Suggestion: increase log verbosity, create standard logging format, add "download log" link.
Uses: Replay/Reanimation plugins/apps that could digest and parse a given log.
There are only a few things that I can think of off hand that would be necessary, and I believe some of these features are included in other feature enhancements...
1) Record starting position of each player.
2) Record each attack/defense.
3) Record the rolls for attack/defense.
4) Develop standard log format that is easy to parse. XML might be useful, but you could come up with your own. For example:
<reconciledthief><From_Territory><3,2,6><defender_name><To_Territory><2,2>
Where the columns are:
Attacker Name | Attack From Territory Name | Dice rolls | Defender Name | To_Territory | Dice Rolls
You might have to add more tags to signify whether then following data would be for a fortification, or for an attack. Prefixing the log with an <a> or an <f> might solve that.
5) Place a link on finished games to download the log.
This would allow community members to write the replay/reanimation application, taking load off of the CC programmer(s). Obviously, once the app is written, you could integrate it into the CC website, or just leave it in the community's hands.
There's already a decent amount of info in the log, so the real request here is for more verbosity. A standard for how the logs are written isn't a necessity, but it would be somewhat beneficial, I believe.
Apologies if this has been asked before. I did a search and found a single thread, but there was no conclusion to it, really, so I wanted to bring this up again.
