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--- In cardvault@yahoogroups.com, Ramón Peña <kunimon@w...>
wrote:
> Factions aren't good for sorting at all, because now half the
> Dragons (for instance) are also Brotherhood and they come out of
> sequence.
While Factions may be bad for a computer program, their great when
sorting cards in RL. No one puts their Dragon Monks in a different
pile than Just Dragons because they all have the same border. Are
you
saying the problem is with the people sorting thier cards? If so, I
think a lot of people will give up on CV because they can't get the
program to sort like they do. No one wants to reorganize their
collection because some program is telling them that a group of clans
obviously from the same faction is actually two different factions.
> Having an apparently non-Dragon personality sorted with the Dragons
> would simply raise a flagg, you would check the card details and
> see the notes explaining. Then, if you are simply sorting your
> binders, you would choose what you want to do. I think that's the
> better of two worlds: you get all the data you need to make an
> informed decision
First, having the non-Dragon sorted with the Dragons will lead to a
lot of frustation because it's not where they'll be looking. When
they find out, there first response will be, "How the hell did it get
there?" The arguement only makes sense for people who collected
between AoD and JE. A lot of the Gold generation who just happen to
get their hands on the card won't understand, sort of like what's
happening lately with Rob.
Secondly, different sorting patterns for RL and CV will most like
cause resentment. The typical user wants a interface that can be
tailored to his collection. In the case of L5R, that collection has
been put into a particular order for a very long time. Given the
choice between changing how they file their cards in RL and finding a
different inventory program, it will be easier to find a different
inventory program.
> So to resume my point: card description should have the card text
> "as written"; stats should be modified according to any MRP or
> errata.
For deck building, yes. The Merge Duplicates option does a fantastic
job of this. For Inventory Management, where MRPs mean absolutely
nothing, and what's on the face of the physical means everything, I
couldn't disagree more.
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wrote:
> Factions aren't good for sorting at all, because now half the
> Dragons (for instance) are also Brotherhood and they come out of
> sequence.
While Factions may be bad for a computer program, their great when
sorting cards in RL. No one puts their Dragon Monks in a different
pile than Just Dragons because they all have the same border. Are
you
saying the problem is with the people sorting thier cards? If so, I
think a lot of people will give up on CV because they can't get the
program to sort like they do. No one wants to reorganize their
collection because some program is telling them that a group of clans
obviously from the same faction is actually two different factions.
> Having an apparently non-Dragon personality sorted with the Dragons
> would simply raise a flagg, you would check the card details and
> see the notes explaining. Then, if you are simply sorting your
> binders, you would choose what you want to do. I think that's the
> better of two worlds: you get all the data you need to make an
> informed decision
First, having the non-Dragon sorted with the Dragons will lead to a
lot of frustation because it's not where they'll be looking. When
they find out, there first response will be, "How the hell did it get
there?" The arguement only makes sense for people who collected
between AoD and JE. A lot of the Gold generation who just happen to
get their hands on the card won't understand, sort of like what's
happening lately with Rob.
Secondly, different sorting patterns for RL and CV will most like
cause resentment. The typical user wants a interface that can be
tailored to his collection. In the case of L5R, that collection has
been put into a particular order for a very long time. Given the
choice between changing how they file their cards in RL and finding a
different inventory program, it will be easier to find a different
inventory program.
> So to resume my point: card description should have the card text
> "as written"; stats should be modified according to any MRP or
> errata.
For deck building, yes. The Merge Duplicates option does a fantastic
job of this. For Inventory Management, where MRPs mean absolutely
nothing, and what's on the face of the physical means everything, I
couldn't disagree more.
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