We are indeed missing links to the guides! If I remember correctly we actually have all the support in for it, they just don't get displayed on the card pages because we haven't uploaded an image for them to use as the link. I'll make sure I get this done, and make sure it properly works.
As far as linking cards together to show related cards, this is 100% on the to do list and in fact, Chimera has let me know several times I need to get working on the support for it.
I can't give you guys an ETA for either of the requests, but I'll make sure we have them noted down.
We generate all the images through the Hearthstone client, so we just need to figure out how to get the watermarks to display when they images get created. I'm not certain the exact level of work that would take, but we'll figure it out!
Forums and sections of the site will be expanded upon as the demand appears. For example, I see no value in creating a subforum for another card game that is going to have a few threads in it for a long period of time. It takes up space and ultimately may be a flop for our community. As soon as a game gains some traction on here though, they will definitely get a dedicated forum section. As that grows and we need more space for the game, we'll open up additional subforums for targeted topic discussion much like we have right now for Hearthstone.
With what I've said, it would appear that Magic doesn't deserve its own forum here due to the low amount of interaction on it. However, we know we're jumping into Magic after Hearthstone since we love it so much and know there's a nice crossover between HS and MTG Arena players.
So yeah, we're going to focus on Hearthstone for now and keep and eye on everything else.
It can take a few minutes for it to all properly sync on over.
You will need to go into account management to change your enabled cosmetics. I didn't have it do it by default just because some people may not want to flair themselves up.
We back! And by that I mean we skipped over a few minor changelogs this past week because we were working on larger site features. Here's everything we've done since June 10.
New Features
Connecting External Accounts
You can now connect the following accounts to your Out of Cards account
For Twitch supporters, a Tier 1 sub on Twitch is Bronze, T2 is Silver, T3 is Gold.
It is recommended only to use Twitch subs for Bronze Rank via Twitch Premium. Twitch only gives us 50% of the amount you spend which is why the tiers don't match up as they could.
Each rank comes with 3 cosmetic features on the site.
Forum Title - Displays on your posts
Avatar Border - Makes your avatar look prettier.
Profile Headers - COMING SOON
Please Note that avatar borders are placeholders. We're working on making them look much more awesome.
Frontpage Deck Widget
Moved to the top of the site, from the sidebar.
We now have separate listings for Standard and Wild Decks.
The style of the decks has been updated to give better organization between elements.
We know people would like to sort the widgets by class. We'll make it happen!
Changes
Forum threads now display the user who last replied. It isn't styled, we'll get a fix out for that in the next deploy.
Deck Copy Feature on the site now includes the deck name.
Several SEO improvements to pages on the site.
Bug Fixes
Global Moderators now correctly show up in staff blue. Sorry guys!
Fixed an issue with our hot score algorithm. My test deck should no longer show up on the homepage.
Yeaaaah, the only real way to get into wild now is by crafting decks. I really wish Blizzard would make old expansions cheaper (like maybe a year after they rotate out) and because they cost less to buy, also decrease the dust value of cards. It would make it way more accessible.
It would also just be helpful to have wild packs earned in-game by playing the format or you know, in the shop for gold too. Would be cool if you could get a random wild pack every 5-10 wins, though I'm not going to hold my breath :P
Commander is a Magic Format where you create a 100 card deck. The deck contains:
Your commander x1 (A Legendary Creature)
A maximum of 1 copy of each card by name (Basic Lands excluded)
All cards in your deck must follow the color identity of your commander.
If you have a plains/white commander, all cards must also be plains.
If your commander is plains/white and island/blue, you may include cards that are just basic blue, basic white, or a combination.
Additionally, instead of the normal 20 life you have in magic, commander decks start with 40. You also can play between up to 6 players in the same game in a free-for-all style match. It's pretty cool. I've never personally been able to play the commander format but I've had dreams of it. There's some really cool cards that will hurt every opponent which just feels so OP. That value.
