Sticky Let's get some votes in for the downvote button. How do you think downvoting should be implemented?
There's two options;
Up: You can downvote any comment. Everyone can see who voted, up and down.
Down: Downvoting is only optionally available for forum topics, set by the topic starter (no special role needed). Comments on other pages can't be downvoted.
P.S. You can't downvote this comment in the feed, you can in the forum topic.
Thought of a quicker and easier way to do Ustats. I was thinking that while doing ustats you can copy and paste the current stats onto your ustats and then add or remove any powers necessary.
It's not lazy. I can at least make it different from the actual ones and see if there are any powers missing or needed to be added. It's even more relevant now to have this feature because the data loss affected my Ustats and I would have to go through the same amount of time it took me to add them in again.
That's lazy and also wrong. Why do you want to make it different? at least doesn't work for you. The ustats you added are because I forced you to add to edit characters, so if your ustat is wrong, then Stat is definitely wrong as well.
You don't have to worry about data loss so much. I'm sure by the end of the week most users will be doing their own re-edits.
@Galactus, this is great! Thank you! Not sure why I didn't think to ask this before but can we also get favorite Universes to show up on the users Faves page?
I've been working on the ability to add multiple Species to a character, making it a 'fusion' / 'Hybrid' character.
If that is not what you meant, please explain.
I was more referring to characters like Vegito/Gogeta, Omnimon and the Superman/Batman/GL fusion from World's finest. Character's that are mergers of 2 or more characters physically. This could also be a tag, now that I'm thinking about it if that would be less of a headache.
I was just thinking it would be nice to have a type to sort those fused characters. Like Vegito here would be a Saiyan/Fusion. And I know there's a power, but not all of the fused characters are made that way or there are characters that can fuse that they themselves aren't fused yet. Does that make sense?
I'm putting my own suggestion here, so I won't forget;
Make updating profile pictures a separate edit option, so we won't have useless image changes. And make it locked by default.
If in the movies section, the characters of the movie universe can be displayed and characters can selected and added by checking a box, the editing speed of the movie section will be greatly increased. something like this:
I'll think about it.
It can trigger an event, if it reaches enough voting points, that adds the item to the database. You can't undo your vote if that happens.
How often do you want to undo your vote? If it's very often, maybe think twice before voting?
I mean, that part makes sense.
I just mean sometimes I mis-click and it's annoying. This isn't that important a suggestion, just wanted to put it out there.
If we separate their power too and don't count classic version powers for earth-616 version Which I think will have many opponents, specialty marvel fans!
Aren't the classic versions of characters ultimately just the exact same character as the main base canon character just earlier on in the base canon timeline? If so, why do we need them? Seems like just two of the same character just at a specific part of their history. I get different versions of the character on the same universe timeline when they are temporarily powered up (or down) but if it they are both just base power versions, why have them? Am I just missing something on the classic versions then? Just my thoughts, I guess, but would certainly be willing to hear any reasons they should exist separately. I don't actually mind if they exist, I just don't see why they do.
I always thought they were similar to DC's Pre-Crisis versions. Differences are more noticeable in some than others. For example, Classic Doctor Strange was Eternity level and Classic Drax was just:
I don't see a need for the others (Hulk and Juggernaut) though.
I was thinking about making it mandatory to add an artist to uploaded (gallery) images. Give credit where credit's due.
Also to make the minimum size a bit higher, quality over quantity.
Any thoughts on this?
As the one who added the most images, I Always try to find the artist name, But sometime is not possible and some images doesn't have artist: image from movies, cartoons.
@Ezio I can limit it to the Comics category at least. For Movies / TV, Cartoons and Games make it mandatory to add a Universe? Making it (indirectly) connect to the publishers/creator.
It is sometimes difficult specially for Interior pages. Why do you think I still haven't fixed all those Unconnected images? I know all those characters but I search them one by one in google.image to find their artists.
Most comic image have 3 artist: Penciler, Inker and Colourist.
