Incorporate Watch This Game Add On into Site

by **kuma32478** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 10:33 am

Concise description:
Add a Watch this game feature where a user may bookmark games he/she is interested in following the result.

Specifics/Details:
It would function as a tab on the central command home screen and games that would be bookmarked by a user would then be added to the tab. Games could also be removed when a user no longer wanted to monitor them. It would function the way the script originally created by Dako functioned. (Link - http://www.conquerclub.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=526&t=180656)

How this will benefit the site and/or other comments:
It's no secret that the user created tournaments are dying, which saddens me. It was what drew me to the site and caused me to buy premium. As you can see on the tournament organizer leader board, I've created my share, but I've stopped. CC does not make it easy to monitor games easily anymore. In addition, as a clan leader, it was nice to be able to subscribe to our war games to know if there was one in danger of a missed turn. It also allowed us to keep scoreboards in the war threads and tournaments updated quickly, which makes for a better experience.

by **JamesKer1** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 11:18 am

Will do once I get to my comp, I'll clean it up as well with a more precise OP

Just because a suggestion was rejected under lack's administration doesn't mean it is under BW's.

by **Dukasaur** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 12:26 pm

I have no idea what people see in this.

When "Watch This Game" was available as an add-on, I installed it a couple of times, but I uninstalled it again just as fast. It really didn't do much that was useful, and it was a massive, massive memory pig that quadrupled the load times of the My Games page.

I imagine that if it was built-in it might be possible to optimize it a little, but still I can imagine big server overhead and a big contribution to load times and lag.

by **kuma32478** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:31 pm

It's vital for TO's

by **JamesKer1** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:34 pm

kuma32478 wrote:It's vital for TO's

Duk's one of the best as well

by **Dukasaur** on Sat Jan 10, 2015 1:39 pm

kuma32478 wrote:It's vital for TO's

I'm running my 102nd tournament now, and never found any use for the thing. Have no problem checking tournament games through Game Finder, and in larger tournaments I use Tour Stats to assemble stats. I see no point in following the progress of individual games if I'm not playing in them.

by **sempaispellcheck** on Sun Jan 11, 2015 1:32 pm

Dukasaur wrote:I have no idea what people see in this.

That doesn't mean they don't see it.
A lot of people didn't see the value of BOB, but that got implemented.
A lot of people don't use Map Rank, but I've heard rumors that that's going to be implemented as well (though I won't be surprised if that doesn't happen for a while or at all).

A lot of TO's (including myself) swear by Watch This Game because it allows us to keep live scores for tournaments without scoring games twice - we watch games when they are created, then unwatch them as we score them.
Loads easier and much less time-consuming than having to score 200 games at once.
It also makes it easy to keep track of things in private tournaments and things like the FCCFP - because they're not in the tournament database, games can't be found the same way using Game Finder and Tour Stats won't work.

sempai

by **Silly Knig-it** on Sun Jan 11, 2015 6:53 pm

sempaispellcheck wrote:
Dukasaur wrote:I have no idea what people see in this.
That doesn't mean they don't see it.
A lot of people didn't see the value of BOB, but that got implemented.
A lot of people don't use Map Rank, but I've heard rumors that that's going to be implemented as well (though I won't be surprised if that doesn't happen for a while or at all).

A lot of TO's (including myself) swear by Watch This Game because it allows us to keep live scores for tournaments without scoring games twice - we watch games when they are created, then unwatch them as we score them.
Loads easier and much less time-consuming than having to score 200 games at once.
It also makes it easy to keep track of things in private tournaments and things like the FCCFP - because they're not in the tournament database, games can't be found the same way using Game Finder and Tour Stats won't work.

sempai

I so echo sempai. I it is becoming more and more difficult to run a tournament with any kind of complexity. Compliments to those who run single eliminations and tournaments where no one cares what the running score is, but some of us like to run and play in more complicated formats.

I just started a tournament where I currently have close to 200 games going and expect to top 300 for most of the tournament. I have found a cobbled together method using WTG in Chrome, create games in Firefox and spreadsheets in Safari. This means I only have to check to see it'd I posted a game 6 or 7 times to try and keep a running score. After all, what fun is head to head if you can't see how your opponent is doing.

I had Duk try to explain how he does things and I still don't get it. I appreciate his taking the time to try and explain it.

If I can't have Watch This Game, could I please have a way to flag games, like colors or markers on email. And a way to sort for my marker. I, and I am sure others have good ideas for tournaments but with RL are not going to make a commitment of hours and hours of work that could be made so easy. Really, anything I can use and search for.