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Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg113255#msg113255
« on: July 13, 2010, 02:39:32 am »
What do you guys think about this:
A checkbox next to "Done" reading "Fast-Forward: Skip Opponent's turn's animations" that does the following:
When you end your turn, the game pauses as the AI figures out what it's going to do, and once it's processed that information, it shows the new field and starts your next field. No intermediate animations, no indication of which cards it drew, played, used, etc.

Why?
Because So often against false gods and occasionally other AIs I'm set up to win and the only thing left to do is wait to draw a card or wait for the end of the game. Being able to skip watching rainbow click all his hourglasses and creatures etc. etc., especially near the end of the games, would shorten the games considerably.

What if your opponent kills you his turn, or something equally horrific?
You die. This option would be best used if you knew there was (almost) no way your opponent could kill you his turn, but a lot of the time it would only satisfy your curiosity, and there's no need to see the card. You'll see the result of his turn, so you can tell basically what he did. The whole point here is to speed the game up, so if you use the option and then realize you have no idea how something just happened, just react to it, curiosity killed the cat, and this would be an option, it would have no effect on people that didn't want to use it.

I'm tired of waiting for my opponent to click all his cards and he AI to show all the animation when it really doesn't matter. Examples: Against Seism, Miracle, and Divine Glory, with my RoL-Hope deck, once my hope is at the right level, they literally cannot do damage to me (except blessings, but that's only 3 damage), so all that's left to do is wait for quanta to play cards or cards to use quanta on. I spend 1-2 minutes in these games when I'm already guaranteed to win, and it's doubly stupid to sit and watch pretty animations that don't matter for that time and press spacebar 15 times.

The animations are often just a waste of time, so I'd like an option to skip them (the code exists -- spectator mode). Another option would to have a "skip animations" button, so there's a short pause after everything you do, like with an animation, but without all the lag and extra time of showing every animation (like with a field of rays, I'd rather a 1-second pause after gaining all the quanta instead of a rippling of animations across the field taking 4-5 seconds).

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg113379#msg113379
« Reply #1 on: July 13, 2010, 07:01:24 am »
you know that if you set the quality to low it eliminates a number of the animations right?

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg113413#msg113413
« Reply #2 on: July 13, 2010, 09:39:00 am »
I was going to ask for something similar. I hate Paradox, Rainbow and all those hourglass god where you need hours to end the battle.
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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg113518#msg113518
« Reply #3 on: July 13, 2010, 03:40:07 pm »
@wizel: I always turn off sound/set quality to low, but the animations still happen. All the cards do a sparkly thing, and I have to wait for each card he plays to fade, etc. etc.

I often don't care about what happens in his turn, or only care about the result (what the field looks like when he ends his turn), so I'd like an option to disable all animation all together, so the screen freezes when I end my turn until he ends his.

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg113869#msg113869
« Reply #4 on: July 13, 2010, 10:26:22 pm »
I certainly would use it. Like Finkel mentioned once the game is in hand it you don't care what the AI does. And those with slower comps/laptops that would help out a bit with the time.

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg114073#msg114073
« Reply #5 on: July 14, 2010, 04:33:30 am »
Agreed.  100%.
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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg114104#msg114104
« Reply #6 on: July 14, 2010, 05:46:36 am »
I like the idea. Also, I kind of want to get rid of the card drawing animation. It takes so long.

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg121150#msg121150
« Reply #7 on: July 22, 2010, 07:05:50 pm »
yes.

it gets exceptionally annoying when i'm facing destiny or rainbow with RoL hope...

when i have about 10 cards left, the FG already has like 7 hourglasses and takes FOREVER to finish his turn, which is one of the reason why i just autoquit rainbow.
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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg121171#msg121171
« Reply #8 on: July 22, 2010, 07:31:21 pm »
Agree too
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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg122129#msg122129
« Reply #9 on: July 23, 2010, 06:08:26 pm »
I certainly would use it. Like Finkel mentioned once the game is in hand it you don't care what the AI does. And those with slower comps/laptops that would help out a bit with the time.
Yeah there are a lot of those situations. Quite a few classic situations of this sort manifest from RoL-Hope, not so much rainbows but of course there still are.

I have a recommendation though, how about, if you die, the fast forward option is ignored? I know not everyone would bother to know how they died, but I'd rather know how the AI pulled it off so I can get back at it with a greater vengeance  ;)

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg122271#msg122271
« Reply #10 on: July 23, 2010, 08:12:24 pm »
To be honest, pretty much the only case where I care what happened is when I'm playing with my speed rainbow and my opponent (usually in pvp) kills one of my creatures, and I can't for the life of me remember which one it was, lol.

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Re: Fast-Forward Turn Option https://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php?topic=9559.msg123233#msg123233
« Reply #11 on: July 24, 2010, 09:06:33 pm »
Make a poll?

 

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