GaW features implemented into KaW

Hello, everybody. This is my first thread since returning to KaW (it's been over two years).

Like many of the new players surging in, I come from GaW (another ATA game that is being shutdown). Before you groan, I'm not here to tell you that I'm going to take over your game. I'm here with minor update suggestions that I've noticed in my first few days back. These suggestions are based off of some parts of GaW that I find beneficial that do not seem to be here. I am not here to try and turn your game into GaW. These are just parts of GaW that the devs succeeded in and I believe would go well in KaW too. I would like to see what the KaW community's thoughts are on implementing a few of these GaW items into KaW. Not all of these suggestions need to be implemented. I am simply adding many to this thread to see which ones gain the most support.

1: Chat Stacking [Large Support]

In GaW if you post twice in chat within about two minutes, it stacks your name. (That is, if someone doesn't post in between your two comments).

For instance, in KaW it looks like this:



But in GaW, it looks like this:



While this isn't a major update necessity, I believe it looks much neater and prefer it. Tell me which you prefer.


2: Clan Wall [Moderate Support]

In GaW families (the clan equivalent of KaW) have walls of their own. Like player walls, anyone can write on these and it is visible to the entire community. While family walls aren't always checked, they are very useful for seeing new potential applicants or other important news for your family.

Here is a view of the family wall from GaW for reference:



To prevent spam, admins and owners are given the ability to block players from their clan wall. Furthermore, they also have the ability to delete posts from their clan wall.

3: Clan Invites [Overwhelming Support]

This idea I find to be the most important. In GaW an admin or owner of a family can invite a player who is without a family to their family. I think that would be useful here in KaW. Admins and owners are each given a maximum of 5 invites to send per day. If a player has a pending invite from a clan, he/she cannot receive another invite from that same clan.

This is how it appears in GaW:



Why not just tell the player to apply, you may ask.

For one, it is helpful if a player is in a different time zone. If you are twelve hours apart, there is a solid chance that you could be asleep when they apply. Then, they feel left out in the cold by lack of acceptance and go somewhere else. Whereas with a clan invite, you can send while you're awake and the player can accept it when they awake.

Another good use is to limit applicants to your clan. You can disable applications to your clan and still invite people. Often in GaW, this is done during war or at top level families. Thus, you do not have new players applying to the top clan in KaW, but rather are accepted via invite only.

4: Personal Bio [Large Support]

GaW players are given an area on their profile to express themselves. This area is much like the status bar on KaW; however, you are given much more room for art and information. An example of the personal bio to give you a better visual is:



This area would be a good addition as it would allow players a place to show off their art skills, their loyalty to their clan, or information about their KaW career.

*5: Crew Chat

Due to the many comments on this thread about crew chat, I have added it as a suggestion. Crew chat is an area, like ally chat, for talking to a select group of people in or outside of your family. Crews contain up to 6 people and last 3 hours. The crew page looks like this:



Once the crew up button is clicked, you are either randomly entered into an existing crew or you begin a new crew. Players can also join crews straight from the profile of another player if that player does not have them blocked. After you enter crew chat it looks like this:



Crews are very useful for warring. When a member of your crew is attacked, it appears in your newsfeed as well. Also, any of the crew members can update the crew announcement to post pin times.

*6: Weekly LB

In keeping with crew chat, I have offered another suggestion that is not a "tweak." This suggestion is the weekly LB. In GaW there is a weekly LB that shows the top 50 players per week at each category: battles, heists (steals), and jobs (quests).



Furthermore, you can see where you rank each week compared to those around you. Even if you do not crack the top 50 each week, you have the ability to stay competitive with those within 10 ranks from you, your "rivals."



The weekly LB allows players to have another aspect of competition on a daily basis and could be a fun addition to KaW.

*Note: Suggestions 5 and 6 are not tweaks. They are instead larger updates. There have been some suggestion of these ideas, so I have updated the thread to include them. Tell me if you do or do not support them in the comments

These are the only update suggestions I have at the time. They are not major updates, but rather minor tweaks. Tell me what you think and if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to post them.

Remember: You do not have to support all of these ideas. Only the one's that receive large support will be taken into consideration.

(I did not post in ideas section as the guidelines thread says to get support before doing that. If you all like these ideas, I can post there).

Happy KaWing 


*UPDATE* 9/1/14
Per the great support received, this thread has been moved from "Other Kaw Discussion" to "Ideas + Feature Requests"
(Special thanks to LHL_LegendaryHero_LHL for moving it)

 

I also forgot to add, admins and owners have the ability to block people from their clan wall.