Weekender XLBS: Awesome Star Wars: Legion Armies + How Projects Work On BoW 2.0!
April 8, 2018 by warzan
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Happy Sunday folks! 😀
Good morning, and Happy Sunday! (ehh … Saturday night?) 😀 😀 😀
Why don’t you put a play button on the xlbs, I haven’t been able to watch it for six weeks now. Everything else plays fine except the xlbs……..
What device are you trying to watch on?
There is definitely a play button on it mate and folk seem to be able to watch it fine 🙂
Afternoon and Happy Sunday
All this talk about BOW 2.0 …. It’s a myth I tell you … a myth !!!!!! 😉 😛
My reaction has nothing to do with Warren taking first comment , yet again …….honest
That is a bit of a rum do, yes.
Happy Sunday everyone.
Really liking what you are showing of the new website. It’s great to see a site being developed with the community in mind.
I especially liked the project segment today. What are you guys thinking for the photo size limit or are you looking at having another site host the image/video and have community members post links?
I would happily help out as a curator.
Not sure on any size limits yet mate, but will be higher than current limits. We may have some fancy ways to remove the issue of size limits all together.
Is there a way that the inline photo on a page that are usually lower res, stored on your servers for speed and permanence, can link to an externally stored higher res photo that is shown when inline is clicked on?
Already does that and both are stored on our platform and cdns
Unlikely to increase file seizes initially, mainly as 5mb is plenty unless you want to use 20mp images but bit pointless as they get scaled down anyway…
Happy Sunday!!
1. Isn’t calling it XX 2.0 a bit out of date and vary ‘noughties’?
2. Wasn’t the last big upgrade to BoW a few years ago called “BoW 2.0”? So that makes this 3.0 – or to match Warrens love of dungeon crawling terrain “BoW-2.5”?
I look forward to Caesar’s first NSFW* Justins and Dragons… !?
* Not Suitable from Warren.
This year’s Salute for me is definitely going to be about terrain, especially a couple of mats multipurpose enough for a few eras and systems; if they’re double sided then even better.
Happy Sunday!
So the new website is almost a new social media site for gamers?
Interesting approach. Sometimes I wonder how some of those businesses make a profit, their storage costs must be horrendous, especially for Facebook, which never seems to forget a thing.
In truth it’s closely based on the architecture we already have in place (we already store quite a lot as it is) this in an exercise in structuring it and making it more browsable and discoverable.
So indexing links then.
No everything is already indexed as warren said more to do with making it usable to users, that and responsive design to work on devices better, oh and the minor issue of swapping out the platform architecture to something more adaptable
Quick question on the Project side of things – inspired by @oriskany
If a site user creates, for example, an army of 15 mm WWII Germans, will it cope with it being for Army lists in Flames of War, Battlegroup and any other rulesets produced for that scale?
Currently projects can be attached to a single entity in each of the categories (game, company, range) this is just to reduce projects spamming across lots of areas and to keep them focused.
We will probably have the curation team expand projects across multiple areas where it makes sense. 🙂
For a search engine on phones and tablets will there a voice search like “Hey Ben show me stuff on the Peloponnesian War or “Ben, show me the cheapest flights to a bootcamp”?
Lol 😀
but when you’re sleeping and you hear Ben chuckling from the speakers on your pc of phone that will be a lot creepier than Alexa
im up for the salute meet up. cant stay to late because im leaving my six year old with his nan this year. but ill be there
In regards to gaming in the gaps ICE when publishing MERP (Middle Earth Roleplaying) and Rolemaster produced supplements/ campaign packs to cover all of Middle Earth. This meant you could play in the world and but keep well away from what went on in the main books gave the DM much more freedom when running the adventures
Bon Dimanche
Seems a shame that online retailer can’t help out with a list of the products that come out.
Over time that is going to be a bear to maintain – don’t envy the curation crew at all.
I know that the product name of Warhammer 40K: Conquest has been used twice, which is gonna cause some confusion – I came for the card game by FFG, why am I seeing a partworks that got put on hiatus.
We will not be maintaining individual products
Only Games and Ranges
The public/private project feature together with the project element/building block CMS feature is very cool. I presume that new elements in a public draft can be worked on in draft mode until released?
Extending this, will it be possible to make the visibility more granular… having elements within a public project that remain private (e.g notes/comments/to-do)?
Well look into that as upgrades after launch, but yes we are on the same wavelength on this 🙂
Damn! I was looking at this all wrong….
Thanks for pointing out this is a CMS, I was thinking along the lines of another type of application but it all makes sense now.
