How do I skip replays?

Higher Game · Post by **Higher Game** » October 14th, 2006, 4:53 pm

When I observe a multiplayer game, it starts from turn 1 and keeps going. What do I do if I want to skip this and simply see the current state of the game? I can't find this information anywhere in the guide.

Post by **Soliton** » October 14th, 2006, 6:24 pm

Higher Game wrote:When I observe a multiplayer game, it starts from turn 1 and keeps going. What do I do if I want to skip this and simply see the current state of the game? I can't find this information anywhere in the guide.

That's because it isn't possible. The best you have is the "quick replays" option in the development version.

Assasin · Post by **Assasin** » October 14th, 2006, 6:46 pm

Out of curiosity, why was that feature never put in?

Post by **Soliton** » October 14th, 2006, 6:54 pm

Assasin wrote:Out of curiosity, why was that feature never put in?

Because no one implemented it.

Xeron_ · Post by **Xeron_** » October 14th, 2006, 6:59 pm

good point

Higher Game · Post by **Higher Game** » October 15th, 2006, 3:12 am

Will it ever be possible, or is this a bunch of spaghetti code that won't ever be sorted through?

Website · Post by **Sapient** » October 15th, 2006, 4:34 am

Dave or Yogi would be the ones to answer that. Apparently, building a snapshot of the gamestate and sending it to the client would cause additional work for the server, and it wouldn't save much time.

Higher Game · Post by **Higher Game** » October 15th, 2006, 10:01 am

For a 20+ turn game, it would save a load of time! And, how would the saved game's data overload the server? It just seems like so little.

Assasin · Post by **Assasin** » October 15th, 2006, 9:08 pm

oh, I remember some discussion going on about it and I couldn't find the thread, so I was just curious as to what happened with the idea.

Post by **Yogibear** » November 10th, 2006, 3:11 pm

Higher Game wrote:Will it ever be possible, or is this a bunch of spaghetti code that won't ever be sorted through?

Well, everything is possible

.

But seriously, that was actually my first idea to do. But there is only two ways to realize such a feature:
1.
Walk all the way through the replay but don't show it on the screen. I always like to see how far things have gone so i realized this and added an update of the screen at every side turn.

2.
Keep snapshots of games on the server and send them to clients on demand. Everything but trivial, believe me. So since "quick replays" works reasonably fast now and was a lot easier to do, i did not tackle it. I also did some calculations about bandwidth needs for this, but it seems that shouldn't be a major concern (unless there is dozens of DotM games, that is

).

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