Heroscape.org - New Software Support for Heroscape

[Chris Perkins]

I'd like to announce a project that I've been working on for the last few months: I've acquired, and been developing, the website Heroscape.org. My intention/goal is for this website to be a source for various software tools that I'm developing to compliment Heroscape tournaments & games.

Currently, there are 6 separate tools on this site:
1) Autoload Builder - shows point/hex/figure counts for an army
2) Army Scoring - calculates partial card scoring for 2 armies
3) Damage Calculator - calculates probability of each possible amount of damage from a given attack
4) Maps - lists maps I've entered with some info on each map
5) Tournaments - manages sign-up, pairings, game result submission, and public standings for an individual tournament
6) Conventions - manages registration for conventions and the tournaments at a convention

All tools are being developed to support both Classic & VC figures and Standard & Delta pricing.

Information on individual tools is now located on heroscape.org directly, on the 'about' pages: https://heroscape.org/about

Thanks to
@OEAO & @Dysole for their help with feature planning and tournament logistics knowledge.
@vegietarian18 & @dok for their help designing the Builder and their continued work on Delta pricing.
Everyone who helped do the initial Beta test yesterday at the New England tournament in Springfield, MA.

I intent to update the below post with more specifics regarding planned enhancements and bug fixes over the next few weeks.

I'll consider any proposals for additional tools or features for existing tools, but may opt not to develop them depending on a ton of factors.

[Chris Perkins]

Version History

Version	Release Date	Notes
0.1.0	10/1/2022	Private Beta Testing
0.2.0	10/2/2022	Open Beta Testing (Fixed B1, B2)
0.3.0	10/3/2022	New Features & Bug Fixes (Added E1, E2)
0.4.0	10/4/2022	New Features & Bug Fixes (Added E3, Fixed B4)
0.5.0	10/5/2022	Added New Tool : Damage Calculator
0.6.0	10/11/2022	New Features & Bug Fixes (Added E4, Fixed B7)
0.7.0	10/16/2022	New Feature (Added E24)
0.8.0	10/20/2022	New Feature (Added E11)
0.9.0	10/28/2022	New Feature (Added E22)
0.10.0	11/4/2022	New Features & Bug Fixes (Added E5, E6, E7, E8, E9, E17, E21, Fixed B5)
0.11.0	11/7/2022	New Feature (Added E15)
0.12.0	11/10/2022	New Features (Added E18 & E19)
0.12.1	12/12/2022	Bug Fixes (Fixed B8 & B9 [I hope ...])
1.0.0	4/24/2023	Removed Beta Label

Enhancement Plans & Requests
E10 : C3G Support
E20 : Fully support team formats
E25 : ELO-type ranking (likely w/in leagues, seasons, conventions, and overall)
E26 : Private Tournaments
E27 : Cancel a Tournament (with notification)
E28 : Army name (optionally) for each army
E28 : Create admins for Leagues/Seasons
E29 : Let tournament creator pick Season for Tournament
E30 : Let tournament admin set other admins
E31 : Button to 'End Tournament' (to solve date/time issues for 'ending')
Completed:

Spoiler Alert!

E1 : Track tournaments across leagues & seasons
E2 : Track & display user results across tournaments
E3 : Tournament admin can submit game results
E4 : Tournament admin can edit game results
E5 : Admin manually change pairings after generation
E6 : Tournaments - Documentation
E7 : Partial Scoring - Documentation
E8 : Builder - Documentation
E9 : Convention attendee able to un-register
E11 : Change Aquilla background color
E14 : Format Randomizer (Skipping)
E15 : Sort by Uniqueness, Squad/Hero, Size
E16 : Matchup probability calculator (Skipping)
E17 : Export standings from a tournament
E18 : Day 2 Bracket creation within Tournament parings
E19 : Fully support multiplayer formats
E21 : Allow late sign-ups for tournaments (if tournament allows)
E22 : Add support for Marvel (10 figures from MtCB set)
E24 : Use Strength of Schedule as a Tie-Breaker

Decided Against (for now, at least, barring further suggestion or help from others):

Spoiler Alert!

E12 : Update Plus / Minus Buttons
E13 : Add more image artwork
E23 : Allow users to sign-up to bring a map for a tournament

Format Support
F1 : Ban List of Figures
F2 : Restricted List of Figures
F3 : General Wars
F4 : Assassin's Creed

Bug Reports
B3 : Autoload Builder - Long Figure Box Jumps the Page
B10 : Advancing to next round failed when a player was dropped mid-round (button to start next round was missing)

Spoiler Alert!

B1 : Tournament page fails to work on iPhone
B2 : Automated email listed incorrect opponent 50% of the time
B4 : Users can signup for tournaments without needing to verify their email address
B5 : Some tournament data (armies & results) not written to backup Google Sheet (seemingly randomly, no pattern yet found)
B7 : Tournament - adding maps doesn't work yet
B8 : Error submitting game result where user got an error message about the 'Peoria Error'.
B9 : Not all games from previous round were available for a TD to edit the result of.
B6 : Partial Scoring - requires full unit name in search bar (should support partial name search) [UNABLE TO REPLICATE]

[MegaSilver]

Good stuff! Looking forward to using it.

[caps]

Can a tournament admin submit game results? I don't want to rely on players submitting their own results.

[Chris Perkins]

Originally Posted by caps

Can a tournament admin submit game results? I don't want to rely on players submitting their own results.

Not yet, but that feature will exist before the beta test label is removed.

[caps]

Originally Posted by Chris Perkins

Not yet, but that feature will exist before the beta test label is removed.

I think that will be a requirement before I can use the site/app. I can't rely on 100% of my players to reliably post their results each round, unfortunately.

[Sir Heroscape]

so dope! Love this!

[Knox]

Super hyped on this! I was going to create the Louisville events on here but @Viideosayg or @NecroBlade would one of you want to instead since you guys are the ones running the tourney?

[Mythic]

Great stuff! Keep up the good work!

[S1R_ART0R1US]

Love this! Will run at SoCal NHSD in a week.

[Leaf_It]

This is amazing.

[Dad_Scaper]

Originally Posted by caps

I think that will be a requirement before I can use the site/app. I can't rely on 100% of my players to reliably post their results each round, unfortunately.

It's pretty typical in sports, like golf, for players to be able to report their own results. If something gets messed up, which I've seen in disc golf, the tournament director can adjust a score after the fact.

Chris, I think that setup (player input; gm override) might be the most TD-friendly way it could work.