Conquer Club

Anybody have any ideas on how a Reconnaissance Photo app could be developed?

It could be used in fog of war games to capture the "current state" of the map at various times so that you could look back and see where folks were a couple of turns ago even though you are no longer near them.

I do this by hand with screen captures sometimes but it would be cool to have an app that went out periodically (say twice a day) and captured the state of the map as you currently see it.

Thoughts?

RamWreck

RamWreck wrote:Anybody have any ideas on how a Reconnaissance Photo app could be developed?

It could be used in fog of war games to capture the "current state" of the map at various times so that you could look back and see where folks were a couple of turns ago even though you are no longer near them.

I do this by hand with screen captures sometimes but it would be cool to have an app that went out periodically (say twice a day) and captured the state of the map as you currently see it.

Thoughts?

RamWreck

BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.

C.

BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.

It can't be automated with Bob? or it can't be automated period.

RamWreck

RamWreck wrote:

BOB has a "snapshots" feature - that can do this - but it can't be automated.

It can't be automated with Bob? or it can't be automated period.

RamWreck

It can't be automated with BOB - unless I code it to be...

But that would involve you having your browser connected to CC at all times.

C.

But that would involve you having your browser connected to CC at all times.

Agreed and that may not be desirable. I was thinking of trying to use CURL (I have done a little bit of programming with this before) to capture the results and save them and then develop a "display" app that lets the user browse the captures.

However, I don't know enough about the CC API to know how "doable" that would be.

RamWreck

So these are the key lines right?

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RamWreck