NightWind's Card Searcher

I think the thread is broken

edit: or was...

And to think I thought it was another bug post...

Very minor bug: cards have their text showing up in the same colour as cards instead of in black.

Sounds pretty fixable - mind posting an example or two?

A few examples
All tricolor cards

Quilted Porcupine displays in that turquoisey colour correctly. Plains and Tablet also display in black correctly.
Cane, Cake and WYBM display in turquoise incorrectly.

So it doesn't seem to be all cards, only some that have special card backgrounds (so the majority are actually fine it seems).

*Horo flattens the bug

The turquoisey problem should now be fixed.

It certainly looks that way. Thanks.

I wonder if I'm the first one to use these features: "Sort By:" and "Group By:"

When using neither, I can que up a search on all Light Prime cards in a few seconds. If I add "Sort By: Rarity", that time increases to about half a minute. If I add "Group By: Type" on top of that, it'll just timeout with this message:

Quote:Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0113'

Script timed out

/nightwind/cardsearcher/results.asp

The maximum amount of time for a script to execute was exceeded. You can change this limit by specifying a new value for the property Server.ScriptTimeout or by changing the value in the IIS administration tools.

It seems "Sort By:" and "Group By:" add a tremendous amount of work to the card searcher for some reason.

That's odd... I'll try to fix it.

would it be possible to make some sort of "worth calculator"?

I was thinking it would just look at the total points you have and all your cards in a specific deck (via page source) and check those cards against the store searcher results (with a note that cards that aren't on the market wouldn't be calculated into the price)

but yeah
I think that would be neat if possible

Questions:

1) By "worth calculator", do you mean general "public store" worth or "minimum value in personal store" worth?

2) Is this a feature request for the card searcher or deck list generator? List generation and store searching are mutually exclusive currently. If implemented on the deck list generator side, you're looking at significantly more processing time. If implemented on the card searcher, you'll be looking at a messier interface, or perhaps even a new site on the whole. This is with my own assumptions however.

3) What do you mean by "not on the market"? Is it "not sold in any personal store", "not available in public stores" or "not even purchasable at all"?

4) I'll need a scenario. Provide me with a step by step example of how you would use this feature if it existed - what would you click and what would you enter? What would the results look like? That way, I can judge how implementable it is.

1. minimum value in the personal stores (as that's generally an accurate representation of what a card is worth)

2. I was thinking it would be completely separate, but that it would function similarly to the deck list generator
I wouldn't mind at all if it was merged with the DLG (assuming it was optional so as to keep the speed of the DLG the same when you aren't using the worth calculator) but a big issue with that (I think?) is the fact that the DLG doesn't work with big decks
I'm not sure what the exact limit seems to be but it definitely wont work with thousands of cards at a time (which is what you'd want for the worth calculator)

3. I mean that no one is selling it in the personal stores
for example there are no prism blades in the personal stores atm if you do a store search

4. the way I imagine it working is like the DLG
1. you'd go to your decks section on the CMC site and View a deck
you copy/paste the page source from the deck you want to calculate and enter it into a text box on the Wealth Calculator page
it would create a deck list and check the total worth of all those cards and show it as a subtotal
then it would show you how many points you currently have in your cmc account
then it would add those together

I've attached an realistic example picture (using my own cards and points)
I included frost wyrm and prism blades just to show you what something that isn't available in personal stores might look like as a result

note that I'm not like deadset on it looking like this
if a decklist is unfeasible then just the total points would be fine
but it's nice to go through your cards and see which ones are worth the most in a list as opposed to individually

There is no exact limit on what the deck list generator can process, but it does depend on how many different cards you have (e.g. classic neutral charm and pretty neutral charm are considered two different cards). Something like less than 100 different cards would work I think, but that's just a wild guess. The webform can only accept so much html. Come to think of it, I might be able to slim down the html with Javascript, but I hate writing in Javascript...

Back to the matter at hand, I'll create an interest/discussion thread for the worth generator.

Worth Generator thread here

The cardsearcher has been updated to include the latest list of balances as per the link below:

http://forums.cardmasterconflict.com:800...#pid313695

Because I can't get the auto switch working, I have manually turned on lie-mode so that you can still see general card details. CMC seems to be down for some reason as I can't see the cards in wiki.

I have updated NightWind's cardsearcher with the new cards Troll Bridge and Eternal Snack Cake.

Also, I have configured the cardsearcher to be completely standalone - that is, it would still work if CMC and Wiki is down.

I'm still working on the sorting/grouping issue.

Ah, finally! This little wolfie has fixed the group by and sort by bug!

Confirmed. Even went so far as to search for EVERYTHING sorted by name and grouped by card speed and it still worked. Good job.

Hee... thanks.

(11-26-2010 12:04 PM)Blue_Elite Wrote:  Can we get "burn" and "poison" added to the searcher elements (ability immune, boss, etc.)? Poison isn't important right now with how few cards have it, but burn will certainly be getting a boost with the extra cards that both burn and rely on burn for additional effects.

http://forums.cardmasterconflict.com:800...#pid315791

Yep - you sure can! I've implemented it into the main cardsearcher here:

http://users5.nofeehost.com/nightwind/cardsearcher/

Let me know if it's what you had in mind. It returns the same results as what's listed on the wiki.