I wonder how this happens. Since you have to upload an image for an item, there's always at least one connection. So someone has to manually remove that connection.
How about just deleting all those unconnected images? I'll make it impossible to remove the 'last' connection for an image.
I can say most of blackestbrightestday and my unconnected images are happened when a user removed lots of connection from superman gallery and I'm still trying to fix it. but I think some user use your server as personal upload center.
@Galactus, this is actually one of the reasons why I wanted a search function for gallery images by user and characters. Early on I added some images but if I found later that they were duplicates and I didn't see a way to delete it, I just assumed removing the character and/or artist at the time would take care of it. Only found out later it doesn't. Now that I have image delete rights, I wanted to go back and find my unconnected images and delete them. I also sometimes want to add more characters to an image that I couldn't identify originally or found out might have gotten wrong but searching in the characters or artist pages that were also connected to that image are sometimes so large they are hard to find. So I thought searching by user-myself and character or multiple characters would give me a smaller set of images to look through and find it. That was just my thought there.
As for requiring an artist, I agree with @Ezio. Sometimes the artist isn't properly credited on some great images we find. I try to put them on everything that I can identify one for though. Have even added them (and characters) to images that other users have uploaded if I could identify them and they were missing. But I still wouldn't suggest requiring it though.
Suggestion: what if it were possible to give a power statistic to objects as well?
Example:
The First Firmament vs. Captain America + Ultimate Nullifer.
465 B vs 204 + 200 B https://www.superherodb.com/90-233121-12331/
Like give a Tier to the character that explains how dimensional they are, for example: Mr Mxyzptlk is 5D and he would get points from the dimensional tiering like he does with the power tier. We can have the dimensional tiering set up like the current tiering system.
I understand.
How much do you think that should influence/add to the overall class of a character? Or should it only influence a specific stat? And how many dimensions are there in fiction?
This might be too hard or complex to implement but something I'd like to see when people vote on battles is how easy or hard they think the victor would win the battle. For example in a Captain America vs Galactus battle people would vote in favour of Galactus stomping where as is in Captain America vs Iron Man people who voted Stark would vote for the part that says he barely won or it was a close battle.
Basically when you vote for someone, you have a secondary vote button for how well they'd win.
@Taurus That's true but not everyone says so. And also I'm seeing a lot of people say someone stomps on battles where at the very best they win with hard difficulty.
@Galactus Actually exactly that. So like after you vote for whoever, there's an optional secondary prompt that says easy, medium or hard in terms of how easily they'd win.
Its a bit of a long shot but the main reason why I asked this is because of the Superman vs Thor page. The fact that its so highly contested should show that it would be a hard battle for whoever wins but I've seen a few people say Superman/Thor stomps. I was wondering how many people actually think that way for either side. @Taurus You mean in situations where you have that 1 guy who carries the team? If so then I've seen that a lot too.
@Galactus, another suggestion I have is a way to search your Gallery Images. Obviously, if you're just looking for a particular character or artist, you can just find them on their pages but I am thinking more along the lines of searching by user (uploaded by) to bring up all your own images for maintenance. I know there are images that I uploaded early on when I joined that I could clean up and add to more characters or even find that are not associated to any characters, objects, etc. that could be deleted and cleaned up as well. If I could find those, I could fix them up some and save some memory on the server too. Could that be added?
@Galactus, an image search would be great but if it gets too messy, don't worry about it. The user gallery page you added will definitely help too. Thank you!
@Galactus, I know you're working on getting the sort features in our Battles pages to carry over past the first page which will certainly help if I am looking for a particular battle. However, when you've created enough battles that the number of pages you have to search is enormous, it's still difficult to find a specific battle. I know you can also just create the battle again as if it is new and it will pull it up but sometimes I can't remember every character I put in it, especially when you create a 16 vs 16 size battle. I was wondering if it would be possibly to create a Battle Search function where we could search with multiple selections like user (created by) and then maybe even multiple characters as well so that the search results would bring up all battles the user created with those one, two, or however many specific characters you search by that are involved in the battle on either team. Is that something that would be worth adding? Just a thought.
