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I quickly put together a Web based random figure generator. It's based on rarity and whatever filter information you select.
I only spent about 2 days total on it, so the UI is rough and there isn't any error handling on it yet. So if you want random Batman enemy's in the IC set, you will get a SQL EOF error.
I am planning on adding the ability for you to import your Battle Planner Inventory, so it can randomly select from your own inventory (on filters etc).
Take a look and let me know what you think
http://www.delisefamily.com/xml/form.asp
Does this cost anything. What I get is It's a Virtural booster that you don't get any real figure's. Is that right?
The idea behind it is:
To be able to play a sealed booster game without having to buy the boosters.
My buddy and I play all the time, but we get sick of using "power" teams.
I also like to play online, but have the same issue.
So no, there is not cost, it is just a tool to let people have more fun playing.
Cool!:cool: Im' going to try it.
This is so cool! LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!
It has an IFrame in it right now, so I'm not sure how it reacts with Netscape. If there are problems, I will change it to a div later.
I am also going to add a point and power filter to it.
Again, it is ugly right now, I just wanted to get it to work.
ChromeWeasel
05/16/2003, 15:05
That's really cool. Great idea.
Only thing wrong is you can't pull le out of boosters. I don't care. I'm completing my sets.
I just pulled Hulk. Any one wanna trade. Not a real trade, But one's you pull out of this Really Great thing you invented.
Ah!
Another filter. Experience Level.
I don't have the data for the "big" figures in there correctly either. So, I need to clean up the data a little.
It also is random based on your filter, what I mean is you won't get the even 4 figures per set per booster. I could do that, but I like it this way for the importing of files. If you really wanted to do a pure 4 etc per set then you could run it for each set directly.
Thanks for the feedback so far
Angelofhate
05/16/2003, 15:22
I just pulled LE Dr Doom and Quasar... IN ONE BOOSTER! :-D
good program, Delise... I like it.
I'm making a list of all the unique's. I'll trade you a Hulk from Xplosion for your Doom.
how many XP unique's are there.
I just pulled Apocalypse, Sauron and Elektra out of one booster!
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 15:38
i just pulled spiderman and nick fury and jonny storm anyone have nightcrawler yet :-)
i like the site delise great idea!!!!
I've pulled 66 unique's from Xplosion. I've got 9 Elektra and Shadowcat.
Originally posted by drgnof tyr
i just pulled spiderman and nick fury and jonny storm anyone have nightcrawler yet :-)
i like the site delise great idea!!!!
I pulled one. I'll trade it to you for Spider-man. That's the 6 arm one, Right?
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 15:47
if this was only true to real life i'd be happy for ya
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 15:49
yep six arm spidey wish this was how my luck really was like
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 15:51
oh yea thats why i like this site cause my luck with xp hasn't been that great
We can pretend can't we?
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So you wanna trade for Nightcrawler or one of my Xplosion Unique's?
Helps when you can just press "OK" and get another booster for nothin. ;)
Actually, it works out pretty well when you don't skew the numbers by changing the filters.
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 15:55
hehe yea
Ya gonna trade Spidy for Crawler or not?
RagingHulk
05/16/2003, 16:01
What a ripoff, twenty seven boosters with no uniques.
Oh well, you get what you pay for.:cheeky:
Actually, this will be a great tool for long distance games. Thanks for the effort.
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:02
Originally posted by drgnof tyr
hehe yea
said yea
Here you go then. 1 Nightcrawler never played with. I believe I need that Spider-man.
there's an invaders team? woot!
and i have 234 pheonixs... anyone wanna trade?
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:07
30 boosters for dc and all i have to show for it is a parasite ugggg im not buying any more grrrrrr:angry:
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:08
thanks sent it out to ya ;)
I need to go for awhile, If ya wanna trade go ahead and post.
I've got parasite. I got the Spidy. Thanks. I'll be back real soon.
