Request: Seat Time

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Here's a simple and easy to implement feature I would like to see in the final game: accumulated game time.

I would just like to know how much of my life i wasted playing the game when it's over ;-)

I imagine this stat would be shown next to saved game files, on the game victory summary, and on the "high score" list in addition to the information about what race way played, galaxy size, etc.

Implementation details: you need to check for interactivity and stop the clock after some time if there is no mouse movement, activity, button clicks, or other UI events.

 

 

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Steam does this, at least for Civ 5 it did.  I know it's not exactly what you want, but have you looked on there for galciv3?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Steam shows total game time per game you own, without subdividing it for each separate instance-of-game you've played.  I've played 296 hours of GC3, but that's either one long game or 540 very short ones, I don't remember which ...

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

No steam already does it, no sense for them to waste ANY dev resources for this.

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Gilmoy, reply 2

Steam shows total game time per game you own, without subdividing it for each separate instance-of-game you've played.  I've played 296 hours of GC3, but that's either one long game or 540 very short ones, I don't remember which ...

 

That's because you probably fell asleep fool!

 

Anyway - would be an nice touch.  Maybe along with the end-of-game stats a "total time played."  Also, there could be a history of games played with the final stats/graphs and total time played for each one.

But yea, Steam does keep track of game-time overall..

-tid242

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

There is a time played number with each saved game in the load list.  What is that measuring?  Session time?  Total game time?

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting tid242, reply 4
That's because you probably fell asleep fool!

I did that once in Visual Studio 2005's code editor.  I noticed what appeared to be 10 blank lines in my C++ source file.  So I highlighted them to delete them ... and found that it was actually one very long line that the editor auto-wraps around at every ~2,048 characters.

Hence, that was one line of about 21k space chars ' '.  i.e. I had dozed off with my forehead on the space bar :zzz:

Reply #7 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I have put over 50 hours in this game

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting tid242, reply 4

Anyway - would be an nice touch.  Maybe along with the end-of-game stats a "total time played."  Also, there could be a history of games played with the final stats/graphs and total time played for each one.

But yea, Steam does keep track of game-time overall..

I'm looking for per-game time, not total time. I'm particularly interested in seeing how long different map configurations and difficulty levels take.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting leiavoia, reply 8

I'm looking for per-game time, not total time. I'm particularly interested in seeing how long different map configurations and difficulty levels take.

Like this?

It's already there.