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I have another suggestion. Perhaps, if a character doesn't have official SHDB stats, they would display the user stats? It wouldn't count towards their official stats, but just as a display until official stats are made. I mean, when previewing a character in a collection or hub, it would show the Ustats score in case the character doesn't have official stats. Is this manageable?
I think you should make @Alien_X an editor. I've been on here for only ~2 months & have seen he has shown knowledge of so many universes it's not funny. He's serious about battles (Unlike me if it's an obvious meme battle) and, I kid you not, only a mere 3 minutes after he logged on his entire thing on the right side of the activity page has changed. He added that much since he logged in. He told me himself that he has three tabs open of the DB. And the final nail in the wall is the fact in one year he has a score that rivals @AkhilPDX 's who has been on for four years. I hope you consider this.
-Memento Mori
It is a bad way to give users a role based on the score. Right now, a user is muted because he thought he could be an editor by raising his score and spamming all the features of the site. I'm talking about the whole idea, not the person you mentioned.
Well, become an editor is more about editing stats and I'm still a little upset about the difference between stat and ustat of characters I gave him, and he added superpower for only 10 of 295 ustat he entered.
Well, please, still look into it & consider the idea. He's kind, not afraid to vote the minority & from what I've seen when he describes why he picked who he did it always seems like a solid argument. He's also a bit of a laugh, in my battle of Shaggy vs Obi-Wan Kenobi he used the memes to destroy the memes.
-Memento Vivere
@Galactus I think he talks about characters in collection, but I have same suggestion about forum, add sorting by popularity (most like) and most comment option.
Hi @Galactus remember back then when the 1 vs 1 battles and the team battles were separated. The 1 v 1 battles were blue and the team battles were yellow? Can we do something to separate it again because I prefer to vote on the 1 v 1 battles.
Hey Galactus could add machine to types of items? When I added the Godmaker a while back I felt as if all the other choices were giving the impression that it was small or easily transportable when the Godmaker is a huge machine powered by energy frim a dwarf star.
How about a 1 v 1 v 1 battle option? There's some oddly similar characters that'll be cool to put them in a three way free for all such as Ozai, Father, and Endeavor (that are bad dads with fire powers) And there's so many more combinations you could do.
When a requested character is rejected, the user will not be able to reapply the same character for a specified period of time.
Revert the "above the editor" limit for Super Powers vote. because Super Power can affect all characters and other Super Powers.
I am starting to think we need a third option in the Requests page. More and more, I am seeing requests for characters, verses, objects, etc. that already exist in the database. An "already exists" button or something that flags these for either further investigation or let's the requestor know that they need to check again and if they still think their request is still unique, to provide further details to differentiate it from what already exists. Just thinking this might save you form having to delete duplicates all the time if the rest of us users can help you identify some of them before they officially get created.
And speaking of duplicates, I remember there was a way to flag a character or item for deletion but cannot seem to find that anymore. I recently requested a new character and somehow, when the character was added/created, two (a duplicate) was created at the same exact time. Not sure how that happened but was hoping I could add the duplicate to a list to be deleted and removed but I cannot seem to find the collection or whatever it was that existed before that served this purpose. Please let me know if there is an official way to request that you remove this duplicate. Thank you!
First, I think that there should be a feature to sort collections and universes by power level.
Second, you should update the current features list, hubs are now available and so are versions.
Also, when might battle royales be coming to SHDB?
I have suggestions about Powers.
1. When we select Omnipotence then Omniscience and omnipresence should also be automatically selected.
2. When we select Nigh-Omnipotence there should only be 4 other powers available to be selected . They are Omnipresence, Omniscience, Nigh-omnipresence and Nigh-omniscience.
I like that I can see how many likes things have now.
It would be cool if there was a way for us to see what users liked it.
For instanse, I could click on something that would show me all the users who added a battle to their favorites, or a user.
Hi @Galactus I have a cool suggestion and it's pretty easy to do. So whenever I click on random battle and don't want to make a vote. I would like a shortcut way to select another random battle that generates me from a different one. It's a cool idea because I always have to click battles to select another random battle. It's not hard at all.
Comments get deleted after 2 years. That would be too much space. Take a look at Blotskya. He has like over 1 thousand comments. Just telling you my advice this would be too much and unnecessary.
@Galactus: it’ll be useful for finding comments and battles that you may have forgot of. It could be like Twitter in how it works. Please give a reason for why it wouldn’t be a good idea.
Okay @Galactus & @Ezio here's a crazy idea. So you know how we have user scores? Well I say we use those points we earn (But still keep the total score) to upgrade a special oc that instead of getting character stat points by abilities we "spend" our user points to get an oc we upgrade instead of straight up op right away. Does this make sense?
It's a cool idea but the points on the user are just to represent how much you have gathered and accomplished from the site. They aren't used for like coins.
Creating OCs is a creative process. You don't want to limit creativity with some sort of game mechanic.
The overall idea of using your points for special things isn't bad, but as Ezio said, will promote spamming certain activities.
I think this should be an option for character editing.
It should have the character show who they have beaten canonically (for example Juggernaut, Carnage, Green Goblin, etc.). In addition to that, it raises their power level to match more of that of the person who is defeated (for example Cloud might be higher in stats because he beat Sephiroth).
Galactus I believe you are already doing some of the things I am going to suggest. But i am saying this anyway
1. When we search a character in the top search bar in the top 20 results it shows publisher name beside the real name of the character or after main alias (if the real name isn't added). But I think it would be more useful if it showed universe (Short form of the universe like MCU or DCEU etc) rather than publisher. It would be easy for us to differentiate characters. Because most of the people have have the basic idea about comics.
2. Also when we are checking a certain character's profile the universe name shows below creator name. But i think it would be more effective if it showed below the character's Main alias and real name and above the character's menu (bio/history/powers/movies/images/battles etc).
3. Now this is about searching characters. There should be a filter for searching characters by universe. We can add the short form of the universes there. And this filter should also be added in the top search bar , creating battles , adding characters or objects to collections , connecting characters to images , changing characters to a battle and while creating variation etc.
