Be able to display game history on the map

I know this would take some coding, but it would GREAT if we were able to view a game's history by viewing the map and clicking through the turns to see how the game progressed. The game log is good, but i'ts often hard to visualize the game that way. Thanks.

This has been suggested multiple times before and I believe is on Vexer's to-do list, but that same list is like 10 pages long. (If you can program, please consider helping them out)

We are actually working on an external program that imports games from the server and allows you to play it back. The problem is that we do not save enough data right now to consistently reproduce the game. We have to use the logs to calculate things back, which would be very expensive to run on the servers.

Why not just introduce it for future games when complete - the earliest games on the site have no logs anyway. Or am I mistaken?

That is indeed possible, though I think if you want to take this serious, you should completely redesign the data structures behind games and logs. Additionally, this still doesn't take away the fact that this does stress the server severely, and we are already having a hard time keeping up with all the live games being played.

See my reply in this topic: http://www.dominating12.com/forum/?cmd=topic&act=view&id=1929&board=20&lastpost=1#post-28770 The program is open source, written in Python, feel free to contribute, [url=https://github.com/Mattias1/dxii]fork[/url] and send me a pull request. If you actually can get something here I'll defenitely update the log data to something more suitable for you :)