Please add an option to review run before posting damage
Right now, as soon as you finish a raid battle, the battle is counted toward the raid - applying the damage and removing the characters used from those still available. This can be delayed or cancelled if the game's internet connection is suspended before the end of the battle (airplane mode is often used to do this).
The mechanics with the new raid seem designed to encourage a lot of guild members to post their damage at the same time. Even if that wasn't the intent, here are some other scenarios where a player might want an option not to post their damage:
It would save a lot of frustration across the playerbase if the game could show the summary with the damage and current health at the end of the battle before posting the damage, and give an option to either submit the battle or throw it out. This doesn't allow players to do anything they can't do right now through other more awkward means.
Right now, to do this, you need to remember to turn on airplane mode after starting the battle, but before the battle ends (if the raid kills your team before anyone gets a turn, this could be a short time window). At the end, if you want to post the damage, then you need to turn airplane mode back off. If you don't want to post the damage, you need to close the game, then turn airplane mode back on and restart the game. Also, if you wanted to know how much damage you did before deciding to post the damage, you need to write down or remember the starting percentage, take note of the percentage just before the battle ended, and do the math. The game knows how much damage you did, it just doesn't tell you until after you post it.
Also, if you use airplane mode to do this, it cuts off internet access to the device, which can make it hard if you want to coordinate with your guild. Plus some platforms don't have airplane mode as an easy way to disable internet access.
At a bare minimum, this could just be a small change to the existing damage summary which could be immensely helpful. Show it before posting the damage, and have two buttons to either post the battle or throw it out.
I can think of a couple possible enhancements to that, which might be nice, but nowhere near as important as the basic feature:
The mechanics with the new raid seem designed to encourage a lot of guild members to post their damage at the same time. Even if that wasn't the intent, here are some other scenarios where a player might want an option not to post their damage:
- Players trying out practice runs with different teams to figure out what works
- Battles where all of the characters died before doing any damage
- Cases where the raid has advanced to a later phase while the player was running the battle
- Battles where the player wasn't quite sure how much damage they did (maybe they forgot to take note of the starting health percentage)
It would save a lot of frustration across the playerbase if the game could show the summary with the damage and current health at the end of the battle before posting the damage, and give an option to either submit the battle or throw it out. This doesn't allow players to do anything they can't do right now through other more awkward means.
Right now, to do this, you need to remember to turn on airplane mode after starting the battle, but before the battle ends (if the raid kills your team before anyone gets a turn, this could be a short time window). At the end, if you want to post the damage, then you need to turn airplane mode back off. If you don't want to post the damage, you need to close the game, then turn airplane mode back on and restart the game. Also, if you wanted to know how much damage you did before deciding to post the damage, you need to write down or remember the starting percentage, take note of the percentage just before the battle ended, and do the math. The game knows how much damage you did, it just doesn't tell you until after you post it.
Also, if you use airplane mode to do this, it cuts off internet access to the device, which can make it hard if you want to coordinate with your guild. Plus some platforms don't have airplane mode as an easy way to disable internet access.
At a bare minimum, this could just be a small change to the existing damage summary which could be immensely helpful. Show it before posting the damage, and have two buttons to either post the battle or throw it out.
I can think of a couple possible enhancements to that, which might be nice, but nowhere near as important as the basic feature:
- Show both the total damage, and the damage as a percentage of the appropriate phase(s)
- Allow refreshing the display showing the current health of the raid
- Allow the in-game to be used while this summary is displayed (helpful if using in-game chat to coordinate posting damage)
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