Terrylaterreur wrote:

Yep, Void Rip and Bottled Cunning are missing, as are Kirox Butcherblade, Jacob Blackcrest and Red Rider Air Rifle.

I previously reported those cards missing, but I doubt that the admin are reading these forums.

http://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=4334#p4334

If so, please add them!

We are definitely reading. smile We'll import the missing ones after the weekend.

Hello,

There was a small issue with the trade autocompleter input, that it choked on card names containing '.'. It has now been fixed.

Thank you for reporting it.

2,478

(230 replies, posted in Warhammer Invasion)

Hello guys,

Thanks for the error reports, I've fixed The Bleeding Wall and Shaggoth.

I've also uploaded the scans and imported Ream of the Phoenix King.

Still some questions though, as I have spoilers and info and scans from many places, and I'm not sure which information is final and which is playtesting stuff. Can someone clearly confirm that all the image scans are the correct version from the final product? If so I will correct the current mistakes (I assume Pageant of Shrikes is not printed, but instead we have Warhawk Rider. Same for Ratling Gun and Ancient Stegadon. And in Realm of the Phoenix King Chakax is actually Skavenslaves.)

Thank you for your help. Listing of the last 2 editions is: http://deckbox.org/games/whi/cards?p=1&f=4324.23

MtG Cards renamed

One rather important issue I have forgotten to tell you about. In the prices API refresh process, we have looked at the flip card naming problems, and other such small issues that we had from the beginning. As a result these are the card renamings we have done:


    Æthersnipe to Aethersnipe
    Nighteyes the Desecrator to Nezumi Graverobber
    Arm with Æther to Arm with Aether
    Æther Spellbomb to Aether Spellbomb
    Big Furry Monster Right 's brother was imported: Big Furry Monster Left
    Rune-Tail's Essence to Rune-Tail, Kitsune Ascendant
    Erayo's Essence to Erayo, Soratami Ascendant
    Kuon's Essence to Kuon, Ogre Ascendant
    Sasaya's Essence to Sasaya, Orochi Ascendant
    Homura's Essence to Homura, Human Ascendant

    Shidako, Broodmistress to Orochi Eggwatcher
    Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage to Kitsune Mystic
    Tok-Tok, Volcano Born to Akki Lavarunner
    Goka the Unjust to Initiate of Blood
    Dokai, Weaver of Life to Budoka Gardener
    Tomoya the Revealer to Jushi Apprentice
    Stabwhisker the Odious to Nezumi Shortfang
    Kaiso, Memory of Loyalty to Faithful Squire
    "Ach! Hans, Run!" to Ach! Hans, Run!


Performance

This last week I've done some admin stuff - upgrading of various packages, optimizing some things on deckbox and on the other websites running on the server, and such stuff. It had a considerable effect on the smoothness of how our server runs, CPU usage is way down. There's still some possible bandwidth issues to investigate but overall, website snappiness and performace should be up.

If you still experience times when pages load very slowly, please let us know in this Feedback thread http://deckbox.org/forum/viewtopic.php?id=1166

2,480

(2 replies, posted in General Discussion)

Hello,

I assume you are trying to add Lance to your sets, and having problems with the dropdown. It's a pretty annoying issue, and maybe we should redo the sorting of that autocompleter dropdown.

In the mean time the solution is just type Lance in the edit box, and press escape when the dropdown appears. Then press enter or click Add (while still having just 'Lance' written in the textbox). It will correctly add it.

2,481

(3 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Correct, at the time of my writing the format legality code, there was a strict rule of  Standard decks being legal in everything, Extended being legal also in everything except Standard etc. So Standard < Extended < Modern < Vintage < Legacy.

I know there have been (maybe still are?) some exceptions to this, but I've never looked very closely at the implications. For the sake of simplicity I decided to just show one.

Hello guys, time for the beginning of november status report smile


Security

We now have an https enabled for signup, login and user profile editing, so your email and password will be much more secure! We'll think about maybe extending the https support for the other parts of the website as well at some point.


Card prices

Tcgplayer, our price provider have a new shiny API for a while now, and we updated our price fetching code. The upside is that cards which had no price before, or a price of 0, or a bit off, now should be working correctly and more accurately.

The second good thing is that now we have prices for each edition a card is in, so in the not so distant future you can expect improved accuracy for collection value estimates, prices in card details listings etc.


Card database updates

Cryptozoic have released the new World of Warcraft Tcg set Throne of the Tides. We're now up to date (even with images for the majority of them), so you can browse the set in all its splendor here: http://deckbox.org/games/wow/cards?f=7340.39.

Warhammer:Invasion users also got a new expansion: The Inevitable City. The listing is here: http://deckbox.org/games/whi/cards?f=4323. We haven't got card images for it yet, so if there are any kind souls amongst you that would like to provide card scans, the Warhammer community will be forever grateful to you. (Well... maybe not quite forever... tongue ).


Spam

I've left this topic last because it's the least pleasant smile. Some of you may have again received some spam emails send by another deckbox user. In this new release we have included some more methods of dealing with these people, so it will never happen again.


A nice evening to you all!

2,483

(10 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

tnkflx wrote:

Load times are very high again sad

Thanks for letting us know. This time there is indeed a huge traffic spike lasting the 10 minutes before your post. Now I have just the simple task of finding what it is causing it smile

2,484

(9 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Wow, a lot of great suggestions!

On the issue of OpenID, we've considered implementing it from the beginning, but somehow it was always put away. In any case, we would have it in parallel to normal login / email based signup. This is because for people who don't know about how it works, it's a complicated system that puts them off from signing up.

