Replay system, at least a basic one

As I said on IRC - Ares adds new features for modders and fixes ingame bugs, why not enhance the game itself a bit? Replay system is something that would be desired I think, mostly by the progames but could be useful for balance tests and similar as well. With replay system, recording of ingame footage is easier, too.

Since there already is some kind of replay system ingame, maybe a possibility exists to integrate that system into the game. You click a 'Replays' button in the main menu, a screen similar to 'Select a game to load' shows up from which you can select a replay (saved in that file, .IPB was it?) to be played.

In that replay, you see everything from the Observer point of view with the map fully revealed and the info about players you normally get in the Observer mode in the sidebar. This would be a nice base for integrated replay system I think.