Author Topic: CoH CCG (Read 11770 times)

Blondeshell · « **on:** April 17, 2010, 07:56:25 PM »

I'm considering making an attempt to assemble a full set of the CoH CCG cards, just for the information not for actually playing. There are a few stub articles up for heroes and sidekicks, but no images, and certainly not all of them that are part of that game.

Can anyone imagine why there would be a problem with expanding the content on the CCG to the wiki and adding images of the cards to the articles? I know that the publisher is still in business, but the game itself has been discontinued for several years and the official Web site is pretty much dormant.

eabrace · « **Reply #1 on:** April 17, 2010, 08:31:28 PM »

As an example, I went looking to see if wikis for other CCGs have card images. Much as it pains me to link to anything in that domain, there's one here with lots of card images. I did not, however, see any wikis dedicated to any games created by Alderac Entertainment, so I can't say for certain whether there's any precedent for their games.

My gut tells me that you'd be OK to upload the images, but just to make sure, we might want to make the uploaded image sizes something smaller than printable sizes or something. That way no one can claim we're putting the images up for the purposes of printing our own cards or anything.

TonyV · « **Reply #2 on:** April 17, 2010, 09:23:08 PM »

Quote from: Blondeshell on April 17, 2010, 07:56:25 PM

I'm considering making an attempt to assemble a full set of the CoH CCG cards, just for the information not for actually playing.

Do you actually have the cards? I bought a crapton of them on the cheap a while back just for the purpose of seeing what they looked like. If you have them, which ones are you missing? Maybe we could coordinate to get a full set to image. Even if they make us pull articles down or whatnot, I'd like to have the images stored somewhere for posterity, since they're out of print and will likely be permanently lost without some kind of community effort.

TonyV · « **Reply #3 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:21:46 AM »

Here's my inventory.

Blondeshell · « **Reply #4 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:06:53 AM »

I just got my first two boxes of booster packs yesterday, one of each series, but I hadn't opened them yet. Yeah, I'd be willing to coordinate with you to make a composite complete set. I'll try to take some good pictures of stuff, too, so we'll have records of the different packages that were available at retail.

Blondeshell · « **Reply #5 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:58:23 AM »

Found some neat info here, including a picture gallery. Not all cards, but there lots of the packages.

http://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/19766/city-of-heroes-ccg

TonyV · « **Reply #6 on:** April 18, 2010, 02:56:26 AM »

Nifty. If you're game, I'd still like to get a consolidated set together, or as close as possible, with images that we take so that we don't have to ask for permission or anything to post them.

If you see any cards that I have a bunch of but that you're lacking, or vice versa, maybe we could trade permanently so that we each are closer to having the whole collection. Even if we each end up with unique copies of some cards, if you have a good scanner, maybe I could ship you those to scan and you send them back or something.

TonyV · « **Reply #7 on:** April 18, 2010, 03:37:27 AM »

P.S. Want to know what's funny? In looking for more information, I just Googled coh ccg, and this very thread--created less than eight hours ago--is the fifth result in the search list.

Wow.

Blondeshell · « **Reply #8 on:** April 18, 2010, 05:43:23 AM »

Heh, it's probably the most anyone's talked about it in over three years.

Sleepykitty · « **Reply #9 on:** April 18, 2010, 12:30:13 PM »

o.o bit curious about this little project myself, keep meaning to buy a couple boxes (have an unopened one somewhere..) but never got around to it..

<.< so.. when uploading the cards.. are you going to make them a sub of the coh ccg page? or something like "Positron (CCG)"?

o.o oh! not sure I got all the various boxes and packaging variants when I added them to the merchandise section, so if you see something missing...

SaintNicster · « **Reply #10 on:** April 18, 2010, 01:18:41 PM »

When I get home, I can check what cards I got with the CoV collector's edition

Zombie Man · « **Reply #11 on:** April 18, 2010, 02:46:03 PM »

This discussion is all pretty prescient since I'm in the Going Rogue Closed Beta and the Big Thing is that all battles in Praetoria will be turn-based *and* Card-Based!!

Why are you all looking at me that way?

Sleepykitty · « **Reply #12 on:** April 18, 2010, 05:07:46 PM »

o.o no reason *continues to hand out pillow to ppl around Zombie_Man*

Blondeshell · « **Reply #13 on:** April 19, 2010, 02:17:58 AM »

Quote from: Sleepykitty on April 18, 2010, 12:30:13 PM

<.< so.. when uploading the cards.. are you going to make them a sub of the coh ccg page? or something like "Positron (CCG)"?

I'm not sure about that. There will potentially be separate articles for over 500 cards, so I'm open to suggestions about the best way to structure them. Ideally there would be a separate page for the set card lists to help as an index of sorts. In the meantime, I'll see about rounding up at least one of each type of distribution box and see where my cards end up.

Sleepykitty · « **Reply #14 on:** April 22, 2010, 08:10:12 PM »

thinking about it.. if the card images aren't just going to be stuck in a gallery, but actually have an individual page for each card...

^^;; well, you'll probably have to do the "Sleepy Kitty (CCG)" sorta tag set up, if for no reason other than we'd have a heck of a time with disambiguation pages.

Sekoia · « **Reply #15 on:** April 22, 2010, 09:24:05 PM »

Actually, why not make the image itself the article? Each card only has information on one side it looks like. I can't imagine there's that much that would actually need to go into the card's article since the card would speak for itself. So maybe just upload each card as "File:CCG Ghost Widow.png" or something. Then if you do have extra information (like what box it comes from or something?), you can put it on the image's page.

Fleeting Whisper · « **Reply #16 on:** April 23, 2010, 03:41:22 AM »

That makes sense to me. And if you put them all in their own category, you don't need to make a gallery page for them, either.

eabrace · « **Reply #17 on:** April 23, 2010, 01:50:42 PM »

The only added benefit I could see for a gallery page would be that you can sort a gallery page any way you want to. It's not quite so easy to organize an image category page. The Badge icons category immediately comes to mind as an example of a group of images that isn't necessarily well-organized when sorted (semi-)alphabetically.

Blondeshell · « **Reply #18 on:** April 23, 2010, 04:29:19 PM »

Is there a current gallery page set up so I can see what the difference is? (I'm familiar with the badge category -- *shudder*)

eabrace · « **Reply #19 on:** April 23, 2010, 04:47:00 PM »

Although it has since been replaced, I had a gallery set up on the Costume Colors article to display the color samples. You can still see the gallery version by checking the revision history. Compare that gallery to the Costume Color Sample Images category.

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