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Re: HACCS - Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher
Is there a way to delete an army I've created or that was imported from the old database? Everything else seems to be working great on my tablet and browser, just can't seem to find if there's a way to delete some of the junk armies i've created along the way. Thanks for all the work you've done on this though, its a great tool for playing scape.
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When you have army rows in the left HCS pane, you can right click on them (or long tap on a tablet) to open up a menu. One of the options is "Delete army". I admit it isn't that intuitive, I'll look for another place to put a button to delete an army. I'm happy to hear the software is of use to you! Search for any Heroscape cards and create armies. Create, save and search your own custom cards. Check out HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher)! |
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Hey Spuke! Another question about creating custom units in HACCS, specifically about synergy. There are some options that I don't see in the pull-down list for custom synergy, like size and special ability. How do I add these in?
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To your question: It should all be there, special abilities are listed under "Special". They are further down in the drop-down list, though - did you scroll down in the list? Search for any Heroscape cards and create armies. Create, save and search your own custom cards. Check out HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher)! |
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Re: HACCS - Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher
Me: <slaps forehead>
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First of all, just wanted to say thank you again for this marvelous resource. New C3V units hit the front page the Wednesday before our annual NHSD tourney, and by Friday they were ready for use in HACCS. I can't ask for better service than that, and I'm so thrilled to have a product that keeps up with the times and keeps offering me new functionality to boot.
@Spuke Boy
, you sir (along with DanieLoche and his amazing Hall of Valhalla page) are my go-to web pages for Heroscape goodness in the modern era.
And, since you seem to be still working on the program, I thought I'd offer you some feedback. These are all just suggestions, of course, and not meant to be taken as criticisms of your fine (and free) product, for which we are all sincerely grateful. So, even though I'm not (technically) the tournament organizer in our area, I do generally have to organize the biggest chunk of our attendees: myself, my two oldest children, and a core group of their friends typically comprise the majority of tourney entrants. Some of them can make their own armies, and some of them just come to me with rough ideas and I help them put together the final rosters. In our tourney format, we can bring one primary army and one backup army (you get to switch to your backup after X number of games if you feel your primary isn't performing well). So this year, for instance, I had to build or help build a whopping fourteen armies, and I built them all in HACCS. Some of the older kids also used it to build their rough drafts. So this seems like a great time to share our feedback about what might have made things easier. First of all, remember that we all came from using Mythacle's Battleplan. Which was also a fantastic product, in its time, but it hasn't been updated in so long that it's starting to become nigh unusable. Still, a lot of the expectations of our crew were set by Jay and his interface, so take things with that grain of salt. And no one is suggesting that you should turn HACCS into a copy of Battleplan. But that doesn't mean there aren't some lessons that could be learned from it. And the big takeaway from everyone, I would have to say, is that Battleplan is just better for browsing. There are certain things I could do in Battleplan that I think work better in HACCS. For instance, if I know I need 60 points to fill out my army, in Battleplan I would sort the units by points and just ignore anything higher than 60. In HACCS, I can actually go into the search and tell it points "<=60" and then I only see the relevant units. I like that better. However, for faction browsing, Battleplan is way more convenient. I mean, if I know I want to build a Marro army, sure: I can tell HACCS to show me only Marro units. But say I don't know yet what I want? In Battleplan I can sort by species (or class, or whatever) and see what all my options are. Not only that, but I can see how big each one is. I could see, for instance, that there are only 4 options for goblins, so maybe I want to steer clear of that, or at least I know I would have to supplement it with another faction. Battleplan also has a double-layered sort, so I could, say, sort by species / class and easily find all the elf wizards, Marro hivelords, and human champions. Apart from this type of browsing, the only other feature that I personally miss from Battleplan is its understanding of uniqueness. So, for instance, if I'm bringing up all the primadons, in Battleplan once I click a hero (say, Zaeus) on the left side and it appears over on the right side (in my army), it also disappears from the left side. Because, you know: I can't have two Zaeus-es in my army at the same time. This is part of a bigger feature called "eliminate illegal army choices" or something like that. So, if I choose RotV Drake, SotV Drake also disappears. And, also, I can set my army size, and then any unit who costs too much to fit in my army would disappear too. I do think this feature should be optional, because some people want to violate the rules (or at least see all the options, even if they can't technically choose them), but it would certainly be nice to have that option. Moving away from Battleplan comparisons, another thing I ran into that sort of weirded me out until I understood it was that the name of my army isn't its identifier. IOW, if I change the name and hit "save," that's a rename, not a "save as." Which is fine, once I understood