@Galactus, I usually do check to see it they already exist. The only ones I didn't recently was a set of requests for characters going into a universe the requester had just requested and gotten too so I just assumed they didn't exist since the universe was brand new (within a day for sure). Maybe I was wrong though. Also, on at least a few occasions, I have searched to see if they existed and didn't find them only to find it later after I had upvoted too. Maybe an occasional glitch there in those rare cases. I also noticed a few other times after I'd upvoted a character that I didn't find in my search for it but that existed under a different identity so I tried to start searching both superhero name and real name when possible too. Either way however, I'm sorry about that. I know that just creates extra work so I do try not to add duplicates and I've downvoted/removed many requests that I have found to already exist in the database too but I will still continue to try to keep getting better at catching those. Sorry again.
@Galactus, still I'll do my best. It actually bothers me when I miss them too.
Also, forgot to mention/reply to your message above about looking into adding a search for battles by characters ("two or three"), it would be great to be able to search by as many as possible in a 16 v 16 battle. However, like I mentioned for the image search as well, if it just gets too messy, don't worry about it. It would be useful in some cases that I've come up with but I've survived without it thus far, so no big deal if it is more difficult than it's worth. Thank you!
I suggested this once and will recommend it again...remove stats altogether, sorry for these harsh words, but they have become total bullshit...
currently, it goes like this: this wall knocked out Silver Surfer a Tier 6 being so this wall should be Tier 6 as well...
Not going to happen. The reason I started this website, almost 17 years ago, was to have a simple way to compare characters (by power) from all publishers. That didn't exist then, and it still doesn't exist other than SHDb.
Stats are what make up the Class (that thing to easily compare).
I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the stat/class system. Even if we have to do a complete overhaul (again).
The only problem is that even the best system does not help if it gets ignored anyways. Not to mention that stats and especially superpowers are currently assigned randomly with the sole purpose of having a character reach a specific 'class' which matches the opinion of the editor.
Currently stats represent what class a character should have based on it's last editor's opinion, and have nothing to do with factual information.
A complete overhaul of the stat/class system, seems to be an almost impossible mammoth task, why I thought removing stats would be an easier solution.
Of course, having stats as a way to compare characters from various works of fiction is interesting, but only as long as these stats aren't just a representation of 'popularity' of characters.
I agree with you on almost everything you said. There will always be some interpretation of the facts.
The Class shouldn't even be looked at when editing stats. It's just a result of the stats/powers. Now that I think of it, maybe remove it from the edit page...
I see plenty people asking to edit (popular characters) because it has been a while (few months) since the last edit. How is that a good reason?
Some characters get edited multiple times a week. And still about 2/3 of the characters don't have any stat/power info.
Those are two things that should be improved at least. There's plenty more.
Removing the SHDb stats and just keeping the uStats is still on my mind. With some better filtering to ignore the excesses. This way we could potentially have more accurate stats. And the editing will be all about the information (bio, history, etc).
And I really need to improve the super power points system.
So much to do... :)
Hi @Galactus I was wondering if you can add a sorting filter within collections, like sort characters in collections by Score Level, Tier Level, Alphabetical, etc.
At this point, sorting on Class is a bit hard. I'm converting some 'real-time' things to having them stored in the db. After that is done, I can (more easily) sort by Class.
I still want to add a 'list'-option as well, like your faves or uStats are shown. With some extra info.
This all combines nicely in one update.
There is no dark theme yet. I have been working on it and is partially in a decent state.
If I have something ok-ish, I'll add it as an 'experimental' option.
Is there any way we could connect locations to characters? In the same way items can be connected. Like Gotham to the Bat Family or the Baxter Building to the Fantastic Four.
