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1307 days, 21 hours, 35 minutes ago

Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could designate yourself to watch a game, then you´ll get game link to your page. For example "Watching Lone Wolf I".

When going to game page you could see all same public(!) info as all players get inside the game. That could include: Able to scroll score tables turn by turn. (now you can not see history). Get info from explosions, big meteors etc. All public info available. Also clean game map could be included.

Option: "Free to spectators" could be included to game settings

Not sure if this is possible. But that could make following ongoing games more fun. (I am not sure if there are many people following ongoing games... I am..)

1307 days, 21 hours, 23 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

You can link the game to your favourites in your web browser.

You can see scores and public messages.

I personally would not want other messages been public.

Or you would have spectators sending messages to players along the lines. "HYP ship explosion x,y I recon the Borg homeworld is planet z (if the map was also visible)".

You could have arm chair experts "over assisting" players.

Any way why are you so interested on our every so quiet, no communication game ;-).

1307 days, 21 hours, 16 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

I just want to be an "armchair expert" ! ;)

1307 days, 21 hours, 14 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Like * 1000

It is currently too tricky to follow what goes on in a game or to share experiences from a game. I believe there are a bunch of real 'low hanging fruit' improvements here that would really improve the community experience.

1307 days, 21 hours, 9 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

I agree with smn.

There is also another possibility - to arrange "SHOW GAMES", which are open to follow. (atleast to some point). That is a good question how "open" the games could be, not to disturb game too much.

I am pretty sure there are players who want to be the stars of a big show! ;)

T

1307 days, 21 hours, 5 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Some random ideas which seem to have a good return on investment:

1) For all games except explore maps, include the map with connections visible on the main game page.

2) Fix the bug where long game-related threads hide in-game diplomacy, so we can have game-related chatter without feeling guilty about it

3) I just noticed I can currently subscribe to even an ongoing game by clicking 'I am interested'. Brilliant! Now could it be possible to add a host run summary to everyone interested: Score changes, public explosions, FoF activations?

4) For the history graph, why not have a ship number and starbase number graph. Under the ship number graph, the turn when ship limit is reached could be highlighted (the single most defining piece of information for any given game)

@Martinr

I know you mean well by suggesting workarounds, but diverting discussion there is not really fruitful because many of these things would be great to have as regular, supported features of the site and easily accessible for everyone.

1306 days, 13 hours, 5 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

A lot of these are more complicated, but I was in the mood for really low hanging fruit last night. So I ported over the charting functions from the DIE HARD web page, and added a turn selector to the data page.

Still some things to clean up before it is released to the main site, but you can check it out on http://test.planets.nu if you're curious. Feedback welcome of course.

1306 days, 12 hours, 25 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Nice work! I am surprised how fast our development team acts! I am amused. I hope you can brainstorm how we can arrange public "show games" for whole community to enjoy! :)

1306 days, 12 hours, 17 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Wow, great! I love the new charts and in full screen mode they give detailed insight even to the longer games :)

1306 days, 12 hours, 13 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

2 x Awesome ... speed and results :-)

1306 days, 12 hours, 12 minutes ago

RE: Suggestion for developers: Watch the game mode. You could...

Would it be possible to get the data sheet display the name of the player at the time? Now it's always current player.