[Rails-devel] Usage patterns for game history window

[Stefan F. <ste...@we...>]

I am little guessing about the usage of the new game report/history window:
As it is very easy to navigate to past actions of the game, I wonder what the 
user intentions will be:

Will the main use be a possible return to a previous state of the game (for 
example during a ftf game an action was skipped wrongly or a player was 
allowed a take back)?
In that case it make sense to keep the other windows fully activated and 
responsive to user actions. 

After adding the ability to comment the following use case might occur 
frequently in pbem:
Going back to one action, add a comment and return to the end of action stack.

Or maybe it will be more a tool for analyzing the crucial situations after the 
game has finished?
 
The reason is that for the two latter use cases it would be better to disable 
the game windows to user actions to avoid deleting the game history 
unintentionally, preventing a return to the latest game state.
Then there should be a button/menu item (maybe in the Main GameStatus Window 
under Moderator) that allows to restart the game at the selected point in 
history. (=> Replay from here).

Stefan