Okay, cool. It was just something that occurred to me as I was looking through the League of Legends champs and the Planeswalkers from MtG as something that might be useful.
i think it would kinda be cool to be able to give places and weapons stats. and maybe even make battles between them; the powers and stats would be different like for the weapon its power, durability strength and speed also the powers would be different and for places, it would be: resources, net worth, population and durability like just imagine Stormbreaker and Mjolnir vs infinity gauntlet or Wakanda vs Asgard. Also when making a variation battle with a weapon the character would the weapon would get a higher stat in the battle. I think this could open a lot more fun possibilities and honestly, it could make the website feel more diverse.
Ow I'm so sorry I let u wait this long I guess places might be a little bit to goofy for this website so I agree. But maybe u could add vehicles? Like imagine the main dceu's batmobile vs the classic Nolan verse batmobile idk it's just an idea
It is useful for each character to add their own psychology, as well as hobbies, biography and goals. I am against, but you have the right to disagree.
1. It's been 10 months and 6 days, with updates since than.
2. This isn't a suggestion -> wrong topic
3. You haven't rated any movie yet, so what's the hurry?
I've set some deadlines in the past, but I hardly ever make them, so not going to do that again.
I was already working on letting you just pick two species, automatically making it a hybrid. I got stuck somewhere in the code, but that is what it eventually be like.
Be able to select which part of the uploaded picture is displayed as the profile picture (kind of like Discord). I keep needing to crop images in screenshots so the person isn't decapitated or something and that's pretty annoying sometimes.
Well if you want to start a conflict between users then go ahead @Galactus
If you see the person who down-votes the comments you know people already get offended about it. So up to you @Galactus it depends if you want to start a conflict.
I wrote a whole comment on it and deleted it again, since there're too many ways to approach this.
It's either going to be no voting at all, or (just like Youtube) only upvoting. I don't like how Youtube works with the downvoting, but for comments I think it will work. You can upvote if you like the comment, or reply (and explain) if you don't.
@Galactus A good idea would be to just take the down-vote system out and only have the up-vote system if that's what you are saying.
I like that idea, I don't like the idea where users can see who down-voted the other users comment because then some fight will go on and I have to stop it. I mean I'm sure you don't like fights too. I'm Just trying to protect this website. I've been doing it for years.
@Galactus I wanted to ask, what makes you think that people seeing down-votes was a good suggestion in the 1st place? You do realize that if you add that, there will be repercussions for adding that suggestion.
@Jakcj You're assuming I think it's a good suggestion. It was just A suggestion. There are pros and cons to either having an anonymous or open voting system. The question is; do we want the bullies (user downvoting for no reason, or targeting a specific user) to stay anonymous, or should we be able to call them out on their behaviour?
I think with an open voting system, there will be way less useless downvotes, thus making your suggested 'repercussions' less likely to happen.
That's the problem I have with, it's not that they are so called bullies. I mean I don't care how many times I get down-voted but these users on this site care about it a lot. I got carried away sorry @Galactus. Yes now I see that you have clarified it now. I always tell users that they shouldn't be offended by being down-voted and all but I can't stop them. So that's why I wanted to stop you with everything I could do. Because people just get offended about it for some strange reason.
@Jakcj: What about those of us who enjoy the conflict? Those of us who wake up everyday itching for someone to respond to our comment? Who intentionally say things to get a rise out of someone for our pure entertainment? What about us? Are you just going to turn a blind eye to us? What if we want to know who downvoted us, so that we can confront them about it? Make them accountable for their actions? You have to think about these things, man. It just isn't fair.
Once again, we shouldn't be caring about down-votes. It's more safe if we just remove the down-votes and only keep the up-votes. I know that everyone wants to know who uses the down-vote for abuse and all that but here's my question. WHY do you let it bother you so much? They are just points and nothing else and we shouldn't be crying about it if we get down-voted. Nobody on this site has said this except for me and @Ezio.
That's why I want to either get rid of down-votes or keep it anonymous. It's better this way, trust me!
@Galactus I will do anything I can to save Superhero Database. Literally I tagged my friends just to down-vote that comment because I thought you were going to do something bad. But yeah you are right, discussions are good and I'm glad I got to speak with you about it. Sometimes there's just misunderstanding and all that.
