- Good for quickly watching how a game has developed since last turn
- Fun to watch a whole game in retrospect
- Interesting if you try to figure out someone elses play style
- No more timeconsuming deschiffer of the history list
Specifics:
- Drop down for how many turns back you want the animation to go on
- Option for speed of movements
- Should be based on javascript, with a javascript timer function
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
- Less mishaps in diplomacy, let's say you walked over someone elses territory to eliminate a player that did the initial attack and end up like looking like the attacker.
- Fun, Interesting, Cool
In short:
I have many times longed for a button that gave me the last turn, or the whole game, played up for me in retrospective, to find out who did what where, or to find out what game I played if I go through my own games.
This could be done with JavaScript. The history list is already there, just make it animated on the map and have a JavaSrcipt timer change the innerHTML of DIV's with the troop numbers on the map, or something similar.
For non programmers this means that the troop numbers change every 1/2 second (?) according to how someone deployed, attacked, reinforced etc.
Since it would be based on JavaScript it would not strain the server.
It could even be a greasemonkey addition?