Espionage improvements

[severian]

I think espionage is working fine, but would like to suggest a few interface improvements:

1. Sometimes when I click on someones name on whom I am spying, I don't get their spy report - just their general information. Good examples are: clicking on names on the comm page, clicking on names on a non-espionage map, clicking on names on the espionage map *sometimes*. I can always go pick their name out of my list of people I'm spying on presented on the espionage page, but I think it would be neato if the information wasn't so inconsistently buried.

2. I'd love to know, at a glance, who's got Informants, who's got Agents, and who's got Diplomats. Perhaps this could be achieved through colour-coding the names that appear on the espionage page by type of spy? I'd also like to know who's visible in my current view (for upgrading, palantir'ing or attacking, as appropriate). Perhaps presenting those names in bold?

Actually, that's all I can think of. Thanks.

-Sev

[Rycchus]

About the first point, what I have to do to find out someone's details is this:

1. Click on their name. It takes me to their general information.
2. Click on another page. It treats me as if I've logged out and takes me to the homepage.
3. Log in again.
4. Go back to a page with their name on.
5. Click on their name again. It works this time.

I've been too lazy to complain so far, but it is kinda annoying!

[vilhazarog]

Weird... I don't have this problem at all.

[severian]

yeah, my first point makes it sound like the behaviour is more consistent than it actually is.. just, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.. makes me think that having that full report is the desired behaviour, but that there's a tricky bug preventing it from happening all the time.

Clicking on the list of red names seems to work 100% of the time. I think it's the only thing that does.

[Rycchus]

It very, very rarely works for me. Usually I just put up with doing five clicks instead of one.

[iuewen]

It always logs me out when I try clicking on someone's name, Every time.

[Rasteroid]

Iuewen.. that sounds awful. The only way it would be doing that is if your cookie was lost like every click. That's strange.

Can everyone experiencing this bug please shout out their browser and cookie settings?

[Rycchus]

Firefox, cookies enabled.

I also get it whenever I click on someone's name, but I tried sev's trick of clicking on the names in red on the spy page, and that works. Maybe you've done these links differently somehow?

I tried to test this for you in Internet Explorer, but I got a parse error, sorry.

[iuewen]

My cookies work fine everywhere else... strange that this is the only site that has the problem. Firefox user.

After I log in again after being logged out, it keeps me logged in for the time being. Unsure exactly how long, because I only check once per production cycle, but it keeps me logged in for the time I stay active.

[Rycchus]

Same about the keeping logged in. It's as if it wants to ultra-multiple-check that you really are someone with a spy who CAN view this data about another player.