Originally Posted by
MrExcelion
Hey thanks for taking the time to make a fast and super detailed response. I understand where you're coming from, in that you're thinking the increase in player power is making the previous efforts made in patch 7.3 seem irrelevant, whereas I've only been forward looking, and that the efforts made in that timeframe would be wiped out. To that end, somebody else in the thread suggested duplicating old scores, and doing that might give you the flexibility to do more seasonal features, saving the full resets for dungeon difficulty increases. There's pros and cons to the approach and could have issues with the tracking though. I'm not going to say there's a definitive right or wrong here and I know where you're coming from this for sure
I really do think the addon is starting to embody the heart and soul of the raider.io interactive experience. It's a great addon and I hope everybody starts using it. There's lots of knobs you can turn and approaches you can take with this to appease all groups of players (weekly players/casual score farmers that get decent scores on everything/elite level pushing). Like the once a week players you're showing the highest done, but also more direct features with the score too.
With that said, there's still a lot of people that just look up on the website and focus on the top header. Basically what I'm saying is we don't want the top header to get too crowded, but some of this information that you're putting in the addon could definitely go up there too, such as best score in any season, and it's very important it receives the same level of attention. Unless I'm misunderstanding it, you can only see 7.3.2 and 7.3 in the top header, and you have to click a drop down 1/3 down the page to select an old season like 7.2.5 and then it updates the top header with the old scores. Most people aren't going to bother to do that. I feel like there's always going to be a large contingent of organizers that will still prefer to just go to the website, maybe because they might prefer that full page experience. Give it another year or so though and we might have some super high number like 90% of raider.io-using people converted over to the addon, hope that's the case because of the upcoming features you've listed, though the website needs traffic too. For now at least, appealing to the website players can be done by treating that top header like the in-game tooltip. They'll definitely scroll down and look at the current seasons runs but they probably won't mess with the dropdown menus that let you switch to an earlier season
Overall I think the addon does a fantastic job at molding leaders towards a more healthy perspective on group formation. It gives them several different "reasons"/approaches to include a player rather than exclude them. Old season carryover, single highest, highest season, all that's great.