3 things for Korath to consider when he feels like it
Posted: 15 Sep 2016, 13:14
I'm not actually back yet, and I've been following the development and admiring the progress and feeling bad for the nasty setback.
I've read you made some sort of deckbuilder rewrite you're not too happy with for Manalink. I'm not sure there's a good way to filter out colorless cards properly, like the eldrazi stuff or to separate the filters between properly colorless artifact creatures and colored ones. Maybe there is but I can't find it.
Assuming there isn't, you might want to do something about it. It makes the deckbuilder very unwieldly. I use Forge for deckbuilding anyway, and this other fellow seems to be using something else, so if it looks like someone's doing something and things are OK it's not really like that - the deckbuilder is quite unusable in practice (maybe?). You got your hands full and all, just though I'd mention.
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Another thing is that the whole "manalink decks use one format - shandalar decks use another format - shandalar decks have code for names - you gotta make decks in an external program anyway" is quite a hassle. If there's a deckbuilder rewrite in the cards, or partial rewrite, or calling up an external deckbuilder clone with more sensible options or really, whatever, can something finally be done about this?
An semi-ideal thing wold be if the person making the deck in the shandalar-specific deckbuilder could have an option while saving it to save it as one of the decks in the "decks" folder. A simple drop down menu, which doesn't list the numbers but translates them into names, you pick the name, and the program saves the deck in the correct format and as the correct deck.
No idea how difficult this would be, I'm sure you got other stuff on your mind (as in all I have to do is check the development thread), but this would be huge.
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And I'd personally love a simple which turns a Forge decklist into a decklist. Although I should probably be asking the Forge guys for that, an option to export forge decklists as shandalar ones. So this doesn't have anything to do with Korath
I've read you made some sort of deckbuilder rewrite you're not too happy with for Manalink. I'm not sure there's a good way to filter out colorless cards properly, like the eldrazi stuff or to separate the filters between properly colorless artifact creatures and colored ones. Maybe there is but I can't find it.
Assuming there isn't, you might want to do something about it. It makes the deckbuilder very unwieldly. I use Forge for deckbuilding anyway, and this other fellow seems to be using something else, so if it looks like someone's doing something and things are OK it's not really like that - the deckbuilder is quite unusable in practice (maybe?). You got your hands full and all, just though I'd mention.
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Another thing is that the whole "manalink decks use one format - shandalar decks use another format - shandalar decks have code for names - you gotta make decks in an external program anyway" is quite a hassle. If there's a deckbuilder rewrite in the cards, or partial rewrite, or calling up an external deckbuilder clone with more sensible options or really, whatever, can something finally be done about this?
An semi-ideal thing wold be if the person making the deck in the shandalar-specific deckbuilder could have an option while saving it to save it as one of the decks in the "decks" folder. A simple drop down menu, which doesn't list the numbers but translates them into names, you pick the name, and the program saves the deck in the correct format and as the correct deck.
No idea how difficult this would be, I'm sure you got other stuff on your mind (as in all I have to do is check the development thread), but this would be huge.
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And I'd personally love a simple which turns a Forge decklist into a decklist. Although I should probably be asking the Forge guys for that, an option to export forge decklists as shandalar ones. So this doesn't have anything to do with Korath