Re: [Rails-devel] Usage patterns for game history window

[Steve U. <ste...@gm...>]

I see it as useful for analyzing a game after completion, including playing
"what-if" scenarios.

Steve Undy
st...@ro...


On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 1:07 PM, Stefan Frey <ste...@we...> wrote:

> 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
>
>
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