@Galactus I had a thought in my head, thinking about our dates we joined. I was thinking that each birthday a user has on this site would be noticed. So that way we could give them a happy birthday for staying on this site for the # of years they have. A suggestion I had
It will also be cool if u make the battles bigger. Now, there is only 16 characters in one team. You can make it something like 20 to make creating battles even more fun
It used to be 9, now it's 16. If I had made it 20, you probably would have wanted 28... In other words, people always want more.
Who is going to take the time to compare 20 vs 20 characters, they're already cutting corners on 16 -vs- 16.
Should have a better feature to give power ratings of a character other than one is more powerful than another because one's a Multiversal (tier 8) character and automatically stronger than a Universal (tier 6) character. For example, the original Superman DC comics character on here is a Universal character (we all know that) but we also all know that he can easily go toe to toe with tons of Multiversal characters on any given day. There's got to be a better way, isn't there?
I knew that, I read this info 2 + yrs ago. But why aren't your editors editing and giving the characters their proper tier levels then? Heck you boy Ezio even told me yesterday that they don't because there are some people who think a certain character is too high and other think it's low, so instead of giving the character it's true tier level, power ratings, they find a way to appease and please everyone by finding a way to compromise by manipulating the ratings. Heck I looked at all your editors, 3/4 of them have less editing than me and are between 15 and 23 yrs old and do not edit anything. You have a great website, heck you create codes and you're old enough to see that with a website with 900,000 pages of data but only 1000 and change users active in the last 2 months that something is wrong. Your editors are scared sh*tless to edit because if they don't get it right, then a certain someone doesn't thinks it's right, that they'll lose their editor positions that they are not using for none other more reasons then to say to their friends that they an editor on a website. check your editors activities yourself. I just want the characters to be given their true proper ratings based on facts and not for trying to please someone.
Show the universe of the characters in front of their names in the section Adding links to photos (Like the character selection part in 'create battle' page).
It's probably the nr1 feature on my list.
I tried to work it into the current system, but couldn't figure it out.
Realm Forger is more important right now.
I knew what you meant actually, just wanted some time to come up with a good excuse. :)
I could use the Comic Vine API, but that's against their rules. Maybe I could look into the Marvel API and if DC has one, I could use that. In general, I need a source of comics data.
For uStats, get rid of power levels more than 100 times greater or less than the average to lose some outliers. Some people just put 46773B for everything.
What if the first three people put those excessive stats in? That will become the baseline and all 'real' stats will be ignored.
I have the somewhere on my to-do list, to use a median instead of an average.
There are already some simple filters at place to exclude some uStats that won't be used in the calculation of the average. (they still show in the list, though)
I would like to be able to search the database for any/all characters that possess a combination of specific powers. Could someone create such a filter capability for us users?
This is complicated. Because adding only information and photos has a certain value, adding a stats has another value, and all of this only counts for the first person to do so.
@Ezio Actually, you get points for each unique item you edit, once. So, if you edit the same character multiple times, you get points just once. Multiple people can get points for the same item, but just once.
Maybe on superpower pages, sort people with that power based on what level they have that power (like, have a purple/blue/grey icon or border on the profile). Idk, just seems like a good way to categorize.
While I'm on that topic, some powers don't have that level option (ex: Super strength is just automatically purple). Can that be edited? If, so, how?
@masterking2 Those sound more like Types. If they are 'conditions' they are most likely Types.
Holy = Spirit?
Nanite = Cyborg? (there's a difference, I know)
@masterking2 Not sure what you're trying to say. Missing some punctuation.
God / Eternal is already a 'Species'
Nanite is robotics. So 'Robot' (Species) will do for now. (Better than my previous suggestion)
I only added Angel because we have Demon and Demon physiology while Angel Physiology doesn't have its counterpart. I mainly ask because Magic the Gathering has Angels as a pretty significant multiversal species and they're pretty non-demoninational only drawing from classical depictions of winged humanoids. There are a few other categories that could work, but I thought it might be nice to add for records purposes because of groups like the DC Archangels. But if not, that is perfectly fine.
