I have posted this forum to what ideas people have for making this site better. i hope for some moderators to see this and maybe take some ideas into account .I was just think the other day that funkysnooker is the best snooker site i have ever been on. Its superb, But, i was also thinking about how you could make it even better. I dont think there is a lot to make it better but some ideas poped into my head. Here is 2 of them.

1.I was thinking that snooker is a game that is all about safty shots. On this site the ony safty you can do is snooker someone. You can not put it safe on a cushion because where ever you put it, you can still play bottom spin. In real life, when put on a cushion u can only play top. that is one of my best ideas.

2. This is only a minor idea but maybe there could be some different camera angles i.e. instead of viewing the table side ways, maybe you could view it length ways or diagonal.

Everyon put your ideas on.

1. It has been mentioned before, and i think there was complications in implementing it into the game.

2. How will different views change the game? Viewing it lengthways will look exactly like sideways apart from it wont fit on the screen.

Firstly, welcome to the forums!

For the first point, would be good, but if you aim along the cushion, you can hit screw on it, but if you hit down the table you can't. So how would the game be able to tell where you was aiming?

For the second point, not a bad idea actually, but a button on the table so you can rotate it 90 degrees, might help with aiming for some shots, but as said, it would squash the table a bit, but nice thinking though.

Yes damee that is what i actualy meant, a button to change the angle 90 degrees.

Also good point from damee but surely the person that makes funkysnooker better is clever enough to make this possible (that being the compications between hitting the cue ball along the cushion and down the table).

There has got to be a way to be able to play safties with out actualy snookering him.

Also another idea could be that nominating a colour ball when on a colour. the reason i have mensioned this is because i have done it before when i have been cuing for the black and missed it but then came up the table and hit the brown and snookered someone. That could be another idea

chaz13 all your ideas are very good if we want to make the game implement all the real snooker rules. You could also add to this idea list the free ball rule, the miss rule, and so on. By the way, most of these ideas have already been discussed in the past, so it's also a good thing to search the forums for old threads before you write your new one.

The reason why these rules have not been implemented yet is that their implementation would imply a loss of playability. For example, nominating a ball would change a lot the current ease and fluency of play, whereas it would only be useful in case of snookers.
The current game is a good compromise between real rules and playability.

However we are very open to new ideas for implementing these new things, but only if you describe exactly how it would not imply a loss of playability.

Also, if you have several different ideas, please write them in separate threads, so it's much easier to find them back later.

just a quick one, maybe be a snooker cue instead of a pool cue?? and also, this as been brought up on the forums, when you put a name into player search, if you put the wrong name in it will put up a multiply choice i.e i put in fester2007 it comes up with:
fester2007
fester2006
fester278
and so on, this would make it alot easier if somebodys name was hard to spell out??? just a idea lol

http://www.funkysnooker.com/viewTopic.do?topicid=5387

I just want add to this that it could be a good idea to add angle for the spin.
it could affect 2 aspects:
1: ball can have back spin with more power.
2: balls can go on a curve trajectory

That would require a 3D game, which, at the moment, is only 2D. Also the swerve could be mastered and therefore snookers become easier to get out of.

I think the main thing to remember is that fooker is a game in its own right rather than a genuine snooker simulator. There have been many times that i've thought "a swerve could really get me out of this mess" but you've got to accept that this isnt snooker, it's funky snooker.

Fan of the 90 degrees button though- even tough it would make the table smaller- im sure it's something that you can get used to.

fooker? You allowed to say that....?

Swerve shots are very difficult, if I had somebody in a snooker it would annoy me if someone swerved around it, potted it and won the frame from there. It would be to easy to do compared to real life. Then again, the same could be said of potting from off the cushion...

Edited at 22:32 Mon 27/04/09 (BST)

Quoted from funkypool

Well as a matter of fact. If you jacked the cue up it would only stun if you hit it sweetly. It wouldn't spin back too the extents it does on this game.

Why not rotate 180 degrees? This should be possible, rather than 90 ... just a thought

Because when you click the 90 degree button twice it will go 180 degrees

Also for another idea, i have just played a match that has gone on for about an hour because all we kept doing was rolling into pack even though it was touching ball. Maybe a the touching ball rule can be put oto this so that when it is touching ball all you have to do is play away

I saw a point on one of these forum threads that said there should be a re-rack button.

Personally I think that reracks would be a very good addition within the game- but they don't reset the time if it's a tourney match, so there's always the gamble you wouldnt finish. That would make the tourneys much more interesting!!

it would make the game more interesting but the chances are that rolling into the pack came as a result of rolling into the pack from the break off shot and this would be repeated again on the rerack.

my method of breaking varies depending on my estimate of the other players skill level and the chance of them making a frame winning break from me opening the reds on my break off shot

another idea for the profile is maybe an average break per game and/or average points per game?

comments?

another idea for the game (mainly for beginners) is to implent a computer controlled player so beginners can have a chance to play the game a bit. You could also have the settings for the bot at :
1. Beginner
2. Ametuer
3. Intermediate
4.Semi-Pro
5. Professional
and 6. World class

but when playing the bot it doesnt add rank or count as a win - lose match so it doesnt come up on your profile.