Pack Opening Simulator

[AlanOC91]

The plan is to add a "fun" booster pack opening simulator for Yu-Gi-Oh!

There is already a rather good one over at http://yugiohpacksimulator.com/ but I'd like to make one more akin to the Hearthstone card pack simulators.

When you open a pack, each card is scored and then each scored is added together to receive your "Pack Score". The eventual plan is to then be allowed submit this score to an online leaderboard to compare. This adds the "fun" factor to opening the pack.

Card score is calculated as follows: Score = (Card Database Views * Card Rarity Weighting)/2 Rarity Weightings:

Common = 1
Short Print = 1.5
Rare = 2
Super Rare = 2.5
Ultra Rare = 3
Secret Rare = 4
All Others: 3.5

Current Alpha version screenshots: Start Screen after choosing a booster set:

Once the flip button is pressed:

[AlanOC91]

Leaderboard is now live for the Alpha version of this: https://db.ygoprodeck.com/pack-leaderboard/

[AlanOC91]

Changes since yesterday: -Fixed Leaderboard. I had it sorting wrongly and limited to displaying 50. When I woke up there was over 300! All data was still captured and will now display correctly. -Added Odds for the Last Card (the potential high rarity card). Y'all were pulling way too many rare cards way too easily! I've now added odds! Now it should be much harder to pull higher rarity cards.

Odds breakdown:

$cardodds = rand(0,99);
    if ($cardodds <5){
        //Secret Rare
    }else if ($cardodds >=5 && $cardodds <= 15){
        //Ultra Rare
    }else if ($cardodds >15 && $cardodds <= 25){
        //Super Rare
    }else if ($cardodds >25 && $cardodds <= 35){
        //Other Rarity
    }else if ($cardodds >35){
        //Common Rarity
    } 

[AlanOC91]

You can now flip each card individually if you wish so.

Next on the TODO list:

• Enhance retry so it simply opens another pack.
• Spruce up css.

[AlanOC91]

Added an animated card score counter when all cards are revealed.

• Fixed an issue where 8 cards may sometimes show instead of 9.
• Fixed an issue where the reveal card function wasn't disabled when all cards were revealed.
• Added notice to start screen about card art and set codes.
• Modified pack score counter css.
• Fixed an issue with Secret Rare colors on pack leaderboard.

TODO:

• Better Retry Button
• Increment score counter on each individual card flip.

[AlanOC91]

• Fixed an issue where you could accidentally double click to reveal the same card.

• Score Counter now increments on each card flip.

• Retry button is now fully ajax compatible and works much better. Giving you a new instance of the same pack you have chosen.

[AlanOC91]

• Cleaned up a lot of the back-end code to make it much easier to quickly add card sets.
• Added 6 new card sets.
• Add a "Choose Set" button to easily allow you to pick a set again.

[AlanOC91]

Features:

• Added multiple new sets including new ones.
• New sets use different formula for pulling cards as per: https://yugioh.fandom.com/wiki/Booster_Pack
• Old sets: 7 commons, 1 Rare and either 1 Common or Rarity higher than Rare.
• New sets: 7 commons, 1 Rare and at least a Super Rare.
• Added date stamp to the leaderboard.
• Slightly increase name length for leaderboard.

Bugs:

• Fixed a bug where you can hit the Retry button before score is fully calculated.
• Fixed a bug where you can hit the Flip button before the cards have fully loaded in.
• Fixed a bug where the score was re-calculated for that card if you clicked it again after it was flipped.

TODO:

• Limit leaderboard entry input to 20 characters.
• Short Print should appear in replacement of a common card, need to code in that functionality.

[AlanOC91]

Features:

• Updated code to accommodate Speed Duel booster packs.
• Added 3 Speed Duel booster packs.
• Added "All Time Leaderboard" and changed the original leaderboard to a "Weekly Leaderboard".
• Weekly Leaderboard will be automatically archived once a week into the All Time leaderboard.
• Re-organized the list of boosters. This will receive another re-organization towards the end of completion.

Bugs:

• Fixed a bug where the card opening area height was too large when opening a Speed Duel booster pack.

[AlanOC91]

• Added multitudes of new packs.
• Rearranged buttons on pack opening screen.
• Added Lazy Loading when choosing a card set. This should massively reduce page size/load, especially on mobile devices.
• Added link to the Leaderboards.

TODO:

• Finish off sets.
• Show card prices.
• TCG player purchase links.

[AlanOC91]

• Added back-end support for Battle Packs.
• Added 3 Battle Pack boosters.

[AlanOC91]

• Added the remaining core TCG sets.
• Fixed an issue with the Leaderboard Cron Job where it wasn't moving the weekly table into the archived table.

[AlanOC91]

• Added some code that auto-scrolls the users up to the cards when it begins. This is especially useful on mobile devices so you don't have to manually scroll back up to start flipping cards.

[AlanOC91]

• A bunch of Packs Added.
• Added Pack Number selector for Sealed Draft Mode.

[AlanOC91]

Currently seems to be a bug with the "Tournament Pack" packs where you can occasionally get 2 cards instead of 3.

[AlanOC91]

Start work on adding Mega Packs to pack sim.

[AlanOC91]

Mega Packs:

2014-2019:

• 16 cards per pack
• 1 Prismatic Secret Rare
• 1 Ultra Rare
• 1 Super Rare
• 1 Rare
• 12 Commons

[AlanOC91]

• Mega Packs 2014 - 2019 are now added.

[AlanOC91]

• Duel Overload added.

[AlanOC91]

• Fixed an issue where adding a mega pack to the leader board didn't add every card you opened.

[AlanOC91]

• Fixed an issue where you couldn't manually reveal all mega pack cards.

[AlanOC91]

• Added Secret Slayers

[AlanOC91]

• Show greyed-out (unusable) version of future packs.

