The Neighbourhood House and the "In Derby" (Opt In) / "Not in Derby" (Opt Out) List

It would be great if the "In Derby" / "Not in Derby" displayed in the neighbourhood house was live during the derby cool-down period, so both an individual player and the team could easily see who has opted in or out of the upcoming derby.

Yes please.

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Originally Posted by Dalllyn

It would be great if the "In Derby" / "Not in Derby" displayed in the neighbourhood house was live during the derby cool-down period, so both an individual player and the team could easily see who has opted in or out of the upcoming derby.

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I have often wished for the same thing.

Now that derby is an opt in/out option, it would be especially helpful.

It has been asked for on threads all over the place. Hopefully lots of people will add their 'yes please' to this thread too.

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Originally Posted by SmallChange

It has been asked for on threads all over the place. Hopefully lots of people will add their 'yes please' to this thread too.

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Hi SmallChange, could you please send me some of those threads?

I did check before posting that there wasn't an existing thread, however, it is possible I may have missed some? I'll add my comments to the original thread. I noticed there have been a few similar threads created after I created this one.

I added this to a similar thread, so I thought I better have it in my own, to further clarify why I would like this feature. :)

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Originally Posted by Dalllyn

I would like the opt out/in to be shown in the neighbourhood house during the cool-down for a few reasons:

• The opt-out is hidden away in the settings which means that sometimes someone may think they have opted in/out when they haven't. Having it displayed in the neighbourhood makes it clear to the farmer whether they have opted in or out, before it's too late (when the derby has started).
• If I know someone is going to be away/busy during the week and I can see they have forgotten to opt out (or vice versa), I can let them know that they're still opted in (or out) before the derby starts.
• I have some members in my team who aren't comfortable with technology, so if I know they want to opt out/in but they haven't, I can see this and will be able to walk them through the process (I had some members who thought they had opted out, but it didn't work and it wasn't until the derby started we knew this).
• We plan our strategies for how we play each week before the derby starts, these strategies can change based on which league we're in and who is playing each week, so having that extra 24 hour window would really help to not only prepare for the upcoming derby but to communicate the strategies to those who are playing in the derby. We have great communication in our hood, but we live in different time-zones with different times in our lives when we are busy/playing, so trying to catch 29 people after the derby has started, can be difficult and is sometimes too late.

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Yes please!

Also making the 'opted out' the default instead of automatically being opted in. I know there is a thread fir this somewhere but cant find it.

As a neighborhood co-leader, it is important for me to know whether or not members of my hood have opted out of the upcoming derby IN ADVANCE of when the next derby starts, and I would be so appreciative of being able to see this info in the derby log.

As it is now, as soon as one derby ends all we see is that everyone is 'not in derby'. Supercell - please modify this to instead report useful information to us, such as:

Opted In
Opted In
Opted Out
Opted In
Opted Out

Why is this important? Here's an example: say I have a member who was in our last derby yet didn't finish his or her tasks. They mention in chat that they got busy and will opt out before the next derby, but as a leader I have no way to know if they remembered to do this or were too busy to do so - until the actual derby starts. If this person forgets to opt out, then our 'hood has two weeks of derby impacted by their absence and everyone else is grumpy.

The only other thing we as leaders can do is boot them from the hood before the derby starts, but this is a drastic step that the cool opt out feature was created to no longer forces us to take (thank you Supercell). If you can give us info on who has opted in and out in advance of the derby start, then we would only have to boot a task-missing member if they had forgotten to opt out... something we would know.

This would help the entire neighborhood continue to enjoy each and every derby to the max.

Thank you in advance Supercell for reviewing this idea and implementing it if you can!

MindoPod

Farm Phanatics founder/co-leader
http://hayday.wikia.com/wiki/User:MindoPod

I agree, additionally, I would suggest that the leader should be able to opt in/out members instead of having to kick them out

Yes please !