Below are listed a couple of interesting projects that I think would tremendously benefit the community. I would do these myself, but because I don't have the time (and in some cases, the expertise) to do them, I decided to post them here and maybe find someone who would be interested in making these ideas a reality.
Card DatabaseIdea: To have all the card images listed based on different criteria that users can change. This way users are not required to go though all the cards to find what they are looking for, which becomes increasingly more important as we get more and more cards.
How it works:
1. Page has ALL the cards listed in alphabetical order as full size images.
2. On top of the page there are several checkbozes and dropdown menus that control how the cards are shown. When the user checks/unchecks those boxes or selects something from the drop-down menu, the card list updates automatically based on these selections. You can change the following settings:
- element (you can choose more than one)
- unupped, upped or both.
- type of card
- rarity
- cost
etc.
3. You can sort your results based on the following criteria:
- card name
- card cost
etc.
Example:
I start off with all the cards in front of me. I want to build a deck that uses the "Growth" ability. I check the ability box "Growth". The card list gets updated to show all the cards that have the "Growth" ability. All other cards are hidden.
QI CalculatorIdea: Based on QI theory (
http://elementscommunity.org/forum/index.php/topic,5676.0.html). Goal is to mathematically calculate the optimal number of Pillars/Towers in a deck, rather than finding it through trial and error.
How it works:
1. Paste your deck code to a text box and click "Calculate"
2. QI script calculates your deck QI based on what cards you have (The complexity of the script depends on how complex we want to make it. We can either have a very simple version where we don't really care about what types the cards are, or we can make a more complex version where some cards are "special", for example cards that effect how much quanta you need)
3. Based on the information you received, and how fast you want your deck to be, you can make changes to the number of your Pillars.
Deck WizardIdea: Deck Wizard is an automatic deck building helper that gives you basic feedback on your deck.
How it works:
1. Paste your deck code to a text box and click "Calculate"
2. Deck Wizard script analyses your deck (very complex script)
3. Deck Wizard gives you results of that analysis:
- Deck size
- QI
- Speed of the deck
etc.
4. Deck wizard also tells you how your deck cpould be improved. <- the difficult part
(QI Calcultor is basically included in Deck Wizard, so the two projects should probably be merged at some point)
If anyone is interested in any of these projects, please post on this topic. We can either have someone do one of them solo, or have people working as a team. Also if you have any ideas or feedback, let us know. Thanks.
