Conquer Club

BENCLUB wrote:When a game is close.
We can see what was the differents move of the players.
But it's really difficult and boring to see it in our brain what they are doing.

With a replayer, we could click on "PLAY" and the game restart with the Round 1 : turn 1, turn 2 etc etc
And we could see how the game worked.

Bottom "PAUSE" "STOP" "PLAY" "x3" "x5".

It will be really usefull to learn a map with old games.

PS : Sorry about my english.

tigerbob wrote:I appologize for not reading the whole thread before posting (if what I have to say has already been said.)

Would it make any difference if the game history was saved to the user's computer after each round and then deleted from the server?

I would like to have the game history for learning purposes, but I would like for the history to only be available to those that are in game. I think it would be detrimental to allow general public access to histories that would lead to datamining such as is/was done in online poker.

universalchiro wrote:I vote "No" on replay concept. On the grounds of exposing secret battle tactics and the inclination of mankind to abuse a system for self gain, self glory or detriment of another.

agentcom wrote:

tigerbob wrote:I appologize for not reading the whole thread before posting (if what I have to say has already been said.)

Would it make any difference if the game history was saved to the user's computer after each round and then deleted from the server?

I would like to have the game history for learning purposes, but I would like for the history to only be available to those that are in game. I think it would be detrimental to allow general public access to histories that would lead to datamining such as is/was done in online poker.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that in the history of this suggestion someone did promote an exportable feature, and the admin liked that idea briefly. However, more recently, the admin have said that storage concerns would not be an impediment to implementation.

EDIT: Actually, you can see a pretty good summary of the discussion in the OP. In suggestions, you can usually check there first when you come across one of these mondo-threads

• Simple Animation of game log actions taken since last turn

• A beautiful version of this would no doubt be hard to program, but what I'm proposing is a very simple visual representation of the actions taken since your last turn. (this could be since your last PLAYED turn, or not if that's harder... Another penalty for missing turns would be no bad thing).
  
  Graphically this could be exactly the same visual as during playing your own turn, with a set time (possibly set to player preference) per action.
  Perhaps it could be visually improved with a simple arrow in the attacker's colour pointing in the direction of attack, but not strictly necessary.

• Differences vs reading game log : this method would (probably) make it more evident than game log does if a territory had been attacked but NOT conquered. Also deferred troops would have to be shown going down at the end of turns, unlike the game log, which mentions them at the beginning.
  
  Essentially this would provide an efficient (or lazy) optional means to catch up on what's happened.
  
  IIt would provide an easy get around for various short comings of the game log :
  - finding all the places can be time consuming
  - game log and the map cannot be seen together on smart phone
  - game log on smart phone can be a little glitchy.
  
  
  It might help less literate or less info-hungry players to see patterns and behaviours by seeing more than a snap shot of a game

thegurumonkey wrote:don't think you've understood me. i was trying to describe an easy way to SEE YOUR OPPONENT'S MOVES. But in a visual way, rather than by cross referencing reading the game log with scrolling up and looking for place names on the map. (as if you've sat and stared at the screen during your opponent's turns, but sped up obviously. ie it might look like a bot replaying the moves in the game log)... maybe i'm not explaining myself well. it's simple in my head...