"Your Turn" Notifications in Multiplayer

Comments: 11

• 21 May, '22
  KS Merged

  Currently, when you end turn, the screen turns grey and you sit and wait for some period of time (as little as 2 seconds or sometimes as long as 1 minute.) When it's your turn again, the screen simply reverts to color.
  
  I'd like a visual or audio cue to alert me that the "wait turn" phase had ended and my turn has begun again.
  
  Other games in the past have utilized things like progress bar, change in music, day of week announcement, and other ideas. Would love to see how SoC handles this.

• 22 May, '22
  Munin Admin

  "Add audio or visual cue when turn begins" (suggested by KS on 2022-05-21), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 26 May, '22
  Aleks

  Hi.
  Also the game gets muted when it's not active (playing on windows). I think it would be nice to have settings like "play all audio as usual if game is not in focus" and "always play turn start sound even when app is not in focus"

• 29 May, '22
  Oleksandr Merged

  It is usually situation when you play multiplayer you need to switch to another app(desktop) at others Player(s) turn(s). Can you please make a system sound and app notification about "game waits you to make your turn". You have some ingame indication - but it is not enough - because when Player switched between applications - there is no in-game sound. It will increase speed of turns significantly. Same about bug and feature reporting ;) For now we need to use some messengers to notify another people about time they need to do a turn((( Steam+MacBook Air user

• 29 May, '22
  Munin Admin

  "[UX] Please add "Your turn" System Sound Notification" (suggested by Oleksandr on 2022-05-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 31 May, '22
  Mikato Merged

  While playing vs another player on long turns and sitting on dektop, i would prefer to have the game popping up on the start of my turn in to the foreground with a sound notification.
  Meanwhile while playing with my friends we are calling the end of turn out vocaly since there are no hard signs for the start of your turn / end of the enemy turn.

• 31 May, '22
  Munin Admin

  "Popping the game in to the foreground with a sound notification at the start of your turn" (suggested by Mikato on 2022-05-31), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Jun, '22
  Dallarian Merged

  In Heroes of Might and Magic 3 Horn of the Abyss there is a feature that makes a noise (and sometimes maximilises the game if you were on alt-tab) when it is your turn in multiplayer games.
  
  It is a helpful feature, as it allows you to focus on any background work on your computer, as well as afk activities (like food preparation, laundry, studying) while your friend is doing his turn/combat; and it helps optimilising your time together.
  
  Feature is very helpful both in classic and simultenous turn modes.

• 29 Jun, '22
  TheBlasterPastor Admin

  "Notification when it's your turn" (suggested by Dallarian on 2022-06-29), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 29 Jun, '22
  TheBlasterPastor Admin

  Admin note: Edited suggestion to include more than audio.

• 29 Jun, '22
  TheBlasterPastor Admin

  "Make the game icon blink/light up in the taskbar when its your turn" (suggested by Durak on 2022-05-23), including upvotes (3) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.