Improvement proposal II - Movement in replay

[Captain_Cruft]

This has never bothered me that much but I agree it would be good. A lot of work though I suspect.

[Mobhack]

A lot of work, and a complete recoding of the entire replay code, which records events available to BOTH players (fire events basically).

I could write up a new packet type for a spotting event and maybe lost-LOS in a few hours, and add it to the replay, BUT then both of you would get to see every spotting/lost LOS event for the both of you. and there would potentiaally be loads more spotting/lost LOS events to add to the replay than firing, so your data file size would max very quickly, a would replay times. Adding UI changes for it would be more problemantical since both sides in a PBEM game may have a different POV (see the problems already inbuilt to the engine if someone turns fast artilery OFF inside a PBEM ).

This would be a bit like the SP3 give away "*" that appeared on your unit's info to "telepathically" tell you an enemy unit could actually see you (or just had LOS to you, I forget), and which blew away such concepts as "ambushes" in that game engine. But on steroids!

A complete from the ground up rewrite of the replay code is one of the things that is simply not going to happen. Only worthwhile if I wrote a completely new game engine from scratch.

Cheers
Andy

[JohnHale]

"Only worthwhile if I wrote a completely new game engine from scratch."

It's a Bank Holiday today: you're free this afternoon. What's your problem??

Cheers,


John ;-))

[Double_Deuce]

I just hope that all the time Andy and Don are spending replying/typing on the forums here are NOT cutting into the time it'll be until I have WinSPWW2 DL in my hands and the CD ordered.

[DRG]

There are only so many hours in the day so you already know the answer to that....

Don