Game Finder - Games Returned / Page

[dt03457]

As the clan member who is in charge of administering Tournaments and Clan Wars for my clan I use Game Finder extensively. I often find myself retrieving much more information than I need and ignoring a lot of it. I end up retrieving the same data over and over, just to discard it.

Concise description:

• Add an option to specify the number of games returned per page.
• Add an option to specify a date to limit the search.
• Add an option to limit the number of games returned.

Specifics/Details:

• Specify the number of games returned per page:
  1) Add a drop down box with different options for the number of games returned per page or
  2) Add a field where the number of games can be specified with a default value of 100

• Add an option to specify a date to limit the search:
  1) Add a date field that would restrict the search by a date.
  
  • Add a drop down box of dates to restrict the search by:
    a) Start Date
    b) Completion Date
    c) other?
  • Add a date field
    a) to be entered manually or
    b) to be chosen from a calendar
• Add an option to limit the total number of games to return.
  1) Add a field the user can specify a value that would limit the number of games returned or
  2) Add a drop down box of values

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:

• Personal Benefits:
  a) It will shrink the amount of data I have to filter through to get what I’m after, i.e. I don’t retrieve the same data over and over again just to discard 90% of it.
  b) Decreases the number of web pages I need to download.

• Conquer Club Benefits
  a) Less workload on DB server as less data is retrieved.
  b) Less network load as there is less data to transmit over the Internet

[patrickaa317]

Perhaps an additional thing to add to this would be to be able to adjust the game number from an equals to a greater than or less than.

If I put in game number 12345678, that is the game i get but it would be beneficial in some ways to be able to define search criteria, then use the game number as a limiter, where I only want games that are greater than 12345678.

[chapcrap]

I don't see an issue with this, although, I'm not sure that it would be less work on the server.