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Frustrated about the usability of the game replay function
Posted: 05 July 2023, 09:42
by RamboNumber5
Sorry for my cheaky topic.
Since a while i am a little bit frustrated about the functionality interface of the "VIEW GAME REPLAY".
I think it is really a great option that you can see and learn from game replays.
But i think the control interface could be much better (replay game from this point does not work / in Game Ark nova: need more than 200 clicks to get throug the game and even sevarel clicks for only one player-turn) ore i am missing a Manual how to use it?
As i can see many other peoples made suggestions ore had questions about the VIEW GAME REPLAY function, but many of the threads have 0 answers.
So is this the wrong place in this forum for this topic? Could the responsibles consider taking more focus to the topic "game replay"? As it seems i am not the only one having issues with it. Am i missing that there is a description how to use it?
With all my respect.
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 05 July 2023, 10:02
by RamboNumber5
Rereading my text, lets me think, i wrote my posting a bit to aggressive. I am sorry about that.
It is just that i am kind of a while frustrated about the Replay functions. Allready made suggestions by others like a keyboard shortcut, would in my eyes be an easy but effective improvement.
Thank you for your good work in general. I love this platform.
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 05 July 2023, 19:52
by Tisaac
RamboNumber5 wrote: ↑05 July 2023, 09:42
Sorry for my cheaky topic.
Since a while i am a little bit frustrated about the functionality interface of the "VIEW GAME REPLAY".
I think it is really a great option that you can see and learn from game replays.
But i think the control interface could be much better (replay game from this point does not work / in Game Ark nova: need more than 200 clicks to get throug the game and even sevarel clicks for only one player-turn) ore i am missing a Manual how to use it?
As i can see many other peoples made suggestions ore had questions about the VIEW GAME REPLAY function, but many of the threads have 0 answers.
So is this the wrong place in this forum for this topic? Could the responsibles consider taking more focus to the topic "game replay"? As it seems i am not the only one having issues with it. Am i missing that there is a description how to use it?
With all my respect.
I never use "Replay from" feature, i think it's not working really well in general. Replaying whole tables works perfectly fine for me though.
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 06 July 2023, 18:28
by Blacktango
You can customize the URL of a replay, to indicate the specific move you want to load.
This way, the replay will very quickly play the whole game, up to that move.
Here's an example, to load the game at move 8 :
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https://boardgamearena.com/archive/replay/220615-1000/?table=276587067&player=83957253&comments=83957253;&goto=8
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archive/replay/220615-1000/?table=276587067 : indicates the game to replay
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&player=83957253 : defines which player's vision from you want to see
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&comments=83957253; : I don't know what this is for
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&goto=8 : This is the interesting part, to indicate the number of the move to go
To get the basic part of the URL, go to the table of the finished game, click on the "Replay" button, then on the "Choose this player" button.
Copy the URL of the replay you see in your browser's address bar, and add the
&goto=8 suffix.
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 07 July 2023, 07:47
by cigma
For me the function "go to specific move (fast)" works pretty well:
- click on "view game replay"
- click on "choose this player"
- click on "advanced replay features"
- click on "go to game end" at the very right, which opens a short menu (That's certainly not user friendly, because you are not told about this menu before!)
- choose "go to specific move (fast)"
- enter the move number in the following pop up
You will then see the game box and a green loading stripe counting the moves untill you reach this point of the replay. This regularly takes up to about half a minute for games with many moves like Ark Nova, if there is no general lag.
To help other people to find this information, will you please rename this topic, e. g. "Frustrated about view game replay"? Thanks
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 07 July 2023, 07:57
by cigma
What is really missing in replays is a funtion to go one step back. Here is are suggestion reports were you can vote for it:
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=54931 and
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=5684
Re: Frustrated about the usability of the game replay function
Posted: 21 July 2023, 10:29
by RamboNumber5
Wow, thank you so much for your help and tipps. That makes it much more easy.
I wish a had asked you earlier, that would have saved me many annoying click marathons.
I still think a manual for the Replay function or a more intuitive user interface would be helpful also to other players.
Re: Frustrated about the usability of the game replay function
Posted: 21 July 2023, 11:42
by RamboNumber5
I created now a poll to vote for improvements on the replay functions:
https://boardgamearena.com/forum/viewto ... 82#p148682
Re: Does anybody of the People in charge read theese topics?
Posted: 23 July 2023, 22:32
by Mathew5000
Thanks, BlackTango and Cigma, for those useful tips, and also for the link to the suggestions (which I've now voted for).