1. Agreed. I've started converting pages to show the Universe more prominently. I still have to do the search features. The results will probably look similar to how the characters are displayed on the Characters page.
2. I am working on a little redesign for the profile headers, but I'll add the Universe in header section for now.
3. Yes, all search options should be updated to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
I have a suggestion @Galactus and @Ezio if you read this too. I think that we should add more colors to the roster and are profile pages. We only have Blue, Red, Purple, Gold and Green. How about we add more colors? Dark Red, Orange, White, Grey, Just more colors is all I think of a good suggestion for the site. Just being creative for you guys.
I've been thinking about if we need extra colors. Mainly at the higher Classes, like 1B and up. I was thinking about orange, since that's different enough from the other colors.
These are the current levels:
- Infinite (green)
- 1+ million (green)
- 100+K (yellow)
- 50+K (purple)
- 1+K (red)
- 100+ (blue)
- 100- (white)
Where would orange fit best if we add 1B as a new level.
Hmm for Orange. I wouldn't put it above Green that wouldn't fit right. I'd say it should go right in between Purple somewhere if I had to say @Galactus.
I am sure this has been suggested before in the past but I'll put in my two cents. It would be awesome if there were a way to put multiple images ( on a character page) at once instead of one at at time.
@Galactus I think that there should be a history of battles in profile of each character, where we could see all the battles already done with the character, or at least the majority.
There are literally thousands of battles for most characters. How would you want to scroll through all of those?
There's already a top 10 and latest 10 created. I can make it top 20, 30, etc. how much is enough?
That is part of a future update. The database was already build with that in mind, but I got stuck on some code. I'll pick it up again soon.
It's one of my favourite future features.
This will be limited to characters than can actually exist multiple times, like; Stormtroopers, Terminators, etc.
They haven't been deleted yet, just invisible.
But I want people to edit characters with a fresh eye, not just copy old info that might be 5+ years old.
I was thinking that for almost or every character on here has a feat page of their own. I'm starting to see a difference between class and feats, and I still think characters deserve their own feat page just so we know what they are capable of.
You can use battles comment section (a lot of users do this right now to prove their vote) or characters comment tab (if you start to use it, other users Are encouraged to use it too.
What would be a good name for this feature? It should also include general 'proof' that isn't necessarily a 'feat'. Things like 'Peter Parker hates pineapple on his pizza'.
No. If you're omnipotent you can do anything, you're all powerful. This includes making yourself be everywhere or know everything.
I have changed how the Nigh-Omni's work.
This is partially a question
Is there a way to filter results when you click "Random Battle"?
If not there could be
Searching for battles with a specific character, or searching for battles with only characters from a certain universe, or by number of people in the battles
The Random button isn't as random as you might think. It doesn't create a new battle, but picks an existing one without any user connected and without votes.
Filtering for a specific character is almost impossible. Not the filtering itself, but there will be too many results (thousands for popular characters). Same for specific universe (some exceptions where there aren't many characters in that verse).
Maybe when filtering for two specific characters on one team would narrow it down enough. The filtering needs to be quite specific to get a manageable amount of results.
@Galactus, I think there should be an option in the battles of our profile, where it could be ordered by various orders. For example, from the most recent to the oldest, from the oldest to the most recent, from the most popular to the least popular and from the least popular to the most popular.
@Galactus, I think that when we make a variation of a battle, there should be a place where we can put the trainer of the character who is going to fight.
For example in the battle Hulk vs Thor, it should be possible to create a variation of that battle with Hulk to be trained by Galactus for 5 days and Thor by the Living Tribunal for 5 days.
Recently some powers have been added they are
1. Enhanced Durability.
2. Enhanced Speed.
3. Enhanced Strength.
I think they are unnecessary. This can be easily solved. There are already Super Strength ,Super Speed and Durability. These powers should have 3 levels like most powers. And the above listed powers should be removed.
I wonder why these powers are required at all. If strength, speed, intelligence, and durability stats are entered, powers like Super Strength etc. would be implied by those values anyways.
Totally unnecessary. I've deleted them.
The powers that also are stats are there just to be able to see all characters with that 'power' together. The powers don't add points to the Class.
I was the one that added them. I wanted to differentiate categories such as strength, speed, and durability. Users on this site were debating about character being above peak human condition and not being superhuman. The 'enhanced' in those cases were supposed to be used as the definition of characters like that.
I think it should be possible to add powers to Nigh-Omnipotent beings, or at least omnipresence and omniscience or nigh-omnipresence and nigh-omniscience.
You can just edit it on the page you posted it. I know the edit-button isn't visible right after you post a comment, but you can just refresh the page.
Hi @Galactus I was thinking about a system where you see how many times you voted with or voted against a hero. Meaning say I voted superman 54 times and didn't vote for him 3 times. I would see this sign saying Superman 54-3 comparing the wins and losses. It's a suggestion I had in my head every time I voted on characters.
I think it would be a good addition to the site for normal users to be able to come to the '' edit page '' of a character. For example, a user goes to that page and as he is not an editor the only thing he can do is '' request to edit '' and see the edit history.
Please tell me what you think.
I have something to suggest about battle creation. 1. Teams should be enable to be added to battles. But there should be a failsafe. If there aren't any members added to that team it shouldn't be enabled to be added in battle.
2. Or if someone selects certain characters that are in a team then the team name should appear in the battles name. But for that to happen all the members of that team should be in that battle.
3. Also if someone selects only one character from a team and then selects the team than that previously selected character from that team should be removed from that battle.
There may be a loop hole in there but that pretty much what I suggest.
1 How do you want to present a team in a battle? Some teams have more than 50 (active) members. You could use the team profile image and name, but how do you know what characters are part of that team? One solution; show a popup with all the names, but then there's another loophole:
2 What if, after you've created the battle, the team roster changes? I assume the team on the battle changes with it. But then your vote might be wrong, so you have to re-evaluate all battles with changed teams.
3 What if all members get removed from a team after the battle has been created?
4 What if there's only 1 member?
There are probably more caveats to adding teams to battles, but these just popped up right away.
