Probably not gonna win any popularity contest with this idea. BUT... As someone who's been helping out in discord general I'm seeing about a message every couple of hours where new players are confused by cooldown.
These are all from the last 6 hours and there were more...
Cards that are in cooldown can't be listed for rent or buy until after cooldown is over.
All of the messages we see today will be replaced by, "Why can't I find my card to sell/rent?" We can't just take one problem and replace it by another. So what do we do?
IDEA 1) There needs to be an interface update to teach users what they are doing. This can come in the form of a modal pop up or a extra confirmation required to purchase/rent things on cooldown. The interface/game needs to inform users how/what is going on so that reaching out on discord isn't needed.
IDEA 2) Another way to improve would be to allow the card on cooldown to show in inventory with some kind of countdown overlay to indicate when the card will be available.
How can we improve the user experience?
Let your voices be heard. If you agree with my two ideas please show your approval with your votes. New ideas in the comments can also be voted on. Hopefully we can get some good momentum going so that some clear next steps can be identified so that when SPS voting goes live we have a great proposal ready to go.
If you have a SPS Proposal that you want to see in the game maybe you can make a post too and use the tag #spsproposal.
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