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MasterOfChaos
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
Germany2896 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-09 18:20:08
July 09 2010 18:19 GMT
#21
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB

Can you explain that step to me?

And personally I like the peace of mind that all my replays are saved.
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IPS.ZeRo
Profile Joined April 2003
Germany1142 Posts
July 09 2010 18:26 GMT
#22
An average replay seems to be about 150kb or so. Lets be pessimistic and say 200kb per replay.
Then 5000 replays would be 0,2mb * 5000 = 1GB. A PC that is able to run sc2 should have more than enough space so that replay files like that don't matter. Unless you are using a small SSD, but they could make an option to disable it.
aka DTF-ZeRo
junemermaid
Profile Joined September 2006
United States981 Posts
July 09 2010 18:27 GMT
#23
On July 10 2010 03:19 MasterOfChaos wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB

Can you explain that step to me?

And personally I like the peace of mind that all my replays are saved.


Having all the replays saved gets a little bit unwieldy.

Phase 1 I had about 700 replays in one folder, and it was impossible to find a certain game i wanted to view.

Now, if a replay is noteworthy of saving, I'll save it. I really don't want every game in my replay folder, since so few are actually good enough to warrant a view.

The change doesn't bother me at all.
the UMP says YER OUT
Lite.wasalreadytaken
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada42 Posts
July 09 2010 18:27 GMT
#24
On July 10 2010 02:10 darmousseh wrote:
I don't think its a bad idea for 90% of people who don't care too much about every replay. In most games, if you want extra information stored on your computer you have to specify that. This is just preventing the thousands of games people will play from automatically filling up your harddrive. Also consider that 99% of people will only use replays to watch the game once. For tournament games or pro games, they will just have to hit save and name it (so it kinda saves them from renaming it later.)


90% of people wont play thousands of games. 90% of people will play tens-hundreds, which is not an issue.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
silver_fox
Profile Joined June 2008
Canada243 Posts
July 09 2010 18:29 GMT
#25
wow thanks for the headsup i didn't even realize this...
Lite.wasalreadytaken
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada42 Posts
July 09 2010 18:31 GMT
#26
On July 10 2010 03:27 junemermaid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2010 03:19 MasterOfChaos wrote:
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB

Can you explain that step to me?

And personally I like the peace of mind that all my replays are saved.


Having all the replays saved gets a little bit unwieldy.

Phase 1 I had about 700 replays in one folder, and it was impossible to find a certain game i wanted to view.

Now, if a replay is noteworthy of saving, I'll save it. I really don't want every game in my replay folder, since so few are actually good enough to warrant a view.

The change doesn't bother me at all.


Use replay management software like sc gears.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
~Matthias
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada56 Posts
July 09 2010 18:32 GMT
#27
Anyone else having problems downloading and playing replays from Phase 1?

Theres some games I want to watch, however it says I cannot load them, Im guessing its because of phase 2.
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Lite.wasalreadytaken
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada42 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-09 18:35:27
July 09 2010 18:33 GMT
#28
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2010 02:16 Mastermind wrote:
auto replay save should be an option you can turn on or off, and it should be on by default. Replays are so small no one is going to care if they accidentally have a few hundred of them saved on their comp.

at 50kb/replay ... yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB, at 20mins/replay that's 1,667 hours of starcraft or .2years of playime.

The more you know! (not sure of the exact time/size ratio ... but close enough)


I am not sure what you are talking about. 100 gigabytes worth of 50 kb replays is over 2 million replays.

100 gigabytes / 50 kilobytes

Which, judging by your time estimate is just shy of 80 years.

100 gigabytes / 50 kilobytes * 20 minutes
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
RageOverdose
Profile Blog Joined December 2009
United States690 Posts
July 09 2010 18:35 GMT
#29
I have no problem with Blizzard keeping my stuff organized, but if there was some parameter that controls this and could be found...that wouldn't be a bad thing either.

It's just, I don't save every replay, just ones where I don't quite understand the loss, brag-worthy ones (rare), potential hacking, and when I feel I need to just evaluate my play a little more. And usually when those happen, it's either I watch it and save them when they happen, or I'll save them for later almost immediately. I don't like having a huge, hard to read list of replays.
Peekay.switch
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada285 Posts
July 09 2010 18:38 GMT
#30
I Think someone should post a thread on the blizzard suggestion forum to add more relevant info the the replay file names maybe?

Something like Date/Opponents/Game Length/Match up would be nice.

Can't browse the Blizzard forum from Work, did Anyone ever consider that? It'd make long ass names, but at least we'd know a bit better what it is.

Besides that, there should definitely be an option to save more than 25 replays...
Dionyseus
Profile Blog Joined December 2004
United States2068 Posts
July 09 2010 18:39 GMT
#31
On July 10 2010 03:26 IPS.ZeRo wrote:
An average replay seems to be about 150kb or so. Lets be pessimistic and say 200kb per replay.
Then 5000 replays would be 0,2mb * 5000 = 1GB. A PC that is able to run sc2 should have more than enough space so that replay files like that don't matter. Unless you are using a small SSD, but they could make an option to disable it.