it (although then trying to rename it back to the original really freaked out your underlying system somehow, and I ended up having to log out and back in a few times before I got it all straight). But I think that means there isn't a way to do a "save as," so if I want to make a new army that's just a little bit different from an existing army, I have to start from scratch, and that's a little discouraging. Also, reusing the same pane for army results and unit results sometimes meant I had to redo a search instead of just being able to go back to the same resultset. I also tried using HACCS on my phone a couple of time, but that was not successful at all. The panes just don't work in the narrower space. Again Battleplan may provide some guidance: the way it handles this is to only show one pane at a time, and you swipe back and forth between them. Other than that, I do sometimes see some text overlap in various places. Sometimes that's in Firefox only (e.g. the sort arrows overlapping the ends of "Section" and "Change" in the middle pane), but sometimes it shows up in Chrome as well (e.g. the "HAC" in the right-hand pane is always on top of the end of "Search", and you have to make the pane really large before that stops happening). But overall these are small points in a fantastic program, and I hope you don't think I'm being too critical. I really do love this resource and hope you find the time to keep updating it for many more years to come. Quote:
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Re: HACCS - Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher
@Xotli
, thank you so much for your detailed feedback! It's feedback like this that motivates me to work on the program again (which I haven't done in a really long time with one or two exceptions), and I really appreciate you taking the time to write down your thoughts on HACCS. And no worries, I don't think any of what you wrote is too critical.
About the points themselves: Double-layered sort I really like this idea! I'm not sure I ever noticed that feature in Battleplan, but I see how that can come in handy. I think that it would be rather difficult to implement with the current structure of how the tables are created in the background, so it will probably be a while until I get to this. The best way to replicate this feature right now would be to have the HCS display all units with the species and class columns being shown and sort by those columns. A secondary sort can be achieved by holding the shift key when clicking a column header. Obviously, this is not ideal, but it might be a solution for now. Illegal army choices I can't seem to find this option in Battleplan, though I like the idea very much. This should be a good deal easier to implement. "Save as" for armies Another feature that should be rather easy to implement, the tricky part will probably be to figure out where to put the additional button. Maybe a dropdown menu with different options would be good... I'll think about it. I just tried recreating your problem with the army name not wanting to change back, but it worked fine for me. I assume it is some bug that occurs rarely, though I honestly have no clue about what the problem might be. Same pane for army and unit results This is the one feature that is implemented already: If you click the four-square-button next to the home icon, it will switch between the army and unit results. I also just realized that as soon as you click the home button, you can't go back to the results. I'll be taking care of that. HACCS on phones I admit that this would be really really cool, I just fear that this would take a very long time to complete properly. This would be a big project for after all the other features are completed. Text overlapping I know about this problem, though I admit I haven't given it a high priority as it doesn't prevent features from working (at least as far as I know). I'm taking note of it and I'll see what I can do. Again, thank you so much for the valuable feedback. As the new university semester just started here in Germany, I'll be very busy the next couple of months, but I hope to squeeze in some time for one or the other implementation of your suggestions. Search for any Heroscape cards and create armies. Create, save and search your own custom cards. Check out HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher)! |
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Why I Left the C3V Last edited by Xotli; October 22nd, 2017 at 05:41 AM. Reason: fix typos |
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This does actually sound familiar to me, it happens once in a while when I try saving a new unit to the database. I haven't had the time to look into it, but I assume it has to do with the browser somehow trying to connect to the server without the server doing anything. And when no response is returned, the button never changes back to "Save". This will be one of the higher priorities to fix. Quote:
That's really nice to hear, I'll see what I can do. Search for any Heroscape cards and create armies. Create, save and search your own custom cards. Check out HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher)! |
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Sure, I hear ya. I wish I had good advice for you, but I think you've already surpassed me in the UI dept. Quote:
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Re: HACCS - Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher
What's going on with HACCS lately? It seems to be down or not being hosted on bplaced any longer. Please come back soon, I had so many armies designed! But seriously, it was a great resource and it would be sad to see it go.
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The hosting website moved all the data to a new server and removed the possibility to access websites through .com. So now, the only way to access HACCS is by going to http://haccs.bplaced.net/ which should be working fine! Also, stay tuned for a major update later this year/beginning of next year! Search for any Heroscape cards and create armies. Create, save and search your own custom cards. Check out HACCS (Heroscape Army Creator and Card Searcher)! |
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