I think it would be a good idea to create a weaknesses tab in the character pages, which would be written as the story or weapons, I was also thinking of it being selective in the Bio page but I believe that there are many characters with very peculiar and specific weaknesses such as to generalize them.
Here are some power changes:
Fire Control should become Fire Manipulation or Pyrokinesis
Water Control should become Water Manipulation or Hydrokinesis
Air Control should become Air Manipulation or Aerokinesis
Not a lot of people use the fave option for images. 15 to be exact, with half of them only have 1 fave image.
I could actually use the 'liked' image data for a future update.
It shouldn't be too much work to add.
1) That the enable/disable button the private of a DM appears individually in each message in order to change it to private or vice versa without having to edit it, etc.
2) The possibility of closing your edits from the character's editpage itself and you don't necessarily have to always go to your admin.
3) Add tier 10 only to differentiate high-Outerversal characters from the rest of tier 9 baseline Outerversals or normal Outers characters (between which there's a lot of difference in scale). Plus the characters that have this Tier 10 and nigh-omnipotent too will get a power score of 510B (double of 255B) that comes out with Tier 9.
4) When uploading images in a message, it's no longer necessary to use activation commands like ''[img] [/ img]'', but that the pics can be pasted directly and even upload them from your gallery or file explorer.
5) That the only thing requires activation commands are Gifs, with putting ''[gif]'' at the beginning and ''[/gif]'' at the end of the gif's link you want to show, also that it's no longer necessary putting ''[url]'' and ''[/ url]'' to a link so that it activates by itself. However, the option to do ''[url=(link)]sentence[/ url] would be left.
6) That we editors can change the name (I mean the original one) of the characters in the Bio page.
1. The Private-button is a bit of a mess. This is more of a bug report than a feature request. Noted.
2. Good point, easy to implement.
3. Could you make a forum topic about this and maybe name some characters that would be Tier 10. I’m not against adding an extra tier, but I want to see how big the changes would be and hear other peoples thoughts about it.
4. There used to be an auto-convert to image features, but it only worked 70% of the time. There are links to images that don’t end with ‘.jpg’ or ‘.png’. Those links won’t be converted to images. I will look into options to make it easier to add an image, maybe with an ‘insert image’ button or something.
5. Gifs in comments should work like any other image. I’ve answer the rest of your question in the previous point.
6. I want to keep name changes to a minimum, so I’ll leave it up the the Heralds or me. If you want a name changed, you can always ask.
Okay forget what I said last time. I have a better idea. Being able to sort characters on certain categories, such as the following:
Their age
Their alignment (chaotic good, lawful bad, etc.)
Their gender
The genre of the universe they're from
The type of media they are from (books, movies, video games, etc.)
Their powers
Their species
Their role (antagonist, protagonist)
Their tier
Their weapons
and others
That's not how suggesting things work. Naming a list of things and hoping some of them aren't in the website yet. Don't request for the sake of requesting, there is no personal gain to get a request added.
Use the website a little more. If you're actually missing something (like your other suggestion about the full class value), then request it.
As @Ezio said; most of your list is already possible.
1. Age - We don't have a birthday for characters. I can add that, but not all characters have a Gregorian calendar (the one most of us use) birthdate.
2. Alignment - We only have Good / Bad / Neutral. You can filter on that in combination with gender.
3. Gender - That has been in the website for over 15 years... no comment.
4. Genre of Universe - We are still adding the right universes for characters. I can add a 'genre' to each universe. Not sure how many people would want to filter on that.
5. Type of Media - That's what the universes are for, right?
6. Powers / Species - That has been in the website for over 15 years... no comment.
7. Role - The two options are almost the same as the alignment. If there are other 'role'-options, I can look into it.
8. Tier - I could add that.
9. Weapons - You can search a for a weapon and see what characters are connected to it. This is still somewhat in the early stages, so a lot more weapons and connections need to be added.
10 'and Other' - So, now you want me to think about suggestion you might want? That's just lazy... 😉
Hey @Galactus, I was wondering if you could do a sorting button, so that in collections and on the characters page, characters can be sorted by either popularity, power level, or number of battles. It's just an idea.
(moved your question to the suggestions topic 😉)
On the collections page, that shouldn't be a problem, I think. (Will look into it)
But on the characters page it will make it very slow. Since it has to collect all battle data from all 11,000+ characters before it can be sorted. That will slow it down too much.
A similar idea would be to create a separate 'Top 100' page, where you can select all kinds of top 100 lists, including the ones you mentioned. And I can easily add new sorting methods in the future.
That's cool @Galactus, I know it be hard to collect data from battles, but we could sort characters by their popularity on the site just like how we sorted the characters by their class.
@MrJaeger07
I know by definition it means all present or the ability to be anywhere at any time. However when you give a character omnipresence it gives him the infinite speed stat.
@Galactus These are some of the best ideas I've been studying so far:
-Add a switchable dark mode
-The possibility to scroll photos with an arrow in the character galleries.
-Be able to sort your battles by date from older to newer or vice versa, also in alphabetical order, more or less voted, etc...
-When searching for a forum, the matches to what you are writing appear in the same search engine before pressing the magnifying glass, similar to what happens when you search for a character
-Add Tier 10 for ''omnipotent'' characters.
-Make a rework of the notification system with several changes:
1) Put a bell icon below the logout where the red bubble appears in and make it like a sliding tab when you click it.
2) That it notify you not only when they respond to you in a comment, but also when someone votes in one of your battles, they comment on them, give them fav and when they make a variation of them.
3) That it also notify you every time someone adds you to their favorites list and when someone responds in a comment that you also responded.
-That when you do @ to a user you can see the option to mention the matches of the username you are writing, as in Discord, this would be very useful in debates if you want someone to see something.
Like the idea about tier 10. I would prefer to call tier 10 "Boundless". And about the Dark mode. It could be useful if you don't have a dark mode in your browser.
-- The possibility to scroll photos with an arrow in the character galleries.
Will add it to the list.
-- Be able to sort your battles by date from older to newer or vice versa, also in alphabetical order, more or less voted, etc...
