'Live' Jail

This isn't really a game play suggestion, more of an implementation/UX suggestion:

Right now the 'flow' for players to bust/bail is to refresh via their browser, and then click on the bail/bust/confirm. Often the person is not in jail anymore. This gameplay seems antiquated for current web trends/other areas on the site.

I think it would be great if the Jail was more like Russian Roulette/other 'live'/socket/whatever screens where people would pop in and out of jail like a 'mini game' vs a static page you need to refresh constantly.

This would cut down on server load: you only need to fire events for updating the list vs having dozens/hundreds of people refreshing the entire php page, often dozens of times per bust. I think it would also improve 'game play' around jail as then it feels more like a busy place with high throughput vs 'I need to refresh to see activity in jail'.

tldr jail feels really old school with manual refreshes

I'm all for this, but it absolutely needs to extend to the Hospital as well. Far too many times I click revive on someone and "This user is no longer in the hospital"

R+

Yes, totally agree!

I can't bust because of connection in Myanmar

I was just busting before I set off to rehab and thought this exact premise, yes please chadbjorn, the jails and hospital could probably do with sprucing up a little more.

I think this would be a good idea, but I feel that comparing between the RR lobby and Jail/Hospital are two very different things. This is considering that RR lobbies don't usually go to large numbers but you can have thousands of people in the Hospital, especially during events.

Having a "live" update in the same structure as what it is currently would cause misclicks when entries are pushed down as people with higher hosp timers or jail score enter the hospital and jail respectively.

Also, this wouldn't really work well with pagination, and you cannot have a full list of thousands of people in the hospital to scroll through.

But R+ anyway because this is a step towards improving QoL, and perhaps there is a way of managing the above.

I imagine this has been thought of many a time before by staff and Torn civilians a like. I'm guessing there is a good reason why this hasn't been implemented, or just that staff are likely contently inundated with urgent jobs. Nonetheless, I say yes!

R+