Hi folks,
First let me apologize for writing in the wrong language; my knowledge of French extends basically to introducing myself, asking where the restroom is, and being endlessly amused that most Americans pronounce coup de grâce as if it were coup de gras.
Anyway, I'm the guy responsible for Conflict Chamber, and I've been talking with SunHunter a good bit recently about some new features for the site. The rate of progress on it has slowed recently because of some deadlines and work with the Americas Team Championship, but I'm expecting development to pick up a lot in a couple of weeks.
I really appreciate all of the feedback, especially some of the concerns of the French Warmachine community that aren't as prevalent in the American community, specifically regarding privacy. I'm working through some changes to the upcoming tournament registration and reporting systems that I hope will work...
Specifically: There will soon be a profile option, so if you log in to the site with a Google or Facebook account, you can specify a nickname/handle to use, and specify your preference for using your real name (at least, as reported by Google or Facebook), nickname, both, or to stay anonymous on anything posted.
Organizers will soon be able to post events and allow pre-registration of players, with options for displaying registered players and their lists (including the option for publicly displaying all lists after a certain deadline, like the night before or time of the tournament). Organizers will then be able to quickly turn this registration list into a published tournament result (import/export of this data between CC and PGSwiss might happen soon; PGSwiss's author is my local Press Ganger, and it's something both of us want to do, but time is... often difficult to come by), with names posted following the guidelines each user has entered in their profile.
The tricky part is maintaining privacy when people post tournament results. I think the core mechanic for this will be allowing players to claim a particular placing in a tournament, attaching their profile -- and the associated privacy settings -- to it. The trick is balancing the standard use in American tournaments, where organizers are less likely to use tools like CC/PGSwiss and thus need to enter names manually (but generally exhibit fewer concerns about privacy) with communities more concerned about privacy. I am open to feedback, and fundamentally want the system to be usable by as many people as possible.
I'll be able to post an example tournament registration list soon, as the list submissions deadline for the Americas Team Championship is tomorrow, and public use of the registration system will follow shortly afterwards.
Also a feature debuting with the ATC that will be made publicly available immediately afterwards is printing Steamroller record sheets directly from Conflict Chamber.
Something I could definitely use: The standard in America is to play (almost exclusively) at game stores. In the United Kingdom, my understanding is that the standard is local gaming clubs rent space at various places to run their game nights. From talking to SunHunter it seems the French community is somewhere in between, with both shops and clubs sponsoring events. The direction I'm going with tournament entry is, to streamline the process, ask people entering the event location to enter a Facebook link to the location where the tournament is played, since I can automatically pull relevant information -- like location and and the profile picture of the location to make things prettier -- from Facebook that way. Do the places where your games are played have Facebook pages, and if so could anyone provide me with links to some of them?
I plan to improve the tools available for searching the tournament results list, but at the moment there's just not enough data there to warrant the effort, so my first priority is to add tournament registration and improve the reporting system so there will be enough data for better searching tools to be worthwhile.
I've got an email out to Privateer Press's lawyer about building Conflict Chamber as an Android/iOS application; they've been unhappy with Android/iOS apps in the past, but if they're ok with it, I'll start work on porting CC to Android/iOS in the near future.
Stuff like 3-list events will be added in the future, but the tournament registration and Steamroller record sheets are my top priority right now, largely because of supporting the ATC.
Thanks for all the feedback.
