer was clicked, make a scroll down list of the people that made in the order FoE Mgmt. sees fit, with an indicator of friends, guild members or none. (it is of course possible that a number of usernames will appear side be side if FoE don't want one username to occupy the whole width of the offers window).
Now let's say I, the user, accepted an offer from the friend that was first in the list, and that friend made other offers, or the same offer, multiple times. FoE can dictate that the offers window would be auto-refreshed after I excepted the offer, so if I'll still be searching for offers, but the order changes, (for instance if a friend that already traded today is no longer a high priority), the new order will reflect on the window! In my opinion, same affect, less clutter, and as I said, if FoE make it optional, so the users that disagree will have their way.
For your judgement!
My suggestion is to let the each user decide for themselves if they like the current setup, in which is, simply put, first you choose the offer, then you choose your counterpart.
The details are:
Let's say I have 20+ friends. let's say one day all of them wanted to trade. 3 of them sent the same identical offer (same goods ,same amounts) twice, and another 4 sent offers that were not identical to their other offers, but identical to other friends' offers, and others sent offers that were also sent by non-friends.
make every identical offer from everyone combined, or essentially duplicated offer, show only once.
On each duplicated offer, if the people that made that offer include at least one friend, put the friends icon. If they include no friends but at least one guild member, the guild member icon. Otherwise, the 3rd icon
Once a specific duplicated offer was clicked, make a scroll down list of the people that made in the order FoE Mgmt. sees fit, with an indicator of friends, guild members or none. (it is of course possible that a number of usernames will appear side be side if FoE don't want one username to occupy the whole width of the offers window).
Now let's say I, the user, accepted an offer from the friend that was first in the list, and that friend made other offers, or the same offer, multiple times. FoE can dictate that the offers window would be auto-refreshed after I excepted the offer, so if I'll still be searching for offers, but the order changes, (for instance if a friend that already traded today is no longer a high priority), the new order will reflect on the window! In my opinion, same affect, less clutter, and as I said, if FoE make it optional, so the users that disagree will have their way.
For your judgement!