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So I've started making a Web App. I don't know how long it will take me to put it up(or where in the nine hells I'm going to get it hosted when its done), but I've been going through the playtest, and collecting a big list of all of the racial options - outside of the pre-build packages.
The idea is I want to put them all into a DB, with some possible suggested pricing (it should include all of the playtest pricing, as well as pricing from one or two other race-building system pricings if I can manage it), and an option for people to vote on what they think the prices of individual items should be.
Then it'll calculate an average based on the user votes.
The goal will be to allow users to sort it in a variety of ways as well, and essentially you'll be sorting through the whole list, and deciding which items you think are as good, worse than, or better than, which other items. Maybe even being able to rearrange them as you change the ratings.
It should be able to take that information, and use it to calculate the prices of various pre-packaged elements, such as races, types, subtypes, and sizes.
Basically its a computer-aided feedback tool for this playtest.
To let users change their ratings, I was thinking that I'd use the "login via facebook" plugin.
So far I've got an incomplete list, and some page layout.
I'm interested in help with this undertaking, if anyone else is interested in helping.
It's going to be a jquery/javascript/php/mysql project. If we can get this done asap, then people can use it asap.
What do people think?
[Edit] I'm thinking that maybe a better approach might be to have them sort them in terms of power, and have them assign numbers to a handful of the top and bottom ones, and have it automatically generate the middle ranked ones, then let them adjust them after.
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Does this mean no interest or does it mean I need to explain things better?
On the above post:
tl:dr;
{I'm making a webapp to help people decide what they think racial features are worth, in the interest of helping with the playtest. It will let you vote on how good they are.
Can I get some feedback on the concept?
Is anyone interested in contributing to it?}
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doting and waiting for finished product
it sounds like a good idea
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Its been a couple days. still working on it, but I've been pretty busy between university and thanksgiving.
I'm mostly finished my list. Next step is going to be throwing together the MySQL database itll use, and inputting any data I've got (the paizo pricing data will be sparse, since they priced packages instead of pricing the individual items that make up the packages).
But I've got my copy of Upper Krust's CCRs version 5, and I'll likely pick up the LPJ race cookbook for pf, since I have the 3.5 edition. Then I need to find somewhere to host it, and need to write the DB Access scripts for the page, and the form functionality, and some kindof login functionality.
What sort of login info would you guys suggest? I could look into the google or facebook login packages, or perhaps just use a forum style registration.
Does anyone have any suggestions for this project?
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This, has basically turned into This.
Given the limited time of the playtest, I probably wont put together that app and get it running in time.
So, I'm pricing out the things we *Know* the value of, based on what paizo's already put out.
From there, I'll extrapolate the prices of those individual elements.
Its gone from a "high tech voting app with a backend database" to "calculate the values of stuff using a spreadsheet, and assign prices that way."