You can already sort by; votes, comments, likes and hotness. I’ll add date and alphabetical to the list.
-- When searching for a forum, the matches to what you are writing appear in the same search engine before pressing the magnifying glass
Will add it to the list. (Low priority)
-- Add Tier 10 for ''omnipotent'' characters.
Characters get an ‘infinite’ tier if they are Omnipotent. Tier 10 still feels sort of limiting.
-- Make a rework of the notification system with several changes:
The notification system is in a very basic form right now and needs a lot more feature. I’ll put your suggestions on the list.
-- That when you do @ to a user you can see the option to mention the matches of the username
Good one!
There is something about the statsv2 that I believe is a flaw. When we add stats and tier there should be a limit to the hero class for that stats and tier. And that limit is the power "Omnipotent". When we click omnipotent the highest class for that stats and tier should be shown. And "Nigh-Omnipotent" should be on second. But if we do not click omnipotent and night-omnipotent and click all other powers then the hero clas get even larger than omnipotent.
For instance.
For max stats and for 9 tier characters if we click Omnipotent than the hero class is 4.7B.
And when we click nigh-omnipotent the hero class is 72M.
But if we don't click Omnipotent and nigh-omnipotent and click all the other powers to the max the hero class is 117B. Which is far higher than even Omnipotent. I don't think it should be that way.
Good point.
I've changed the scores. Omnipotent will get 335B and Nigh-Omnipotent will get 255B now.
Omnipotent should show the infinite symbol, so you can't actually see the score. It's currently not showing on the cards. I'll fix that soon.
I think a more suitable name for that power would be Omnipotence rather than Omnipotent. Because, using the word Omnipotent sounds more of a description for the character rather than a superpower. Just a recommendation.
I meant the same flaw was in all tier. In very tier clicking all the other powers would make the hero class even higher than Omnipotent for that tier. Since only gave you example for Tier 9 I thought you might not fix that for lower tiers . But you did fix those.
I think some small changes to stats and powers should be made.
1. The power "Master Martial Artist" should be converted to "Expert Combatant".
2. And in the combat stats the ranking shouldn't be in martial arts. The word "Martial Arts" should be changed to "Fighting technique" because martial arts are human fighting techniques. But is comics and movies there are many other alien or future techniques.
@Galactus It would be really helpful for there to be a place to search for a battle. I think of battles and don't like having to enter the characters every time to see if it's already been made.
I've seen this question before. And I'll answer it the same;
1. How would you like to search for battles?
Let's say you want to search all battles with, let's say, Iron Man: Results: 11,637.
So you need to narrow it down with another character, let's say, Batman. Still over 3,000 results.
2. What's the problem of a battle that has already been made? You want to either vote on it, see the outcome or comment on it. Now it seems like you just want to get some points.
I mean like a specific battle. Like if i want to search the battle “Iron man vs Lex luthor.” Not all battles regarding a character, one specific one to see if it’s already been made or just to find it easier.
The good thing about this is that, you can add all universe from a publisher to that publisher's characters and in this way, the problem of duplicate characters and missing characters from universes will be solved.
I just added 'Hero Hub' on my future update document last week:
"A central Hub for heroes with multiple entries; oi.e. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, etc.
It show a summery of each character that shares the same name. This way you can easily find the right version of that character."
I'm gonna add my own suggestion; Tags.
The idea is that you can add all kinds of tags to items (characters, objects, powers, etc.). Tags can be anything to identify the item by, or be an attribute that isn't covered by any of the default attributes/fields. Tags will be searchable and will have their own pages.
@Ezio : You can use tags for 'Insanely Rich' or to group the Super Powers.
There's going to be an update on species first. Species will be split up in two different attributes; Origin (or Species) and Type.
Origin being things like; human, kryptonian, etc. (multi selectable)
Type will be things like; mutant, zombie, clone, vampire, etc (single select)
@Galactus could you update type list in edit profile page and add ability to combine them or choose more than one. There is a lot of half-bred characters, especially human/demon.
Related to magic
strength
Mental power
Skills
Mutation/improvement
Elements/Molecular
Energy/Force field
Related to quantum physics
Physical Specifications
- An Audit Log for Collections
- History of what someone edited on a character
- Shows if a user has edited a character on their activity I have doubts on this - Ability to create Collections on your collection page on your profile, create battles on your battles page on your profile,
1. I already had the idea of creating some sort of log feature for all kinds of activities. I've added it to my future to-do list.
2. The Edit pages will be updated soon and will have a better working history feature.
3. I've updated the activity page. It now shows the adds and edits of that user.
Don't you think it would be better that the stats doesn't round to the nearest five? So, let it displays, for example, 7, 14, etc. The numbers might not affect much for higher level characters, but it does for human characters.
It used to be that way. But rounding it to the nearest 5 makes it easier to quickly compare stats.
I do agree that lower numbers need to be more precise. So, what if I make it so, that everything below 10 won't be rounded to 5?
I don't know what the others' feel, but I like the numbers to be more precise so I can compare them more accurately. Some characters, especially human characters, have very similar stats that it feels hard sometimes to compare them. Let's say between Nightwing and Red Hood. They probably can have similar stats in every aspect, even on the intelligence and combat. So, even one or two numbers different in the combat, let's say, one is 95 and one is 97, it would make it more convenient to tell which one is superior in combat, for example.
Maybe allow us to get nicknames for example if you comment somewhere people see your nickname but when they go on your profile they see your real name.
1.In the new statsv2 there are three levels of almost every power. We can select any level and every level has a different coloured dot. It would be nice if the power came in the selected level's colour in the character's profile where the statsv2 powers are shown. It would be easy for people to understand in which level the character has that power.
2. If there was shortcut way of creating a collection above the list of collections in every user's profile it would be helpful.
1. Good point.
2. How is that a short-cut?
You only have to click twice (or three times on a phone) to create a new collection; 'Collections' (main menu) > 'New Collection'.
It would save you one click if you happen to already be on your Collection page.
It's not that I can't create a button there, but then there needs to be a button for new battles as well. Having multiple ways of getting somewhere can become confusing.
