Game time

[pintle]

As one of the seemingly ever dwindling number of XTA players, i sometimes log on to see friends all in a game, and as i dont know how long they have been in the game (and often people dont alt tab to answer pm) i dont know wether it is worth waiting for them. Could the lobby display the time a game starts? could be pretty cool to have anyway...

[Neddie]

While I certainly don't see the XTA players dwindling in number, quite perversely they seem to never change at all...

This is a great idea. Is there any way to stream that element of the code to the lobby?

[Peet]

perversely

Somehow doesnt seem like the right word?



XTA players have been dwindling majorly, when I started almost a year ago, there were a considerable amount more xta games than now.

[Neddie]

It is the right word, from my view, as I really don't enjoy XTA - no offense to everybody who plays, but I started with that mod, and when I got another one I found no reason to turn back.

It is still the second most played mod. Anyway, this isn't the point of the thread - we are asking about ingame time listings in the lobby.

[j5mello]

from past experience i think streaming thing from games has been seen as a problem. i think it was brought up in the broadcasting matches thread we had.

[Warlord Zsinj]

Why is streaming required? Couldn't the lobby just detect when the game starts (Which it does already), and start a clock? Then just end it when it finishes.

[Zydox]

Hmm... this already works with the Altaric client... that I and Liche use for our servers... if you pm !gameinfo to the server... it will respond with the time... don't know if it's in-game time, or real time though...

[pintle]

i didnt suggest streaming: simply the time the game started, the human mind can pretty easily do the rest