EVE General Discussion

I'd be interested in watching a few probably, but paying a PLEX is stupid. I support this idea because it would be a sweet training tool for new and older players alike. I also don;t think it will happen for years if ever, and rightly so since there are 8 million better things for CCP to focus on than instant replays.

Maybe when CCP moves to hardware with infinite quantum storage, otherwise that's just not practical.

Maybe, but it might be nice to have an ingame version for the less techy players.

The amount of data transferred between the server and the client is minimal, it's just a few numbers. The beauty of EvE comes into reality through the client's rendering. It should'nt be a big problem to record the data stream and create an offline replay functionality.

A long time ago I used to play Gran Turismo 3 with my brother and I had to figure out how replays worked on that and basically it didn't actually make a movie, but it recreated the race with the recorded inputs.

I used to test this and find bugs in it. I promise I'm fun at parties

Well, it's basically a replay feature. Lineage II used to have that years ago, and I do not see why Eve wouldn't be able to pull it off.

Let's think for a bit what would be required for that: We need information about who is on grid, flying what, fitted with what. We need to know where everyone is, which direction he's going, how fast, how many HP he has and which modules are active, and we need that info for every server tick. There are no physics-, skillpoint-, hit- or damage calculations required for the replay, since hitpoints and ship death are recorded for every server tick, and we wouldn't need to know the number of charges, a module or cargo has, who has which drones in the bay, or what the shield resistances are, so replaying it shouldn't be too taxing for the client, and the replay log file shouldn't be all that big.

Now, if we assume that CCP were to record and save that on their servers for every fight on the server ever, that could turn into a problem. But if it was just a player client saving whatever it is seeing anyway every second on a local disk, that sounds much more doable, as basically this isn't much more than a combat log file, and we can save those, right? The volume of data required would be far less than for a full HD video recording. Lineage II did that, and it it worked well.

We could then load this file into the client, maybe even from the launcher without having to log in, and let the game render the graphics for it as if it was just getting this information from the server, speed it up, slow it down - it would be marvellous for making videos and analysing fights.

I'm all for a replay feature.



Personally, I would be against being able to play back every killmail ever anyway, as that would give out additional intel. Currently we cannot see on a killmail whether surviving ships had an MWD fitted, or a MJD, if they had hardeners, how the pilot reacted and went about the engagement, or if there were logis helping him and other things, and I think that's information that should stay limited to those who actually saw the fight. Now, if they were to tell people about the fight, or show a recording, that's a different matter.

Camera ships?
I think just use the ship that explodes in a "Look at" ship that's already in the game. Still need to pan out away from the ship and look around though.

You can learn a lot from a killmail..
You can learn a lot more from a killstream.

You forgot:



6. CCP changes the EULA and says: "How about 'No.'"

Can already do this and its free - its called imagination, which is as likely to be as accurate as a system that takes an existing killmail and recreates the fight.

Of course if you mean assigning a killmail a unique tag while recording the battle on the server and then allowing that to be replayed based on the killmail tag. The only issue would be the amount of storage space required to record every battle in every system on the off chance someone would want to replay one of them someday which would probably require funding of a plex per view in storage space and server load.