Should there be a way to set a character's profile pic from the gallery? If there are good images, people won't have to upload it and it takes less time.
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To start with your last question; It's 'not-done' to directly link to images on another domain. It's called bandwidth stealing, so that's a no-go.
Most images in the gallery aren't really usable as profile image. They need to be cropped. So, if I would create tools for that, it will add more 'work' to select an image.
Getting a good profile image isn't about how often you can change an image in a certain amount of time. Even with the current system people don't have a problem changing profile images multiple times a day of the same character. Making it simpler/quicker to do will only add to that.
On everything you edit here; Quality over quantity.
Long time ago there was a weaknesses section. Very simple text based.
If I do bring a weakness option back. Do you have any ideas on specific things it should or could do? Or would it just be a list like Super Powers?
I was writing my suggestions on the "Ways to make this website better!" and I forgot about this forum topic. These were my best ideas;
- Automatic log-in
- Multiple way battles (3, 4 etc. way battles.)
- Comment section for superpowers
- Notified if a battle you want to make exists before "creating" the battle
- Ability to add powers on a character in battle variations
- Draw option
Also, I think normal users should be able to report comments. However, a red flag won't appear on the reported comment. Instead, users with a higher rank will receive the report and take action of it.
1. Added to to-do list.
2. A Battle Royal version is on the to-do list. Just with single characters, not with teams. This might fit your request.
3. Added to to-do list.
4. If you create a battle, it's because you want to vote for it, right? Or see the outcome. Wanting such a warning makes it look like you just want to create battles just for the points or get as many battles on your name? Maybe you can explain a bit more why you want such an option.
5. That's a bug. It should have been possible already. *fixed*
6. Added to to-do list.
Normal users were able to report comments. It was abused too much, so I turned it off.
4. If I try to make a battle that already exists and create the battle, I will not know if the battle has already been made, so if it has, I would have to go back to the battles page and try again. In this case, when I try to make a battle that already exists, I will recieve a small indication that the battle has been made. However, you won't be brought to the battle, but will still be on the create battle page. This way, you won't have to go back to the create battle page and will know that the battle has been made. However, this also makes it a bit complicated if you are searching that battle. Maybe there could be an option to visit that battle? That is what I had in mind.
Sometimes a battle doesn't always appear on the character's battle page. In that case, I have to add the characters in the create battle page and find it. I have also seen users do this.
What if there was a system of mentioning users. Like if anyone adds @ before typing the name of the user the mentioned user will get a notification for that comment. Although other users have to write the full name of the user they wanna mention.
I don't hink thats what @Ezio meant @Dusk. He means a tab that shows the list of approved characters with who requested it. Like our activity feed. @Ezio am i right?
I think that's a good idea. In my case, I requested many characters, so I don't know which has been approved. Should people also be notified if a character they requested gets approved? I believe that would help solve your problem too.
Under 'Contribution' on you main user page, you'll find a link to a page that lists all your items added to the database. It shows date added and date last edit.
If you want any more info in the list, let me know.
It will, the scale for power will be based on how strong their abilities are, but the superpowers you select won't actually change the power number. That is why you see some street characters with a power of 90, it's not because the editor made the power 90, it's because the powers were added on
I hope that makes sense
@ezio there is a bug for example when there is a battle batman VS superman you create a variation and vote batman your vote also gets changed on the main battle
@Galactus I made a suggestion a while ago and got a good response from you but I have yet to hear anything more about it, It was about the idea of having a tab that can flip from icons to lists on the "List of all superheroes and villains" page and all of the "publishers" pages to reduce search times when you are looking through such list.
I was mostly wondering if it was still on the table of "coming soon" or if you have decided that it's not worth the effort? (Either way I know a bit about web design and how hard it can be so I have no intent on holding it against you if you choose to drop it)
I liked the feature you originally had for creating battles where we could change the characters from any 1v1 battle page. For example, if I was on the Thor vs Superman page, I could use the drop down menu to switch it to Hulk vs Superman, but I do not see the drop down menu option anymore.
@Galactus
I appreciate your efforts and hard work. The site kicks ass, imo.
I hear the new update will include quick links to former battles? I.e. clicking on the fights title.
Only other thing I might suggest is a battle-royale format option.
Maybe anywhere from 1v1v1 up to 6v6v6, or up to 9 individual fighters in 1 single brawl, etc.
I'd personally love that option
I have been viewing this website for years now and I appreciate it greatly but this new update is really putting me off, I have tried getting used to it but I find sifting through 30 pages just for marvel character's is very user unfriendly making me not want to look for heros I haven't really heard or don't know much about.
So my suggestion is can you see about making a tab near the top you of the hero list pages where you can flip between having them as a basic list instead of the pictures so you don't have to though 3 pages just to get past the letter A?
@Wolfdragon123 (and anyone else)
The Activity-feed will be updated to show new forums, images, etc. There will also be a Feed-page again soon. This time with auto-update. The uStats will return soon as well.
After all the missing pages/features are back, I will add a stat-benchmark list. Anyone updating a character can use this list to get the stats more accurate and comparable between characters. Speed will be measured in meters per second.
For intelligence I used the Stanford-Binet (SB5) classification, with goes up to IQ 160. I added the 170, since we're talking Super-beings here 😉.
Ohhh okay, I knew there had to be a clever reason why you picked 170 😅
Also another suggestion, I remember how we were able to search the alter egos of the characters in the search bar and get all related characters, but it does not seem to work any more. For example, when I used to search "Bruce Banner", I would get all the different variations of Banner's Hulk, but now I only get a few results that have "Bruce Banner" as the main name
Thanks for letting me know. Didn't notice that seachoption was missing. I'll add it to the Buglist.
There is an 'alter ego' section for characters. So, if you find one 'Bruce Banner', all variation will show up at that section.
With the already proposed search idea, I will be satisfied with what I was proposing, since I imagine that the variations will be accessible during the search.
