Game time for lobby

posted on March 12th, 2011, 8:32 pm

I would like to have the time a game is running already in the lobby. Usually you have to wait for games to join...and I dont want to wait all day...so I would like to know how long started games are already running to estimate how long I would have to wait. IS this feasible?

posted on March 12th, 2011, 8:44 pm

I think it would be more useful for it to display fleet sizes (hmm, so player1 has enuff units to kill 2 cubes, and the other team has only average fleets), since you can't easily judge a game by time.

posted on March 12th, 2011, 11:24 pm

Definitely would be nice to see how long the games are going, as well as who is in them

posted on March 13th, 2011, 2:18 am

Agreed it would be awesome to see that.

It would be also awesome to see how long the game lasted in the scoreboard. Definitely add that kind of feature into FO.

posted on March 13th, 2011, 2:23 am

concidering that the devs dont have the origional sorce code for A2  this maybe dificalt for them to include (if they havent tried already)   

as for the time a game lasted in the scoreboard  that i think is possible but may not be on the top of the list for the devs (they have more important things to do like borg redo etc)

posted on March 13th, 2011, 2:38 am

Well I guess so..

And Alpha you don't have to explain everything to me. You know I wasn't born yesterday. 

Well I'm sure you had only good intentions here.

posted on March 13th, 2011, 5:11 am

By time in scoreboard are you referring to the Timeline in the Admiral's Log? That actually does represent real game time

float cfgINITIAL_STARDATE = 57014.2; // stardate at mission start if not specified, orig: 56123.1
float cfgSTARDATE_PER_SECOND = 1.1; // for every "game second (more or less real time second), this many stardate intervals pass

posted on March 13th, 2011, 1:49 pm

Well I guess so..

And Alpha you don't have to explain everything to me. You know I wasn't born yesterday. 

Well I'm sure you had only good intentions here.

was incase anyone else asked and didnt know so dont take it to heart bud

posted on March 14th, 2011, 6:39 am

Rawr.  This is a good suggestion.