Excellent… takes time, and I love the CX thinking behind this, helps if you eat your own dog-food – i.e. are a typical user yourself. Next bunch of user stories I’ll chuck at you would be local community support – for gaming groups such as… * as a gaming group leader I want to be able to create a BoW group I can invite my members to so that I can give private project permissions to the group * as a campaign organiser in my club I want to be able to create a campaign project so that I can… Read more »
Thanks for another excellent update about 2.0 – the potential to have all the geek adjacent projects in one place is pretty freaking exciting. I can see me having my next larp costume log running alongside my next army plog and possibly a hub for the rpg campaign I’d be running.
I’m a librarian with a fair bit of archiving experience so I’d take great joy in helping with the curation side of things… arguably too much joy tbh
A very happy sunday to all of you at Beasts of War, and to every member all across the world!
I had a busy February and March, so I watched two month worth of Weekender and XLBS in two weeks. Oh man, what prizes I have missed! Now finally I am back on schedule, and it’s like a long awaited arrival back home for me.
Shame the meetup is on the Saturday night as I doubt I can make it after the show, was hoping for something on Friday before. Look forwarding to Salute and maybe saying hello to a few of you. Great show and hope you are having a good weekend.
List for me is
Terrain, mostly trees
Games, maybe Blood Red Skies, Mythos and whatever grabs my attention…… maybe Starwars Legion
Because Gamemat.eu is not at the show I have already ordered 2 of the double-sided 6×4 mats
@warzan it wasn’t condoms that people shoved up thier nose when I was a teen, but rubber bands and those long balloons…..and that was about 30 years ago.
I remember it being those thin flexible glowsticks about 16 years ago… What if this means that there’s now a shortage of condoms, and the teenagers doing this will end up with more pregnancies, so there will be more idiots to get caught up in the next generation of stupid challenges, further reducing the availability of preventetives and exponentially compounding the problem every 16ish years…
This project seacrh thing sounds awesome. I hope we will also be able to filter by factions and I know I’d love to be able to search tutorials for colour or effect keywords when I’m having issues with something tricky. I’m not sure how that could be implimented. As to rating tutorials and seeing who has the highest rating, will it take into account quality over quantity? If somone produces 200 guides and only 1 person likes each, but someone produces 19 and 10 people like each I hope there is some way to reflect that the 19 guys work… Read more »
Thank you for the kind words and thanks again for the golben button.
I really like the direction BoW is taking with the new site and I’m looking forward to using the new projects feature. For sure I’ll be QR-coding my storage boxes like there’s no tomorrow!
“Hobby social network that is not Facebook” nails it. Facebook has the privacy issues, but also the fact that it is all based on feed of what is latest makes it non-ideal platform for things like project logs. And navigating all the different FB groups is such a mess.
Justtin the closet Horus worshiper that could explain the hair then?
I am loving the look of the projects page. Here are a few thoughts: Following on from Justin comment re armies and being able to scan an army QR code at a tournament. I can see these being used at conventions, so if you, a group of friends your club or even a start up company are putting on a demo/participation game at a convention, you could use the QR code so visitors/potential participants could scan the code to find out more about the game, whether the game is the kind they want to participate in and even write a… Read more »
Hey @elysium64, You could just leave a project active, but I don’t think putting a project On Hold or even Cancelled would be that embarrassing as once the system is up and people have had time to use it I’m sure everyone of us will at least put something on hold. I have LOADS of things on hold. It’s just the nature of what we do as projects can take weeks maybe even years for some of us (holding hand up right now). I think it’s a good idea for us to mark what the state of a project is.… Read more »
Hi @Lloyd,
If I finish an army, closing the project, and then a year latter want to add another squad, is that a new project?
Just set it back to active mate 🙂
It is alright @Lloyd, I was kinda joking on that bit, I actually like the idea as it will help me keep tabs on what I am doing as well as remind me of what paints I used on older projects
DND Beyond is a good resource however you don’t get everything (with a free account) unless you purchase the rulebooks and get a sub to DND beyond. It is also a licensed product (DND Beyond was developed by Curse) so if you purchase the digital rules and DND Beyond fails you will lose those books.
In the Netherlands they have build a site called Catawiki. The site has 2 sides 1 is Veilingen(auctions) and 1 is Catalogus(catalogue). You can choose languages when you enter the site. In the Catalogus side you can enter your collection and you can help to expand the catalogue by adding items that are not yet in the catalogue. You can choose too have you collection public or private. You also can see what other collectors have and can have a zoeklijst(searchlist) these means that if someone on the site puts your search item for sale you get an email so… Read more »