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There are a few improvements that could be made to make watching replays of an event almost as good as watching it live. It's too easy, without some standards and various behaviours by replay sites, to spoil the outcome so I'd suggest some features that keep viewing games more exciting.
The option to hide replay duration. Knowing the game ends in one minute tells you a lot.
Replays are always saved with player names in alphabetical order. All sites should follow this naming convention. Too often the first name is the winner.
Replays can be joined together into one file for a whole multi-map series that plays continuously and is downloaded once, other wise knowing the number of games to get a win (Bo3, Bo5) and the number of replays you've downloaded will spoil the last game as you know the outcome.
Hopefully you can understand how these changes would improve following a scene by replays which will be a bigger part of SC2 than they are of SC at present.
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Money/units/units that r being made/ it s just examples of things that i would like to see.
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There's a very big difference between watching replays to learn and watching replays for fun.
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to be quite honest all you need to watch a replay is;
fog of war
speed
viewpoint
resource count
nothing more. i know im for sure going to be "minimizing" all the extra unnecessary boxes displaying essentially useless information.
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Interestingly enough, there are a number of hidden replay commands that can show leaderboards for different things. Most of them are useless, but you can use it to easily see both player's resource counts at the same time.
The commands:
+ Show Spoiler + /replay show kills -- Shows the number of kills.
/replay show razings -- Shows the number of razings.
/replay show slaughter -- Shows the slaughter leaderboard.
/replay show resources -- Shows the resources.
/replay show minerals -- Shows the minerals.
/replay show gas -- Shows the gas.
/replay show score -- Shows the total score.
/replay show score units -- Shows the units score.
/replay show score buildings -- Shows the buildings score.
/replay show score kills -- Shows the kills score.
/replay show score razings -- Shows the razings score.
/replay show score user -- Shows the custom score.
/replay hide -- Hides the leaderboard.
I don't know how many people know about this, but Heinermann posted them over at SEN and I had no idea.
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On September 27 2009 20:23 Symmetry wrote:Interestingly enough, there are a number of hidden replay commands that can show leaderboards for different things. Most of them are useless, but you can use it to easily see both player's resource counts at the same time. The commands: + Show Spoiler + /replay show kills -- Shows the number of kills.
/replay show razings -- Shows the number of razings.
/replay show slaughter -- Shows the slaughter leaderboard.
/replay show resources -- Shows the resources.
/replay show minerals -- Shows the minerals.
/replay show gas -- Shows the gas.
/replay show score -- Shows the total score.
/replay show score units -- Shows the units score.
/replay show score buildings -- Shows the buildings score.
/replay show score kills -- Shows the kills score.
/replay show score razings -- Shows the razings score.
/replay show score user -- Shows the custom score.
/replay hide -- Hides the leaderboard. I don't know how many people know about this, but Heinermann posted them over at SEN and I had no idea.
Wait -- this is in SC:BW ?
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oh my GOD yes it is in SC:BW. thankyou for posting that symmetry!
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OMG...how did I not know about this? Epic.
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Sweden33723 Posts
WTF, they sure hid those commands well LOL
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OMG Symmetry you rule!
Is there any chance this can go to Liquipedia? 
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wow I never knew about those commands either
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Finland1714 Posts
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Omfg hahaha. You learn something new everyday. Thanks~
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wow lol. nice commands. how come no one's ever mentioned this before? o.o
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wow. i wonder if professionals knew about this?
thanks for the post. are these all of the commands? or are there more?
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As far as I know that's all of them. You can check out the source here.
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Wow...I never knew those commands:/
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you could just watch reps in chaoslauncer....
epic commands post though! sheeeeeexy
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I want my replays online, with friends....come on now blizzard, YOU CAN DO IT....-_-
Thx for the replay command list
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You gotta be kidding me. Let's take a poll:
Poll: Did you know about replay commands before Symmetry's post?
(Vote): Yes
(Vote): No
If you answer yes, you're a bastard for keeping it to yourself.
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EPT
