Playback/Replay/Rewind/Review/History Game Feature[REJECTED]

[ManBungalow]

I think it would be neat to see our games replayed in flash animation turn by turn. They would be like movies where you could see the colored pieces expand and contract across the maps. It would help players to get what is going on during games. This could be included as a member benefit.

It's be easy enough to make an add-on that does that...

I don't know that this should be a member benefit because it would give Premiums a huge benefit over Freemiums in foggy games (unless you could only watch the replay when the game has finished)...

It's a nice idea; maybe it should go in Suggs and Bugs ?

[gimil]

Definetly not the right forum. Moving to suggs & bugs.

[moved]

[cspare]

Im pretty sure i've seen 2 scripts/plugins that did such thing. Can't remember where, but i'm sure there is a linke somewhere on the forum. It wasn't all that good though, because they only showed what player owned what territory at a given moment. The amount of troops cannot be displayed because the logs don't have that kind of information (yet).

edit: think it was this one. Seems like it's broken though.

[cicero]

Duplicate suggestion ...

... searching now for the last thread this was raised in ...

Cicero

[_smile_]

after each game create a game history file(with information like in "game log"), and have a place online (or downloadable "history player") with which you could see what happened on the map(graphical map, not text) during the game turn by turn, or round by round from the beginning.

this may be done by other ways too, just this is how i can imagine: downloadable "replay_player.exe" or online site where you could upload "history file" (or just copy-paste "game log", though there must be starting positions ), or maybe after each game, game window might change and you could "go back to the past" in the same window.

or even better: availability to do this during the game (while it is not ended).

and maybe even dice history of every attack

This will improve the following aspects of the site:

• after 200 rounds game (especially when you win ), you really want to remember how everything has happened, and its hard to do it reading game log
• if there was option "fog of war" this would be even more useful.
• possibility to see other players games like: very good players games and learn something etc...
• like in Starcraft:))) (or other RTS game replays), there could be libraries of interesting games, or elections of amazing unpredicted victories etc.. but I went too far...
• This would be really cool!!!

I am sorry if this discussion has already been started before(it would be strange if nobody had not suggested this idea before), but I havent spotted this

it should not be hard to write a code of these options and so on.
and if you decide to do it, dont do it only for premium members because i would be very angry :D:D:D

thx

[blakebowling]

Some of this was suggested in Game Log 2.0 and some of it was suggested in [Merged] Replay Option
I think that the in game replay would be useful as well.

[_smile_]

i have just realised that there exist a "to-do" list, and i found there "game log 2.0" project waitin, though some of my suggestions may still be usefull:)

sorry again:)

[cicero]

Duplicate threads merged:

[Merged] Replay Option - 9 posts from 23 to 24 January 2007 - first post here
Flash game replay - 5 posts from 20 to 21 March 2007 - first post here
Instant replay for CC nerds - 7 posts from 15 to 20 June 2007 - first post here
Game Replay - 5 posts on 2 July 2007 - first post here
Animated Autoplay/Replay of Game after it is over - 6 posts from 22 to 23 April 2008 - first post here
Log 2.0 and Replays - 21 posts from 14 to 21 June 2008 - first post here

With thanks to blakebowling for his assistance.

Cicero

[cicero]

This suggestion duplicates the one already being discussed in the Game Replay thread. Please continue discussion there.

Cicero

[cicero]

Hi _smile_

No need to apologise. This duplicate thread now locked.
Any further conversation in the threads linked to by blakebowling.

Cicero

[paulk]

Watch animated game through history:

• 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?

[spiesr]

This has been suggested a lot of times, but it can not be made until the game log is upgraded.

[paulk]

Really?

How hard is it then to upgrade the game log?

[The Neon Peon]

I don't know the answer to that, but I'd first rather see Clickable maps become a part of the site, single player team games, and Zombie neutrals.

[wolfpack0530]

I don't know the answer to that, but I'd first rather see Clickable maps become a part of the site, single player team games, and Zombie neutrals.

I like the OP's idea alot! But I agree with NEON!!! I WANT ZOMBIE NEUTRALS!!!!!