Average replay size for me seems to be under 50kb, most of my games have lasted under 20 minutes.
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junemermaid
Profile Joined September 2006
United States981 Posts
July 09 2010 18:40 GMT
#32
On July 10 2010 03:31 Lite.wasalreadytaken wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2010 03:27 junemermaid wrote:
On July 10 2010 03:19 MasterOfChaos wrote:
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB

Can you explain that step to me?

And personally I like the peace of mind that all my replays are saved.


Having all the replays saved gets a little bit unwieldy.

Phase 1 I had about 700 replays in one folder, and it was impossible to find a certain game i wanted to view.

Now, if a replay is noteworthy of saving, I'll save it. I really don't want every game in my replay folder, since so few are actually good enough to warrant a view.

The change doesn't bother me at all.


Use replay management software like sc gears.


I shouldn't be forced to use a 3rd party program so I don't get swamped with replays because b.net auto-saves every 5 minute replay.

No thank you.
the UMP says YER OUT
Ndugu
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States1078 Posts
July 09 2010 18:41 GMT
#33
This is a good default, but needs to be optional.
mnck
Profile Joined April 2010
Denmark1518 Posts
July 09 2010 18:41 GMT
#34
They will most likely make an autosave replay option like they did with WC3. WC3 doesn't autosave replays either by default.
@Munck
EliteAzn
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States661 Posts
July 09 2010 18:42 GMT
#35
I personally don't like the location of these new replays...it's a lot deeper in the folder...and too much work

Hopefully when the game comes out, all this folder nonsense will be cleaned up. This game has been changed a crapload since beta first came out...
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bbulzibar
Profile Joined June 2010
United States80 Posts
July 09 2010 18:47 GMT
#36
I wish all the replays would be saved because while I rarely watch a specific replay, I need the replays to mine for statistics. For example, only after using the matchup analyzer did I realize that I really need to practice steppes of war (40% win rate) vs all other maps (60% win rate). Also I realized that i need to work on ZvT as that is my weakest MU.

Lite.wasalreadytaken
Profile Joined May 2010
Canada42 Posts
July 09 2010 18:53 GMT
#37
On July 10 2010 03:40 junemermaid wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 10 2010 03:31 Lite.wasalreadytaken wrote:
On July 10 2010 03:27 junemermaid wrote:
On July 10 2010 03:19 MasterOfChaos wrote:
On July 10 2010 02:20 MasterJack wrote:
yuo can get ~20/meg ... that's 5,000 replays per 100GB

Can you explain that step to me?

And personally I like the peace of mind that all my replays are saved.


Having all the replays saved gets a little bit unwieldy.

Phase 1 I had about 700 replays in one folder, and it was impossible to find a certain game i wanted to view.

Now, if a replay is noteworthy of saving, I'll save it. I really don't want every game in my replay folder, since so few are actually good enough to warrant a view.

The change doesn't bother me at all.


Use replay management software like sc gears.


I shouldn't be forced to use a 3rd party program so I don't get swamped with replays because b.net auto-saves every 5 minute replay.

No thank you.


I don't know if I understand your point. By your description, in both scenarios the replay folder is useless. To derive use from it you would have to manually rename and file replays according to some criteria. Its just that in the old configuration you had the option of seeing every game you ever played and the only downside was a few less megabytes of free space on your drive. I think it's worth it.

You should try sc gears. It is targeted towards pro players. Blizzard wouldn't spend so much effort on a product for so little people. The killer feature is an AMP vs time chart.
"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire
Scorch
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Austria3371 Posts
July 09 2010 18:53 GMT
#38
I want autosave too, at least as an option. And while we're at it, I want the replays to be stored in the SC2 folder, not somewhere on my system drive where they don't belong.
spinesheath
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Germany8679 Posts
July 09 2010 19:19 GMT
#39
On July 10 2010 03:53 Scorch wrote:
I want autosave too, at least as an option. And while we're at it, I want the replays to be stored in the SC2 folder, not somewhere on my system drive where they don't belong.

You can relocate your documents folder to another drive. It's a bit of work but should be worth it. Most of the autosaves of modern commercial programs go into the default folders, so if you move them off your system drive you are seperating all that save data from your system drive at once.
I don't know anymore how to do it exactly, you'll have to google it if you're interested. A simple cut and paste won't do.
If you have a good reason to disagree with the above, please tell me. Thank you.
Phayze
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Canada2029 Posts
July 09 2010 19:21 GMT
#40
I would like to see an option to save all replays. It's retarded that they just removed that functionality, with absolutely no warning, and did absolutely nothing in giving the option of having this particular function.
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