Now that CC uses javascript

[Grifter]

Some suggestions were previously rejected as "not technically possible". Perhaps javascript removes that barrier for some old ideas. One of them is the Unlimited Adjacent reinforcement. This allows a player to move all troops to the next adjacent territory much like armies in real life move. To prevent misuse of this feature it should be coded so that once troops are moved into a territory then nothing can be moved out of it.

Any chance this might get revisited?

[mibi]

I hope so, I suggested unlimited adjacent a while ago. my first post actually.

[sherkaner]

Not related, I think the main problem is that the game doesn't remember its previous position, only the current one. So though it looks small, it does require some coding. But you certainly don't want to do this in client-side javascript, since ppl could alter that behaviour.

[hwhrhett]

Not related, I think the main problem is that the game doesn't remember its previous position, only the current one. So though it looks small, it does require some coding. But you certainly don't want to do this in client-side javascript, since ppl could alter that behaviour.

but keeping logs of old stuff for the tons and tons of games that are going on at any given time, would probably bog down the servers more than it would improve the game...

[natty dread]

It could be done without remembering previous states of troops. You could just make a code for the reinforcement, where it marks every territory for how many of the troops have already been moved, and this would only need to be done for the time of the reinforcement, so it wouldn't take too much server space either.

So, it would work like this:

Usually, each territory has one variable: troop count (well, troop owner too, but that doesn't apply here).

For the time of reinforcement, we'll give each territory another variable: number of troops that have already been moved.

So when you start reinforcing, all troops that are moved will be taken from the troop count numbers and moved to the second variables. And from those you can't move again. The game could show the troops on the screen like: 6+2, 8+11, which means that you still have 6 troops you can move, and 2 you can't move on that first territory. Or they could be shown as 8(6), 19(8) which would mean 8 total, 6 movable and 19 total, 8 movable.

Then when the reinforcement is over, all the extra variables are added together with the troop count variables, and you won't be needing the extra variables again until the next reinforcement. Thus, they won't take server space, they'd only take a bit of server memory during reinforcements.

[hecter]

Some suggestions were previously rejected as "not technically possible". Perhaps javascript removes that barrier for some old ideas. One of them is the Unlimited Adjacent reinforcement. This allows a player to move all troops to the next adjacent territory much like armies in real life move. To prevent misuse of this feature it should be coded so that once troops are moved into a territory then nothing can be moved out of it.

Any chance this might get revisited?

Not because of Javascript. Javascript is all done in the browser, your computer, while as PHP, what the site is coded in, is all done on the server. If it were done in the browser, it would be VERY easy to just circumvent the script all together.

[Beckytheblondie]

i dont do java, not a coffee guy. will my account be canceled/ do you think ill get a refund?

[Grifter]

Thanks for the comments. Now that I think about it the changes would have to be done on the server side to prevent cheating. Thus JavaScript will not help.

I wonder if this is the most popular Rejected idea.