Idea for Sideboarding in the Playtester
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Posted on April 5, 2015, 9:22 a.m. by xiao.wen
Hey guys, I love the browser playtester and use it daily to run lots of tests and gauntlets, but it has a major issue that makes it less effective when playtesting for serious competitive environments. Namely, sideboarding is a bit clunky. You have to leave the playtester, return to the deck page, save changes, and then reload the playtester. This can double or triple the amount of time it takes to run through heavy testing. One possible solution I thought of today would be to create a third zone/pile next to the exile zone in the bottom corner that starts with the 15 sideboard cards facedown.
I dont know who handles the coding for the playtester and It hasnt changed much in the past 12+ months so it seems reasonable to wager its not a super high priority and/or whoever used to do it is less accessible recently. It would be a fairly easy thing to solve I think if they were around though. The biggest issue besides the actual code for the zone spacing would be dealing with the fact that right now the only way to reset the turn number currently is to 'restart' or reload. This would make boarding impossible in the simple way i described above because you could do all the boarding you want and shuffle up, but as soon as you tried to start the next game, the zones and boards would get reset back to their initial unboarded state.
An easy solution that would tie it all together would be a 'reset' button up by the turn counter that just resets the turn/life/poison count. The added benefit is that this would enable 'offline' playtesting better! Right now 'offline' playtesting is possible if you are able to at least get online long enough to load the decks in the playtester. Pressing 'restart' currently however attempts to refresh the page and if you are no longer online, you lose access to the playtester. A 'reset' button as I described would allow you to reset the turn count, shuffle up, draw 7 cards, and run another one!
sirbar says... #2
I like the idea but you will probably have to wait till yeago gets online.
April 5, 2015 2:30 p.m.