Import/Export decks in game

The game lacks one little but very important feature - being able to import and export deck lists. People has been suffering for years now. What options do you have when you decide to share your deck? make screenshots or rebuild your deck in some deckbuilder. Both have significant downsides. And what about building a deck? How cool it would be to build a deck in one click importing it from clipboard.
The deck can be easily rappresented as plane text, so you can just copy paste it in a simple form. It is very easy to write simple parser for that, like I did it in my deckbuilder, so you can open simple url like this http://misher.altervista.org/se/#/se...,se1852,ll1834 and you'll see the whole deck. Easy to share, easy to view.
Moving forward, I can even implement simple integration with secardbot in telegram in the way so you can save it on it giving a unique name for your deck and recall it anytime you need it.
This simple feature can significantly boost up deck discussions, building new decks, trying new concepts, because it would be very easy and painless.
So what do you think, should we ask dev team to implement this asap?

Board, please hire this guy.

Agree. This will bring the game to a whole new level. Board please consider this!

Not gonna lie but that vic deck is sick bro and nice idea thx

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Originally Posted by GeeGne

Not gonna lie but that vic deck is sick bro and nice idea thx

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What vic deck? All i can see with my tablet is this.....Attachment 7675

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Originally Posted by GeeGne

Not gonna lie but that vic deck is sick bro and nice idea thx

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I managed to hit rating 347 doing 15 win streak with him, also took 2nd place in score that month, so it's not tha bad I'd say :) Anyway this a bit offtopic here, let me know guys do you want to see import/export feature in game?

Kolodi you are a great worker. Will the board agree with community?

Awesome Kolodi !
After your cards bot, you are really doing a great job for the se community... you may be paid for that or at least receive rewards from the new Board.

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Originally Posted by Kolodi

The game lacks one little but very important feature - being able to import and export deck lists. People has been suffering for years now. What options do you have when you decide to share your deck? make screenshots or rebuild your deck in some deckbuilder. Both have significant downsides. And what about building a deck? How cool it would be to build a deck in one click importing it from clipboard.
The deck can be easily rappresented as plane text, so you can just copy paste it in a simple form. It is very easy to write simple parser for that, like I did it in my deckbuilder, so you can open simple url like this http://misher.altervista.org/se/#/se...,se1852,ll1834 and you'll see the whole deck. Easy to share, easy to view.
Moving forward, I can even implement simple integration with secardbot in telegram in the way so you can save it on it giving a unique name for your deck and recall it anytime you need it.
This simple feature can significantly boost up deck discussions, building new decks, trying new concepts, because it would be very easy and painless.
So what do you think, should we ask dev team to implement this asap?

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Now that the first phase of Campaign is done, my hope was to get this working in October via the API since I now have access to the live database to make this happen. (You'd register your API KEY with the external site and it can push/pull decks from the live server.)

I didn't actually know about your deckbuilder, btw. Maybe you didn't know of mine either, which also takes a deckstring: http://deckbox.shadowera.net/se/#/bu...e063x2:se165x1

I had high hopes for the deckbox feature when I added it in a couple of years ago, but I think what stopped it taking off was the lack of API to import/export decks :(

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Originally Posted by maxi1230

Board, please hire this guy.

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I think we all appreciate the things he is doing voluntarily but we're not hiring for this stuff and would not intend to. (Making external tools and suggesting features has been something a great many members of the community have done since the game came out.)

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Originally Posted by Gondorian

I had high hopes for the deckbox feature when I added it in a couple of years ago, but I think what stopped it taking off was the lack of API to import/export decks :(

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The problem with tools in web browser is that few people actually use them, mainly because they are using mobile and it's not that practical.
The wast majority of people are in Telegram nowadays. I could use API to display a named decklist in telegram via secardbot, search by hero etc.. And BTW I'm gonna publish bot on GitHub soon so everyone can contribute to it.

Now, speaking about initial topic of this thread, adding import/export feature for decks in game client. On Deck screen add 2 buttons (Import and Export). Export simply generates a text representation of the current deck list and put it into clipboard (so user can paste it in somewhere else to shere). Import button opens up a form with am input field where user can paste encoded deck list, then press ok so it is parsed and displayed current deck list in game deck builder. Thus you can share your deck in matter of seconds and also build up and try others decls faster. Now if we define common deck encoding/decoding format, we can expect easy integration between game, chatbot and other web tools.

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Originally Posted by Kolodi

1. The problem with tools in web browser is that few people actually use them, mainly because they are using mobile and it's not that practical.

2. The wast majority of people are in Telegram nowadays. I could use API to display a named decklist in telegram via secardbot, search by hero etc.. And BTW I'm gonna publish bot on GitHub soon so everyone can contribute to it.

