Combat results log

[Peter Ebbesen]

Originally posted by Gandalf Parker:

What players WANT in a game is often quite different from what they NEED in a game to keep playing it.

The old "Give the customer what he needs, not what he wants", eh?

Regarding turn-logs, there is a very simple justification for the need: AAR writing. Currently, the player who wants to write an AAR has to manually take note of everything of interest that happens in a given round when it happens, or he will forever be prevented from accessing that information. (Alternatively, he must make a manual copy of the turn file after each turn, for perusal later). Sometimes, the importance of certain turn outcomes only becomes obvious several turns after the event, but if you did not make a note of it earlier, all possibilities of time-wise correlation is lost.

Is helping those who write AARs and those who like examining trends important enough to justify the programming time that will go into dumping the logs (or even, god willing, sorting the log entries under different tabs) when compared to other enhancements or new development projects, now that is the responsibility of the developers and nobody else to decide, but the need for it is clear - there just might be greater needs.