Make all White Stars visible to the public

[candid galleon]

I think that all White Star matches should be visible as it seems that the main motivation for not making them public is to hide match fixing or other questionable behaviour.

I've heard some people claim "it's to protect their secret tactics" but any secret tactics worth a damn will quickly be shared by their opponent if they are any good, especially as high level players often guest in other high level corps, or people will seek out the WS replay history when they drop by to do a guest RS run.

If there is some issue of player privacy, then maybe the private WS toggle can still be present, but the toggle will set all the visible names to "Player 1, Player 2, Player 3"

I have often had friends in other corps say they are having a great match and I should check it out, only to see their opponent set it to private, so I have to go join their corp just to see it. This is a bad user experience and ultimately inhibits the social aspect of the game.

In addition to thise suggestion, I think the ongoing WS should be visible on a corp bio page, as should their WS history.

The advantages I feel it will bring are:

• better visibilty in the community
• better advertises White Star as a game mode
• players new to the game who are interested in white star can look at games from various corps
• if any match fixing (or other shady activity) does occur, the community can self police / bettr identify it

Reserving this post in case I need to post addendums to the original discussion with othr ideas / feedback given by other players.

[viscid yoke]

Do you know that all active WS are also visible to the public at the moment?

[candid galleon]

I know that last week at least one match wasn't.

[unique stone]

this is under consideration, if you disagree with the feature please add your arguments here

[lone cipher]

Amazing!
Related in spirit, it would be really convenient if the "share star view" feature could be used to share a WS replay.

Currently if I'm watching a replay and want to share with my corp to discuss, using the "Check this out!" feature will only show the empty, dead star after nova.

[unique stone]

we'll add this to the backlog to be looked at

[candid galleon]

If it's easier to implement than having the star view button pull double duty, I think just having a "share replay" button on the WS replay list (or the star information window) would satisfy @lone cipher requirements - that would be sort of similar to how Red Star and Blue Star replays are handled.

Assuming that the internal API for a Blue Star/Red Star replay can just be fed a White Star is and function the same.

[neat citrus]

Could we also have a feature to save/bookmark (and of course remove) WS, RS (DRS), and BLS replays? It would be super useful for reviewing and sharing matches

[unique stone]

sharing specific camera at specific time of the replay with custom comment would be much more useful, the share view button can probably be fixed to do all that when initiated from a replay

[unique stone]

unfortunately no, replays will always be temporary in nature and not guarantee to survive any game update

[candid galleon]

That would be a fantastic feature to add, would help with post game debriefs, or when chatting with an opponent post game (assuming it's a friendly opponent)

If possible, adding it to red star replays would also be useful

[neat citrus]

Got it, thx for clarifying 🙂

[upbeat rapids]

Could you give all time access for the ws participants to the ws chat and possibility to jump in mew ships whether they are in corp or not 🙏

[vestal wasp]

I do think that all matches should be public.

We all are a small community, and often guest and bounce around and visit each other. If I want to see what is going on in Auscorp, I can simply go over there and look. Or just send a DM and ask.

At no point are future moves at risk since TimeMachine can not be viewed unless you are in corp and are Senior (at a minimum).

Newer corps and players can see all the matches and try to take pointers and lessons to improve their own games. They may be intimidated to reach out and ask to check by joining a corp, instead they can just look.

With every match being public, there can be no baseless accusations of someone 'cheating' or 'rigging' anything. The matches can simpily be viewed. The simple act of public viewership will prevent a lot of poor behavior from happening.

I am sure there are more good reasons that others will share. However I do think that in the spirit of community it would be a change in the positive direction.

[sage rivet]

All for transparency. Always felt a bit odd when I knew a specific corp was in an active WS but couldn’t find them on the list of active WS.

+1 from me.

The only add on complaint I have is I wish there were a better way of organizing the list of active WS 😅 but that’s a comment for another thread

[lone cipher]

Search by name would be so nice 😂

[candid galleon]

Having filters:

Sort by: time remaining, corp A name,.corp B name, relics, combined corporation influence

Would be useful

And a search

But if the live white stars for a corp were added to a corporation's page, the search wouldn't even be needed.

[vestal siren]

At the very least being able to go to a corp’s info panel and accessing their active white stars from there would be very useful

[candid galleon]

Something like this

[wind marsh]

Did you make that 😮

[candid galleon]

Yes

[candid galleon]

I mean I probably could have just asked ChatGPT to make it, but it didn't take too long to mock up on my phone:

[wind marsh]

That's super cool. My Walmart phone can't do that lmao

[safe matrix]

how tf

[candid galleon]

Would making the corp's public page look similar to this mockup be a possibility:

• Added ongoing White Star matches (clickable to view game)
• Made White Star history page public

(assuming that there is consensus with the community and you [developers])

[neat citrus]

bump