I actually like to watch panoramic battles. They are twice good in late game.

But there are reasons when it is not so good. Like total war with 5-10 battle for turn, manual battle with single purpose to retreat. Early game battles are boring.



I wish to discuss nesessity of toogle between full batle as it is now and shord card draw, when you dont what to wait 5 mins



"end phase"

I don't see the problem with letting scouts die, past the early game you won't need them anyway.



So just auto-battle.

In a MP game with many players it tends to get annoying if everyone fights pirates oder little scouts in manual mode. All other players have to wait... A quick-manual-mode (with drawing cards) would be nice, maybe the host can make a setting and decide then...

Very god idea!

In actual system should be a option "end phase" to confirm card select.



script:

1. select card,

2. confirm select card and CLICK "END PHASE" button,

3. if BOTH PLAYERS confirm END PHASE -> should be dev acceleration of animation and resolve phase,

4. Next PHASE : GOTO 1 until last phase or one fleet destroyed

5. if END of last PHASE or one FLEET DESTROYED -> END of BATTLE



simple and effective

I like the voting option "no i am ameoba"

I must agree with both of the posts above me!



Dante's idea is good & the amobea options is funny/true

MacDante wrote:
Very god idea!

In actual system should be a option "end phase" to confirm card select.



script:

1. select card,

2. confirm select card and CLICK "END PHASE" button,

3. if BOTH PLAYERS confirm END PHASE -> should be dev acceleration of animation and resolve phase,

4. Next PHASE : GOTO 1 until last phase or one fleet destroyed

5. if END of last PHASE or one FLEET DESTROYED -> END of BATTLE



simple and effective

Good option but I'd like a fast 2D option, doesn't even load the 3D cinematic. Pick your 3 cards, click done, get results. Sometimes I just really don't care too much (Hi scout ships, i'm talking about you), but I'd like to retreat, or spam defence/repair or w/e.

Xanoth wrote:
Good option but I'd like a fast 2D option, doesn't even load the 3D cinematic. Pick your 3 cards, click done, get results. Sometimes I just really don't care too much (Hi scout ships, i'm talking about you), but I'd like to retreat, or spam defence/repair or w/e.

not agree a bit

it is important to see how battle goes ( in term of damage) if you just pick 3 cards and press "ready" you will not be able to adjust cards if something strange will go. Also cards can be countered and you want explicitly contere them

frakc wrote:
not agree a bit

it is important to see how battle goes ( in term of damage) if you just pick 3 cards and press "ready" you will not be able to adjust cards if something strange will go. Also cards can be countered and you want explicitly contere them

If I cared about that, I'd not have asked to be able to skip all those options.



90% of the time during combat, I pick 3 cards at the start during phase 1, alt tab out and read these forums. When combat is over I enter again for the next battle and repeat the process giving me several hours worth of forum browsing per game. I care so little because often only the first card matters and it either works or doesn't. I just want more control than auto, just so when it's an easy win I can spam repair, close win, end on a repair etc. lose badly retreat, lose somewhat badly offensive retreat, etc.



10% of the time, it matters and I'll think carefully on what card to play, adjust as needed or second guess and preemptively counter.



If it's 1 phase at a time with results shown, then fine but I still don't need to load to and from a 3D engine. Don't need or want to see that any more. It was great at first, it might be nice again after a while. But 100+ times per game, it gets excessive.

Well, with the new Polaris add-on, there will be a short auto battle option with card-draw.

you still need enter cinematic to retreat

and i think that ai card draw is not so efective as manual