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Anautikus |
Posted: Wed Aug 29, 2007 11:44 pm |
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It’s not that gross; seems kinda funny to me but pretty ghetto a compared to SdA |
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NBarden |
Posted: Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:07 am |
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CarpeGuitarrem |
Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:32 pm |
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Lackey is more versatile, although not as streamlined and contained as SDA-but that’s because it’s made to be more general. Lackey also has cool little features like being able to zoom around the table, write notes on cards, and the LOTR plugin even lets you put strength modifiers directly on characters, so you don’t have to remember them.
And I don’t know quite what you mean by "the pictures take up the whole screen", CBB. There’s a very handy card-preview in the top corner whenever you mouse over a card, and that image doesn’t take up a lot of the screen. You can also see the cards as draggable images in Lackey.
Lackey is also more streamlined when it comes to deckbuilding. Not to mention that it’s easier to update the plugin. |
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Glamdring |
Posted: Mon Sep 03, 2007 3:57 pm |
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CarpeGuitarrem wrote: Lackey is more versatile, although not as streamlined and contained as SDA-but that’s because it’s made to be more general. Lackey also has cool little features like being able to zoom around the table, write notes on cards, and the LOTR plugin even lets you put strength modifiers directly on characters, so you don’t have to remember them.
And I don’t know quite what you mean by "the pictures take up the whole screen", CBB. There’s a very handy card-preview in the top corner whenever you mouse over a card, and that image doesn’t take up a lot of the screen. You can also see the cards as draggable images in Lackey.
Lackey is also more streamlined when it comes to deckbuilding. Not to mention that it’s easier to update the plugin.
Have a for explaining it well. Which do you prefer to use better? |
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Kralik |
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 3:54 pm |
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Quote: Have a for explaining it well. Which do you prefer to use better?
Digging up an old thread, but...
My friends and I looked into both SdA and Lackey and settled on Lackey as the clear winner. Obviously, the user interface isn’t themed by default like SdA, but you still have a lot of options to personalize if you wanted to. (For example, see this picture of a Star Wars theme: http://www.lackeyccg.com/sw/images/swccg1.jpg).
Here are just a few pros to keep in mind:
-Handling of cards is MUCH easier.
-No need to have someone who can "host" since there is a central server than can act as a proxy to get around firewalls and port forwarding.
-Support for up to 10 players (or observers) simultaneously
-HIGH card list has the full game text for all cards, including all promotional cards. Less broken picture links than than SdA, although some of the newest sets are missing due to missing images on Decipher’s own website
-Still being actively developed
Con: The deck editor is powerful, but I don’t like *quite* it as much as SdA’s. So, I wrote a program to convert any SdA deck to a Lackey deck. If anyone wants it I have either the code or the exe.
I’m not in any way affiliated with Lackey, just impressed! Lots of fun! Multiplayer especially!
http://www.lackeyccg.com/lotr |
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NBarden |
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:10 pm |
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Kralik |
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:23 pm |
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NBarden wrote: Can we see the SdA to Lackey converter?
EDIT: Downloaded Lackey, and SdA is MUCH more streamlined. But, I have it for whenever I get a chance to use it or can’t find someone who can host.
This is probably a case of "to each his own." As long time players of SdA, you are all probably used to the interface and controls. As new to both programs, I found Lackey to be more intuitive from the start. I can do things that I couldn’t figure out in SdA, like randomly discard two cards from my opponents hand simply by clicking on them and selecting "Discard." Regardless, I wanted to be able to play multiplayer, which SdA cannot do (unfortunately).
My lil converter was written using AutoHotKey. It’s a terrific little scripting program. I have the EXE if anyone needs it, but otherwise:
Instructions:
1) Download and Install AHK.
2) Copy the code below to a text editor and save it as SdA2Lackey.ahk. Right click on the file and select, "Compile Script."
3) To convert a deck from SdA to Lackey, drag and drop the deck file onto SdA2Lackey.exe. Better yet, have Windows use SdA2Lackey.exe to open .dck files automatically. It will convert "My Deck.dck" to "My Deck.txt." Holding down Left-Shift while it runs will change the deck name to a generic "CardDeck.txt" (since Lackey shows the name of a deck when you load it in a game, this will cover it up).
