Tinker 1.0 Release

[lebenski]

From my dev blog: http://cubetutor.wordpress.com

New Release! Tinker 1.0


First off apologies for the lengthy downtime this time, I ended up having to make 4 releases in total to get this live and it took a bit longer than expected. As ever I’ve been listening to the feedback you’ve been sending my way and prioritised the most requested features and significant bugs, so if you’ve asked for something then check out the list below.

This release is under the banner of ‘Tinker’. It doesn’t mean that the Deep Analysis release is complete but I’ve just put it down for a while to concentrate on other stuff.

In case you missed my recent tweet, M14 will be coming soon. I’m waiting for Wizards to upload the card images to their “general” URL.

New Features

• You can now specify the number of bots when drafting a cube. The number of cards per pack is dependent on the size of your cube. The number of packs (3) is still set in stone.
• Added a ‘My Activity’ feed to your home page. By default this shows any actions that you or any other user has performed on your cube(s) including adding/removing cards, deck building, new forum threads and comments on decks, updates and forum posts.
• You can ‘subscribe’ to another users’ cube. This will add to your activity feed any activities from the above list that have happened on that cube. The subscribe button appears on the per cube menu in a rather prominent blue colour.
• Added a ‘My Stats’ section to your home page. This provides a summary of the activity on your cube including a gauge that rates your activity against all of the other cubes on Cube Tutor. If you have an activity score of 79 it means that your cube is more active that 78% of cubes on Cube Tutor. A cube is more active if it is updated and drafted more frequently than other cubes.
• Blog posts can now be deleted. Note that this won’t remove the underlying update, but the update will simply be removed from the blog page. If you want to undo an update this must still be done through the edit list page.

Bug Fixes

• The drafting algorithm for the Cube Tutor bots has been modified for colourless cards. Previously the bots would take a colourless card in accordance with the pick/pass ratio for that card. Now they will take the highest ranked card in their colours or the highest ranked colourless card regardless of it’s actual pick/pass ratio.
• Cards that are removed from a cube are no longer deleted from the database. This means that decks will not have those cards removed from them any more.
• Unselecting the ‘watched’ checkbox for a card now works properly.
• Login redirects to the home page rather than the blog page.
• Fixed a bug where it was possible to modify the image or description for another users cube (sorry wtwlf123!).

 

[Jason Waddell]

Hi Ben, when you describe undoing an update, how exactly is this performed? Do you have to manually sub the cards in and out? Or is there some "undo" button I'm missing?

 

[CML]

Ben -- would it be possible to

--arrange the main list page by {type, rarity, color, latest set, name, CMC} and various permutations thereof in addition to the current option
--have the same functionality on 'edit list,' and be able to use the filter functionality on cubes that aren't one's own
--on the stats page, display some key metrics like an overall CMC / overall nonland CMC curve, a mean CMC, and other features cube design is very sensitive to that someone else might remember

Great stuff so far, I use only your site and will continue to do so.

 

[lebenski]

Hi Ben, when you describe undoing an update, how exactly is this performed? Do you have to manually sub the cards in and out? Or is there some "undo" button I'm missing?

Yeah manually subbing them in and out. I didn't really want to get involved in trying to automatically undo changes, particularly if the update was an old one and the cards in question had been added and removed multiple times since. At least initially, all this does it modify the view on your blog page.

 

[lebenski]

Ben -- would it be possible to

--arrange the main list page by {type, rarity, color, latest set, name, CMC} and various permutations thereof in addition to the current option
--have the same functionality on 'edit list,' and be able to use the filter functionality on cubes that aren't one's own
--on the stats page, display some key metrics like an overall CMC / overall nonland CMC curve, a mean CMC, and other features cube design is very sensitive to that someone else might remember

Great stuff so far, I use only your site and will continue to do so.

Hey CML,

Great suggestions. I intend to add the Analysis filter to the View List page that should give you the flexibility to see the part of the cube that you want, either your cube or anyone elses.

I like the idea of having a 'stats' section on the Analysis page that contains the sort of figures you suggest here. Added this idea to my ever increasing to do list!

 

[CML]

hooray. though jason's not with me on this one i think categories can be pretty useful for describing cubes

 

[CML]

another sweet and totally superficial category that will enable me to quote many ridiculous figures and waste many stupid hours would be "cube value"