What if the "Items Added" page had a filter like the "Battles" page? So we can filter the items we added. And the filter option would obviously be.
1. Characters.
2. Objects.
3. Locations.
4. Universes.
5. Teams.
6. Powers.
7. Artists.
8. Publishers.
Maybe a site like this one https://www.superherodb.com/characters/class/ could be added but instead of character class have the list sorted by the most favorited characters.
Something like: 200+ times favorited, 100-199 times, 50-99 times etc...
1. I think Universes need to be upgraded. They should be available for editing. Currently they only look like fancy collections. Al they have are Discription/Inculdes Character section and comment section. It would be better if there was a history section also a image section. Though I think the image section should have certain restriction Like they should only have group images. Also we should be able add profile images to Universes.
Agreed.
How about I just collect all images from everything that is within that universe? It will result in a massive collection of images for some universes, but for most it will be fine.
I'm just not sure what kind of image you can upload that shows the universe itself.
I didn't mean images taht showed entire universe. But images that include significant locations , objects , teams of that universe. Like asgard , knowhere , the Earth of that universe etc.
Also when I said group images I meant images like these. .
Basically team images. No individual images. Unless the image hold item previously described in the comment.
Also it would be nice if "First Appearence" was showed in the Discrption/Characters page.
Wooo eeeee I just thought of a brand new idea... Ok so you know how you like @ people but as you may know some people have extremely long usernames or hard to remember or write... For example ratniknasjevuru2005 or something... Supper annoying to type. So there should be a 4 digit code for all users example: #2719 #2618
It would just be a little easier :)
Not sure what the letters stand for, but how's this for a solution;
You type (for instance) '@C' and it shows all users starting with C. You can continue typing to narrow it down. Then click/tab the user you want to @.
The letter option is smart! 👍🏻 Can you give me some examples, or explain how it works exactly? If I understand correctly, with that system you would have a maximum of 66,924?
If I do the user suggestion option, I have to test it for mobile a bit better than how I normally test my new additions. ;)
I've looked into your idea a bit more. I can turn the user id into a hex code (for example: D704) and use that. We will run out of 4-digit codes after id 65,535. Currently we are at 57K.
I can create a separate table to generate user codes only for activated members, which is roughly at 31K. So we're not even half-way in 16 years. Guess that will be enough. After that, it will generate a 5 digit code.
I'm sorta live-updating my comment as I research the best way to do this. I'm just going to make a 5 digit code. That will give me over 1 million user ids opposed to 65.5K with a 4-digit code. And I don't need to create a separate table for it, I can just generate the code off of the user id dynamically.
Another 'live' update. What's the use of a 5-digit code, if we can just use the user-id. It's 5 digits, it's unique. We're only at 57% of them. Why not use the user-id?
So. If we really want a 4-digit code, I need to build a new table with those codes. (Not a huge deal). Or just use the user-id we already have.
I would like to hear from other users what they think about this.
That's great, @Galactus I just think it will be easier for communication with other people. Also, I had another idea, I just don't know if to many people would abuse it. You should be able to mute someone from ping ing you. Like for example, I'm not trying to get anyone in trouble, but just as an example. Azzahra pings me like a hundred times on every battle she creates and it get annoying, idk just a thought
There's two options;
Up: You can downvote any comment. Everyone can see who voted, up and down.
Down: Downvoting is only optionally available for forum topics, set by the topic starter (no special role needed). Comments on other pages can't be downvoted.
P.S. You can't downvote this comment in the feed, you can in the forum topic.
show option for unedited items would be good too.
You don't have to worry about data loss so much. I'm sure by the end of the week most users will be doing their own re-edits.
Over 200 are even smaller than 200x200 pixels.
Should they be deleted?
If that is not what you meant, please explain.