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:11
kool
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:14
awe man i just pulled a nightcrawler now i have a dupe
What other unique's or LE's are you looking for. I'm going to collect each set online.
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:29
we could make a killing selling these figures:laugh: :laugh:
WTF I can't get a Nightcrawler from this thing either!!!
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:31
just pulled bruce banner jean grey and victer creed
Does any one Want a LE Carter Hall or Darkseid? Any one pulled any OWAW Superman or LE Wovie? I Will Trade.
I'll trade you a combo of 5 unique's and LE's for Bruce.
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 16:34
pulled ant man
aw man. I can't stop getting DC boosters until I get another Unique Batman.
Whoa i got a sweet pull! LE doombot! yahoooo! Lol this is way cool.
First IC Booster, THANOS! Actually I get them in sets of five.
Some one wanna trade for a Thanos. I pulled a dupe.
I got dupe of Quasar. Who wanna trade?
Hey Zapdos,
Are you seeing a pretty even mix? More Rookies , less uniques etc...
I use the rarity to calculate the distribution.
Some one wanna trade for Nightmare?
Umm....I guess. I'm really into this! :cool:
I got 4 Thanos. Some one please trade me!
Did you put the data for all the LE's?
5 boosters- 1 unique-4 LE'S!
I loaded all the data from the Battle Planner application. I don't think I have the Xplosion LE's in there yet.
I just checked the XML file I used. It didn't have the Xplosion in it. I just looked at the newest updated file from Battle Planner and they have 11 of the Xplosion in there. I'll upload a new file when the rest are in there.
I got tons of stuff to trade.
What about the DC and Marvel? Like the OWAW Superman.
I getting ready to start working on the reguler sets now.
http://www.delisefamily.com/xml/form.asp
Yes all the figures are in there except the Xplosion stuff, even the promo figures.
Again, for everyone who is just joining the thread. Please check out the Random Figure Generator. I could use some feedback on it.
Thanks
drgnoftyr
05/16/2003, 19:17
ya gotta love it cant wait to use it when friends come over to see what kind of teams we can come up with ...
delise i just wanna say thanks for the site and i can't wait till i can imput my own figs into it if that option is ever availible
great work man!!!! yes to every1 else check this out
Nightfall
05/16/2003, 20:59
Nice work. I think HCRealms might be interested in incorporating this into the site. Just a suggestion.
I love this! I must hane spent at least 2 hours getting boosters!
I completed CT minus #119.
Any one wanna play a sealed game with this?? PM if intrested.
Oh and was Rarity a factor with the figures? 'Cause sometimes I'd draw one Generic but a Crimson Dynamo, Mandarin, Savage Hulk all in one pack..
Have you pulled Antman yet?
Yes, rarity is a factor. I used the basic 1-6 rankings that you see around for all the figures. I listed the LE's as 6 also.
I didn't use any logic like ' give me x rarity 1-2 '.
Instead, I generate a list based on the filter criteria, then great a upper and lower bound for numbers based on rarity, then do a random number generation to find wich figure is selected.
So sometimes if the numbers are really lucky, you could get all great players, or if unlucky all commons. But on the whole, it seems to give some pretty good results. It looks like it will meet my needs to play sealed booster games without the cost!
Thanks for the feedback. Hopefully I can keep working on it and clean it up. I am still planning on allowing the inventory upload (soon I hope).
Oh this is an excellent adition to Online Play
Are you sure you input all the info in? I must have opened 200 CT boosters and I didn't get 1 LE 119. What about Bruce Banner and Antman and all those.
Originally posted by Trihorn
Oh this is an excellent adition to Online Play
Did you pull CT LE # 119?
silverdoom
05/17/2003, 01:41
has any body got bruce banner
I need one to. You pulled Ant man or CT LE # 119? I'll trade you. What you want?
webhead817
05/17/2003, 01:53
FYI, we're over in Project HC now...
Does this mean it's going to be part of Hcrealms from now on?
