Subject: »[info]Dev Diary #82: Automatic release of NT-players from

I've read about the possibility of pausing or skip live matches. I would like it not to be possible until after the game. It can lose the excitement of live. It should work like now...only possible after the match.

Yes. Live should be live. Even If u enter lets say 10 mins later, you should start at 40' on the match

I think that's different because It would be impossible to start at minute 1'...
I like how it's now. If I have the possibility to skip the match, it's not excitement. You can have spoilers easily.
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Are you guys talking about a fast-forward in live matches? I think that would be great.

I feel that's not real because you have the feeling of watching something repeated and users can have spoilers easier. Live should be live. If you want to watch the match repeated you can wait 20minutes as now.
In this way, live matches will disappear and for me it's not the same excitement. It's like to watch a recorded match in real life. What's the point?
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I imagine something different for a live match. If you are late 5 minutes, you can speed up and catch up. And when you sync up, you can no longer use fast-forward. So if a match starts at 19:00 and lasts 20 minutes, you can't finish before 19:20.
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Yes, that's the idea :)
But if you can speed up from 19:00 live match will no longer exist and it's not good.
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If you're exactly sync with the live stream, you won't be able to FF but pause should be possible. If you pick up the match after only x seconds you can FF until you're back in sync with the live stream.

It's up to you to pause the game or not...

to complex we need just rewind on records all is cool as it is

Not complex at all...

everything with timing is complex imagine delays of match generation etc .
Games are not live in theory they are generated and available in front at some point lats thing we need spoilers of the result.
Based on effort to achieve and value i do not see point ..

imagine live nt match with embeded chat!

like it works in youtube-life, if you have watched some live broadcasted matches of Colombia and of Turkey, maybe you have noticed the live-chat-window. It's great fun if live would be a real live broadcast, so we can chat
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+1 on that part!

@Sviktorov... you speak about spoilers but it will not be any different from now.
The match cannot be fast forwarded past the sync live stream... only UP TO SYNC if you would be behind...

The speed of matches is different on various devices

That's true.
Sometimes, I have been watching a match of my friend at the same time and his computer is delayed. I don't understand it because he says he watches the match fluently, but I needed to pause the match several times to be at the same time.
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A match on normal speed is about 20 minutes long...
I don't see how a minute delay would be a spoiler problem...