[Bug/Suggestion?]LQ Set downloads

by **Shekkie** » 05 Oct 2013, 11:53

Hello, I've searched for an already existing thread relevant to this but I couldn't find one (despite I'm sure I ran across one several releases ago).

Basically, I have a number (currently 524, it used to be 120-ish back in 1.4.0) of cards with missing images (despite the images themselves can be found either in the pictures folder (as designated in the config file) or in the set folder inside the pictures one (this happens even if the image is both in the set and parent folder).

Attempting to use the LQ Set downloader detects the missing pictures, claims to be downloading them but after you close it, the images are still missing in game and in the deck editor and the set downloader still claims to be missing the same amount of images.

Additionally, when I updated the game (my previous version was 1.4.6), running the set downloader to match the new cards, it detected closer to 600 images. The extra images seem to have downloaded just fine.

Later edit:
I've looked a bit more into exactly which images are missing and apparently most of them are from the newer sets (Theros, M14, and V13 for instance most have no corresponding image, but that only accounts for 450-ish cards) so I figure it's actually an issue with the images not being available for download. Assuming that's the case, wouldn't it make more sense to have the downloader either show available downloads as "X items found" instead of missing images detected? Or failing that, have a report after the download is finished that states "Couldn't find Y items to download?

by **Chris H.** » 05 Oct 2013, 13:01

When WotC releases a new set of cards the devs for our project will script these cards as fast as we can. The servers which hold the pictures for these cards receive the pictures for these new cards at a much later date.

The non-set pictures can take a few weeks before they become available and the set pictures can take months before they become available.

by **Shekkie** » 05 Oct 2013, 13:07

Hi, sorry, it seems you replied just as I was editing my original post.

Still, wouldn't some sort of feedback (as suggested in my edit) be useful for the average user?

by **friarsol** » 06 Oct 2013, 18:46

Shekkie wrote:Hi, sorry, it seems you replied just as I was editing my original post.

Still, wouldn't some sort of feedback (as suggested in my edit) be useful for the average user?

We mention it in the release posts. Generally something like "Please be patient, images may not be available"