Topic: Some features I would like to see.

Here are some wishes I have for future changes that I hope to see on this site.  I tried to keep the suggestions apart from eachother for easier reading.


I want to be able to sort my inventory and decks by inventory count by clicking on the inventorycount, tradelistcount or wishlistcout icon at the top of the list. (like before you know!) 

I would also like to be able to sort my decklists after for instance price and have them all be in the same collum, not separated into creatures, artifacts, instant, sorceries and so on.  The separation into cardtype is really useful for keeping a good overview of the deck.  I still want that to be the default.

I want to be able to open up a deck and have a row tell me what legality the card has.  I guess the best way of doing this is to have a way of specifying what legality you want on your deck and then check for that.

It might be interesting if you could take a snapshot of the current prices when completing a trade.

An option to show wether prices have been going up or down lately would be a great tool for some I know.

At last I want to yet another time say thanks for making this great site!  This makes it really easy for me to keep track of my collection and to create new decks.

Re: Some features I would like to see.

Nidhugg wrote:

It might be interesting if you could take a snapshot of the current prices when completing a trade.

An option to show wether prices have been going up or down lately would be a great tool for some I know..

I can't speak for Sebi, but being someone who knows about databases and web interfaces, I know that these two would significantly increase the amount of storage required by the database (and potentially affect site performance).  It would mean recording prices for every trade, and, really, for every card (to get that price trend information).

That doesn't mean it won't be considered.  I just know that it would be a major change.

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Re: Some features I would like to see.

Thanks for the reply HikingStick!

Those two suggestions aren't that important to me, I just took the time to offer a few suggestions from the top of my head that I thought might improve the site.

I'm really bugged however by the fact that I'm unable to sort my collection by inventory count.  I'm not really sure how to keep my collection available for trade any more.  If someone have a workaround or something it would be really helpful!

Re: Some features I would like to see.

Sebi and Laura are aware that many of us miss the sorting by count.  I believe they have it slated to return when they push out the 2.1 update--tentatively around Feb. 1 unless things have changed.

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Black and Blue--not just for bruises anymore.

Re: Some features I would like to see.

Nidhugg wrote:

I want to be able to open up a deck and have a row tell me what legality the card has.  I guess the best way of doing this is to have a way of specifying what legality you want on your deck and then check for that.

I'd like to second this, I'd love to be able to add "Legality" as a column and sort by it, mainly to use as a "Why aren't my deck legal in format x"

/Richo

Re: Some features I would like to see.

I'd love to see sorting by inventory count again!

Re: Some features I would like to see.

The OP has some good ideas.  I'd like to add that it would be incredibly useful to be able to filter the database by set.  Only see cards that were printed in M14 or Innistrad for example. 

Aside from that I would like to add my thanks for making this site.

Re: Some features I would like to see.

gummidemon wrote:

The OP has some good ideas.  I'd like to add that it would be incredibly useful to be able to filter the database by set.  Only see cards that were printed in M14 or Innistrad for example.

You can already filter by the set.  Go to the Card Database section for MTG.  Next select 'Advanced Search' and change 'Edition Printed In' to be the set that you want to display.  You can do the same thing to display the cards in Standard (or Legacy, or whatever) by instead setting 'Format' to one of Standard, Legacy, Vintage, Extended or Modern.

Re: Some features I would like to see.

psrex wrote:
gummidemon wrote:

The OP has some good ideas.  I'd like to add that it would be incredibly useful to be able to filter the database by set.  Only see cards that were printed in M14 or Innistrad for example.

You can already filter by the set.  Go to the Card Database section for MTG.  Next select 'Advanced Search' and change 'Edition Printed In' to be the set that you want to display.

One thing I, as more of a collector than a player, would like the listing to then do is to display, in the Inventory Count column, only the number of those cards that one owns from that set - it would make managing and maintaining one's Wishlist and Tradelist much easier than it currently appears to be (I say "appears to be" because I'm noob to the site, so maybe there's already functionality to help with this that I'm not yet aware of).

Re: Some features I would like to see.

HikingStick wrote:
Nidhugg wrote:

It might be interesting if you could take a snapshot of the current prices when completing a trade.

An option to show wether prices have been going up or down lately would be a great tool for some I know..

I can't speak for Sebi, but being someone who knows about databases and web interfaces, I know that these two would significantly increase the amount of storage required by the database (and potentially affect site performance).  It would mean recording prices for every trade, and, really, for every card (to get that price trend information).

That doesn't mean it won't be considered.  I just know that it would be a major change.

It might be possible to pull this data from TCGPlayer - they have price history graphs.