I should clarify that I was planning on representing it as a pie chart, where percentages are a bit more important I like the idea of the stacked bar graph, though - Thanks Vorthospike
Actually, now that I think about it, I can see the worth in presenting that data in both forms ^.^
So, I'm looking at adding some deck statistics to my software, and I've run into a conundrum around cards with multiple base-types - Let's say Enchantment Creatures, to cite the main culprit in current T2.
The essential problem is that when I construct my query to produce percentages of the total for the deck by type, I get a total greater then 100%, on account of the fact that some of the cards appear in the running total twice - a single copy of "Aegis of the Gods", for example, counts for 2/60 rather than 1/60, on account of the fact that it's being counted as a creature and an enchantment.
I can't imagine I'm the first person to have this problem - is there a standard way that people would prefer to see this data represented? If not, would it be better to have an inaccurate total percentage (where types may be displayed with a lower percentage / draw chance than they should), or to group things by their composite types (Enchantment Creatures 30%, Artifact Creatures 10%, etc)?
The Card Details window now has the ability to manage the details of individual cards in your collection
The "Copies" tab of the Card Details window allows you to specify the condition, whether a card is a foil (premium) card, and whether that copy of the card is a promo copy (different types of promo, such as FNM, will hopefully be implemented soon, when the data become available).
Secondly, the ability to move cards between Collections has now been made available! This has been a disabled button on the 'Collection Cards' screen for almost the whole time we've been live, and now it actually does something Cards that are not allocated to decks can be freely moved between Collections. This function is available from the "Collection Cards" screen, and the "Collections / Decks" tab of the "Card Details" popup.
Finally, as a side note, I've added one tiny enhancement to the search screen - cards that have been selected for adding are now highlighted until the 'Add' button has been clicked. No more losing track of whether you've added the cards you've selected yet!
Personally, I don't mind the prefixes being four character. Introducing a hyphen or other delimiter might cause some issues where people are parsing them as pat of other strings, though - /blah(\w{3,4})/ is a bit easier than /blah((?:\w-)\d{3})/, especially if you've got thngs like UUIDs muddying the waters
Where the individual cards are associated with a regular set (such as prerelease cards), will there be any way to link a card with the set it's derived from? For example, the foil, watermarked Goblin Rabblethingy that was released as the Buy-A-Box promo card for M15, and still has the M15 set symbol...
Could I get a little bit of feedback on this, please?
Is this sufficient for managing individual copies of a card? Note that FNM is being implemented on mtgjson as a separate set, which means that they'll be treated the same on here
Right now the only promo cards I have are in the PPR set. I will be adding FNM, media inserts and other promo cards in a few weeks. I'll be adding these into new sets called "Friday Night Magic", "Media Inserts", etc. So the way to distinguish these cards as promos is the fact that they are in these promo sets (the "type" field of the set object will be set to "promo").
Not sure if this has been asked previously - is there any support in your data for FNM and other promo cards, to distinguish them from the regular variants of those cards?
Speaking to someone in a game shop yesterday, and received the following suggestions:
Store Integration
Further deck stats
Text Entry
I want to expand Text Entry intro a general Import / Export function. Both that and Store Integration are going to require some extended attributes on individual card copies (Condition, Foil, etc), so I'll do that next, then text entry, then store integration. In between I might do some more deck stats, just to jostle up the workload and keep things fresh.
Just a heads up - I'm refreshing all the legality data from mtgjson.com, now that Sembiance has updated it for M15, so expect some inconsistencies over the next few hours
Do remember to check your existing decks after is finished, in case some of the cards in them have cycled out of format ^.^
That's a cool tool you built there, congratulations and thanks !
A few things I feel would make it even better :
TCG Player price data (I know you said you would do it but take this as an upvote)
A "Go to page X" in the search result pages navigation (top and bottom)
Export collection/deck to text/csv/excel
Quick add function (write down a list of cards with edition code and quantity and click "Add to collection/deck")
Card condition (At the very least the possibility to add foils as different cards)
FNM and promo cards
I'm currently transfering my inventory from The Vault to your site as having it always available even when I don't have my computer at hand is a very nice thing.
Awesome feedback man, thanks A few of those are things that I already want to implement - I'm tossing up whether to add a "copies" or a "market" tab to the Card Details screen next
I need to check out a few third party import / export formats. I'm not sure where I should be focussing my efforts, though. There seem to be a few common notations shared by multiple programs.
