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It's been almost 3 months since the last set of release Notes.  Any update on development?

09 November 2018, 02:56:20 PM
by Stef

It's been 2 months since the last update of any substance.  Could we have an update on the state of development please.  Are there any upcoming releases?  What is the current state of the list of features under the wishlist?  Any information is appreciated.

Thank you.

Below you'll see my current subscriptions:

until Sun Dec 31 2017
Guilds, Seaside, Dark Ages, Promos, Intrigue, Prosperity, Alchemy, Hinterlands, Adventures, Cornucopia
until Sun Dec 31 2017
Nocturne, Empires

I can play with every set except Nocturne and Empires.  Really this point is more to raise awareness than anything as it appears to be a off-by-one error and don't expect my 2 cents in compensation for missing 1 day.

Happy New Year.

With the upcoming roll out of Nocturne and the year rapidly coming to an end, I'm left wondering what to do.  It's been no secret that my preference has been for AI, Offline, and Campaign play so I'm one of those who have been waiting for an offline client.  Granted I don't mind playing online and have periodically topped up my subscription to include Empires.  I will do the same again when Nocturne rolls out, but before I decide how long to extend my subscription I'm looking back at the Top Priorities list of 2017 and wondering if ShuffleIt's license will be extended or not.

Here's my look at the top priorities of 2017... Comments are completely my own based on my experiences with the game.  I have no knowledge of which of these the ShuffleIt Team considers complete, still planned, or scrapped.

• Finished - Add retrievable gamelogs, rating, leaderboard
• Stash still outstanding - Finish implementing cards
• Started? - Improving AI
• Still Planned? - Adding Campaigns
• Finished - Adding German, Russian and Japanese support
• Not complete - Card animations: animating all card moves
• Finished? - Expanding on friend list
• Still Planned? - Create an IOS and Android app
• Started? - Adding features for Kingdom selection, e.g. to help new players learn cards gradually
• There was a tournament... I don't think there are any features to support it though - Adding tournament support
• Started? - Further improvements on AI
• Still Planned? - Offline client
• What does this one mean? Smart timing rules
• Started? - Autoplay features
• Started? - Add logsearch

Would love official communication, but will accept any speculation or rumors based on information not generally available.

Thanks!

Playing Lord Rat.
I chose Page for Inheritance.
Exchanged Estate(Page) for Treasure Hunter
Lord Rat Bought Estate
Now appears in his discard pile as an Estate(Page) as seen in attachment
Game #2541575

As subject states Inherited Travelers do not appear as Estates, but as the card they have inherited from (Pages and Peasants) so they cannot be identified for whether to exchange or keep properly.  Since Exchanging them means returning an Estate this may not always be the preferred action.

I'm not 100% sure on this, but in Game 2517077 it seems the Vineyard did not count the Inherited Estates.  Since there is no final deck composition presented in the end game screen there is no way to confirm this, but I believe my deck contained more than 12 action cards when the estates were added in.

From the wiki:

Inherited Estates do count for Vineyard.

Can anyone confirm that this is or is not a bug.... I'll try to reproduce and confirm myself and will edit this post if confirmed.

*Edit*  Went back into the same game and have confirmed this.

Right clicking on a log entry in the game shows you the card, however right clicking on the log entry in the post game does not. 

During the game most of these cards are visible and can be clicked on in the kingdom so this feature currently doesn't add a lot, however post game the kingdom is not visible so this feature would be more beneficial.

Under the current implementation when there is a problem (not enough players, unowned cards, etc) the way it is communicated is via a dialog box.  The problem here is that in Chrome after the second dialog box appears there is an option to "Prevent this page from creating additional dialogs".  If you accidentally select this option there is no longer any feedback as to why things are not working.  Clicking Ready just does nothing.

For those not familiar with the option it can be resolved by closing the tab and opening a new tab as the dialogs are specific to that particular session.  The problem here is that someone who is not familiar with this may be left wondering why their game won't start.  Reloading the page does not re-enable the dialog boxes only closing the tab and reopening it, or closing Chrome and reopening Chrome.

Beginning players or those unfamiliar with this feature in Chrome may be left thinking the game is broken.  There should be a better way to do this that does not involve Dialog boxes.

I always struggle with whether something should be reported as a bug or a feature request when it's an interface issue.  But rather than argue semantics here is my issue

Selecting a specific kingdom and choosing cards that are not part of your subscription produces the following pop up:
"You don't own the selected card"

The problem is that there may be as many as 14 different cards in the kingdom and there is no indication which card is not owned.  For someone who knows exactly which expansion each card belongs to this won't be a problem, but for mere mortals like myself this doesn't help.  Suddenly I have to scan through all of my cards and keep asking "Is this part of the x set?"  It's just not user friendly in it's current format.  Ideally the dialog box should indicate specifically which card(s) are not owned.

As noted in Subject I played a BoM as a TM and had a real treasure map to trash with it.

"S plays a Band of Misfits.
S plays a Treasure Map.
S trashes a Treasure Map and a Band of Misfits."

My understanding is that at the time of trashing I am trashing two treasure maps so should get the gold.

I did not.

game #959132 on frankfurt.

As subject states

Joining game #269242 on oregon.

Played a Herald that auto-played an Envoy and the game stopped with "Waiting on Lord Rattington"
Reloaded the browser (several times after recording the following) and reconnected and the logs look different.  It is no longer waiting on Lord Rat, but instead showing the following:

Code Select Expand


<snip>
plays a Herald.
draws a Copper.
shuffles their deck.
reveals an Envoy.
plays an Envoy.
reveals a Village, a Bazaar and an Advisor.
discards a Bazaar.
puts a Village and an Advisor into their hand.

The tool bar shows me with 1 action 3 buys and 0 coins, but no action cards are playable, no cards are purchasable, the game just appears to be dead.

Let me know if you need more.  I won't start a new game in hopes that that may also help.

The root url of ShuffleIt still shows only "Coming Soon".  You may want to rethink that.

I've now played quite a number of games and I find the card borders for me are insufficient.  Rather than just post a "Please change this"  I thought I'd do a poll to see if it's just me.

I've given users 2 votes for this poll.  I'm not colorblind, but thought those who are can weigh in on the last item.

As seen in the attached image the selection of Action cards with the Inn is problematic.

I'm playing on a 32" TV at 1920 x 1280 resolution via Chrome in full screen with all options set to No in game.

The action cards in the discard pile are tiny and very difficult to use properly without right clicking first.  The Action/Buy/Coin status overlaps these cards.  They also show all cards in the discard pile even though you can only select actions.  Perhaps an option to hide non-action cards here so that they will be easier to see/pick.