Love the new updates, but just a few suggestions. On the homepage I liked having the recently created forums and a way to go back to view older comments and I do not see that anymore. On the individual character pages, I think it was good having the ustats just as a reference as to what other people think. For the stats, I like how you made their max lift weight be their strength stat and would also like it if you did the same with the speed and had their max speed be a measure of how fast they can move (without teleportation). Also, just curious, why did you choose 170 for the max intelligence? I'm not complaining, I like that there is a larger range for the stat, but I'm just curious why you choose specifically 170.
Mostly been busy with school, but I still came on time to time to check everything out. I just hadn't been seeing many interesting topics that I really wanted to share my thoughts on so I took a bit of a break. But anyways, how have you guys been?
Sup @Wolfdragon!!! Too long bro. Lol I agree that the forums along with finding past battles to be one of the biggest flaws but other than that I like the update
Duplicate suggestion will be deleted to keep this clean.
https://www.superherodb.com/jar-jar-binks/10-10563/#user
Just check their ustat.
-Memento Mori
-Memento Vivere
Revert the "above the editor" limit for Super Powers vote. because Super Power can affect all characters and other Super Powers.
And speaking of duplicates, I remember there was a way to flag a character or item for deletion but cannot seem to find that anymore. I recently requested a new character and somehow, when the character was added/created, two (a duplicate) was created at the same exact time. Not sure how that happened but was hoping I could add the duplicate to a list to be deleted and removed but I cannot seem to find the collection or whatever it was that existed before that served this purpose. Please let me know if there is an official way to request that you remove this duplicate. Thank you!
Second, you should update the current features list, hubs are now available and so are versions.
Also, when might battle royales be coming to SHDB?
1. When we select Omnipotence then Omniscience and omnipresence should also be automatically selected.
2. When we select Nigh-Omnipotence there should only be 4 other powers available to be selected . They are Omnipresence, Omniscience, Nigh-omnipresence and Nigh-omniscience.
It would be cool if there was a way for us to see what users liked it.
For instanse, I could click on something that would show me all the users who added a battle to their favorites, or a user.
No comment gets deleted, they're just not show after 24 months.
If they aren’t deleted then where do old comments go?
They're in the database. I just do 'Get all comments < 24 months'.
Why? People have the right to be forgotten. I do delete accounts if you ask, though.
The overall idea of using your points for special things isn't bad, but as Ezio said, will promote spamming certain activities.
It should have the character show who they have beaten canonically (for example Juggernaut, Carnage, Green Goblin, etc.). In addition to that, it raises their power level to match more of that of the person who is defeated (for example Cloud might be higher in stats because he beat Sephiroth).
A 'feats'/'proof' feature is on the to-do list. Things like won battles could be added there. It just doesn't auto add points.
1. When we search a character in the top search bar in the top 20 results it shows publisher name beside the real name of the character or after main alias (if the real name isn't added). But I think it would be more useful if it showed universe (Short form of the universe like MCU or DCEU etc) rather than publisher. It would be easy for us to differentiate characters. Because most of the people have have the basic idea about comics.
2. Also when we are checking a certain character's profile the universe name shows below creator name. But i think it would be more effective if it showed below the character's Main alias and real name and above the character's menu (bio/history/powers/movies/images/battles etc).
3. Now this is about searching characters. There should be a filter for searching characters by universe. We can add the short form of the universes there. And this filter should also be added in the top search bar , creating battles , adding characters or objects to collections , connecting characters to images , changing characters to a battle and while creating variation etc.
2. I am working on a little redesign for the profile headers, but I'll add the Universe in header section for now.
3. Yes, all search options should be updated to make it easier to find what you're looking for.
These are the current levels:
- Infinite (green)
- 1+ million (green)
- 100+K (yellow)
- 50+K (purple)
- 1+K (red)
- 100+ (blue)
- 100- (white)
Where would orange fit best if we add 1B as a new level.
There is a possibility that images will be connected to the wrong items though.
There's already a top 10 and latest 10 created. I can make it top 20, 30, etc. how much is enough?
It's one of my favourite future features.
This will be limited to characters than can actually exist multiple times, like; Stormtroopers, Terminators, etc.
But I want people to edit characters with a fresh eye, not just copy old info that might be 5+ years old.
If I were to add this there needs to be some structure to it, not just one big text box. Any ideas?
It's an example I found.
What would be a good name for this feature? It should also include general 'proof' that isn't necessarily a 'feat'. Things like 'Peter Parker hates pineapple on his pizza'.
I have changed how the Nigh-Omni's work.
Is there a way to filter results when you click "Random Battle"?
If not there could be
Searching for battles with a specific character, or searching for battles with only characters from a certain universe, or by number of people in the battles
Filtering for a specific character is almost impossible. Not the filtering itself, but there will be too many results (thousands for popular characters). Same for specific universe (some exceptions where there aren't many characters in that verse).
Maybe when filtering for two specific characters on one team would narrow it down enough. The filtering needs to be quite specific to get a manageable amount of results.
I'll add a sort by date option.
For example in the battle Hulk vs Thor, it should be possible to create a variation of that battle with Hulk to be trained by Galactus for 5 days and Thor by the Living Tribunal for 5 days.
You'd need 18 extra fields, one for each character in the battle, to assign a trainer.
And 18 extra fields to assign a duration.
1. Enhanced Durability.
2. Enhanced Speed.
3. Enhanced Strength.
I think they are unnecessary. This can be easily solved. There are already Super Strength ,Super Speed and Durability. These powers should have 3 levels like most powers. And the above listed powers should be removed.
The powers that also are stats are there just to be able to see all characters with that 'power' together. The powers don't add points to the Class.
Please tell me what you think.
Like, Fear Inducement would be considered a technique for Fear Manipulation. And Acidic Spit would be listed under Acid Manipulation.
2. Or if someone selects certain characters that are in a team then the team name should appear in the battles name. But for that to happen all the members of that team should be in that battle.
3. Also if someone selects only one character from a team and then selects the team than that previously selected character from that team should be removed from that battle.
There may be a loop hole in there but that pretty much what I suggest.