OK! PROBLEM! Getting boosters in sets of five from IC, Page Can't be displayed.
Does some one wanna trade for one of my 24 Vision or 21 Darkseid?
Mephesto
05/17/2003, 02:14
Didnt know you could pull these figures from a booster
C114 Elektra Natchios Limited Edition
D01 Sinestro Veteran
You can't for real. I think he said that he didn't put in the data for the big figs.
OK, Found a BUG!
You should be able to get Bruce Banner and some of the other hard to find LE's.
I also added another filter for it on the Rank.
So now you can do a random pull of just LE's if you want.
Yes, I know you can't pull those figures in a regular booster, so the filter should allow you to limit them.
Again, I evened out the rankings for LE's so they are the same as a unique.
I removed the big figs completly from the database. I will add them again later.
I also fixed some of the data that I uploaded from Battle Planner, they had Dr Doom LE listed as a rarity of 2 (same as a experienced thug)
No wonder I pulled 20 some of those doom's.
Twice in a row I pulled Nightcrawler, Clint Barton and the LE Blastaar. Thanks for fixing it.
The wonders of random numbers!
Let me know if you are having issues with other figures.
I fixed the problem with Bruce Banner, Natasha, Antman and some other LE's. It should be completely random now (Unless you select Unique flyers from Hypertime!)
Anyone who's interested,
I made some changes to the random figure generator. It now looks a little better, and it has icons for the factions instead of the names. I also added an area to input your opponents email address. This way, you can't just sit there and keep re-generating until you are happy with the pull.
I am working on the input for inventory now.
Let me know if it works, I tried the email to myself and it seems ok.
Thanks
Also,
I changed the default for what Rank characters are chosen. Many people seemed put off that LE's were in the list.
With the default change, you will have to select the LE's to have them included in the generation.
I love the additions to the Generator, it looks alot better and the Opponents E-Mail I'm guessing shows your opponent your draws right?
;)
Yeah, the email is so your opponent get's a copy of your team.
It took me all of 1 minute to get rid of the annoying EOF error. I was looking at my logs to see if anyone was going to the site and would see the EOF, so I got off my lazy @$$ and changed it.
There seems to be some good traffic going to the site.
Love it.......Looks great.......:grin:
NightWing14
05/28/2003, 03:13
Tried it, Love it
Fantastic work.
One suggestion if you get around to it would be to include the figures cost in the display, just to make it easier to form a team.
And in case your not getting enough praise for your incredible effort, well done!!!!
I am nuts. I think I am obsessed with this thing. I made some more updates to the generator.
It looses some of it's punch because I only have one image that loads right now. But, check out the links to the single figures and the detail link.
I keep putting off the inventory upload.
Hey Nightwing, you should see pts added to the display now.
I was thinking of letting you put in a taunt when you email your opponent.
Anyway, let me know what you think.
sundown12
05/30/2003, 06:16
I love how you've added in points and letting us see the dials for our draws! Are we eventually going to be able to see the actual figs instead of just Bullseye? That would be killer! Thanx for all your hard work. My brother and I are having Clixfest-Clixapalooza-Clix Clix Boom tonight, and plan to have a few sealed booster games:grin:
The images have been loaded!
I fixed a bug that caused an error if you filtered on fixed abilities.
Fixed an error on the detail view when you hovered over a power before the page finished loading.
Hoping to make the UI a little more seamless by removing checkboxes when others checked (it's been 6 years since I did this stuff, sort of forgot most of it)
drgnoftyr
05/31/2003, 14:36
he he we forgive ya delise ... just to let ya know i think we all aprieciate the work ya have been putting into it cause i've seen a second thread posted with your site on it and i've heard all positive stuff good job... how soon before ya make it so we can imput our collection into it ...
Thanks for the feedback, I'll look for the other thread.
I'm unsure how I want to approach the inventory. So I'll ask you guys, how would you *prefer* it (no promises).
Would you rather cut and paste the XML from Battle Planner, or load the file with an upload button on the page?