[AexDEye9]

[suggestion] there are alot of other packs that have released over the years, including but not limited to the kaiba mega pack, the gold series, and dark beginnings/dark revelation series, and the star packs.

[AlanOC91]

• Star Packs added.

Looked into adding Dark Beginnings 1/2 but they are difficult to implement. According to the wiki:

Dark Beginning (and all other Reprint Packs) always contain 6 Monster Cards, 3 Trap Cards, 3 Spell Cards, 1 Tip Card and 1 or even 2 rares.

This will be difficult to implement at the moment. Will look into adding other packs first.

[AlanOC91]

• Ra Yellow Mega Pack added.

[AlanOC91]

• Legendary Collection 2: The Duel Academy Years Mega Pack added.

[AlanOC91]

• Updated mobile CSS and revised mobile layout for pack select screen and card reveal screen.
• Offset CSS and JS to separate files for optimizaiton.

[AlanOC91]

• Legendary Collection Kaiba Mega Pack added.

[AlanOC91]

• Slightly optimized all card set images.

[AlanOC91]

Next on the agenda.

TODO: Dark Beginning 1 + Dark Beginning 2 followed by Dark Revelations 1,2,3 and 4.

[AlanOC91]

• Dark Beginning 1 inserted. There's a bug where it occasionally outputs 11 cards instead of 12 but working on that.

TODO: Add overall pack-opening statistics

[AlanOC91]

• Have started tracking how many packs are opened. Will eventually deploy these statistics to the front-end of the pack-opening page.

[AlanOC91]

• Dark Beginning 2 inserted.
• Pack Statistics outputted on pack open page. Need to improve the overall look of this.

[AlanOC91]

• Fixed a bug where Dark Beginning 1 + 2 can occasionally show 11 cards instead of 12. Also fixed this issue on the Tournament Packs. This is an issue when using UNION on the queries where it occasionally picks a card that was already selected and UNION is stripping it out. I've processed the ones mentioned here into sub-queries with the UNION and it has fixed the issue. There are a couple of more card packs which this can be applied to so I'll have to look over them.

[AlanOC91]

• Dark Revelation Volume 1 - 4 inserted.
• Made slight CSS adjustment to "Builder Panel" for build mode.

[AexDEye9]

Legendary duelists season 1 is a behind, i think it released 6 days ago

[AlanOC91]

I didn't add Legendary Duelists Season 1 because I don't think it's a new pack? Isn't it a case that comes with new cards + old packs that already exist?

Correct me if I am wrong but that was my assumption.

[AexDEye9]

it is definately a new pack. the pack feels alot like a mega-pack, and also contains some unique cards on top of the existing reprints cards like "Red-Eyes Flare Metal Dragon" are not new, but were not printed in the original legendary duelists sets. Box contains 2 packs, 18 cards per pack: 1 Ultra rare out of a pool of 4 preview cards out of the next set, rise of the duelist (basically replacing the function of special editions) 2 Colorful ultra rares

[AexDEye9]

Some Major Missing packs: OTS packs Turbo packs Both of these series' fit inbetween the original tournament packs, and astral packs.

[AlanOC91]

• Legendary Duelists: Season 1 inserted.

[AexDEye9]

The legendary duelists season 1 pack in it's current state isn't like it's real life counter part. the two ultra-rare pools are seperate, i just got 2 previews in one pack, and 0 in another which is impossible.

[AlanOC91]

Yep I am aware but currently in our Database we have no way to "split" the Ultra Rare pools for this set. I'll need to come back to this once I figured out a better way to split the Ultra Rare pools on this without affecting the way we store data majorly. Could take a few days.

[AlanOC91]

TODO: Overhaul Pack Code to optimize pricing and card pulls. This is still using an old legacy pricing method that is prone to a LOT of errors. Going to re-work it starting with Toon Chaos as a test bed.

[AlanOC91]

• Code completely overhauled and tested with Toon Chaos and working perfectly. Going to re-adjust the rest of the script and test every pack in a test environment before I push live.

[AexDEye9]

Some More Missing Packs: Duelist Pack: (Jaden Yuki, Chazz Princeton, Jaden Yuki 2, Zane Truesdale, Aster Phoenix, Jaden Yuki 3, Jesse Anderson, Yusei, Yugi, Yusei 2, Kaiba, Yusei 3, Crow, Yuma, Kite, Yuma 2, Gogogo & Dododo, Kastle Siblings, Battle City, Rivals of the Pharoh)

[AexDEye9]

Almost forgot, Missing Pack: Champion Packs (GX era tournament packs)

[AlanOC91]

• Further code optimizations. Massively improved query performance thanks to https://www.eversql.com/
• Card prices now correctly displayed from tcgplayer
• Card URLs now directly link to the tcgplayer page for the card in the current set/rarity

These changes are not yet live as the infrastructure is not completed yet. Should hopefully have it live by the end of the week.

[AlanOC91]

Wow I've made a lot of changes to the in-progress beta version:

• You now randomly open either a 1st Edition or Unlimited pack.
• If the pack is an older pack that does have an Unlimited version and you open a 1st Edition pack, a message will be displayed saying "You opened a rare 1st Edition Pack!".
• Scoring system completely overhauled. It's now primarily determined by the card price. The new weighting system is: score = score + Math.ceil((Card Price * Card Rarity)); . This also stops massively inflated scores in the millions. This will require overhauling the leader-boards and arching the current results.
• You can now (finally) pull Starlight Rares.

[AlanOC91]

Going to tweak the scoring mentioned previously. It feels like 80%+ of Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are < $1 so I'm going to have to modify the scoring method or else the majority of cards will have a score of 1.

[AlanOC91]

New example of weighting. I've implemented a custom price weighting depending on the price range of the card.