MK3 rules announced

so it was just announced that MK3 rules are coming out on 12th of June

http://privateerpress.com/press-releases/privateer-press-announces-all-new-editions-of-warmachine-and-hordes

http://privateerpress.com/community/privateer-insider/letting-the-jack-out-of-the-bag-and-why-chinese-food-will-never-be-the-s

are all of you as excited as I am or...

PS: Admin i know that you will have a lot of work to get this great app to show MK3 rules and I want to tell you that as far as I'm concerned I applaud you for all of your hard work on this app

yes, people have done nothing but an outstanding work with this!
maybe in the future though we can organize that error/rules reporting are handled a bit differently. i mean, not that they are posted all around the threads and such but that every release not by accident contains old typos and so on.
other than that... who needs the pp app?!?

not so excited about MKIII coming, especially since things like pre-measuring distances have been confirmed.

at the same time excited and scared... this will be so much work!

i'm sure we have to find a new way for collaborative work : the actual solution is so bad, i forget a lot of issues and merging files is difficult. i believe i will develop a web site just for this so that everybody can push corrections without having to edit XML.

also, don't expect this to be quick : i have actually no clue at all for the mk3, so i will discover everything at the same time that everybody... and after that i will be a long way to integrate...

Just stopping by to say thank you very much to all of the contributors, and especially the Admin for keeping up with this often thankless job! You're doing really great work, and I'm personally very thankful for all the time you've put in!

I'd like to volunteer to update whac to MKIII as fast as possible. I know nothing of programming but I'm sure I can follow some sort of prepared XML to update information.

Such a website would be greatly appreciated. I'll do what I can to help. I think we should see this as an opportunity to achieve a near-flawless card base. Assuming models still have the same stats and army construction stays roughly the same(which we have all reason to assume), the core application would hardly need any changes, right?

Also, because this is my first post here I'll take the opportunity to say: THANK YOU!

zch wrote:Such a website would be greatly appreciated. I'll do what I can to help. I think we should see this as an opportunity to achieve a near-flawless card base.

i will surely work on this. the edition of XML is tedious but doable when working at one-person level, but it will not be ok for massive collaborative work. my plan is to create a GUI with access to the data, and allow to edit directly on a page "card like".

assuming the card structure will not change much, i will start this as soon as possible, with the hope to have something (at least basically) working for the official release of MK3.

If you made a website to help us feed the database, I will help.

Si tu réalises un site facilitant le remplissage de base de données, je t'aiderai volontiers. Je vais obtenir le deck Khador et le deck Trollblood (peut-être le merco/minion).

admin,
it seems a bunch of people is interested in supporting... whether by donating, contributing with stats, etc.
it feels as though there should be some structure like:
1. app
1.1. current version infos
1.2. issues
1.3. future features
2. data files
2.1. faction x
2.1.1. new model rules
2.1.2. model stats errors

etc.
I am no developer expert however how a project like this should be set up. I guess github offers a sound structure already?!
To get a timely start for MK3, do you not think the community should already be preparing the developing environment already...?
Like who would like to do what etc...
I am happy to get in touch with a project group and discuss stuff (skype or whatever with whoever wants to contribute)

I can help out with Cryx cards

I just need a template to follow and I'll insert the hell out of Circle!

If there is a website with a GUI, I van help out.
I know that someone had a visual editor. Would that help out?

beards13 wrote:If there is a website with a GUI, I van help out.
I know that someone had a visual editor. Would that help out?

hi,

the visual editor is for mk2, and i did not create it so it will not work. also, it would be to much trouble to merge each version.

i'm developping an online editor backed by a database, but i have not much time for this. i hope i can publish something before June.

Hi,

I can transfer the Trollbloods to MK3. And Cryx, if need be.

Only thing is that I would do it "oldfashioned" by editing the xml- files. Having a Linux computer and a really, really bad internet connection (sometimes not that bad, though...) make both the XML-Editor-GUI and the website more difficult for me.

Just leave a PM if I can help you. I love your app, way much easier and more complete than any of the others available.

Admin wrote:

beards13 wrote:If there is a website with a GUI, I van help out.
I know that someone had a visual editor. Would that help out?

hi,

the visual editor is for mk2, and i did not create it so it will not work. also, it would be to much trouble to merge each version.

i'm developping an online editor backed by a database, but i have not much time for this. i hope i can publish something before June.

Awesome! Whenever you finish it I'll (We?) will be ready to populate it!

The faction decks are spoiled on reddit / imgur. Maybe we could get a head start on updating the data files?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Warmachine/comments/4kqqr0/massive_mk3_faction_deck_spoiler_dump_read_at/

full decks on dropbox:
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rktt2uw29q3fy5k/AAAgvmEv04DYU2Gg_cqUxsDta?dl=0

Nice, should we have a separate thread for updating files to Mk3?

currently working on the app for updating profiles online... not quite finished so i won't publish since changes could break things and new data would be lost...

new July errata is released:
http://files.privateerpress.com/op/errata/WMH-Errata-July-1016.pdf

Just finished the changes on the online editor, a lot were done before I started. Good Job!

Still missing:

- Placeholder Stormsmith Grenadiers (Cygnar Unit)
- Stats on the placeholder Blackclad Stoneshaper (Circle Solo)
- Placeholder for Kromac2 (Circle Warcaster)
- Praetorian Karax Officer & Standart is not working (Skorne UA)