You found mws painful to use? I don't see how. It's by far the easiest way I've found to sort and sift through cards. I don't play on MWS much anymore but whether I'm testing new cards on Cockatrice or looking for something to tip a matchup on MTGO, I build the deck in MWS.
To each there own, just stating another option. Plus updating magic album is as easy as running an updater program. It self checks for updates and has multiple price collection capabilities so you can compare different site prices for high,med,low values.
It has the deck building functionality along with various calculations such as draw probability and can make pages that can be printed for proxies. You can either add images like mws or it can generate the card frames and wording.
I would also take a look at magic album. I personally found MWS painful to use but enjoyed magic album. Plus magic album is free and still being developed.
I haven't able to play a game online, but playing around in solo it seems to handle a number of counters without a problem. Top was reporting ~60megs of memory.
The pi overall lags a bit when running LxdE. Cockatrice didn't seem to slow it down more than anything else. Browsing with Midori puts a much higher strain on the system.
I'm actually surprised that I was able to compile a good size qt app with 512megs.
I'm not as the server at woogerworks ran on 512mb forever
As mentioned, the server was not hacked. The DB went offline. On a more positive note, since moving the server to SSD storage the only crashes were software bug related and not hardware related.
I fired up my rpi revision b (512meg) with the newest debian image and was able to compile cockatrice on it no problem. Took at least 2 hours to compile, ran fine.
Did you get a chance to actually test the performance on a game with logs of object on the playing field or game zones? I would be interested in knowing how well the performance of the device is under a higher game load.
I find it amusing how some people rate software like "cockatrice" on the minority of reports on players that have no idea on what there doing or are simply bad players. Having used many of the software packages offered to play MTG there are bad experiences in all. It doesn't make one worse or better in my mind. Statements such as "the cockatrice community" should really be phrased more like "the mtg community" as that is the underlying game being played IMO. You even have bad players / experiences IRL.
Consider this, out of the 100's if not 1000's of games played in a day on cockatrice (not just the woogerworks server, as there are others that run them as well) and I am sure there are more bad than reported here but considering just a few have been reported the % of bad to good games is very low.
Here is the steps that the cockatrice client takes to download/display images:
1.) check if there is a valid picture folder path
2.) check picture folder path for card image
3.) if no image exists, download card image specified in .xml file
4.) copy image into picture folder path specified in client
So if your not getting images for specific cards first check to make sure the picture folder path is valid (it should be if you have some but not others.) Next, close the cockatrice client. Browse to the folder path containing the pictures and remove the set folder (or clear the entire sub folder listing) from the picture folder path. Once the image cache is cleared, open your cards.xml file and search for the URL of a card image you are having problems with and copy paste the URL into a web browser to make sure the image path is not broken. If the image comes up ok, reopen your cockatrice client and validate that the preference settings are correct in that you have a valid picture folder path and that the box that tells the cockatrice client to download images on the fly is checked. Then go into the deck editor and locate the card you are looking for and give the client a moment to download the image.
Also the oracle tool is working fine as long as you either install the most recent client available OR download the source code of the oracle tool from the github repository and recompile it on your own for your specific platform.
edit:
one thing to note, if there is a corrupt image in the image folder for a card. cockatrice has no way of knowing that it is corrupt and simply see's that there is an image file for the card available in the image folder cache and will never attempt to re download the image until the file is removed from the image cache folder.
I've replaced both cards.xml, the one in the program folder and user folder. And still can't see M14 cards.
Make sure the cockatrice client is pointed to the correct XML under the preferences configuration screen within the application as well as close and reopen the application after updating your card database.
Storage space.
To each there own, just stating another option. Plus updating magic album is as easy as running an updater program. It self checks for updates and has multiple price collection capabilities so you can compare different site prices for high,med,low values.
It has the deck building functionality along with various calculations such as draw probability and can make pages that can be printed for proxies. You can either add images like mws or it can generate the card frames and wording.
Servers been up all day with no outages.
I'm not as the server at woogerworks ran on 512mb forever
I tested it on the beta version and worked fine when on the desktop. Keep in mind it was the beta.
Invalid login data would indicate the username / password combination is incorrect.
Holy Cow that is awesome!
Did you get a chance to actually test the performance on a game with logs of object on the playing field or game zones? I would be interested in knowing how well the performance of the device is under a higher game load.
Consider this, out of the 100's if not 1000's of games played in a day on cockatrice (not just the woogerworks server, as there are others that run them as well) and I am sure there are more bad than reported here but considering just a few have been reported the % of bad to good games is very low.
1.) check if there is a valid picture folder path
2.) check picture folder path for card image
3.) if no image exists, download card image specified in .xml file
4.) copy image into picture folder path specified in client
So if your not getting images for specific cards first check to make sure the picture folder path is valid (it should be if you have some but not others.) Next, close the cockatrice client. Browse to the folder path containing the pictures and remove the set folder (or clear the entire sub folder listing) from the picture folder path. Once the image cache is cleared, open your cards.xml file and search for the URL of a card image you are having problems with and copy paste the URL into a web browser to make sure the image path is not broken. If the image comes up ok, reopen your cockatrice client and validate that the preference settings are correct in that you have a valid picture folder path and that the box that tells the cockatrice client to download images on the fly is checked. Then go into the deck editor and locate the card you are looking for and give the client a moment to download the image.
Also the oracle tool is working fine as long as you either install the most recent client available OR download the source code of the oracle tool from the github repository and recompile it on your own for your specific platform.
edit:
one thing to note, if there is a corrupt image in the image folder for a card. cockatrice has no way of knowing that it is corrupt and simply see's that there is an image file for the card available in the image folder cache and will never attempt to re download the image until the file is removed from the image cache folder.
www.woogerworks.com under the downloads menu
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Make sure the cockatrice client is pointed to the correct XML under the preferences configuration screen within the application as well as close and reopen the application after updating your card database.