Admiral's Log / Postgame

posted on August 15th, 2010, 1:50 am

I was just wondering what the developers plans are for this? As far as I know it's pretty much unchanged since A2. Anyways, I had a few ideas:

- Heatmaps (example from Halo 3)
- Change to the "Battles" tab. Instead of showing individual ships lost, show a kill/death ratio, most effective class, least effective class, etc. kind of like the "Tally" tab, and maybe show a marker on the map where the battle took place, as well as how far into the game it started and ended.
- Screenshots tab where everyone can see any screenshots taken during the game (I realize this would probably be very difficult to implement though)
- Tally tab - perhaps add kill/death ratios for each class of ships built, as well as a kill/death ratio for each player every ten minutes, to kind of get an idea of how the game progressed.

If anyone else has any ideas feel free to post them.

posted on August 23rd, 2010, 12:47 am

Also, I think something that shows player build orders might be interesting, if it's done right. What might be really cool is an animation of all the ships and stations a player has for every 3 minutes of the game, to kind of see how the balance of power changed over the course of the game. Also, I think that the score page should be done away with and replaced with the tally page, so that people don't do certain things simply for the purpose of a high score.

posted on August 23rd, 2010, 1:26 am

Interesting set of ideas

posted on August 24th, 2010, 7:58 pm

I am a huge fan of the Admirals log. and unfortunately currently it is riddled with problems. But I understand it is not as high priority as changes to the game mechanics.

These are great suggestions. *Ahem*... Devs 

I look forward to the planned future improvements to the admirals log.