Replay Storage - war versus multiplayer

Ok, I know that retaining replays through maintenance is ruled out. If there is a technical reason such as the maintenance breaks them then I understand. However, my working presumption is that they are files/objects somewhere in Amazons S3 service, and maintenance deletes them to free up space and keep costs lower for SC.

For multiplayer I couldn't care less. That's fine.

However, for war the replays are critical. When maintenance occurs during war and prior replays are lost it creates a tactical advantage or disadvantage for a team. This is especially true when competing clans are on opposite sides of the planet and have a significant disparity in the number of attacks performed prior to maintenance. Replays for second attacks are a vital strategic need.

What I propose is that war and multiplayer replays are stored and cleaned up differently. Do whatever you want with multiplayer - delete those during maintenance as it is done today. But keep the war replays available as long as the war log exists. At the point in time that the war log is being purged, then and only then should the replays for that war also be purged. This typically means only storing the previous two wars worth of replays afaik. It shouldn't be a significant burden on the expense of running the game.

Again, if there is a functional reason why replays won't work after maintenance then fine. But if the reason is solely based on maintaining storage space, then please consider dealing with war replays differently.

Also, it is understandable that after a game update to the client that the replays may no longer function. This request does not involve preserving replays after a client side update to the game.

There is absolutely no way that you can store replays without making Clash too big of an app for your device, plus ever heard of a thing called a screen recorder?

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Originally Posted by Tisguyz

There is absolutely no way that you can store replays without making Clash too big of an app for your device, plus ever heard of a thing called a screen recorder?

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Replays are not stored on your device, and they are not stored as video files. Let's not create imaginary problems.

No one during a war has the opportunity to monitor every replay and quickly record it for safe keeping in the event that maintenance occurs halfway through the war. This is a specific "morning after" problem that your comment does not help to solve.

I have experienced your dilemma as well, PvtLeeOwned. However, saving war replays during a maintenance break may involve some difficult coding. I feel that there is a lot more involved in playing back replays than recording a screen.

SC may not support keep any replays during a maintenance break, but there should be a way to download those replays directly to your device. However, that may cause space issues on their servers as well.

I'd support this, but I doubt SC would want anything to do with it.

I am forming the opinion that this is a question only SuperCell can address. Two reasons. First, no one could have any rational objection to replays remaining available from a gameplay standpoint. And second, the only people qualified to truly discuss the technical challenges this may present are SC developers themselves. I appreciate the input.

Of course I like the idea of keeping replays, who doesn't? There is no need to give an opinion on why this idea is good. So the only question is why hasn't this been implemented, clearly there is something we don't understand about recordings.

This is an idea I support, however there is an easy and simple way to bypass this without creating any lag/taking up any extra storage space.

It is an idea I have shown my support to, and it is called Add discovered teslas/traps/cc troops to war scouting. This idea helps in the case of a maintenance break occurring during war, as well as making things more convenient. And, it has no visible exploits. Check it out, as I think it would be a better alternative. :)

I believe that replays are not actual recordings of the attack, but it just takes data about the base and troops dropped and then shows how an attack would normally play out. Since any small change in maintenance could change anything in that situation, the replay, therefore, might not actually be what happened.

It think. Don't hold my word to it, but I think I saw this somewhere