Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Yea CCP admitted that they have a very simple ship alignment tool that spawns x number of ships in n direction for formation flying videos. CCP could develop this to be the most awesome director tool ever made easily.

They've also admitted its on the cards, but I won't rest 'til I see it on the patch notes

Battlefield 2got something like this as far as I remember. You could replay a whole match that was "reconstructed" with recorded data. It was awesome.

Actually: No. If you want to record ur own UI, Fraps is your way.

We need a record that can "re-construct" engagements etc. w/ timeline and provides the ability to switch views etc. (aka Battlerecorder).

This would work out well and it could be the sort of player version of Jessica, Which I doubt we will ever be allowed to play with. But it would be very much superior to fraps or similar because there is far less load simply recordingt he data already known.


BTW merging of datasets should be allowed, This way if one person recording warps off in a fleet battle you can merge sets with someone else that was still on the battlefield allowing you to keep a constant feed on things.

Enthusiastically supported.

Video would be a good start, but the fights take place in 3 dimensions. Imagine a bunch of corpmates sitting in a room around a holographic table, reviewing a fight to see what went right or wrong, with full zoom and playback controls. It could be a great tactical tool, and a great training tool. It would not be easy, but it would be incredibly cool.

You could even bring up other fights that your opponents have been in and do in-depth analysis of their styles and approaches, the way sports teams do now.

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would love to see this. then i could show all my glories battles to my friends.

I like this idea.

I also like the idea of being able to enter into the Captin's Quarters and being able to upload the movies recorded so the we watch them in game.

Would having an in game movie theatre cause more lag?

If so then I suggest adding the function out of game so that when the player clicks their icon on the forums they could access their battle highlights.

There should also be a function where other members can watch the capsuleers battle highlights if the capsuleer allows public viewing of the movies.

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Still supporting this

There was a low-fantasy PvP sandbox MMO called Shadowbane that shut down in 2009 that had it's own in-game recorder.

It worked by creating a sort "mini-server" in which server and client code/data were compiled together to create an ultra-small file (i.e. maybe 100kb per minute of recording) that could be played with the Shadowbane client. So in re-playing the recording in the client, all of the server-side data was saved in that recording for the client to communicate with in re-rendering it.

You could change the camera angle and take control of the character with which the recording was made, and change all of the windows around (e.g. minimize them all, move them, etc.)

Absolutely pain-free for frapsing it later while running the recorder in the client using the best camera angles, zooming in and out, moving the character around, etc.

It also worked extremely well for recording bugs. Instead of writing up bug reports, one could simply replicate a bug they discovered with the in-game recorder running, and the recorder would capture all the code, including the bugged code.

It also used almost no additional resources while running, as opposed to FRAPS.

It's proven extremely useful in our emulator project, as we've been able to reconstruct the server mostly from recordings people made through shutdown of the game in 2009.

I have absolutely no idea what, if any other games use this type of in-game recording, but if it's rare, I could certainly arrange access to SBemu beta for some devs to get an idea of the mechanics involved with that type of in-game recording. I'm guessing though there's probably a lot of other games that utilize this style of in-game recording as well.

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