xbox live multiplayer
Firstly can i congratulate you on a great game!!
but i have a couple of suggestions regarding mulitplayer. I have noticed when searching for online games the message "unable to contact server" occurs if there are no games in "waiting", so players have to either retry, or create their own. this is really annoying and means that potentially it could take all day to wait to get 16 players in one room. could i suggest some improvments, 1) a waiting lobby, if games are in progress players have the option to wait until (the next available) session finishes or a new one is created in some kind of waiting lobby for the given type, i.e dogfight, strike etc so when a game is available the players move to it - similar to halo - this would also speed up the waiting time of waiting for players. Suggestion 2) when a multiplayer game ends, the session does not... so players are moved to a lobby together afterwards for an option of a rematch with the current players, working with suggestion 1, adding more waiting players to the game this would allow more players to enter the game quickly, and get going again with a greater number of players in the sky at once, and quickly.
suggestion 3) some kind of rank systems. i know there is "ranked matches" but players like prestige of being the best... it would be nice to have the ability to earn a rank like halo or cod, such as starting as a rookie, and improving on it -players who perform well with enough wins and kill performance start climbing ranks, such as rookie, flying officer, corporal etc, and the user given a rank stripe symbol to their ingame game on the hud, and in the lobbys. This gives players visual recognision of the skill of the player they are competing agaisnt, and the joys of shooting down a higher ranked player... it would encourage continual play because more people would want to achieve the highest rank. Perhaps for added bonuses when a milestone rank is acheieved such as sargent, perhaps with special unlockable "prizes" for reaching such mile stone ranks - get to sargent, improve user armour, get to flt leader get small enigine peformance upgrade. make these "prizes" only available in an arcade session, to keep people that want to keep the realism sepperate...
hope this goes down well!
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