3. Now, speaking about initial topic of this thread, adding import/export feature for decks in game client. On Deck screen add 2 buttons (Import and Export). Export simply generates a text representation of the current deck list and put it into clipboard (so user can paste it in somewhere else to shere). Import button opens up a form with am input field where user can paste encoded deck list, then press ok so it is parsed and displayed current deck list in game deck builder. Thus you can share your deck in matter of seconds and also build up and try others decls faster.

4. Now if we define common deck encoding/decoding format, we can expect easy integration between game, chatbot and other web tools.

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1. Isn't your own deckbuilder for the web browser? Mine works on tablets and phones fine as long as the screen is big enough and it's not an ancient device.

2. I can assure you more people use web browsers than Telegram, but it's good to have something targeted for those who do use Telegram the most, so it's great you're doing this. Thank you.

3. Right, this is a client feature request that would need to be implemented in Unity. It's a good small feature to try to get in soon, I agree. I hope you can see benefit of being able to browse all your decks and build outside the client via the API as well though. You'd just find a deck you like and hit Import and it would all happen for you within wherever you saw the deck (rather than copy some text and load up the app and paste it into the app deckbuilder).

4. There's already a definitive format used by the game database and client. It's just a list of card numbers. I'll send you the details so you can support it.

1. Yes it is for the web browser. I am glad to hear about API and I probably will integrate it. I made it something like 2 years ago and it is a great way to share decks. There are 2 export options: forum and telegram so you get a well formatted representation of your build ready to be embedded on forum or in TG together with a link to quickly open the deck in deck builder so people can easily preview it. It is really handy when you want to discuss your build with others.
2. I can argue that TG has become the main comunity place to do many things relative to the game. From tournaments organization to of course discussion of decks in countless chatrooms. Only my guild has 5 chat rooms plus one common room dedicated for tournament series we organize between us and BT guild. If someone wants to discuss a deck he with 99% of chance will do it in TG. That's why my focus has shifted to cover this platform. So I have created secardbot as a service to help people there. Very very often people share own decks by simply making a series of screenshots from the game client, this is far from ideal: chat rooms start to fill up with endless amount of images, it is hard to parse them as cards are small compared to the screenshot resolution and I bet many have tired to clean up all they screenshots from own device.
3. That's why I thought about that simple feature - export deck list from game client, secardbot could easily parse that export and return well formatted representation of your deck to show in chat. Or you can even edit the list together with your friends afterwards in that chat room, possibilities are endless.

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Originally Posted by Spartan

What vic deck? All i can see with my tablet is this.....Attachment 7675

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weird!.. i will pm you the deck incase you needed it :D

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Originally Posted by Kolodi

I managed to hit rating 347 doing 15 win streak with him, also took 2nd place in score that month, so it's not tha bad I'd say :) Anyway this a bit offtopic here, let me know guys do you want to see import/export feature in game?

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yeah i remember! it's one of the best vic decks imo.. anyway yes; i really get uppset switching between my mobile and telegram trying to create the deck that my friends/guild mates had sent it to me.. and deck posts will get so interesting if you read the cards of the deck from a forum post lets say and then there's a link or code you can copy it from the forum and paste it in your shadow era game, i think if every deck shared have some kind of an ID code is a great idea, you just copy the code and the saved deck data from server will automaticly builds it for you.


suggestion: it's also a great idea to make adding codes for decks costs sc.. this way it will make both the developers and players happy!

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Originally Posted by GeeGne

yeah i remember! it's one of the best vic decks imo.. anyway yes; i really get uppset switching between my mobile and telegram trying to create the deck that my friends/guild mates had sent it to me.. and deck posts will get so interesting if you read the cards and then there's a link or code you can copy it from the forum and paste it in your shadow era game, i think if every deck shared have some kind of an ID code is a great idea, you just copy it the code and the saved deck data from server will automaticly builds it for you.


suggestion: it's also a great idea to make adding codes for decks costs sc.. this way it will make both the developers and players happy!

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I like it! But it would have to be some randomized checksum code so people couldn't just speculatively type in 1,2,3,4, etc to find good decks!

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Originally Posted by Gondorian

I like it! But it would have to be some randomized checksum code so people couldn't just speculatively type in 1,2,3,4, etc to find good decks!

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am very happy to try, am sure everything requires work and energy because you need to set some kind of code generator who can make those codes in a randomized way that protects it.
emport/export decks are definitely a great idea to consider in future updates!

I dont understand much of what youre saying about deck codes so i appologise if i am wrong....

If im not mistaken every card in game already has a unique number.
By making that numbers visible when a deck is exported from the game or a deckbuilder, then this format could be used for both descusion and import purposes.

I can give you the exact meaning with my english so i try it with an example:

Hero victor heartseeker #1232

4x priest of the ligh #1289
4x puwen #1657
3x ...... #...,
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Total x cards y gold