Suggestion: Free Nation Flag (and limit buying them all)

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January 12th, 2015
WarrenJames

Suggestion: Free Nation Flag (and limit buying them all)

First off, this idea will not lock out the buying of national flags. You can buy them all, but this is just a way to lessen the psychological need to buy them all, as if some achievement you have to do.

Basicly, you declare what nationality you are, maybe able to declare two for duel citizenship, and you get a free, or discounted price on the national flag(s) that's available. You then remove the spam of nantional flags from the decorations menu, and put it in the same profile menu from where you got your first flags from. For the current price, but out of view of the easier to get at decorations store, you can buy more flags

The principal is 'out of sight, out of mind', by removing the flags from the normal decoration store, and putting them one or two menus deeper, in-game. You still get your flag or flags for your nationality, and for support for other nations, for whatever reason, but should reduce the spam of flags for just the reason that they are there. This will also reduce the spam of the store, and sort national flags in a better menu, and possibly allow for more flags to be added in-game.
January 15th, 2015
WarrenJames

No comments by anyone? :(
January 15th, 2015
Bryanneil

request flag..good idea

yeah i think that idea would be somehow nice..just reducing the spam of too many flags...BTW just requesting the national flag of Mauritius..where we have some thousands of players:p:p
January 15th, 2015
WarrenJames

Maybe I should rename the title or something. I think I can edit that. I'll try later if needed.

I still think removing the spam of flags, and putting them elsewhere in a more compact list elsewhere would open up the currently ruled out new national flag idea.
January 28th, 2015
ArbazZaka

Great Idea

This could one of the Best idea I read on this Forum.
January 28th, 2015
BattleBorn007

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarrenJames

First off, this idea will not lock out the buying of national flags. You can buy them all, but this is just a way to lessen the psychological need to buy them all, as if some achievement you have to do.

Basicly, you declare what nationality you are, maybe able to declare two for duel citizenship, and you get a free, or discounted price on the national flag(s) that's available. You then remove the spam of nantional flags from the decorations menu, and put it in the same profile menu from where you got your first flags from. For the current price, but out of view of the easier to get at decorations store, you can buy more flags

The principal is 'out of sight, out of mind', by removing the flags from the normal decoration store, and putting them one or two menus deeper, in-game. You still get your flag or flags for your nationality, and for support for other nations, for whatever reason, but should reduce the spam of flags for just the reason that they are there. This will also reduce the spam of the store, and sort national flags in a better menu, and possibly allow for more flags to be added in-game.

I think SuperCell will either keep the flags they have in game or just take them out because I doubt they are gonna have 196 flags in the game (Before anyone asks thats how many countries are in the world counting Taiwan)
January 28th, 2015
WarrenJames

The main reason for the idea was to reduce the spam of flags in people's bases by using some psychological tricks to subtilty reduce the urge to buy them all.

Incidently, the idea could be used to help with the literal growing number of flags problem. If you hide it in several layers of menus, people will usually forget about them, unless they really want them. You could add all 196 flags in this system, and since it doesn't (or shouldn't) have a large display button for each, listing them wouldn't be a problem.

Now that I think about it, just seeing the overwhelmingly huge list of national flags would hopefully give someone pause to even buying more than needed.I mean, have people seen the nationality list on the clan profile setting?! It's huge! It easily goes past the TL-DR threshold for almost anyone playing. Which means buying them all wouldn't likely be what someone would do.
January 28th, 2015
EmeraldRange

There are two problems here.

1) technical difficulties of having 200 flags. It might be small or it might be huge, I'm not sure. But if the difficulty to implement is too much, they probably won't.

2) What counts as a country? Just the list of countries you can choose from for the menu? If that is the case, I think having a display for what country you are from and only one flag you can buy (which changes depending on what country you profile says).

You said psychology, but what about the psychology of the people who have a bunch of flags already. Do they get removed? Do they come here to complain like the elixir wallers?
January 28th, 2015
chunchule

just need a flag that is set depending on the country we like

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Originally Posted by EmeraldRange

There are two problems here.

1) technical difficulties of having 200 flags. It might be small or it might be huge, I'm not sure. But if the difficulty to implement is too much, they probably won't.

