Justin's idea for Clan Wars LIVE ATTACKS! (with tons of pictures!)

[justinhu]

UPDATE 2: Supercell also added other elements from my idea to there Live Replay feature. Such as the troops but in the other way as Supercell had Troops Available rather than Troops Deployed

Note: Around 2 months after posting this idea, Supercell introduced this feature in Update 6.1. Their implementation is far simpler that mine and is honestly better. SC most likely had this in the works for awhile.

FYI: If you want some awesome mock ups for your idea just PM me

This is an adapted version on an idea I did a while back here http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...during-attacks

Have you ever been in a clan war and somebody of your clan attacks one of the opponents. If You have you know the feeling of staring at the swords waiting for the results to come through. Well that's no more with LIVE ATTACKS!

A quick summary would be a way to watch attacks by your clan mates in clan wars as it happens.

But you don't just want that do you? So I have made a detailed walkthrough of this with lots of pictures.


SECTION ONE: OPTIONS
The leader or co who starts the war can have an option to turn off the live stream feature, I don't know why you would but I've added this in anyway for leaders who want to.




SECTION TWO: THE ANNOUNCEMENT

When a member attacks an opponent, a pop up would pop up on every members screen saying

"ATTENTION! Your clan mate (insert name) has declared an attack on (insert opponent name)"

And would allow you to watch the attack live.



There would also be a Announcement in the Clan Chat like this which would also allow you to watch.



SECTION THREE: LIVE ATTACK SCREEN

Here it is! The LIVE ATTACK Screen



Spell drop animations would be turned off along with troop attacking animations and spring trap animations to prevent overload on Supercell servers.

Let's examine the different elements here:

Troops deployed: This would show you all troops that have been deployed so far and spells

Loot: Pretty self explanatory, Shows loot available


STARS: Shows previous attack stars and current


The attacker can also see who is watching there attack like this



PART TWO: CLAN CHAT
As you may have noticed, there is a clan chat button in the image above. We'll that's intended as a new option CLAN CHAT DURING ATTACKS. And it's not just for Clan Wars. Along with the Live attack feature, you would be able to watch and discuss tactics while attacking with your clan. This is also meant for regular attacks aswell. Replays and donations are not allowed in this mode as we'll.

I hope you spotted the forum easter egg references I put in there.

We'll that's all folks! Longest idea thread I've ever written but still tiny compared to awesome guys like Mastermind and Saltin. This next post will be used for any Questions that need answering.

Haere rā
Justin

[justinhu]

I love this idea, but will older devices be able to handle it? I know you said to remove a few animations but older devices might need more than that.

Thanks! I think if old devices can handle current replays, it should be able to handle a live one just fine.

Seems like this could create a lot more data transfer?

At the moment (as I understand it) the data of how the battle happened is ALL saved on the device and sent when the battle is over to the SuperCell servers, it's not sent 'live' as it happens.

How would the replay react if there was unexpected lag of this new communication, in either first device-server, internal server, server-server or server-second device.

You can watch replays immediately after they happen anyway. But a post to the clan chat every 5 minutes if there are new replays available might be nice. (I agree no pop up, CoC doesn't use popups for anything else)

Oh dear, technical info that I'm not familiar with. I'll try to figure it out.

Sure, a lot of data transfer but not more than current replays.

I don't think it's stored on the device as I've accidentally had my device run out of battery in the middle of clan wars attack and it just stops, you can see the replay afterwards, I think its just a delay between the server and device not a complete stop.

I don't understand what you mean

A lot of people have suggested that there shouldn't be a popup and I think its necessary for everybody to gather around the person doing the attack to cheer him on and give support. If clans put unpositive pressure on you, you should leave

You state that spell and troop attack animations are not shown to preventserver overload, so then what exactly am I watching live? A count of how many of various troops are deployed with a percentage and loots stolen counter?

And on screen I just see various Buildings disappearing?

While I like the idea of live view, its too burdensome to the server to have anything worth watching, especially since they'd have to find a way to rework the variety of connections at once?

Novel idea, but implementation and server speeds would make it a nightmare.

No, For example a barbarian wouldn't stand there swinging his sword as rendering a bunch over several devices would be LAGGY, troops would still run to attack though. So he would just stay static.

All the bars would be there too to show how much has been destroyed.

Spell drop animations are like the glass bottle falling and the jump animation in the jump spell, it would stay static too, Like a ring.

I think if Supercell is making a mill a day, I think they can afford some new servers.

But remember it can make spam in chat.
So maybe only a few people can do this...
Something like 30 players first in the clan. (30/50)
if there's less so (15/30) or (10/10) for small clans.
Idk...it's need to be 3/5 and i don't have time to think about this cuz we don't want spam in chat.

Good point, though they might be too focused on the attack to worry about posting!

I think it's a cool idea, but I doubt it will be added considering the work that would be put into it. Mainly because without live attacks, you only have to wait up to 3 more minutes to watch it.

It will be based on the current attack replay system so I doubt more work. Remember this is NOT a video being transferred like Twitch. This is information of the attack being sent to Supercell (which already happens) and gets sent to people who want to watch it.

I love the idea however there shouldn't be a chat message because my clan usually uses like 5-10 attacks right off the bat so it'd a bit spammy

Good point, I could add a feature where you can turn off all alerts.

Wait, 42 spells? Is it just me or does the attacker there have 42 spells?

[madeonn]

Good work!

[justinhu]

Good work!

Thanks! Your's too.

[Ytiev]

I know, I shouldn't be bumping this early but really? I think the SKICocIS group including me needs to do more to get detailed ideas up there like this instead of always seeing things like "lvl 12 collectors" "coc for surface"

ikr? well nice thread, question: why didn't you put my name in?

[Muraad11]

This is an awesome idea, love the creativity. I hope SC adds this in

[justinhu]

This is an awesome idea, love the creativity. I hope SC adds this in

Thanks! I hope so too

[Ytiev]

Thanks! I hope so too

way cooler than the earlier threads that suggested this

[justinhu]

ikr? well nice thread, question: why didn't you put my name in?

I'm working on a special one with as many forum easter eggs in as possible

[justinhu]

way cooler than the earlier threads that suggested this

I think I was actually the first one to suggest this awhile back http://forum.supercell.net/showthrea...during-attacks