Battlescribe Wave 6 Request

By Irokenics, in Star Wars: Armada

Im getting this in early because it seems someone else took over the project last wave to get it moving?

So whoever out there that developes the battlescribe data can you please start adding the new ships and upgrades in preparation of release next week?

I'd imagine adding in the functionality to recoginse the dual slots would take some work too!

Thanks for your time and effort.

Updating the BattleScribe files is on my list of things to do. I'll go in this weekend and update the cards changed in the recent FAQ errata and start thinking about the Wave 6 content. Adding the new ships will be easy, but you are right that the duel-slot Upgrade cards will be a pain... I've got an idea but it will probably take some tinkering to make it work.

I'm on it.

You sir are a champion!

Thank you!

I updated the files for the errata. It usually takes a few hours for the data to go live on battlescribedata.appspot.com , but it should happen this evening. I'll continue working on the Wave 6 cards this week. We don't have a full spoiler of all Wave 6 cards, do we?

1 hour ago, Dr Lucky said:

I updated the files for the errata. It usually takes a few hours for the data to go live on battlescribedata.appspot.com , but it should happen this evening. I'll continue working on the Wave 6 cards this week. We don't have a full spoiler of all Wave 6 cards, do we?

Everything but Quad Battery Turrets

Welp quad batteries was leaked by so could probably add that!

I haven't forgotten about you guys. I think I've got the dual type upgrade thing working right, now it's just data entry. It's been a busier week than I anticipated so I haven't spent as much time as I would have liked on this, but I'll have the files posted as quickly as I can.

@Dr Lucky , dude, you have no idea how much we appreciate your work. If ever we find ourselves in the same place, dinners on me.

And I think we're done. I finished all the updates and pushed the new files to battlescribe.appspot.com . It usually takes a few hours for a release to filter through the website, so try updating your data late tonight. If it isn't up by then, it should be up to date by the time you are up in the morning.

Notes:

Dual-type upgrade cards - The three dual-type cards (Boarding Engineers and Boarding Troopers in both catalogues, Cham Syndulla in the Rebel catalogue only) are listed under Weapons Teams, but only for ships that have access to both Weapons Team and Offensive Retrofit slots available. If you select one of them, it will lock out the ship's Offensive Retrofit slot (or reduce the number of allowed selections for ships with more than one Offensive Retrofit slot available, like the Imperial I or Quasar II). I decided to list them as Weapons Teams because that is the first icon shown on the card and it was slightly less complicated because of some existing logic for the Offensive Retrofit slot. In roster view, the profile that comes up will be listed separately of Weapons Teams or Offensive Retrofits in a group for Dual-Type upgrades.

Leia Organa (Commander) - This card will not be available to select if the Officer version of Leia is already in your list. You will not be able to select the Officer version of Leia if the Commander version is already in your list.

Disposable Capacitors and Quad Battery Turrets - These should not appear in the available selections under the right circumstances. Disposable Capacitors shouldn't appear on the list of Offensive Retrofits for Large ships (either Imperial Star Destroyer for the MC80 Command). Quad Battery Turrets should disappear from the list of Turbolasers when any other Modification is selected and it should make all other Modifications disappear from a ship's menus when it is selected (the same way every other Modification currently does).

This all involves some tricky logic, so if something is appearing where it shouldn't be or isn't where it should be, please let me know. Also, let me know if there are any issues with point costs, something coming up in the wrong category (particularly in the Roster View), or just basic typos.

Future thoughts:

I've got a few updates I want to make, but that aren't currently a huge priority. How do people feel about the following:

Combining the left and right fields on ship profiles - Currently the ship profiles are very long, which is can be inconvenient. I'm considering removing two columns by changing "Left Firing Arc" and "Right Firing Arc" to "Side Firing Arcs", and changing "Left Shield Value" and "Right Shield Value" to "Side Shield Values". This would at least help a bit. Alternatively, I could separate the ship Profile into two parts so it displays in two different rows, but depending on how one chooses to use the Roster View, that could really spread out a single ship's profile.

Adding ship size - I think it makes sense to add something in the Roster View indicating the size of a ship (Small/Medium/Large), but the individual profiles are already pretty long (as above). Would this information be helpful to see in the Roster View?

Adding the Campaign-Specific Corellian Conflict Objectives - I've got some ideas about how to include the Corellian Conflict specific objectives in the selections without breaking the logic for the standard game. Would these be helpful to people?

Edited by Dr Lucky

Cant thank you enough!

Everything is working brilliantly so far.

Im not sure if those suggestions are useful though, but i dont have a full grasp of what you are proposing.

Awesome work. Combining the right and left zones is ok. I don't think we need ship size listed....we know what those are. CC objectives, I don't care, as it's hardly played here, mores the pity......

Right and left zone being combined is fine with me. Anything that helps reduce info sprawl. Until FFG releases a ship with different right and left zones...

As for the rest, since you can't actually include CC objectives with your fleet, the only reason to have them in-app would be for reference. Ship size doesn't matter hugely to me either.

And thanks for your work on it!

Before someone asks, I'll get the spoiled Wave VII stuff up this weekend.

Actually, I just uploaded the new data now. It will take at least a few hours to go live (apparently sometime up to twelve, lately), so check later or in the morning. I added all the new cards, though there is currently no way to access the Profundity title (because there were no MC75 ship cards spoiled). In any event, you can access both new ISDs, both new Commanders, and the Darth Vader boarding party.