Rob and Ed

[emperor799 at earthlink.n]

I aggree that much more focus should be spent on Inventory. I have used
Magic Suitcase for some time now, and I vastly prefer it for my MTG
inventory. The main problem as I see it was that you made the inventory page
using the same template or whatnot for deckbuilding. This worked with
Suitcase because its layout was better suited for inventory. Meanwhile, you
product is much better at deckbuilding. That said, the layout you use for
deckbuilding does not lend itself at all to inventory management. You need
to make the inventory window so wide that it stretches all the way to the
edge of the window. There is no need for the info windows when you could
easily set it up so that you could have that information in the then-larger
Inventory window. With it set up that way one could pick and choose what
info one wanted displayed. This would be highly more effective than your
current Inventory set-up, and it would be easier to set it up so you see the
info you need for each particular game system.

Well, I hope I've stated my thoughts on the inventory clearly. I'd be more
than happy to help out in greater detail, you need only let me know. In the
meantime, all that rot about only using inventory when new sets come out is
quite wrong-headed. You see many of us trade and otherwise aquire
cards/figures on a day by day basis and at the same time prefer to build
decks/armies while sitting in front of our collection. Therefore, we end up
using Inventory more often than Deckbuilding. Don't get me wrong, as I said
your product is great for deckbuilding, but I myself use it mostly for doing
a search to fill that last 14 points in my Heroclix army or such.

I hope you take what I've said to heart, and I hope you improve the
inventory as soon as possible. Until next time...
---Kyle Turner
emperor799@earthlink.net

 

[rob]

Completely understood. When we first designed Card Vault, we honestly
didn't know whether the deckbuilding or inventory functionality would be
more important. It turns out that neither is "more" important, since most
folks are finding both components quite useful. We also weren't certain how
users would really want to utilize inventory functionality, so we kept it
relatively simple in the UI with a lot of power in the engine underneath.
We've now been compiling a lot of great feedback and that's all being
factored into the next update.

Since the deckbuilding functionality is quite solid within CV, our primary
focus in V1.1 is going to be inventory management. We've also got some cool
stuff coming that is specifically targeted to support ongoing singles
trading and deck sharing (details will be announced in the not-too-distant
future). So we're definitely listening. It just takes a bit of time to get
everything implemented on this end.

Thanks, Rob


At 11:37 PM 11/30/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>In the
>meantime, all that rot about only using inventory when new sets come out is
>quite wrong-headed. You see many of us trade and otherwise aquire
>cards/figures on a day by day basis and at the same time prefer to build
>decks/armies while sitting in front of our collection. Therefore, we end up
>using Inventory more often than Deckbuilding. Don't get me wrong, as I said
>your product is great for deckbuilding, but I myself use it mostly for doing
>a search to fill that last 14 points in my Heroclix army or such.


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