Suggestion Sort players by ACTUAL last_ping_time in the world map

Hello dear Skyrama players and Skyrama Team,
I was again thinking of some very simple feature or change to improve Skyrama without touching ActionScripts in Flash and I remembered one thing that always pissed me off while playing Skyrama.

When you open the world map you get a randomly selected range of players sorted by last_ping_time but most of those accounts are still inactive for like 1 year as the range select players from like last active 500-529.

I feel like it would be way better if this PHP server code would be rewritten to not choose random range but literally the last active 29 players. The list is already sorted by last_ping_time so just removing the few lines that randomly choose the range would make the game way more fun as you would actually send planes to active players in the respected countries.

I'm attaching a picture with how it works currently:

A simple short rewrite of the "account.getLatest" action would make this way better and without any need to touch the ancient Flash client code.

I'm legit willing to help the actual devs at Bigpoint to rewrite this short part of the code if someone at Bigpoint would be willing to collaborate with me, and this feature would be welcome.

Please leave a LIKE and comment if you feel like this would be better and you would rather send random planes to actual active players not random selection of inactive players.

Thanks for reading and have a great day! ^^

 

Hi!

It's rare to read such a useful and meaningful post on this now almost completely extinct forum. I wish this would reach those who are at least as knowledgeable and could change this (and many other things). Thank you for drawing attention to this!

Is there any tactic to filter out the more active players in the list? They have completely "rearranged" these several times in the past, but it hasn't changed for months, so for example I have a list that is completely empty (from a given country).

By the way, for many of us, this is not possible (i.e., opening the "Explore" menu) because since the end of 2020 we no longer play the game from browser, but from a launcher.

 

Hey Der,
i'm not sure if I completely understand your issue but you say that some countries even show no players for you?

There really isn't any way to affect which players you see in the world map and in your friend list you cannot do anything like that either by any official means.

Thanks for the kind comment and hopefully this post could at least reach the team who does the new events and stuff.

 

Yes, I mean that the system doesn't show new people from the country where I add many people, even though I think they would be there, I'm talking about big countries.

Out of curiosity, I've sent out thousands of planes to different countries on xp multiplier days (i think more people are playing then). Needless to say, the completed planes are well below 1%.

 

Hi bulva2! I completely agree with your idea, as it is already bothering many players. I had a task that required me to send back 30 planes from Mexico, and I was given a list of players, but they were all inactive, so I had to create an account with the country of Mexico. If there were more active players in the list, it would have been easier. I would also like to bring up the issue of changing the sounds in the game (airplanes, helicopters, and seaplanes). When I send a plane with jet engines, it makes the sound of a propeller-driven airplane. There are many different bugs in this game... If the Skyrama team wants to attract more players, they should consider making updates or introducing new features. I have been playing this game since 2020, and it has remained the same. Please consider the feedback from players.

 

Hey Shnik,
maybe you could list out some planes with this sound issue but perhaps create a new topic for that one. Engine sounds are picked for a plane through the assets.xml file, where they are specified in the AircraftComponent tag, so it should be a pretty quick fix however, it depends on whether someone can push a quick server update like that to their git repo or whatever they use just for a small change like that.

Thanks for the nice comment and have a great day!

 

Hi bulva2! To be honest, I don't remember which planes they were, but even my father said there was a bug (he also plays Skyrama). If you want, we can add each other as friends. My in-game name is:Shnik, ID:13290026