I am afraid I don't have Skype.
Skype is easy to install and as I understand it is available for every platform. Email/forum exchange is slow, non interactive and prone to misinterpretation. It takes away way more of my time that can be better spent doing something new comparatively to a short chat.
Really really don't want to lose onscreen feedback of a previous performance,
You are not loosing it. You still have triangles/icons on both profiles,
I so want to visually race a previous performance = a great way to improve!
With triangles you still have your visual feedback.
Reducing 5 best performances to say 2 per segment would dramatically reduce the clutter- or better still
have it configurable from 0 (off) to 5 (the number-of-avatars-shown-per-segment could replace the current on/off in the GUI).
If you reduce to 2 then there is not enough to choose from for chasing depending on your today's state. I ride a lot on a trainer and know it from experience. 5 is sort of optimal. Having it configurable gives me shivers. Every time I give more freedom to users I am being punished by "but you did not tell me that I could do this/that" or "your on screen array of options is just too much". And nobody reads a friggin user guide. So what am I to do? One wants an airplane cockpit and the other wants single button with "make everything cool" caption. I can't please everyone.
Note I was just guessing segments started exactly together by looking at the compressed profile view on the right - if slightly staggered that helps. Good.
On left profile (active during riding) tie visual separation is more then enough
I was interpreting an avatar segment as (a) circles on the video for each performance and (b) triangles at the bottom of the gradient profile, behind your position or in front of it depending on where they are.
Both (a) and (b) are nice. (a) makes me aggressive as I chase him down like on the road
. (b) lets me see what is behind me and gives me a proper distance scale when circles (a) are cluttered.
...they all get shown on the same line at the bottom, rather than on the relevant coloured segment, but I could be wrong...
Yes you are wrong They're separated by vertical position and they have color that sorrespond to the color of segment.
but whatever you do please don't take away my visual indication of a previous best performance!!!
I was only gonna take away circles. Triangles/Icons will stay. So get on Skype and try to convince me to keep circles when in reality that feature is reserved for live competitors who look like this
only with nick names instead of numbers and soon some live data to be added as well:
