Replay Events Option on the Results Page

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The Results page now includes links for each submission that will open a new page displaying all the Replay Events for that game.

Warning
Don't try this if you are on a dial-up connection. Typically over half a MByte of data is required to display each of these pages.

On any Civ4 Results page, click the Victory or Loss cell for a submission. A new page opens and lists events in chronological order, with Turn and Date in the leftmost columns. The next column displays the Replay Events that you can see if you run the Replay file. Then there is a column for each leader, listing all the messages that were sent to that leader during the game. This includes all battle information, builds, techs, wonders, border expansions, war and peace ... So you can see the game from the viewpoints of all the leaders, including the human player.

To make it possible to include all this on one screen, a long list of events for a turn may be truncated. But all events can be seen as tooltips by moving your mouse over them, and any tooltip can be 'locked' by clicking the mouse once, so that it can be scrolled if necessary. You do need to have Javascript enabled in your browser for this to work.

Note that the events in each game are logged in the chosen language of the player, and they may include the notes added by the player.

As always, your feedback and suggestions for improvement will be welcome.
 
Ok, am I missing something or is there a bug?... I dont understand:

Just to see how this looks (great work, btw!), I went to civ4 GOTM9, and clicked on the top game (Grey Cardinal)...

The GLOBAL events show Buddism founded in 3640, and in this same year, Gandi gets told he founded it in Delhi (and appears to be the first to discover meditation, so that looks right).

The mystery is that Fred was told buddism was FIADL in 3910, and and KK in 3670. Is this a bug in the sycronization of the display?
 
Thx. It looks like a bug in the way the events are scanned. I'll investigate.
 
AlanH said:
Thx. It looks like a bug in the way the events are scanned. I'll investigate.

It was. It's now fixed. Please keep checking, as I'm sure that's not the last bug in the code :)
 
Thanks Alan, this is one of the most helpful things I seen in a long time and perfectly in line with the spirit of the site ... to help members learn from other members.

Reading the results online is great but I wanted hard copy and came up with the following method to produce a concise document.

I found you can copy the on screen information and paste into Word and it pops into a nice table format (To copy - highlight from just before the replay events window to just after). This produces a very long, ugly document so I edited in Excel which I find much easier than Word tables (just copy table and paste into Excel). In Excel I deleted all but the player column and added new columns to sort out events like technology, city founding, great people, etc. This reduced the document from ~50 pages down to about 6-7 and made it easier to follow strategic maneuvers. The final result is shown in the below Word document (had to switch back since I don't think you can attach an Excel file). Just from studying this one game I've learned several important strategies to employ in future games. It would be nice to see the number and type of combat units used in the early wars (guess the combat log doesn't go back to the beginning) but except for that this is a great way to study the masters.

PS - Thanks to hendrickszoon and the other top players who I hope don't mind my voyeurism.

View attachment GOTM07 - hendrickszoon.doc
 
Glad you like it :)

Some points:

You can copy any table from a web page straight into Excel, you don't have to put it in Word first.

You can attach any file to a post if you zip it first.

You can also attach any file to a post if you change its extension to one that the upload script will accept - the script isn't clever enough to know you lied to it :p. You just have to tell people to change the extension back to .xls or whatever after downloading, so that it will open in the right application..
 
That's very cool!

Any chance we can have access to the tool to do something similar so we can view the events of our games - not just ones that have been submitted to the GOTM?

I was about to write something in excel to pull apart the autolog files (to do pretty much what slowrider did manually above) but this tool has much more detail than what is in the autolog. I'd love to be able to read the replay logs for my games to make it easier to post in the spoiler threads.

Is the tool available for download?
 
It is deliberately limited to display the data for submitted and published games, as it contains spoiler information. It provides details of a lot of the other AI events that are hidden during your game.

If there's sufficient interest, I could provide a subset of the tool that would dump just the human player events, for any file you provide.
 
That makes sense, Alan - didn't think of the possibility of spoiler info...

A subset would be cool though - just to give you the info of your game would be fine...

Although, to have a replay file means you must have retired or ended the game - which means you then know what the map looks like etc... that would also make it a spoiler as well...

Mmmm, looks like I may need to go back to manipulating the autolog - no spoiler info there!
 
The listing I'm providing doesn't come from the replay file, it comes from the save, so it could be provided for any save file.
 
I post this here, it's the most "technical" thread at hand ...

I've seen the improvements to the site, and i appreciate your efforts, and probably in future the results too.

But i like to report a bug: the link to the last post in a thread no longer works, you're always addressed to the thread's first page.
 
I post this here, it's the most "technical" thread at hand ...

I've seen the improvements to the site, and i appreciate your efforts, and probably in future the results too.

But i like to report a bug: the link to the last post in a thread no longer works, you're always addressed to the thread's first page.

For future reference, there's a Site Feedback thread in the General forum for this sort of report., but in this case, I have already flagged this up to Thunderfall.

It may have escaped your notice, but the forum software was upgraded last night, and this seems to be a side effect of that upgrade. I have had to make a couple of changes to our local tools as a result of the upgrade, one of which was to change all the SGOTM team thread links to point to the first unread post instead of the last post, for exactly the reason you have observed.
 
Thanks Alan, i've found the appropriate thread ... in the bottom of the bottoms.

I think is a good thing applyed to the SGOTM threads, if you go there by mistake, but surely an annoying one for the rest.
 
I think is a good thing applyed to the SGOTM threads, if you go there by mistake, but surely an annoying one for the rest.

Just to be clear, I look after the gotm.civfanatics.net site. I'm just a moderator here. I have no technical responsibilities on forums.civfanatics.com. Different top level domains, different domains, different servers, different software.

[UPDATE] Thunderfall has fixed the Last Post link.
 
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