Also, to chime in, we'd really like to do some great database driven stuff for the adventures so the community could help us keep the resources up to date with deck guides and such. Chimera is right though, it's going to be a huge undertaking to backfill the old Hearthstone content. Long term goals though!
As a workaround, you could go into the <> Source Code view of the guide and manually apply the style='" line to the OL element.
I don't know what sort of hack would be needed to get this to work correctly and truth be told, I think a lot of the current fonts the editor has shouldn't be used for writing guides. Open Sans, the default font (with Arial fallback if the font doesn't load) is so pleasing to the eye and very common across the web that its a bit of a shock when it gets changed up on the site. Increasing readability of guides means keeping the main font the same and then in certain places using something different for emphasis.
Headings are a cool spot to use a different font.
Also, I'm 100% removing wingdings at some point. Such a useless font these days.
Funny side-note. I've gone to the site a few times to compare forum activity and Out of Cards on multiple occasions has had more recent discussion. You'll see the most recent 4 threads on Pwn be made within the past 3 hours where Out of Cards had 5 posts within an hour.
Deck discussion is definitely a bit more active there than here, but we're just getting things started so I think its okay.
Ultimately, good luck to them. They inherited a ton of tech debt on both backend and frontend and it is not going to be an easy pay off. People also won't get away from the ads infestation that is HearthPwn. Had I have obtained the site, the goal was to completely rewrite it from the ground up anyway since the platform it is on sucks. It basically would have become what Out of Cards is right now, just it would have been a different color scheme and things would be kept very similar with regards to UI.
We've got big plans, stay tuned.
Also I moved your thread to the off-topic general chat forum. It was not Hearthstone game related.
I haven’t played a proper Pokémon game since Platinum and I am super excited for Sword and Shield. I’ll probably go with the Sword Doggo and I’m hoping to get my brother-in-law to give Shield a try, since he likes Pokémon but hasn’t played the games.
I also loved the Banjo and Kazooie reveal for Smash, though I don’t have the game
Pokemon games in recent times have been the bane of my existence. Sun and Moon sits unfinished (as does Ultra S&M) because I'll stop playing it for a week and then not feel like picking it back up. This actually happens with more games than just Pokemon but damn is it frustrating beyond belief.
Even Lets Go Pikachu was never finished, though I could see myself jumping back into that sometime since its a familiar world (Kanto) and I won't feel like I'm lost.
I hope Sword and Shield will break that mold for me. I love the GO series "see what you can catch" mechanic so it should be interesting going into a new, much more open, world and catching me some new mons.
I think I'm going to main Sword, I've had both reserved and paid for though since the announcement.
We are indeed missing links to the guides! If I remember correctly we actually have all the support in for it, they just don't get displayed on the card pages because we haven't uploaded an image for them to use as the link. I'll make sure I get this done, and make sure it properly works.
As far as linking cards together to show related cards, this is 100% on the to do list and in fact, Chimera has let me know several times I need to get working on the support for it.
I can't give you guys an ETA for either of the requests, but I'll make sure we have them noted down.
Hey, you're right. Oops.
We generate all the images through the Hearthstone client, so we just need to figure out how to get the watermarks to display when they images get created. I'm not certain the exact level of work that would take, but we'll figure it out!
A fix for this is being deployed now. Sorry about that!
Forums and sections of the site will be expanded upon as the demand appears. For example, I see no value in creating a subforum for another card game that is going to have a few threads in it for a long period of time. It takes up space and ultimately may be a flop for our community. As soon as a game gains some traction on here though, they will definitely get a dedicated forum section. As that grows and we need more space for the game, we'll open up additional subforums for targeted topic discussion much like we have right now for Hearthstone.
With what I've said, it would appear that Magic doesn't deserve its own forum here due to the low amount of interaction on it. However, we know we're jumping into Magic after Hearthstone since we love it so much and know there's a nice crossover between HS and MTG Arena players.
So yeah, we're going to focus on Hearthstone for now and keep and eye on everything else.
Fixed!
Sorry about that guys, the script to refresh out auth to Twitch wasn't running so we couldn't get the list of subscribers. Rookie mistake!