After another couple of weeks cloistered away at my keyboard, I've got another big feature to announce - an extended Card Details window
This replaces the old Card Details window you used to get when you clicked a card in the 'Search Cards' screen. It's now accessible from lots more places (Collection card list, Wishlist, Deck cards listing), and has a ton of new information and features, such as:
View the legality of the Card, by format
View which Collections and Decks the card is in
Add cards to Collections, Decks and Wishlists from pretty much anywhere on the site where you can view cards
Obtain / Remove copies from Collections and Wishlists
This adds a huge amount of utility to every screen it's in, and clears a path for me to add even more functionality later
In addition to this, I've added a few details to the Wishlist screen, and added the ability to add cards to the Wishlist from the Search Cards screen.
As always, enjoy and let me know if there are bugs in the discussion thread
Is it possible to have a column that include the tcg mid price of the cards so that we can also know roughly how much is our collect worth and etc but I do understand that prices for the cards are constantly changing so it is probably a challenge to keep it updated all the time.
I'm considering it - it's possible to get real time data from TCG Player, so it's imminently doable There are a couple of other things I want to get in place first, though, that will make it easier to do later.
Actually, now that I think about it, I can see the worth in presenting that data in both forms ^.^
So, I'm looking at adding some deck statistics to my software, and I've run into a conundrum around cards with multiple base-types - Let's say Enchantment Creatures, to cite the main culprit in current T2.
The essential problem is that when I construct my query to produce percentages of the total for the deck by type, I get a total greater then 100%, on account of the fact that some of the cards appear in the running total twice - a single copy of "Aegis of the Gods", for example, counts for 2/60 rather than 1/60, on account of the fact that it's being counted as a creature and an enchantment.
I can't imagine I'm the first person to have this problem - is there a standard way that people would prefer to see this data represented? If not, would it be better to have an inaccurate total percentage (where types may be displayed with a lower percentage / draw chance than they should), or to group things by their composite types (Enchantment Creatures 30%, Artifact Creatures 10%, etc)?
Thanks all
Mike
The "Copies" tab of the Card Details window allows you to specify the condition, whether a card is a foil (premium) card, and whether that copy of the card is a promo copy (different types of promo, such as FNM, will hopefully be implemented soon, when the data become available).
Secondly, the ability to move cards between Collections has now been made available! This has been a disabled button on the 'Collection Cards' screen for almost the whole time we've been live, and now it actually does something
Finally, as a side note, I've added one tiny enhancement to the search screen - cards that have been selected for adding are now highlighted until the 'Add' button has been clicked. No more losing track of whether you've added the cards you've selected yet!
Have fun!
Where the individual cards are associated with a regular set (such as prerelease cards), will there be any way to link a card with the set it's derived from? For example, the foil, watermarked Goblin Rabblethingy that was released as the Buy-A-Box promo card for M15, and still has the M15 set symbol...
Is this sufficient for managing individual copies of a card? Note that FNM is being implemented on mtgjson as a separate set, which means that they'll be treated the same on here
Your opinions are greatly valued ^.^
Nifty, thanks man
Not sure if this has been asked previously - is there any support in your data for FNM and other promo cards, to distinguish them from the regular variants of those cards?
I want to expand Text Entry intro a general Import / Export function. Both that and Store Integration are going to require some extended attributes on individual card copies (Condition, Foil, etc), so I'll do that next, then text entry, then store integration. In between I might do some more deck stats, just to jostle up the workload and keep things fresh.
Stay tuned
Do remember to check your existing decks after is finished, in case some of the cards in them have cycled out of format ^.^
Awesome feedback man, thanks
I need to check out a few third party import / export formats. I'm not sure where I should be focussing my efforts, though. There seem to be a few common notations shared by multiple programs.
So, as of the latest update you can do exactly that
This replaces the old Card Details window you used to get when you clicked a card in the 'Search Cards' screen. It's now accessible from lots more places (Collection card list, Wishlist, Deck cards listing), and has a ton of new information and features, such as:
This adds a huge amount of utility to every screen it's in, and clears a path for me to add even more functionality later
In addition to this, I've added a few details to the Wishlist screen, and added the ability to add cards to the Wishlist from the Search Cards screen.
As always, enjoy and let me know if there are bugs in the discussion thread
I'm considering it - it's possible to get real time data from TCG Player, so it's imminently doable