Code:
CardName=Blank ; No cards found yet
Innie=%1% ; Filename of SdA deck passed to the program
GetKeyState, ShiftBypass, LShift ; Check if LShift is being held down
If ShiftBypass = D
Outie=CardDeck.txt ; If so, output file is CardDeck.txt
Else
StringReplace, Outie, Innie, dck, txt ; Otherwise, it’s the same as the original name except with .txt not .dck
Loop, Read, %Innie% ; Parse each line of the SdA deck
{
ThisLine:=A_LoopReadLine
StringSplit, XMLPieces, ThisLine, <> ; Split it up into pieces
; Find Quantity, Side (Fellowship/Shadow/Site/Frodo/Ring), and Name
If XMLPieces2=Quantity
CardQuantity:=XMLPieces3
Else If XMLPieces2=Side
CardSide:=XMLPieces3
Else If XMLPieces2=Name
CardName:=XMLPieces3
If CardName <> Blank ; We found a card name
{
StringReplace, CardName, CardName, * ; Remove any * (Unique mark not used by Lackey)
; Sort and convert cards according to side
If CardSide=Fellowship ;
FellowshipCards=%FellowshipCards%%CardQuantity%`t%CardName%`n
Else If CardSide=Shadow
ShadowCards=%ShadowCards%%CardQuantity%`t%CardName%`n
Else If CardSide=Site
{
StringSplit, SiteName, CardName, () ; Separate site number and name
; Strip extra space on some SdA sites
StringLeft, CheckForSpace, SiteName3, 1
If CheckForSpace=%A_Space%
StringTrimLeft, SiteName3, SiteName3, 1
; Keep site numbers for now
SiteCards=%SiteCards%%SiteName2%%CardQuantity%`t%SiteName3%`n
}
Else If CardSide=Frodo
StartingCards=%StartingCards%%CardQuantity%`t%CardName%`n
Else If CardSide=Ring
StartingCards=%StartingCards%%CardQuantity%`t%CardName%`n
CardName=Blank ; Reset cardname until we find the next one
}
}
; Sort each alphabetically by title
Sort, FellowshipCards, P3
Sort, Shadowcards, P3
Sort, StartingCards, P3
Sort, SiteCards ; Sort sites by number if relevant
; Trim site numbers
Loop, Parse, SiteCards, `n
{
ThisLine:=A_LoopField
StringTrimLeft, ThisLine, ThisLine, 1
SortedSiteCards=%SortedSiteCards%%ThisLine%`n
}
; Trim extra newlines from sites and starting decks
StringTrimRight, SortedSiteCards, SortedSitecards, 1
StringTrimRight, StartingCards, StartingCards, 1
FileDelete, %Outie% ; Delete output file if it exists
FileAppend, %FellowshipCards%%ShadowCards%Sites:`n%SortedSiteCards%Starting:`n%StartingCards%, %Outie%
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CarpeGuitarrem |
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:03 am |
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NBarden wrote: Can we see the SdA to Lackey converter?
EDIT: Downloaded Lackey, and SdA is MUCH more streamlined. But, I have it for whenever I get a chance to use it or can’t find someone who can host.
I would probably pick SDA over Lackey...although SDA does have a number of nice features, such as the camera. It’s also way more customizable. That, and you can make your own CCG with it. |
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Kralik |
Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 11:29 am |
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CarpeGuitarrem wrote:
I would probably pick SDA over Lackey...although SDA does have a number of nice features, such as the camera. It’s also way more customizable. That, and you can make your own CCG with it.
Did you mean Lackey instead of the second "SDA" above? |
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Kralik |
Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 8:22 pm |
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BugFix: If you’re using the code above, change the appropriate place to read:
Code: StringSplit, SiteName, CardName, () ; Separate site number and name
StringLeft, SiteName2, SiteName2, 1
Otherwise it may mess up on Towers/Kings sites. Thanks! |
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