You really should though :
I'm so happy to see you here <3
Browser version is also important! Also be sure you are trying it with any mobile browser addons you may have set to disabled.
You are most welcome!
It can take a few minutes for it to all properly sync on over.
You will need to go into account management to change your enabled cosmetics. I didn't have it do it by default just because some people may not want to flair themselves up.
We back! And by that I mean we skipped over a few minor changelogs this past week because we were working on larger site features. Here's everything we've done since June 10.
New Features
Changes
Bug Fixes
In the Works
Your wish shall be granted. We'll roll this out in an upcoming update. I've logged a report for it.
Dunno whats up with that, nor is it something I can control =(
It could have been you were flagged for spamming based on the text content. I wouldn't know though since I didn't have Twitch chat open at the time.
Yeaaaah, the only real way to get into wild now is by crafting decks. I really wish Blizzard would make old expansions cheaper (like maybe a year after they rotate out) and because they cost less to buy, also decrease the dust value of cards. It would make it way more accessible.
It would also just be helpful to have wild packs earned in-game by playing the format or you know, in the shop for gold too. Would be cool if you could get a random wild pack every 5-10 wins, though I'm not going to hold my breath :P
Commander is a Magic Format where you create a 100 card deck. The deck contains:
All cards in your deck must follow the color identity of your commander.
Additionally, instead of the normal 20 life you have in magic, commander decks start with 40. You also can play between up to 6 players in the same game in a free-for-all style match. It's pretty cool. I've never personally been able to play the commander format but I've had dreams of it. There's some really cool cards that will hurt every opponent which just feels so OP. That value.
Also, to chime in, we'd really like to do some great database driven stuff for the adventures so the community could help us keep the resources up to date with deck guides and such. Chimera is right though, it's going to be a huge undertaking to backfill the old Hearthstone content. Long term goals though!
As a workaround, you could go into the <> Source Code view of the guide and manually apply the style='" line to the OL element.
I don't know what sort of hack would be needed to get this to work correctly and truth be told, I think a lot of the current fonts the editor has shouldn't be used for writing guides. Open Sans, the default font (with Arial fallback if the font doesn't load) is so pleasing to the eye and very common across the web that its a bit of a shock when it gets changed up on the site. Increasing readability of guides means keeping the main font the same and then in certain places using something different for emphasis.
Headings are a cool spot to use a different font.
Also, I'm 100% removing wingdings at some point. Such a useless font these days.
Funny side-note. I've gone to the site a few times to compare forum activity and Out of Cards on multiple occasions has had more recent discussion. You'll see the most recent 4 threads on Pwn be made within the past 3 hours where Out of Cards had 5 posts within an hour.
Deck discussion is definitely a bit more active there than here, but we're just getting things started so I think its okay.
Ultimately, good luck to them. They inherited a ton of tech debt on both backend and frontend and it is not going to be an easy pay off. People also won't get away from the ads infestation that is HearthPwn. Had I have obtained the site, the goal was to completely rewrite it from the ground up anyway since the platform it is on sucks. It basically would have become what Out of Cards is right now, just it would have been a different color scheme and things would be kept very similar with regards to UI.
We've got big plans, stay tuned.
Also I moved your thread to the off-topic general chat forum. It was not Hearthstone game related.
Pokemon games in recent times have been the bane of my existence. Sun and Moon sits unfinished (as does Ultra S&M) because I'll stop playing it for a week and then not feel like picking it back up. This actually happens with more games than just Pokemon but damn is it frustrating beyond belief.
Even Lets Go Pikachu was never finished, though I could see myself jumping back into that sometime since its a familiar world (Kanto) and I won't feel like I'm lost.
I hope Sword and Shield will break that mold for me. I love the GO series "see what you can catch" mechanic so it should be interesting going into a new, much more open, world and catching me some new mons.
I think I'm going to main Sword, I've had both reserved and paid for though since the announcement.
If it ever gets slower, be sure to yell at me =)
Ideally it would be even faster, and there is still room for some optimization.