The other issue that I am thinking about with the inventory, is how I am going to make sure not to select a duplicate figure from an inventory if you don't have it. Just a logical issue that I haven't sat down to figure out yet.
Thanks again,
Tom
OK, I made the UI change I wanted. Now the checkboxes work together. You can click all and it will clear the others and vice versa.
Now I guess I only have the inventory left as a todo (for now).
I should have the inventory upload working by next week (depending on how much yard work I get done!)
I will probably let you import the inventory both ways when completly done.
Here is my plan of action for the Inventory upload feature(optional)
step 1 - allow you to upload a file with your inventory. I will select the figures from that list, but will ignore the count of figures. So for step 1 it will be possible to choose too many of a character.
step 2 - fix it so that you can only have the figures in your inventory including the number of figures
step 3 - allow you to cut and paste XML (actually harder than reading the file).
JoeyTheButt
06/01/2003, 03:07
GREAT WORK!
I only have one suggestion
Color the different levels of figs different colors.
so you can glance over it and say wow, 2 uniques and such
Hmm, let me think about that. I like having the link, so I would need to shorten the link, or have a color box or something. Maybe use a background color behind the link.
I'll work something up for ya.
Hey Joey,
Something like that?
fatfinley
06/01/2003, 04:39
Great thing you got here. I love it. I can't wait for me and my friends to use this tomorrow when we get together and play.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR.
-Fat
drgnoftyr
06/01/2003, 04:45
i like the color boxes delise ... why is nightcrawlers speed listed as 0 with hypersonic is it an error jus curious :laugh:
Hi everyone,
I got part 1 of my promise done! You can now load a battle planner File and use it for your random pick, again, it is ignoring the count (for now).
I also uploaded a new data file that fixes many of the problems like the nightcrawler speed issues.
I have the inventory upload working completely! (I think) :noid:
If you guys use Battle Planner, could you test it out and let me know what you think.
I'm actually pretty happy with it, so I am not going to do the cut and paste upload.
It took me longer than I thought it would. I had to redo my logic for the regular generator (without upload) so it would work with the inventory count.
Because of the new logic, the app *could* take an extra 1/100th of a second to make your pull. :p
I feel like a weight has been lifted (obsessive compulsive maybee?)
milenko_76
06/06/2003, 04:58
I even suck at opening cyber boosters:disappoin
The good news: I pulled 2 LEs out of a booster...
The bad news: They were Knuckles and Nenora
The really bad news: I got a Constrictor in the same pack
Great idea, keep up the good work:)
skeevo666
06/06/2003, 05:51
That's a keen little big o' programming!
A friend and I did a manual version after IC had been out for a month or two; we just pulled out a handfull or two of random figures from my collection and made teams like we'd opened boosters :)
Also good when you want to set up theme games:
open up 2 boosters of No Team & 1 each of Avengers & Shield, then make a team . . .
keep up the good work!
i was wondering if you could make a filter for total cost of the peices so you could do say a random 200 pt army or something like that
Hi Everyone,
I have the Cosmic Justice stuff uploaded.
Fore a.vale - are you asking for a team that you must play, that comes close to the point total chosen? So random figures up to a point total, then a random of pts left to come to the exact to exact -2 total?
Let me know if that is what you mean, I think I can do that.
BlueDracolich
07/04/2003, 19:32
I got a
U Elaktra
R Scorpion
E Dr.Strange
R Jean Grey
BlueDracolich
07/04/2003, 19:43
I got a
U Enchantress
E Spider Man
R Iceman
R Viper
BlueDracolich
07/04/2003, 19:49
Anyone wanna trade.
New guys
V Doc OC LE Rachel Van Helsing
V Constictor E Wasp
V Hand Ninja E Blastaar
R Sandman V Colosus
R Black Cat U Green Goblin
R Skrull Agent V Shadowcat
R Con Artist R Blaastar
U Wolverine E S.W.A.T officer
sundown12
07/04/2003, 21:57
The invaders were from WW2 and I think consisted of:
Captain America, Namor, the original Human Torch and his sidekick Toro, and there might have been a few more but I'm not sure.
