Suggestion: "Team Snapshot" or "Dungeon Teams" section

[DreadPirateShawn]

I've started using the the Team section to track the teams I'm using to beat (or fail to beat) descends / weekday mythicals / T6 dungeons / challenges / etc, so that I have a reference point for similar dungeons, and so I remember what I used last time when a dungeon swings back around.

This works reasonably well, however, it's an awkward fit for the Teams feature -- the worst manifestation of this is that I have no inherent record of my levels / skill levels at the time of beating the dungeon, since the current states of all monsters are shown in the teams.

(Also, a lesser problem is that I now have several dozen teams, and the Teams section doesn't scale well at that size -- scroll way down to select a team, scroll way up to view the details, scroll way down to pick another... and if you collapse the topmost team groups, then drag-and-drop within the lower groups is buggy.)

It would be nice to have a new top-level section, "Team Snapshot" or "Dungeon Teams" or some such, which looks very similar to the "Teams" section, but adding a team here will make a snapshot of the monsters which doesn't change if you evo the monsters, increase their levels, or even delete them. Perhaps even with a dungeon names selection, though I've found that naming my teams things like "God of Brawn ~ Mythical" works fine too.

[DreadPirateShawn]

Also worth mentioning, by using the Teams section in the way that I do, filtering monsters by "Member of a team" or "Leader of a team" becomes far less useful... just because I used Devil Fish on a team once (note to self: seriously?) doesn't mean I consider him an active team member.

[jonrmitchell]

+1 for this request - and if there was a way you could sort based on date/time created you'd be able to see a history of your journey through PaD (maybe not essential, but if the data's all there, why not).

[madcowfred]

This isn't really possible with how the database currently works (a team is just references to monsters), it would involve a bunch of work to make a new table to duplicate monster data at the time of creation + messing with the somewhat fragile JS + who knows what else.

The scrolling issue is fixable, can make the team list just scroll separately from the team display.

What's the issue with drag-and-drop when team groups are closed?

[jonrmitchell]

As far as using a new table to "duplicate monster data at the time of creation", that's exactly what I'm proposing as a new feature. You can see the need (and the unfortunate workarounds) here: http://puzzleanddragonsforum.com/threads/keep-track-of-team-used.84973/

It wouldn't need to be as complex as the team builder screen with levels and plus eggs and calculations - basically all you'd want is the

• user id (indexed)
• team id from which the clear was generated (indexed)
• 6 monster ids
• aggregate team stats - HP, RCV, maybe average level,
• date,
• dungeon name (or better, identifier to a separate dungeon table, but that makes this project bigger) (indexed), and
• a place for notes about the clear.

Then the data could show up in 3 places:

• underneath the team it was created in (reading by team id)
• on a new "my dungeon history" page by user (reading by user id, sorted by date desc)
• an a new "search dungeon teams" page - (reading by dungeon name/id, can see other's clears)

FWIW, I'd be willing to help some with the project.

[DreadPirateShawn]

What's the issue with drag-and-drop when team groups are closed?

I just figured out a key part of the repro (leaving the "Dungeon reminder!" notification visible), and filed details as #835.