COLORS CHAT #21

[skybuns]

It's time to sit back, relax, and pour yourself an ice cold glass of... milk. All these games are so great and fun but everyone needs a chance to just unwind and talk. So welcome to Colors Chat!

Here, you will get a topic and you can talk about it all you want. Just listen to your heart and write what you feel like. For your six sentences, you'll get 5 cards. And you should always go around and talk to people, see if you can make new friends or old friends with new light on them or you know, just talk with everyone! It is a chat after all.

Today's topic:
TCG woes. Tell us about the little problems you face while doing anything TCG! Has ETCG ever screwed up while you were updating? Maybe you missed an end tag in your coding and all of a sudden your post is an intelligible mess. What little things pull your chain?

To encourage discussions between players, there's a bonus - for every conversation that is at least 5 comments long all participants will receive two random cards. This is not limited, so talk to as many people as you wish!

Please keep all comments civil and polite. You might disagree with someone, but please do not start a flame war. Especially for this topic, please try not to talk poorly of specific players if you've had a bad experience with them. THANK YOU and enjoy your weeks!

This round closes on Monday, August 25th, but the next Colors Chat will go up on the 24th if I remember. CLOSED

Comments

[honeybrushedheart]

ahahahaa... I've messed up my card post a good number of times, from something not looking right when adding extra portions, or using the wrong tag when trying to add new cards, all the way to the full blown disaster that was accidentally leaving out one quotation mark and breaking all the html in the post because I was adding cards and participating in a silly Twitter "argument" amongst the League community.

I've messaged Onyx on Skype at least three times so far going "HELP I MESSED UP MY CARD POST SOMEHOW I DON'T KNOW HOW TO FIX IT." and she ends up just responding "SIGH hold on a minute."

I also always feel a little bad whenever I comment to someone's post on the trade community with a link to my post and list of like. 4 or 5 cards I'd like to trade for but that's just me being kinda weird and shy really.

[radria]

Oh, I've got a great story for this one.

Just two weeks ago, I was working on updating my site and started a backup to make sure things were working nicely. I had decided to move one of the image host backups to a new subdomain and after backing up, deleted the subdomain information to rebuild it.

... too bad it was my actual tcg domain instead of the image host subdomain. In between completely losing it and thinking I would have to restart everything. Luckily for me, in my infinite wisdom, I remembered about the backup and reinstalled my TCG Post from said backup.

Sadly, I had to completely reinstall the Image Host subdomain but it could have been so much worse.

If I have learned anything, it's BACKUP!

As for easyTCG itself, it seems to hate when I have to tweak a trade (either adding/removing a card) and then I have to go back in when the trade is done and remove or re-add the card manually.

For other things, what mods do people use for easyTCG? I'm kinda interested to see what I might be able to add to my own trading post!

[empanadas]

It's not in Colors TCG but in another game (Pairings, to be exact), but I was adding pairing decks in the collecting page using Ten's PHP thing for eTCG when one pair suddenly appeared as doubles. I think I have to delete those decks and readd them with a different name, which is time-consuming and I'm too lazy to do that atm.

It is kinda annoying that eTCG won't automatically take more cards from the trading pile if you already made a trade; you'd have to cancel the whole trade, and then add those cards in. Also the trade php files for the eTCG seem to hate me because I tried tweaking the header/footer for the trade form, but once someone finishes filling out the form, CSS errors pop up for the "Your form was submitted successfully!" page. Here's the proof! See what I mean? The navigation and the rest of the footer with the credits disappeared. :\ If anyone knows how to fix it, please let me know!

[harukami]

For a while, when I used tables in my mastery post, they kept messing up. It started happening when I was about 50 mastered decks deep so it was hard to pin down. I eventually figured out what was going on but it was a huge nuisance. It wasn't like a big deal -- it kept adding an additional extra space after every row, so the first row was fine, then the next one was one space out, then the one after was two spaces out. But it looked untidy and drove me crazy. I don't even remember what fixed it in the end but it was definitely just one thing out of place. It hasn't happened again but I've mastered enough now I think I should split them into multiple pages... both for organization and to avoid an error somewhere in the sea of decks. But getting around to it is so hard!

[gammacrank]

I've screwed up so many times, haha. The worst was a few months ago, when I accidentally deleted my TCG php folder while cleaning out files via FTP and thought I'd have to do all of the coding again - thankfully Dreamhost was able to provide a backup, and now I do regular backups just in case. In general, though, ETCG has been pretty good to me unless I mess up spelling or punctuation when updating cards/trading; there are a few minor annoyances that would be great to see fixed, but there are work-arounds for those, so it's not a big deal.

…Oh wait, also, around the time I decided to move things to a website, I realized that dreamwidth had eaten the first few months of activity/trade logs (this was only a few months after I joined, so it wasn't the end of the world, but still). Had to rebuild that by wading through e-mails, the main comm and the trade comm. Not fun.

[estamir]

I don't really have ETCG woes aside from "setting up took forever because I waited to start using it until I had like 6000 cards." But god, now that it's up I don't know how I functioned updating manually. BLESS YOU ETCG.

Really, my biggest TCG woe is probably the fact that I only really have time for one TCG in my life - which is of course Colors. And since most of what I like is animu or eastern vidya, that works out fairly well for me, for the most part. But there are just a few other things I would really kill to collect, but 1) not enough of them to join another TCG with a different focus, and 2) I don't really have time for another TCG anyway. It's tragic.

