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Aug 9, 2017 8 years ago Official
Bug
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I have revamps planned for this page (and the rest of battle) but it's very much in the works so I'd like to hear your opinions. Here are my thoughts and ideas on this:

Challenger lists

  • I don't want to show secret challengers, the whole point of them is that they're secret.
  • It's unlikely that I'll show challengers as grayed out on the main page either, because it would bloat the page - most of the time people will just visit that page to battle, not to see who they haven't unlocked yet.
  • I do want to have an official sort of checklist somewhere, for some of the unlockable challengers - I will say more about this later in this post.

Organization

  • I am planning to have two separate pages: Permanent challengers and Temporary challengers. (I might call the temporary tab something else, can't think of a good word.) Permanent challengers will be everything that you have unlocked for good - including CS challengers, millionaire center challengers, secret challengers, and the default ones. Temporary will be throwback challengers, event challengers, anything that will only be there for a limited time.
  • On each page, each challenger will have a small color-coded label that tells you where it comes from. For example there would be labels called Default, Secret, Cash Shop, Throwback, Event, etc...
  • You will be able to set filter options to only show a specific label (like if you only want to see your Secret challengers)

Challengers you haven't unlocked yet

  • I disagree with showing any information about secret challengers, because some of them are supposed to be mysterious, and we certainly are not going to give away how challengers are unlocked (even if you can find this info in other places).
  • I agree with having a list of unlockable challengers (the non-secret ones - unlocked from items) somewhere, but it would be its own page. Haven't thought too much about the design, but I'm thinking it will show pictures of the items (which will be hoverable) with some indication of which ones you haven't unlocked yet. But, I'm not sure yet if this page should tell you what challenger each item unlocks. And I do not think this page should include challengers you unlock from the items you get from achievement prizes.
  • Somewhere, probably on that page, I want to have a counter will it tells you how many you have unlocked of each type of unlockable challenger. Like "Cash Shop: 10/12 unlocked" is what it would look like. I'm a lot more okay with this because it would be very vague but give you a quick idea of how complete your collection is.

Win History

  • Win history is one of those things that will make things lag if we query it every single time. But I definitely think there should be an easy way to see it, so eventually it will be added in a similar way to how Pet Rank currently works. I'm still working out the details.
  • Part of this will come with a change in how the pre-battle pages are coded. Right now, it's hard to show win history because you might have 50 pets (or more), and you don't really choose a pet to battle with until right before you enter the battle. The page won't know whose history to show you until you pick a pet. So instead, I am thinking of reworking the battle interface so you have to choose a pet first, then choose an opponent on the next page. But I'm interested what people would think of such a change.

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Aug 11, 2017 8 years ago Official
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Can&;t wait to see how your improvements will change the Battle Coliseum. How about if you use the SubetaPedia to house the information that we need to unlock the various CS, MC, throwback, events etc. challengers. And their loot would be nice touch to show them what they can win/earn. Thanks.

I kinda love the idea of using the subetapedia for this, especially since the news posts with the challengers already have some fun lore. I've been sad before that I couldn't find the news posts for old challengers I missed, cuz I love reading the fun little stories behind them. what do you think of this idea? (They're the staff behind content so it's not my decision to make)

We do have plans to expand the Subetapedia to include things such as Subetan History, Potions/Elixirs and things like that, so yes I'm certainly thinking a Challenger section will be a good one. We're on a good roll now with the Pet articles, so it's not too far off in the future to think of the expansion :)


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