Originally the Invaders team was:
Captain America
Bucky
The Sub Mariner
The Original Human torch (Not Johnny Storm)
Toro
Then they expanded when they started fighting the Axis and the Red skull. They added:
Union Jack (I and II)
Spitfire
Miss America
Whizzer
But why are they added in the booster generator?
I think WizKids was originally going to create an Invaders team. I saw it in some of the "un-official", "official" documents (Playtesting). There is no description on it, no team ability listed, just a name, so I thought it would be fun to put on the list anyway. But don't put much into it, the documents are old, I don't think they will do anything with the Invaders. Just look at the characters :eek:
I just uploaded the ability to do a point total random generation.
Everything else works the same. Try it out. Let me know what you think.
Let me know if the UI is OK.
*Below statement is only for point generation - boosters still works exactly the same*
I had to set some bounds for inventory upload when you do points, so I as a rule, you must have 10 figures per 100 pts you are trying to generate.
Tom
Let me know if you get some errors.
I was looking through the logs, and found a nasty problem (script time outs).
I found a case where your filter criteria does not allow you to get within 10 pts of an exact pts number generation. This caused an endless loop.
I think it is fixed now!
Thanks!
THIS THING IS EVEN SWEETER THEN BEFORE! LOVE THE PICTURES!
Answerman
08/09/2003, 20:57
thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've been dying for something like this for weeks!!!!!
yay!!!!!!!!!
The_Meatball
08/20/2003, 15:11
Very cool page!
If I could make one suggestion. It would be great if there was an option to check so that you would not get any duplicates on the team. Everyone that plays here doesn't use dups except for the generic guys.
Maybe a checkbox drop-down that allows you to chose whether or not to allow duplicates, and the drop down could give you a choice of a threshold, above which it won't present dups.
For example, I could check the "no dups" box and from a drop-down box choose "20 points". That way it might still choose duplicate medics, thugs, etc. but not individual heros/villians of over the chosen point value (20 in my example).
What do you think?
Savagemartian
08/27/2003, 00:53
first CT i pulled a moondragon, the only clix in CT i am missing in real life.
the 2nd booster had a nightcrawler, thats 2 i own now.
I limited the team ability to xmen, chose 5 packs, and pulled 13 vet white queen and 7 nightcrawlers. now thats a pack i want in a sealed tourney
Gacy's Clown
08/27/2003, 01:04
Man, this thing rocks a hard one! I love it!
Hi Everyone,
I have the Indy clix in the generator now.
If anyone is using a link that specifies the page, use the link at the bottom of my signature instead.
I read somewhere that the critical mass stats are public. If anyone can verify that (with link), I will post those too.
Manchine
10/12/2003, 15:01
Does that mean Indy Klixs is in Battleplanner now?
Yes, they have Indy in their stuff, but I have no affiliation with them.
They have now started charging for their software, and have encrypted all their data (so I can't use it for uploading).
I thought about changing my keys, but for now I will try to keep them compliant with Battleplanner, this way you can still use their program to upload your inventory into my app (untested with V4).
For those of you that don't have/ want battleplanner, I will post how you can create a simple file that will work for your inventory.
I have updated the Generator with Critical Mass.
Let me know if there are any errors.
Manchine
12/11/2003, 07:23
I will play around with it and see what I find.
fridayweb
12/11/2003, 07:43
Maaan... when I read the thread title I thought it meant a "figure generator" - something that would throw together random stats and powers to create a new custom figure dial.
Isn't that a cool idea?
Gacy's Clown
12/11/2003, 14:22
While that would be a cool idea, this generator is a GREAT tool for playing with friends who already have a bunch of figures but want to play a sealed style event.
Thanks again, delise!
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