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[Feature] Skipping unwanted battles

PostPosted: 21 Mar 2008, 00:34
by Kroah
Monty wrote:at times, when there are many battles with big armies going on, the combat phase lasts too long for my taste. i wanted to click away some uninteresting combats where i was not involved...i know, you can turn "show battles" off, but i wanted to see them, just not all of them...in the original coco that was not a problem, because you could not really watch a battle, you could only see WHERE battles are fought. they also could last very long, but you know, you could move to a part of the map where no battles were going on which ended the combat phase much faster. on the other hand, maybe in a real game the battles are not so interesting to follow in detail. it was just so much fun because i had that spectator-ability and was able to watch both army-counts decrease against each other. in a "real" game i would only see my personal count and maybe would turn "show battles" off...i don't know...

PostPosted: 21 Mar 2008, 00:34
by Kroah
Recently I have added a new feature to help the player to follow the battles. The map centers at the target area (if off screen) for each battle. There isn’t any way to disabled this yet.

Do you think I should add the following features:
- Option to disable the auto-center.
- When the battle area is offscreen, skip to the next battle.

PostPosted: 26 Mar 2008, 10:56
by Monty
Kroah wrote:Do you think I should add the following features:
- Option to disable the auto-center.
- When the battle area is offscreen, skip to the next battle.
not necessarily, because like i assumed...
Monty wrote:on the other hand, maybe in a real game the battles are not so interesting to follow in detail. it was just so much fun because i had that spectator-ability and was able to watch both army-counts decrease against each other. in a "real" game i would only see my personal count and maybe would turn "show battles" off...i don't know...
...i can now confirm that i don't follow the battles in detail anymore :)

PostPosted: 29 Mar 2008, 20:16
by Kroah
Monty wrote:
Kroah wrote:Do you think I should add the following features:
- Option to disable the auto-center.
- When the battle area is offscreen, skip to the next battle.
not necessarily, because like i assumed...
Monty wrote:on the other hand, maybe in a real game the battles are not so interesting to follow in detail. it was just so much fun because i had that spectator-ability and was able to watch both army-counts decrease against each other. in a "real" game i would only see my personal count and maybe would turn "show battles" off...i don't know...
...i can now confirm that i don't follow the battles in detail anymore :)


I use to play some games with my brother each week. Actually we're still enjoying looking at the battles. Given that each moves last 1 round (usually), each attack move are done 1 time.

But i think that if most attack moves lasted several rounds (ST way), we would be fed up quickly.

Pascal