Rejected - Inactive undo

[YouAreSoAweosome (GDAP)]

sorry but rn i dont feel like typing much, but before i forget to make the post- just suggesting this possible feature.

undoing moves, so missclicks can be undone.

edit: ONLY IF THE OPPONENT ALLOWS.
like in chess, if you give a move, then if the opponent agrees, then you can take back, something similar to that.

 

[DaemonChop]

What's to stop you from using this to undo a bad or wrong play, aka cheating?

 

[Annika]

If you mean undoing a move before the opponent selects theirs, that's already possible in formats that have the Cancel Mod.
If you mean undoing an entire turn, that allows people to completely undo a turn that doesn't go their way, which would lead to long and less competitive battles.

 

[Irpachuza]

If you mean undoing an entire turn, that allows people to completely undo a turn that doesn't go their way, which would lead to long and less competitive battles.

It's totally uncompetitive, but could it be something available for custom games? Maybe for people trying to replicate mechanics that require more than one or two turns but crits and rng can not go the way they expect?

 

[Gleeboop]

It's totally uncompetitive, but could it be something available for custom games? Maybe for people trying to replicate mechanics that require more than one or two turns but crits and rng can not go the way they expect?

That sounds kinda eh if it's in every single custom battle, maybe you could add it on to challenges as a rule?

 

[YouAreSoAweosome (GDAP)]

i mean only if the opponent allows.
if you see in chess, if you give a wrong move, and the opponent agrees, then you can take back,

 

[YouAreSoAweosome (GDAP)]

If you mean undoing a move before the opponent selects theirs, that's already possible in formats that have the Cancel Mod.
If you mean undoing an entire turn, that allows people to completely undo a turn that doesn't go their way, which would lead to long and less competitive battles.

it can be a thing for non-rated battles, like challenged battles, for them.

 

[Zarel]

I could see this being useful in custom game, if the opponent agrees.

I have some concerns about performance. Undoing a turn means re-simulating the entire game up until that point. It would probably need to be heavily throttled if we did it.

 

[MikeTheEntei]

Undoing a turn means re-simulating the entire game up until that point. It would probably need to be heavily throttled if we did it.

Is that how it works? I'd assume that the simulation would be able to revert to a savestate of sorts, i.e. "Turn 42 has passed, Ditto has 252/300 health and 16 Transform PP, etc."

 

[Zarel]

We support savestates on the server. Not on the client, which would need to replay battles from the beginning anyway, but that's less of a big deal.

It's possible to always save a save state from one turn ago. If the undo feature is used often enough, that might be worth it. If not, replaying from the beginning might still be better overall (in terms of not having the overhead from all the save states that are never used).