Earnings are already displayed in the next cell over.
the MSW/SW/W thing is meant to be a performance saving thing. So a horse has a stat attached to it describing it as a MSW, or SW, or winner/mult placed, etc. The code just has to look up that one stat and feed it in to the display.
If the full race record is displayed, that’s more data to fetch (not a deal-breaker, but just a point of consideration).
It’s redundant for racehorses as their pages already load the race records tab (if they’ve raced) so would be kind of pointless there.
On that note, doesn’t it defeat the point of the racing tab somewhat?
I’m not against doing the idea, per se, though the performance concerns are a factor. Also, I’d like to not have EVERY cell in the top table have a hover panel on it, as that would be really busy.
Maybe I didn’t explain it correctly? I do recognize that it may be difficult to do because RR is such a dynamic thing. If it makes the game sluggish, forget it. For retired ponies, though, RR is static.
Say I’m on my stallion’s page and I’m looking at his progeny. I see his colt Joe is a stakes winner and his filly Jane is a winner, but in order to find out how awesome Joe is, I have to go to his racing page and check out his stats. I don’t care how he did as a 2yo or 3yo, I just want to know how he’s done overall. That’s why I want the hover panel in that case.
As far as the heading goes, sometimes I’m looking at a prospective stallion’s progeny page to see how he’s produced, but I also want a quick look-see to see how he did on the track too. Again, I’m mostly concerned with the number of wins/consistency rather than the details provided on the racing tab.
It’s kind of like the reason you might have a program you use a lot on your dock/windows task bar when you COULD just go to the start menu/applications folder to start up that favorite piece of software. RR is something I reference a lot and even though having it in the header might be a bit repetitive, I would really love the convenience of being able to check the RR wherever I was on the page. If I wanted more detail, I would go to race tab.
It’s certainly doable, though part of the point of having the text version (Mult. Stakes Winner, Winner, etc) is so that you don’t get the page cluttered with tons of info.
I do plan to add lots of stats for studs, though, either on their page or on a stallion stats-specific page (or both). Stuff like top earners (lifetime/current year), top average earnings (lifetime/year), etc. Basically anything that looks inspiring/easy-ish to do off Bloodhorse. So that should help in getting an idea of how good a sire’s foals are, too, if you can see right away that his top earners have won 200k or less, or won 5mil or more, or whatever.
I actually kind of want a hover panel over both. I would love for the heading to be the horse’s profile at a glance. There’s a huge difference between a 2 time MSW and a 10 time MSW, but the same term is used for both. I just want to know at a glance whether the pony was a monster or just pretty good and I want to access it from whatever page I’m looking at.
Again, not a make or break it… just me putting things on the wish list. If other people think it’s unnecessary, that’s totally cool.
Yeah, I can see the value there. Would that “feature” be satisfied by a top earning/winning foals section on the stud page (which I’m planning to add)? Then you can see that Joe and Bob are both MSW sons of Jim, but Joe’s earned 4mil in his lifetime and had 8 SWs compared to Bob earning 350k and 2 SWs.
Possibly. That would definitely be helpful. I can also see how a stallion with a lot of foals would probably take forever to load the dynamic information.
Maybe instead of a hover-panel the MSW, SW whatever designations to link to a pop-up window that would feature either just the lifetime RR or the RR chart that we currently see on each horse’s racing page. Though, this would be the same as clicking on a race horse’s name since it jumps to that page in their profile already. You have to remember that this feature request comes out of the way the 1.0 version is set up, which requires two clicks to get the info I want.
I do still want it in the header for stallions, since I do want to know if the stallion is a 7MSW or a 14 MSW at a glance since their pages, I think, jump to offspring instead of RR. Same for broodies.
Yes, that’s my main concern. It’s one thing for broodmares who would have ~20 foals max, but stallions could have 200 foals, which would take quite a while to load. I can add in caching and data-lookup and whatnot, but I’d prefer to just display more useful data in smaller forms. So if you really want to know who JimBob’s best foals are, and how good they are, I’d rather create something that just lists his best foals rather than showing all his foals’ race records.
I’m cool with what you suggested, Shanthi. Like I said (or hope I said), it’s not a big deal. Just on my wish list. If it’s not feasible the way I had imagined, that’s totally cool. I like the alternative. It’s probably more informative than what I wanted.
Cool. Like I said, I’m open to the idea, but for performance reasons, I’d like to consider what info we really want, and try and do that, rather than opt to add a ton of extra info just because. Though I do hope to fine-tune the new code/server/etc so that even with craptons of data flying around it’s still quite fast. We’ll see, I haven’t gotten to performance tweaks yet.
So that should help in getting an idea of how good a sire’s foals are, too, if you can see right away that his top earners have won 200k or less, or won 5mil or more, or whatever.
Like I said, I’m open to the idea, but for performance reasons, I’d like to consider what info we really want, and try and do that, rather than opt to add a ton of extra info just because. Though I do hope to fine-tune the new code/server/etc so that even with craptons of data flying around it’s still quite fast.