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« 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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