One of the big design flaws of openid imho is that it is appealing if you understand it, but it's confusing and needs research on first look. Smart systems should make sense from the first look to most people, or they're not picked up... sad

Anyway, coming back to the spam topic, we shall indeed go for a bit of everything smile. Captcha on the front page i'm not sure about yet, we'll start with the others. A trigger system that marks user accounts for review, like signing up from ips that have been problematic in the past, sending more than x emails in y minutes / hours, report user in email, etc.


Thanks for all the suggestions, let us know if you think of anything else, they are very helpful!


P.S. LootPinata, no OpenId, and we're definitely not going to tell any of your normal friends anything, so you're safe tongue


P.P.S xorius, the scanning for spam solution also sounds interesting but I don't know much about these systems, and I'm a bit afraid it's going to need human tweaking constantly to work. It's been noted as an idea, but i'm leaving it for last. In my naive optimism I still hope simple fast solutions will get rid of this problem quickly smile

2,485

(9 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

So... they're back sad

I've put a simple captcha on the email sending page but it seems it's totally useless. We'll implement some email sending threshold, emails / day, emails / account life or something, and we'll manually check the user accounts when they are reached and ban offending accounts.

I'm not sure what else would work.

2,486

(230 replies, posted in Warhammer Invasion)

Does someone own the last set and can tell me what the last card's properties are? It's called Camp Pillage or something along those lines.

I need Name, Faction, Type, Cost, Loyalty, Power, HP, Traits, and card text.

Thank you.

2,487

(3 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Two people smile

2,488

(2 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Hello,

Distinct means how many different cards you have. So a deck with 5 swamps will have 5 total cards, but 1 distinct, because you only have one card type - the swamp. If you add a Lightning bolt, you would have 6 cards, 2 distinct: swamp and lightning bolt.

It's true that it does not really help to know how many distinct cards there are generally. We might remove it, to get rid of the confusion.

2,489

(150 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Progress status is that other things got in the way smile. It's still something we want to do though. So slowly but surely, it's coming smile

2,490

(230 replies, posted in Warhammer Invasion)

I have got some card data now, that I will try importing today or tomorrow. Still no images though. Anyone got some scans?

2,491

(3 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

We already got one as it's needed for some facebook integration, but I haven't tested it yet.

I'll try to test it and get it up this week.

2,492

(10 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

P.S I never thought bandwidth would be a problem for the hoster. I'm not too sure how to test if that is the case. Does anyone have suggestions? I'll probably install some  bandwidth / CPU logger thingie. The VPS guys don't provide too good a tool.

2,493

(10 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

The host has changed one month ago, the former server was in EU, now it's in New York, so it actually should be better for the us folk. There have been intermittent problems with mysql having too many slow queries logged, which I have looked at, and are now happening very rarely.

I cannot really assess the hardware / IO issues too accurately because the machine is a OpenVZ VPS host, and from my limited understanding of the process, it still very much depends on what other hosts on the machine are doing as well (even if there is some sort of resource quota in place for cpu / ram).

I'll try to keep an eye on it these next few days. Do not hesitate to post back when it happens again. Thank you for the feedback.

2,494

(1 replies, posted in Site Discussion)

Hello,

We do not keep track of token cards anymore. There are a couple of really old ones still in there because they were included in Gatherer at some point, but Wizards is not including them anymore. As we get all our data from the official database, from them, we don't by default import these into the database.

It is a possibility that we will get them from magiccards.info at some point, but they're not a priority.

Good point. We'll definitely put a link to the user profile in the email.

2,496

(230 replies, posted in Warhammer Invasion)

Hi guys,

I'll try finding a decent source for the card information, at the moment I do not have it. It looks like on the official forums there's only something very sketchy about it: http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_ … idt=554366.

Fantasy Flight Games seem to be even worse at announcing and describing their product than Cryptozoic for WoW. I'm not sure why they think it's a good idea to try selling a product without telling us what it contains. I don't think geeks buy things on impulse out of curiosity without knowing what it is. At least I generally do not smile.

I'll post back when I have more info. We'll get it up somehow.

I think he means the decks on his deckbox profile (http://deckbox.org/users/loyn88) - he has 2 standard decks built. I'd contribute some opinions, but as I've not played Standard in a year, I'll let other more competent folk to chime in big_smile.

Fejjgw wrote:

Please make the export option export card language correctly?  also, why not make the pulldown list have the language in elgish so us dumb schmucks that dont know the difference can tell what is what.
Thanks
Jeff

I'm not sure I understand what is not working for you? I see you have a bunch of cards marked as japanese in your inventory. Did you not mark them yourself as japanese?

About the dropdown, I just assumed that if you own cards in a language, you know how to spell the language's name smile. Is this an issue for other people as well? Owning cards in a different language that you do not speak? If so, I could change that.

apyrexia wrote:

The export is fantastic! Took less than 10 seconds. Quick and easy. Thank you very much!

Just one thing, the cards that show up as having $0.00 value here still show up as 0 in the export. This greatly misrepresents the actual total value of the collection. Is there any way to fix this?

Again, thank you for your hard work. Deckbox.org is amazing!

We're getting the prices from tcgplayer.com, and so we depend on how they output their pricing information (which we parse and store for display in various places). They've recently changed their API (for the better I think), I need to change the links, and the parser that fetches prices. I hope it is also going to fix the cards which have a 0 price.

inzeos wrote:

One thing that may be useful to include is to export the file with a name like "MMDDYYYY-HHMM_USERNAME_GAMESYSTEM_inventory" as the file name convention.  Would make it easier to dump files periodically as personal backups etc.

Good call, will do.