Enhance Social Part of the Game

[Jeehut]

Here are the missing social features and how they could be designed.

There's no real advantage in being in a group and helping others in group

• A collective group-progress (sum / average of active players) could help
  • HP: House points they would be called
    • very good skills in a training could earn house points
    • winning in a quidditch game could earn house points, too
    • every now and then (seasons?) the house cup could be given to the winning house
    • winning the house cup could appoint all players of that house additional points / badges

There's no way to connect to players nearby and communicate within the game

• The players currently in the radius of a Pokestop / Gym could be listed (not in a map! --> privacy)
  • a chat-channel (per team/house?) could be accessible for all players close to a POI
  • there should be a bad-word filter + a flag button to quickly ban players posting bad things
  • when attacking a gym / playing in a pitch players involved should have a chat for each team

There's no way to compare with friends and see their progress without meeting and asking them

• Introduce a friends list (both sides have to accept, search by player name or email)
  • Importing the address book / facebook should automatically show players playing the game, too
  • One shall see the current main progress and number of differenct collectable items collected
  • One may also see the badges earned by a user
  • There may be a direct chat with friends within the game to organize attacks / events

There's no way of direct battle against a friend

• Introduce direct battle possibility with friends or anybody by using their name
  • For fighting against each other they may or may not need to be at the same location (opinions?)
  • Fighting statistics against specific friends and overall are available
  • An ELO like ranking points is calculated using the last fought opponents and battle results