The new draft system is terrible.
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Posted on June 27, 2012, 3:57 p.m. by Preturbed
I know that people often complain when things change, but the new system is nearly unusable. Each of the popups make the chat unusable. The lobby is redundant and slow. The seats popup is pointless when compared to the old method. The picks and charts ought to be in the same place so the user can watch the chart change. On top of that, hiding the cards from view makes drafting more difficult - I want to see what I just picked without wasting time looking at the popups.
The layout of the actual cards is worse than before and more difficult to scan. When a name is long enough to wrap, the card covers the pick number.
Worst of all, it's much buggier than before. Drafts hang up before they're finished, or right at the point of finishing, or before they've begun. I ran an entire draft just the other day with intent to play on cockatrice, then when it was over the draft hung up. I left the draft and it eventually disappeared entirely without ever giving me the option to export my deck.
In short, can we please just change it back until all the bugs are worked out of the new system?
MTG_Player says... #3
I agree also, when you select 15 card packs the draft shuts down before it starts.
June 27, 2012 5:44 p.m.
I'm having trouble duplicating this 15-card pack bug. Can someone please give me more specific steps?
June 28, 2012 12:16 a.m.
I am never using Tappedout for drafting again until they fix it, that's how bad I think it is. I really dont get why they changed it. the previous change was bad but this one is just awful.
June 30, 2012 6:19 p.m.
First off, sorry if I came across as a jerk in my previous post. I appreciate this site, I really do, and many of us have come to rely on it to practice drafting. So of course we get upset when it doesn't work. We'll live.
I've noticed that drafts tend to hang in the lobby after filling up. I'm pretty sure they never start, and they cause the lobby to get overcrowded. I've seen 6 or 8 drafts listed in the lobby, when under the old system I never saw more than 3 at a time (because they would either fill and start or not fill and get closed).
Thanks for your hard work.
June 30, 2012 9:59 p.m.
I have made some improvements to
1) Destroy drafts that were started by people who wandered off and won't start it
2) Stop killing drafts which are new (hopefully fixing the 15-card bug).
Please let me know if this has improved or hasn't, or what I can do to fix it.
July 1, 2012 2:52 a.m.
autigers001 says... #9
also you still cant solo draft because it says there isnt enough pick data.
July 14, 2012 2:05 a.m.
A few comments about the new system: I practice draft almost exclusively on my phone (iPhone 4S), and the new system is much more difficult to navigate. Having to click on little popup windows to see what I've drafted or who has joined the table is VERY inconvenient, and in fact at times it is impossible to close the window and get back to the main draft page. I appreciated being able to see my picks and the breakdown of color/casting cost on the same page as the draft.
Of course, I am mostly happy that this site exists at all.
July 18, 2012 12:45 p.m.
Man the draft system sucks 127% less. Nice update, yeaGO!
The bottom half of the page jumps when I mouse between cards, but only when there is just 1 row remaining.
July 19, 2012 11:34 a.m.
Cool. Glad you are pleased =). I will see about fixing that jumpiness.
July 19, 2012 11:35 a.m.
Looks much better now, just wish the picked cards were divided into sections and one could see the bigger image when having mouse over it, thanks for the changes!!
July 20, 2012 9 p.m.
One other problem I have is that I am unable to unexclude a card. It just disappears for moment and then reappears in the excluded section again.
July 22, 2012 4:07 a.m.
- Unexcluding things is an issue for me too.
- Today I was getting a bug where I would pick a card and the next pack would be the same pack, minus that card. Then I'd get passed a real pack and the problem would repeat.
July 25, 2012 3:23 p.m.
preturbed, cool. I think I know what those are. During slow times things can be a little laggy but I have some solutions in place I can implement soon. Hopefully drafts aren't royally screwing up.
metalmagic says... #2
It is very laggy and more confusing to navigate. I think the old system was fine.
June 27, 2012 4:48 p.m.