Conquer Club

The Neon Peon wrote:I would really love to see this, and it would solve many of the obstacles that are in the game log: make the game log click-able so that when you click on an action in it, the map will show what it looked like at the point in the game.

This would help both players in the game to better understand what happened (seeing as you can click on the previous action for the before and after kind of thing) and help players viewing the game to look at how it progressed if they only start looking at the end.

ztodd wrote:I think the server should keep track of all changes from beginning of attack phase to end of attack phase and spit out just the final results in the format above. Something similar can be put in the xml file. Too complicated a programming change? Send me the code or give me access - I'll do it.

This has been in the works for at least a year, right? What's the hold up? Are you all waiting on the players to agree on something?

Just provide the XML and leave it to the greasemonkeys to make the game replayer.

blakebowling wrote:

ztodd wrote:Just provide the XML and leave it to the greasemonkeys to make the game replayer.

First, XML is how the territories and bonuses are coded, not the game engine.

cspare wrote:I was thinking about something like this: (based on Chipv's example)

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gamelog>
<gameinfo>
   <label></label>
   <status>Active</status>
   <joinability>Tournament Game: The Long Walk - Round Twelve</joinability>
   <type>Standard</type>
   <order>Sequential</order>
   <bonus>Flat Rate</bonus>
   <fortifications>Unlimited</fortifications>
   <fog>No</fog>
   <maptype>Africa</maptype>
   <timeleft>12hrs 16min 20sec</timeleft>
   <round>3</round>
   <players>
      <player id="78109" team="1" status="eliminated">cSpare1</player>
      <player id="78110" team="1" status="playing">cSpare2</player>
      <player id="78111" team="2" status="waiting">chipv1</player>
      <player id="78112" team="2" status="eliminated">chipv2</player>
   </players>
</gameinfo>
<log>
(...)
   <round number="2" date="2008-10-17 17:12:11">
      <turn player="78109" date="2008-10-21 11:44:02">
         <DeployEvent date="2008-10-21 11:45:14" territory="Irkutsk" troops="3"/>
         <AssaultEvent targetplayer="78112" date="2008-10-21 11:45:15" from="Siberia" to="Yakutsk" attackers="3" defenders="3" win="2" loss="3" advance="0"/>
         <AssaultEvent targetplayer="78112" date="2008-10-21 11:45:54" from="Irkutsk" to="Yakutsk" attackers="23" defenders="1" win="1" loss="1" advance="21"/>
         <EliminateEvent targetplayer="78112" date="2008-10-21 11:45:54" spoilsAmount="2"/>
         <FortifyEvent date="2008-10-21 11:46:02" from="Yakutsk" to="Kamchatka" troops="3"/>
         <SpoilsEvent date="2008-10-21 11:46:02" amount="1"/>         
      </turn>
   </round>
   <round number="3" date="2008-10-21 11:46:02">
      <turn player="78111" date="2008-10-21 11:46:02">
         <CashGroupEvent troops="10">
            <Group color="Green">Algeria</Group>
            <Group color="Red">East Australia</Group>
            <Group color="Blue">Norwegian Claim</Group>      
         </CashGroupEvent>
         <BonusEvent troops="2" territory="Algeria"/>      
      </turn>
   </round>
</log>
</gamelog>

What do you guys think?

<chatlog>
  <round number="1">
    <chat datetime="200810212200">Good luck everyone</chat>
  </round>
</chatlog>

yeti_c wrote:I like it - Could even extend to have a chat log in the system?

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<chatlog>
  <round number="1">
    <chat datetime="200810212200">Good luck everyone</chat>
  </round>
</chatlog>

C.

cspare wrote:That's a good idea, would be nice to include aswell yea.
Though I myself wouldn't really need the data for ConqerStats, so I'd prefer the chatlog to be in a seperate XML file. Now that I think of it I think the GameInfo element should be in a separate file also, as that information can be used for a much more purposes.

cspare wrote:

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   <round number="2" date="2008-10-17 17:12:11">
      (...)
      <turn player="78109" date="2008-10-21 11:44:02">
         <DeployEvent date="2008-10-21 11:45:14" territory="Irkutsk" troops="3"/>
      </turn>
   </round>

Jagganath wrote:Are any beta versions of these xml files accessible at this time?

Game Log wrote:TIMESTAMP lancehoch assaulted A12 from N1, N1 lost 5 men and A12 lost 8 men, lancehoch did not conquer it
TIMESTAMP lancehoch assaulted A12 from A11, A11 lost 0 men and A12 lost 1 men, lancehoch conquered it from Kotaro

Game Log with Fog wrote:TIMESTAMP lancehoch assaulted XXX from XXX, XXX lost XXX men and XXX lost XXX men, lancehoch did not conquer it
TIMESTAMP lancehoch assaulted XXX from XXX, XXX lost XXX men and XXX lost XXX men, lancehoch conquered it from Kotaro

barterer2002 wrote:So Lance, as I understand what you're proposal is here, if I have a 50 vs. 30 battle and it takes 35 rolls for me to get the battle won and take the tert there will be 35 new lines in the log? (or if we're assuming that I stop when I get to 30 and he's at 8 it'll have 30 new lines?).

lancehoch wrote:No, I think it would/should combine any lines which have the same attack country, defend country, attacker, and defender. So either at the end of the turn or when the territory is conquered, it would merge all the attacks into one line and would not show the battle by battle results. At least that is how I would try to do it, but it seems like a ton of coding.

for (;;)
{
     if (player ends attacks)
     {
           //print to log that attacks were made (if any)
           //reset variables
           break;
     }
     //player attacks territ 1 from territ 2
     if (new territ 2==old territ2)
     {
           //roll dice
           //add and subtract to variables based on dice
     }
     else
     {
           //print to log that attacks were made
           //reset variables
     }
}

barterer2002 wrote:I kind of think there are game log issues already (which is why they seem to be deleted when they're archived) and this would just compound the issue.

Night Strike wrote:

barterer2002 wrote:I kind of think there are game log issues already (which is why they seem to be deleted when they're archived) and this would just compound the issue.

Which is exactly why this has taken so long to do. Lack doesn't have enough space yet to hold all those extended game logs.