1 How do you want to present a team in a battle? Some teams have more than 50 (active) members. You could use the team profile image and name, but how do you know what characters are part of that team? One solution; show a popup with all the names, but then there's another loophole:
2 What if, after you've created the battle, the team roster changes? I assume the team on the battle changes with it. But then your vote might be wrong, so you have to re-evaluate all battles with changed teams.
3 What if all members get removed from a team after the battle has been created?
4 What if there's only 1 member?
There are probably more caveats to adding teams to battles, but these just popped up right away.
Fire Control should become Fire Manipulation or Pyrokinesis
Water Control should become Water Manipulation or Hydrokinesis
Air Control should become Air Manipulation or Aerokinesis
I could actually use the 'liked' image data for a future update.
It shouldn't be too much work to add.
1) That the enable/disable button the private of a DM appears individually in each message in order to change it to private or vice versa without having to edit it, etc.
2) The possibility of closing your edits from the character's editpage itself and you don't necessarily have to always go to your admin.
3) Add tier 10 only to differentiate high-Outerversal characters from the rest of tier 9 baseline Outerversals or normal Outers characters (between which there's a lot of difference in scale). Plus the characters that have this Tier 10 and nigh-omnipotent too will get a power score of 510B (double of 255B) that comes out with Tier 9.
4) When uploading images in a message, it's no longer necessary to use activation commands like ''[img] [/ img]'', but that the pics can be pasted directly and even upload them from your gallery or file explorer.
5) That the only thing requires activation commands are Gifs, with putting ''[gif]'' at the beginning and ''[/gif]'' at the end of the gif's link you want to show, also that it's no longer necessary putting ''[url]'' and ''[/ url]'' to a link so that it activates by itself. However, the option to do ''[url=(link)]sentence[/ url] would be left.
6) That we editors can change the name (I mean the original one) of the characters in the Bio page.
2. Good point, easy to implement.
3. Could you make a forum topic about this and maybe name some characters that would be Tier 10. I’m not against adding an extra tier, but I want to see how big the changes would be and hear other peoples thoughts about it.
4. There used to be an auto-convert to image features, but it only worked 70% of the time. There are links to images that don’t end with ‘.jpg’ or ‘.png’. Those links won’t be converted to images. I will look into options to make it easier to add an image, maybe with an ‘insert image’ button or something.
5. Gifs in comments should work like any other image. I’ve answer the rest of your question in the previous point.
6. I want to keep name changes to a minimum, so I’ll leave it up the the Heralds or me. If you want a name changed, you can always ask.
Their age
Their alignment (chaotic good, lawful bad, etc.)
Their gender
The genre of the universe they're from
The type of media they are from (books, movies, video games, etc.)
Their powers
Their species
Their role (antagonist, protagonist)
Their tier
Their weapons
and others
Use the website a little more. If you're actually missing something (like your other suggestion about the full class value), then request it.
As @Ezio said; most of your list is already possible.
1. Age - We don't have a birthday for characters. I can add that, but not all characters have a Gregorian calendar (the one most of us use) birthdate.
2. Alignment - We only have Good / Bad / Neutral. You can filter on that in combination with gender.
3. Gender - That has been in the website for over 15 years... no comment.
4. Genre of Universe - We are still adding the right universes for characters. I can add a 'genre' to each universe. Not sure how many people would want to filter on that.
5. Type of Media - That's what the universes are for, right?
6. Powers / Species - That has been in the website for over 15 years... no comment.
7. Role - The two options are almost the same as the alignment. If there are other 'role'-options, I can look into it.
8. Tier - I could add that.
9. Weapons - You can search a for a weapon and see what characters are connected to it. This is still somewhat in the early stages, so a lot more weapons and connections need to be added.
10 'and Other' - So, now you want me to think about suggestion you might want? That's just lazy... 😉
On the collections page, that shouldn't be a problem, I think. (Will look into it)
But on the characters page it will make it very slow. Since it has to collect all battle data from all 11,000+ characters before it can be sorted. That will slow it down too much.
A similar idea would be to create a separate 'Top 100' page, where you can select all kinds of top 100 lists, including the ones you mentioned. And I can easily add new sorting methods in the future.
Not sure if you want so many notifications.
I know by definition it means all present or the ability to be anywhere at any time. However when you give a character omnipresence it gives him the infinite speed stat.
But then there needs to be an omni-durable and omni-combat as well?
-Add a switchable dark mode
-The possibility to scroll photos with an arrow in the character galleries.
-Be able to sort your battles by date from older to newer or vice versa, also in alphabetical order, more or less voted, etc...
-When searching for a forum, the matches to what you are writing appear in the same search engine before pressing the magnifying glass, similar to what happens when you search for a character
-Add Tier 10 for ''omnipotent'' characters.
-Make a rework of the notification system with several changes:
1) Put a bell icon below the logout where the red bubble appears in and make it like a sliding tab when you click it.
2) That it notify you not only when they respond to you in a comment, but also when someone votes in one of your battles, they comment on them, give them fav and when they make a variation of them.
3) That it also notify you every time someone adds you to their favorites list and when someone responds in a comment that you also responded.
-That when you do @ to a user you can see the option to mention the matches of the username you are writing, as in Discord, this would be very useful in debates if you want someone to see something.
Being worked on
-- The possibility to scroll photos with an arrow in the character galleries.
Will add it to the list.
-- Be able to sort your battles by date from older to newer or vice versa, also in alphabetical order, more or less voted, etc...
You can already sort by; votes, comments, likes and hotness. I’ll add date and alphabetical to the list.
-- When searching for a forum, the matches to what you are writing appear in the same search engine before pressing the magnifying glass
Will add it to the list. (Low priority)
-- Add Tier 10 for ''omnipotent'' characters.
Characters get an ‘infinite’ tier if they are Omnipotent. Tier 10 still feels sort of limiting.
-- Make a rework of the notification system with several changes:
The notification system is in a very basic form right now and needs a lot more feature. I’ll put your suggestions on the list.
-- That when you do @ to a user you can see the option to mention the matches of the username
Good one!
For instance.
For max stats and for 9 tier characters if we click Omnipotent than the hero class is 4.7B.