Make updating profile pictures a separate edit option, so we won't have useless image changes. And make it locked by default.
It can trigger an event, if it reaches enough voting points, that adds the item to the database. You can't undo your vote if that happens.
How often do you want to undo your vote? If it's very often, maybe think twice before voting?
I just mean sometimes I mis-click and it's annoying. This isn't that important a suggestion, just wanted to put it out there.
I don't see a need for the others (Hulk and Juggernaut) though.
Also to make the minimum size a bit higher, quality over quantity.
Any thoughts on this?
Most comic image have 3 artist: Penciler, Inker and Colourist.
This is a top 10 of the amount of unconnected images per user, with the date of the last uploaded one.
954 vcowles77 2021-09-30
314 blackestbrightestday 2021-04-10
166 Slash10 2021-08-02
113 TH0R 2021-10-18
105 MoNsTeR 2021-12-15
75 Ezio 2021-09-17
67 ET9 2021-12-17
56 RajinKabir 2021-09-26
50 GivejusticetoKnull 2022-03-09
46 Doomsday 2022-06-14
I wonder how this happens. Since you have to upload an image for an item, there's always at least one connection. So someone has to manually remove that connection.
How about just deleting all those unconnected images? I'll make it impossible to remove the 'last' connection for an image.
As for requiring an artist, I agree with @Ezio. Sometimes the artist isn't properly credited on some great images we find. I try to put them on everything that I can identify one for though. Have even added them (and characters) to images that other users have uploaded if I could identify them and they were missing. But I still wouldn't suggest requiring it though.
Example:
The First Firmament vs. Captain America + Ultimate Nullifer.
465 B vs 204 + 200 B
https://www.superherodb.com/90-233121-12331/
How much do you think that should influence/add to the overall class of a character? Or should it only influence a specific stat? And how many dimensions are there in fiction?
Basically when you vote for someone, you have a secondary vote button for how well they'd win.
Its a bit of a long shot but the main reason why I asked this is because of the Superman vs Thor page. The fact that its so highly contested should show that it would be a hard battle for whoever wins but I've seen a few people say Superman/Thor stomps. I was wondering how many people actually think that way for either side.
@Taurus You mean in situations where you have that 1 guy who carries the team? If so then I've seen that a lot too.
Just added a User Gallery page (see updates).
In return; could you double check before approving items on the request page? I've seen your name on multiple duplicates the last few days.
Also, forgot to mention/reply to your message above about looking into adding a search for battles by characters ("two or three"), it would be great to be able to search by as many as possible in a 16 v 16 battle. However, like I mentioned for the image search as well, if it just gets too messy, don't worry about it. It would be useful in some cases that I've come up with but I've survived without it thus far, so no big deal if it is more difficult than it's worth. Thank you!
currently, it goes like this:
Stats are what make up the Class (that thing to easily compare).
I'm open to suggestions on how to improve the stat/class system. Even if we have to do a complete overhaul (again).
Silver Surfer vs Kool-Aid Man
Currently stats represent what class a character should have based on it's last editor's opinion, and have nothing to do with factual information.
A complete overhaul of the stat/class system, seems to be an almost impossible mammoth task, why I thought removing stats would be an easier solution.
Of course, having stats as a way to compare characters from various works of fiction is interesting, but only as long as these stats aren't just a representation of 'popularity' of characters.
The Class shouldn't even be looked at when editing stats. It's just a result of the stats/powers. Now that I think of it, maybe remove it from the edit page...
I see plenty people asking to edit (popular characters) because it has been a while (few months) since the last edit. How is that a good reason?
Some characters get edited multiple times a week. And still about 2/3 of the characters don't have any stat/power info.
Those are two things that should be improved at least. There's plenty more.
Removing the SHDb stats and just keeping the uStats is still on my mind. With some better filtering to ignore the excesses. This way we could potentially have more accurate stats. And the editing will be all about the information (bio, history, etc).
And I really need to improve the super power points system.