2) What counts as a country? Just the list of countries you can choose from for the menu? If that is the case, I think having a display for what country you are from and only one flag you can buy (which changes depending on what country you profile says).

You said psychology, but what about the psychology of the people who have a bunch of flags already. Do they get removed? Do they come here to complain like the elixir wallers?
January 28th, 2015
WarrenJames

Quote:

Originally Posted by EmeraldRange

There are two problems here.

1) technical difficulties of having 200 flags. It might be small or it might be huge, I'm not sure. But if the difficulty to implement is too much, they probably won't.

2) What counts as a country? Just the list of countries you can choose from for the menu? If that is the case, I think having a display for what country you are from and only one flag you can buy (which changes depending on what country you profile says).

You said psychology, but what about the psychology of the people who have a bunch of flags already. Do they get removed? Do they come here to complain like the elixir wallers?

As someone familiar with computers, I can't see it being a huge technical issue. You have the one flag pole, and the 200 small animated gif file sprites of flags to stick on it. It would mostly be a user interface problem getting those roughly 200 flags accessible in a simple way. And that is what I suggested in the original thread.

I opted for an idea to keeping separate flags buyable, for ease of implimenting in the current system that people are used to.

As for people that really really want to fill thier base with flags, they technically could. Mid to high-level base may run out of room to place them, and would spend a fortune in gold at the current game price (which I intend on keeping). This idea isn't to stop it at all, but to slow it down as a 'need' to buy everything in the decorations menu, by removing it as a decoration, into a different category and feel, and not as readily accessible as the real decorations.

If people still want to fill a base with random national flags, they would get even weirder looks from people, thinking they are crazy, than what they currently do with flags being so easy to access, in a spot where you basicly are encouraged to buy everything in the menu.
January 28th, 2015
EmeraldRange

Quote:

Originally Posted by WarrenJames

As someone familiar with computers, I can't see it being a huge technical issue. You have the one flag pole, and the 200 small animated gif file sprites of flags to stick on it. It would mostly be a user interface problem getting those roughly 200 flags accessible in a simple way. And that is what I suggested in the original thread.

I opted for an idea to keeping separate flags buyable, for ease of implimenting in the current system that people are used to.

As for people that really really want to fill thier base with flags, they technically could. Mid to high-level base may run out of room to place them, and would spend a fortune in gold at the current game price (which I intend on keeping). This idea isn't to stop it at all, but to slow it down as a 'need' to buy everything in the decorations menu, by removing it as a decoration, into a different category and feel, and not as readily accessible as the real decorations.

If people still want to fill a base with random national flags, they would get even weirder looks from people, thinking they are crazy, than what they currently do with flags being so easy to access, in a spot where you basicly are encouraged to buy everything in the menu.

I know that one of my old friends bought flags when he wanted to hide his gold (because he could sell it later). Potentially this might cause a gold... Drought? Shortage? Whatever...

I see what you are saying, but since people already have been exposed to easily accessing flags, such people would keep buying them and might even promote the buying of all the flags as some sort of achievement. It could potentially cause many people to go on a flag buying craze (though unlikely).

In any case, I do support moving it to a different place where there is less pressure. I know what you mean by they are encouraged to buy all the flags. Flags take up 80% of the decorations menu.
January 28th, 2015
TurtleCoe

How is having all the national flags spam? How does it affect you?
January 28th, 2015
WarrenJames

Quote:

Originally Posted by TurtleCoe

How is having all the national flags spam? How does it affect you?

It is just silly to see and usually seems useless, and got me thinking of a way to fix it. Personally it just makes me face-palm, but that's about it. They are sometimes used in mass to demonstrate that the area around the Town Hall of a farming base has no traps, since you currently can't place traps and decorations on top of each other. (That might be another idea to propose, some kind of better filler decoration for that reason, that's cheaper and better looking than flags).

This was one of my earlier threads, where at the time I was making suggestion threads on almost anything that came to mind.
February 4th, 2015
Ctnwest

National Flag to where you call home

I think they should just ask what nationality you are on the game and once entered either supply or allow purchase of national flag of only the country you call home , saves any hassle of people being able to buy all the flags when they don't need them. This way everyone is happy they have their nations flag flying proudly in their base. Come on supercell, I mean the Australia flag is there, New Zealand is definitely better than Australia:)