And when we click nigh-omnipotent the hero class is 72M.
But if we don't click Omnipotent and nigh-omnipotent and click all the other powers to the max the hero class is 117B. Which is far higher than even Omnipotent. I don't think it should be that way.
I've changed the scores. Omnipotent will get 335B and Nigh-Omnipotent will get 255B now.
Omnipotent should show the infinite symbol, so you can't actually see the score. It's currently not showing on the cards. I'll fix that soon.
1. The power "Master Martial Artist" should be converted to "Expert Combatant".
2. And in the combat stats the ranking shouldn't be in martial arts. The word "Martial Arts" should be changed to "Fighting technique" because martial arts are human fighting techniques. But is comics and movies there are many other alien or future techniques.
1. How would you like to search for battles?
Let's say you want to search all battles with, let's say, Iron Man: Results: 11,637.
So you need to narrow it down with another character, let's say, Batman. Still over 3,000 results.
2. What's the problem of a battle that has already been made? You want to either vote on it, see the outcome or comment on it. Now it seems like you just want to get some points.
And my 2nd point? Why do you want to know if a battle already has been created?
This is my personal opinion, merge all the different versions of a character on one page like tab system.
"A central Hub for heroes with multiple entries; oi.e. Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, etc.
It show a summery of each character that shares the same name. This way you can easily find the right version of that character."
The idea is that you can add all kinds of tags to items (characters, objects, powers, etc.). Tags can be anything to identify the item by, or be an attribute that isn't covered by any of the default attributes/fields. Tags will be searchable and will have their own pages.
@Ezio : You can use tags for 'Insanely Rich' or to group the Super Powers.
There's going to be an update on species first. Species will be split up in two different attributes; Origin (or Species) and Type.
Origin being things like; human, kryptonian, etc. (multi selectable)
Type will be things like; mutant, zombie, clone, vampire, etc (single select)
strength
Mental power
Skills
Mutation/improvement
Elements/Molecular
Energy/Force field
Related to quantum physics
Physical Specifications
- History of what someone edited on a character
- Shows if a user has edited a character on their activity
I have doubts on this - Ability to create Collections on your collection page on your profile, create battles on your battles page on your profile,
2. The Edit pages will be updated soon and will have a better working history feature.
3. I've updated the activity page. It now shows the adds and edits of that user.
Great ideas, thanks!
I do agree that lower numbers need to be more precise. So, what if I make it so, that everything below 10 won't be rounded to 5?
2. If there was shortcut way of creating a collection above the list of collections in every user's profile it would be helpful.
2. How is that a short-cut?
You only have to click twice (or three times on a phone) to create a new collection; 'Collections' (main menu) > 'New Collection'.
It would save you one click if you happen to already be on your Collection page.
It's not that I can't create a button there, but then there needs to be a button for new battles as well. Having multiple ways of getting somewhere can become confusing.
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Most images in the gallery aren't really usable as profile image. They need to be cropped. So, if I would create tools for that, it will add more 'work' to select an image.
Getting a good profile image isn't about how often you can change an image in a certain amount of time. Even with the current system people don't have a problem changing profile images multiple times a day of the same character. Making it simpler/quicker to do will only add to that.
On everything you edit here; Quality over quantity.
If I do bring a weakness option back. Do you have any ideas on specific things it should or could do? Or would it just be a list like Super Powers?
- Automatic log-in
- Multiple way battles (3, 4 etc. way battles.)
- Comment section for superpowers
- Notified if a battle you want to make exists before "creating" the battle
- Ability to add powers on a character in battle variations
- Draw option
Also, I think normal users should be able to report comments. However, a red flag won't appear on the reported comment. Instead, users with a higher rank will receive the report and take action of it.
2. A Battle Royal version is on the to-do list. Just with single characters, not with teams. This might fit your request.
3. Added to to-do list.
4. If you create a battle, it's because you want to vote for it, right? Or see the outcome. Wanting such a warning makes it look like you just want to create battles just for the points or get as many battles on your name? Maybe you can explain a bit more why you want such an option.
5. That's a bug. It should have been possible already. *fixed*
6. Added to to-do list.
Normal users were able to report comments. It was abused too much, so I turned it off.
If you want any more info in the list, let me know.
0-100 = Normal / Heavyweights
100-200 = Universal scale
200-250 = Multiversal scale
250-300 = Hyperversal / Omniversal Scale
300-∞ = Omnipotents
I hope that makes sense
I was mostly wondering if it was still on the table of "coming soon" or if you have decided that it's not worth the effort? (Either way I know a bit about web design and how hard it can be so I have no intent on holding it against you if you choose to drop it)
I appreciate your efforts and hard work. The site kicks ass, imo.
I hear the new update will include quick links to former battles? I.e. clicking on the fights title.
Only other thing I might suggest is a battle-royale format option.
Maybe anywhere from 1v1v1 up to 6v6v6, or up to 9 individual fighters in 1 single brawl, etc.
I'd personally love that option
So my suggestion is can you see about making a tab near the top you of the hero list pages where you can flip between having them as a basic list instead of the pictures so you don't have to though 3 pages just to get past the letter A?
The Activity-feed will be updated to show new forums, images, etc. There will also be a Feed-page again soon. This time with auto-update. The uStats will return soon as well.
After all the missing pages/features are back, I will add a stat-benchmark list. Anyone updating a character can use this list to get the stats more accurate and comparable between characters. Speed will be measured in meters per second.
For intelligence I used the Stanford-Binet (SB5) classification, with goes up to IQ 160. I added the 170, since we're talking Super-beings here 😉.
Also another suggestion, I remember how we were able to search the alter egos of the characters in the search bar and get all related characters, but it does not seem to work any more. For example, when I used to search "Bruce Banner", I would get all the different variations of Banner's Hulk, but now I only get a few results that have "Bruce Banner" as the main name
There is an 'alter ego' section for characters. So, if you find one 'Bruce Banner', all variation will show up at that section.
With the already proposed search idea, I will be satisfied with what I was proposing, since I imagine that the variations will be accessible during the search.