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Black Fire Development's end goal in the Redemption Connect! project is to create a centralized site to simplify the acquisition of information for Redemption players. Our initial thought was to create a easy-to-use card database system that allowed users to find and organize cards in their collections and decks. While this is a major advancement for the Redemption Community, we feel Redemption Connect! can be much more than simply a card database.

Our target has now moved from simply the game itself, but to the players. Our first plan is to create a robust Tournament tracking system. Let me explain what this entails:

1)    The Tournament tracking system incorporates all types of games and all type of Tournaments ranging form Local to National, even Online.
2)    The Tournament tracking system keeps track of the RNRS and post the Leaders using a self-updating dynamic system.
3)    Players will be able to link their Redemption Connect! accounts to their tournament games, allowing them to create a badge showing their ranking among other players anywhere on the web. Badges could look like this (just ideas, to get a mental picture):



4)    Players will be able to easily find all registered tournaments based on location or tournament type, even down to game type.
5)    Tournament hosts will be able to post updates, pictures, and videos for their tournaments and link their playgroup to their tournaments.
6)    Facebook integration so players can "like" and comment on Tournaments.

Although those are the only features I've listed, I believe in always trying to find better ways of doing things, and always trying to find new features to add.

From what I've observed on the message boards and the Redemption website, the Tournament services offered are extremely basic, and lack in functionality. There is no effective approach to finding Tournaments nor to sharing these events with others. The system works in the sense that it displays Tournament information for others to see, but offers nothing else.

If you, the Redemption community would like to see something like this implemented, please comment below with yes/no. You may also share below if you have more/different features you'd like to see for Tournaments. If you have other ideas you'd like to see for the redemption community, comment on our main thread.

Good ideas!  Proactive volunteers such as yourself are a boon to the Redemption community. 

I like it. Although, I don't know how I feel about the player card though it might do more harm then good. You should talk with the Delarosa's, they have a really good redemption webmazine site. Maybe you can work with them.

Link maybe?

I think it would be great if the RNRS points were more of an interactive thing, rather than just the grid that they are now! I'm not visually-creative enough to think of something like this, but I think it would be pretty neat!

What's wrong with the player card?  I really like the idea.

It is just that, not that his idea isn't good it's really good, for some time now redemption has not been about stats, it has been about fellowship. Sure there is RNRS but most people don't get to worked up about it because its on some far away spreadsheet. The score card makes the stats really undeniable and if everyone isn't humble about it feelings will be hurt.
Besides, the reality is, the good players know that they are good  and the "bad" players don't need a constant reminder that they are bad.

Alright, we need 30 votes before we submit this to Cactus Game Design. If you want to see this happen, click the plus sign on the first post to vote.

What?

Next to the quote link on the first post

Why?

To show that people do want this feature.

Quote from: LordZardeck on July 30, 2011, 01:20:30 PM

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on July 30, 2011, 01:14:50 PM

Why?

To show that people do want this feature.

This is a flawed voting system because of the minus feature. Also, I don't understand what you are submitting to CGD... actually, I don't really understand this project at all. Is this something you want to do or something the community wants you to do? It's really tough to tell right now.

It is something that I want to do, that I hope the community wants to do (hence the voting: so I can tell), and that requires cooperation from CGD.

Having a number like that is kind of pretty arbitrary. For one, I'd be willing to bet there's only 30-50 consistantly active users on this board, so you'd have to get almost all of them to up you.

I understand this, but it is necessarily. See Below.

If you want to do it, just do it. You have received positive feedback. For all you know, CGD might just say no (I'm still not entirely sure you'd need CGD to cooperate... you could easily implement all features with any host willing to participate). Just go for it if you want to do it.

Actually, this requires CGD, and they have already said "no". Rob said that the community has not shown a desire to change the current Tournament system, so he does not feel it is worth the time (paraphrasing. He said it much nicer). That is the reason for this post. To determine whether or not the community shows a strong desire for a new Tournament system.

I wasn't under the impression you were changing anything. You could easily still do most of this via data mining anyway.

If I tried data mining, and Redemption Tournaments became popular, then Cactus Game Design would feel that what has been accomplished is good enough and that they don't need to be involved. Then most of the great features that would make Redemption Tournaments amazing would never be able to happen.

I voted! Hope it works, it is a very good odea

What language are we talking?