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Set codes for pre-Sun & Moon special sets #11

Open immewnity opened 3 years ago

immewnity commented 3 years ago

Starting with the Sun & Moon era, special sets began to be referred to across the board using .5 codes - Shining Legends was SM3.5, Dragon Majesty was SM7.5, all the way up through now, with Shining Fates as SWSH4.5 and the upcoming October 25th anniversary set as SWSH7.5. Prior to Sun & Moon, though, it wasn't as cut-and-dry...

Set TCGO name Card Dex Pokemon.com PokemonTCG.io
Rumble ru1
Call of Legends* COL hgss5 COL1 col1
Dragon Vault DV DV1 dv1
Double Crisis TATM xy5-5 DC1 dc1
Generations TwentiethAnn xy9-5 G1 g1
Detective Pikachu** GUM gum DET det1
England Futsal Promo Cards**

* Call of Legends wasn't a usual special set - it was released in the cycle of main sets. However, due to the way it is treated, it fits more in special sets in this scenario. * These were released after Sun & Moon, but have not used the .5 codes in any projects.

This is just a sampling of the codes currently used across projects, but covers the main ones used.

Thoughts on what should be the PSC-standardized codes for each of these?

immewnity commented 3 years ago

My two cents: The Pokemon.com codes seem to make the most sense to me (where we have them, at least). Pokemon.com URLs overwhelmingly match up with what PSC appears to be agreeing on, so it seems logical to keep using them where practical.

For the remaining two... IDK. Overwhelmingly, RM is used as the abbreviation for Rumble, so maybe RM1 or simply RM for the code. Futsal hasn't had any official abbreviations whatsoever, but some project (PkmnCards and Cardmarket) are using FUT20 as an abbreviation. This might become confusing in the future, since only 3 of the 5 cards were released in 2020, but it would be nice to use a code that is already used by some projects.

Dillonzer commented 3 years ago

I'm okay with using RM for Rumble as I don't think any new sets coming out would override it. As for Futsal, that is a tougher one. I do like FUT20 to line it up with the similar McDonalds promotion codes (#1)

mmxxiii commented 3 years ago

The official Play! Pokémon deck list sheet (https://assets.pokemon.com//assets/cms2/pdf/play-pokemon/rules/play-pokemon-deck-list-85x11-rcl.pdf) lists the following abbreviations for these sets:

Dragon Vault: DRV Double Crisis: DCR Generations: GEN Detective Pikachu: DET

Edit: After posting, I realized you're talking about the codes rather than the abbreviations. My mistake.

immewnity commented 3 years ago

Edit: After posting, I realized you're talking about the codes rather than the abbreviations. My mistake.

All good! :) They're good to consider in the code discussion too. For example, since DET is used as the set abbreviation, would it be too confusing to use it as the code as well, or would it be useful to have them both be the same?