So much to do... :)
I still want to add a 'list'-option as well, like your faves or uStats are shown. With some extra info.
This all combines nicely in one update.
If I have something ok-ish, I'll add it as an 'experimental' option.
2. This isn't a suggestion -> wrong topic
3. You haven't rated any movie yet, so what's the hurry?
I've set some deadlines in the past, but I hardly ever make them, so not going to do that again.
It's not my priority, so take your time.
Vote up for yes, down for no.
If you see the person who down-votes the comments you know people already get offended about it. So up to you @Galactus it depends if you want to start a conflict.
It's either going to be no voting at all, or (just like Youtube) only upvoting. I don't like how Youtube works with the downvoting, but for comments I think it will work. You can upvote if you like the comment, or reply (and explain) if you don't.
I like that idea, I don't like the idea where users can see who down-voted the other users comment because then some fight will go on and I have to stop it. I mean I'm sure you don't like fights too. I'm Just trying to protect this website. I've been doing it for years.
I think with an open voting system, there will be way less useless downvotes, thus making your suggested 'repercussions' less likely to happen.
So, yes, I did think about the pros and cons.
That's why I want to either get rid of down-votes or keep it anonymous. It's better this way, trust me!
Allow users to name group battles?
Who is going to take the time to compare 20 vs 20 characters, they're already cutting corners on 16 -vs- 16.
I tried to work it into the current system, but couldn't figure it out.
Realm Forger is more important right now.
I could use the Comic Vine API, but that's against their rules. Maybe I could look into the Marvel API and if DC has one, I could use that. In general, I need a source of comics data.
I have the somewhere on my to-do list, to use a median instead of an average.
There are already some simple filters at place to exclude some uStats that won't be used in the calculation of the average. (they still show in the list, though)
It would be easier for new users and probably for me.
Most of them have a clear hint. Put your Sherlock hat on and find out how to get them.
While I'm on that topic, some powers don't have that level option (ex: Super strength is just automatically purple). Can that be edited? If, so, how?
And then for type could we get spirit/ghost/spectre (however you want to put it) and Werewolf/Lycanthrope added?
If not, that is perfectly fine.
I've added 'Spirit' and Werewolf as Types.
Holy = Spirit?
Nanite = Cyborg? (there's a difference, I know)
God / Eternal is already a 'Species'
Nanite is robotics. So 'Robot' (Species) will do for now. (Better than my previous suggestion)
1. Characters.
2. Objects.
3. Locations.
4. Universes.
5. Teams.
6. Powers.
7. Artists.
8. Publishers.
Something like: 200+ times favorited, 100-199 times, 50-99 times etc...
How about I just collect all images from everything that is within that universe? It will result in a massive collection of images for some universes, but for most it will be fine.
I'm just not sure what kind of image you can upload that shows the universe itself.
Also when I said group images I meant images like these.
Basically team images. No individual images. Unless the image hold item previously described in the comment.
Also it would be nice if "First Appearence" was showed in the Discrption/Characters page.
It would just be a little easier :)
You type (for instance) '@C' and it shows all users starting with C. You can continue typing to narrow it down. Then click/tab the user you want to @.
If I do the user suggestion option, I have to test it for mobile a bit better than how I normally test my new additions. ;)
I can create a separate table to generate user codes only for activated members, which is roughly at 31K. So we're not even half-way in 16 years. Guess that will be enough. After that, it will generate a 5 digit code.
I'm sorta live-updating my comment as I research the best way to do this. I'm just going to make a 5 digit code. That will give me over 1 million user ids opposed to 65.5K with a 4-digit code. And I don't need to create a separate table for it, I can just generate the code off of the user id dynamically.
Another 'live' update. What's the use of a 5-digit code, if we can just use the user-id. It's 5 digits, it's unique. We're only at 57% of them. Why not use the user-id?
So. If we really want a 4-digit code, I need to build a new table with those codes. (Not a huge deal). Or just use the user-id we already have.
I would like to hear from other users what they think about this.