1 hour ago, heychadwick said:Card Binders are the worst as every new card means a complete reorg of your system. I went with card boxes and haven't looked back.
I know then you get to have a peaceful evening sorting cards.
How do you organise your cards? UPDATED
I have too many upgrade cards to take all of them with me whenever I go to the FLGS to play. I developed a system that brings a subset of the upgrade collection to support the HotAC and FGA missions I'm usually hosting, while not being as tightly organized as I've seen others do in the interest of keeping the impact of new cards as minimal as possible. Also, outside of mission play, I don't focus on a limited number of factions, so I wanted to have access to all upgrades when I'm on the go.
The majority of my upgrades are stored in card boxes by upgrade type. Can't get much more simplistic than that. I'm using card boxes that provide the flexibility to put upgrades into deck boxes which can then be placed inside the card box. I haven't done that yet, but could see situations where I want to have quick access to a set of upgrades for use in a specific scenario or mission - and having those already pulled and in one container would make things a bit easier.
I use a binder to take a subset of my upgrade collection to the FLGS for play sessions. As some others on this thread use, my binder uses the 9 card sheets. I've have 4-6 of the same upgrade squeezed into the single card slot of the sheet in order to have access to numerous upgrades for my players without having to have allot of sheets. My binder is organized by upgrade type only. Within each type, I no longer organize by point cost or alphabetical order to reduce the impact of new cards. When new cards come out, the biggest impact I have is to add new sheets within an upgrade type's section of the binder. This is an agreeable compromise for me because any serious list building is usually accomplished via some web based application with a good search engine and card description feature, so I am usually just scanning the binder to find a card I know I already need. I'm not typically using my binder to help me with list building, so I don't organize by cost / faction.
The cards I use the most is in my binder card. The rest in deckbox.
21 hours ago, XPav said:I know then you get to have a peaceful evening sorting cards.
To each their own.
For me that sounds like a headache and time that could be spent elsewhere
I use those 9 card sleves for upgrade cards, putting 2 in each slot, and i have two binders. Binder 1 has EPTs, modifications, turrets, droids, and tech/titles.
Binder 2 has Ordinance (split into bombs, then missiles, then torpedos), Cannons, crew, System and Epic stuff.
I use hard plastic card boxes for mine. Each faction has their own that contain pilot cards and faction specific upgrades (crew, droids, etc). Then I have 4 others for generics. Crew, droids, and gunners are in one, secondary weapons are in another, pilot talents and force upgrades are in the third with the last holding system, device, and modification cards. It works out well for my storage system.
So, I am an insane person who has bought into and continues to buy every faction so I have a lot of stuff. In the 1st ed days I could pretty much carry it all around with me, no longer the case.
Models are kept in a battlefoam bag with other stuff, glancing over that my cards, bases and dial backs are all kept in binders. I have 6 binders:
- Rebel Binder
- Imperial Binder
- Scum Binder
- Resistance & First Order Binder
- Republic & CIS Binder
- Upgrade Binder
Each faction binder has everything associated with that faction, starting with the quick build cards, then moving into any faction specific upgrades that can go on any ship. Then it goes into the ship cards which also has any ship specific configs, upgrades or titles. After that is base cards and dials in the same order as the ship cards.
The upgrade folder is nothing but upgrades that can go on any or more than one faction grouped by upgrade typed and ordered alphabetically since organising by points is no longer practical.
If you are someone who likes using a binder, then use a ring binder that you can slot new pages into as it makes reorganising easier.
I also have a deckbox that I use to carry any prebuilt lists I am thinking of carrying...or simply as a way to quickly pack up when the store is closing in 10 minutes.
Anyone have any neat, easily sortable/searchable solutions for the base chits? Especially now that there's medium base sizes too. Cards, ships, and dials I have down to an art. Those base chits though... they've been giving me a headache for a while.
Alphabetically by category. An entire page for Astromechs, then another for Cannon, and so on. I also use one cell for each kind of card (i.e. 3 copies of Trick Shot will all go nito the same space).
Talents require 2-3 pages, while Missiles will soon require another one 
I sort them by how the ink tastes when I lick the card
Used to use a binder, but it got unwieldy when they moved to full size upgrade cards. I use the Ultimate Guard XenoSkin. A bit pricy, but I figure it'll last a while:
56 minutes ago, Okapi said:Used to use a binder, but it got unwieldy when they moved to full size upgrade cards. I use the Ultimate Guard XenoSkin. A bit pricy, but I figure it'll last a while:
I now use the same, for the same reason. In 1st edition I had a binder, organised by ship/upgrade type and ordered by cost, which made adding new cards to the binder a bit easier than when 2nd edition came round and I had to order alphabetically. When Separatists and the Republic came out I had to give up on the big binder as it was starting to overflow and re-ordering the cards was getting tiresome. Using the deck boxes and Arkhive is great for both sorting through cards and adding new ones.
On 10/31/2019 at 3:22 PM, Spartan_Dude said:Hey guys and dolls,
What are your ways or organisng cards in a card binder? Particularly upgrade cards. I have a million of them and not sure how to go about it.
I'm not using a card binder, yet. Then again my collection so far fits within the Core set box and rebel Millennium Falcon box. That said, I organize pilot cards in groups based on the quick build cards. I then organize the upgrades based on type. When I do end up needing to use a binder or something, I'll likely continue doing that. But I'll also likely sub-organize each upgrade type alphabetically.
11 hours ago, NakedDex said:Anyone have any neat, easily sortable/searchable solutions for the base chits? Especially now that there's medium base sizes too. Cards, ships, and dials I have down to an art. Those base chits though... they've been giving me a headache for a while.
For storage I use a Plano Deep Compartments container. I bought bulk plastic tags in different colors, and bulk chains, the cheap keychain kind. I write on the tags, and thread the chains through the ship-token holes. Then I place in the Plano.
For the ship-tokens themselves, I mark the sides by color and length of marking. So, for example, in Rebels (orange mark), X-wings get a short marking (on both edges, at the bottom of the base), Y-wings get a marking roughly twice the size, and so on. I typically go with markings from 1 (arbitrary small size, a couple of milimeters) up to 5 (about a centimeter). Then, if needed, you can start over, but leave the "1 slot" blank. (So an X-wing would be 10000, a Y-wing 11000, and then whatever sixth ship would be 01000, seventh ship would be 01100, and so on.)
It sounds complicated, but it's not, and it makes sorting bases a piece of cake.
Oh, and I try to do cross-faction ships (e.g., Y-wings) with the same length of mark, but faction-specific colors, but because I started this system early, that part's not perfect.
I think I'm about to overfill my 1" binder. The question is... do I go to a 2" binder or multiple 1"?
I keep my cards and my ships in the giant size card boxes that hold several vertical rows of cards. Assembled small/med ships sit nicely in those rows; I leave a divider out to fit unassembled large ships sitting in the clear box-like lids from ship packages. I have a row reserved for cards too.
I just use a ziploc container.