Also I don't collect many orange or green decks and the randomizer always wants to give me orange and green crayons.

[netbug009]

Ohhhhhhhhhhh man, eTCG. My love hate relationship with eTCG. On one hand, I could probably never keep up with TCGs without it. On the other hand, its emails wind up in my spam folder and I worry the same will happen to other folks. ;_;

Of course, that's not even going into the problems I make for myself. Like my ridiculous pile of mass decks.

http://netbug.carbonbeauty.net/tcgs/colors.php?Mass

Every single one of these cards is in the collecting section because I wanted things to be SUPER DUPER PRETTY. Just.... try to imagine what my collecting section looks like.

I still can't set up eTCG on my own from the ground up. I've been very blessed to run into hosts who handled it for me. <3

[netbug009]

Did you have two of each deck in collecting? The script will double up if that happens.

[netbug009]

The lack of a stable general western animation TCG breaks me heart. D':

[empanadas]

It's for the zero-zero pairing and I only added two; it looks like this when it's not supposed to. Also I checked your pairings nakama mass deck page and it didn't have the same issue like mine.

How did you get your same character pairings to look like that?

[tentacular]

It's all too easy to mess up those posts. The first day I joined I wound up in a complete panic fest because I was affected by massive gaps in the post (turned out to be an unclosed tag), but I just wound up getting so frustrated that I had to go hug Onyx and then go to bed just to unwind myself. HTML is pure evil sometimes.

Also being shy isn't weird! It's totally normal. And kind of cute.

[estamir]

Realistically speaking, I know I'm not into enough western animation for joining one to be worth it for me, but I am sad nonetheless because god I would mass deck the crap out of TMNT 2k3, right down to donating "that sassy reporter's kid from the one episode of Raph filler" and everything.

[beezebeora]

Biggest ETCG woes for me is sometimes I don't change my keyboard settings back to ENG, so my commas are all 、 (and I just copy and past.) and the whole thing messes up. and I totally hate when I type something wrong on a huge post, and I misspell something, so one of the categories are not updated and goes unnoticed. But these are always my fault 80% of the time, so what do you expect.

[reneetwist]

SO, when I was a wee newbie player, I used my Dreamwidth journal to house my cards, and kept my logs on another entry. Three days after I joined Colors, I was setting cards in the post and tweaking the layout. And you know that the delete post button is next to the post/save button... welp. I pressed the wrong button (and missed the "Are you sure?" cue). So I lost EVERYTHING. I had to find and retweak the green table coding (which I'm not good at doing myself), I had to switch between the log post and the new post to get my cards back, I had to remember who I had outstanding trades with and who had made requests (which is why the very first comment on my post is basically I'M SO SORRY, here are your trades ;o;). The only good thing is that I did this at Red level, with less than 100 cards to my name.

[netbug009]

Yeah, that'll cause it to double up because it's reading there being two of each character involved.

My same character pairings collects are coded by hand, unfortunately. :'D

[empanadas]

No wonder, lmao. eTCG is a pain in the butt when it comes to same character pairings, sadly. Guess it's time to play with hand-coding some more!

[forevertobestill]

Hahaha I'd never even heard of ETCG until recently. This is the first TCG I'd been a part of since maybe 2007 and I'm not even sure if it existed back then. I just passed 800 cards though so it seems like it would be a good idea to perhaps work on getting hosting with ETCG. I haven't really had any issues when it comes to coding and whatnot, save for the occasional time I forget to put a space or symbol in my coding and my DW post goes nuts.

Oh, I guess one of my TCG woes would be some of my old favourites disappearing. ;__; I remember I was hooked on Fictional back in the day, but the updates started to dwindle and one day the website completely disappeared. I was also really fond of Divinity and a Pita Ten one, but neither are active anymore. That makes me a sad panda. I also wish my old trading card post was still up, damn you Freewebs.

[netbug009]

I need to watch more of 2k3. I'm actually liveblogging it since I never saw it before, but I'm only just finishing episode 7. :B

[netbug009]

Let me know if you need a hand with anything. :)

[kuranosuke]

My biggest problem with etcg has been the moment when you have a double card of a deck in your TP and then you put the deck on collecting... and it takes that one card from the TP. I normally wouldn't have most likely noticed a thing, but then I saw a card of the deck I just put on collecting in one of my priorities...

Otherwise ETCG has worked like a charm. I can't imagine how I'd manage without it with the number of cards I have right now. Sometimes I fear of accidentally deleting everything, but then I'd have to be really careless to do that and I'm usually not.

[estamir]

...OH HAY is "fineillwatch2k3" you?

[netbug009]

hdsbdfshbgs YES IT IS WOW do that many people know about it? 8D

[estamir]

I've been poking around the tag so I just remember seeing you pop up recently, haha. I'm bad at tumblr in general I look at like two tags and forget I actually have a dash beyond that.......

[netbug009]

I got so sick of people's drama on Tumblr that I strictly follow tags now. If I really like someone I'll RSS feed them, but it helps me waste less time on that site.

[cutsnoslack]

Probably a good policy tbh, Tumblr is....fantastic for passing things around divorced from context or without sourcing them to see if there's anything to them, thus fantastic for fanning flames and making stuff blow up that didn't really need to.