Swagbook - DKP management website

[Aliset]

Short version:

http://www.swagbook.com
http://example.swagbook.com
http://www.swagbook.com/create_guild/

Long version:

I've been working for the past few months turning the website I wrote for managing my guild's DKP into a production system. What started as "eqDKP isn't good enough" has turned into quite the product of its own. I've been working with a select group of beta testers or a while now, and now I'm ready to expand. I figured MMO Champion would be a good spot to recruit more people.

Rundown of major features:

- Import from eqDKP
- Accepts raid export strings from HeadCount, CT_RaidTracker, and most other raid trackers. If you find one I don't support, just let me know and it shall be supported.
- Multiple DKP pools
- Multiple DKP styles (does your guild use a custom style? Let me know what it is and I'll see about supporting it)
- Much, much easier ZeroSum management (more below)
- All DKP transactions are grouped into a run. No more jumping around through different contexts to do any DKP editing
- Scads of autocompletes, intelligent guessing of data, wowhead integration, etc.

Check out the item editor: http://example.swagbook.com/admin/item/422/ - if your guild has ever had to reprice an item, you'll like that.

Also check out the run editor: http://example.swagbook.com/admin/run/2191/

And the player editor: http://example.swagbook.com/admin/character/1055/

One of my favorite features is "QuickCost" which lets you see all the prices ever paid for an item, and all the items purchased by the recipient. One of my beta testing guilds uses that to implement their system for costing sidegrades.

[img width=300]http://fake.domain.name/public/2009/quickcost_item.png[/img]
[img width=300]http://fake.domain.name/public/2009/quickcost_player.png[/img]

For ZeroSum: some systems give you tools to auto-calculate the sum of the value of the gear dropped, and that's nice. If you ever have to reprice an item or alter DKP for a run, though, you end up hauling out the calculator again. Wouldn't it be better if you never had to touch that again?

With Swagbook, I've made it so that the value you plug in for attendance is the "share" of the gear points for that person. So if you had Aliset, Biff, and Cretin on a 300 gear point run you could do:

Aliset: 100
Biff: 100
Cretin: 100

Which you'd normally do, or you could do:

Aliset: 10
Biff: 10
Cretin: 10

Or even:

Aliset: 1
Biff: 1
Cretin: 1

And it'll just work. Contrariwise, if Aliset was only there for half the run, you could do:

Aliset: 5
Biff: 10
Cretin: 10

And again it'll just work.

Adding and removing players from a previous run is a lot easier:

Aliset: 5
Biff: 10
Cretin: 10
Davenik: 10

Again, just works.

There are more features in Swagbook, but really just give it a try. You can create a guild here: http://www.swagbook.com/create_guild/ and get started. No usernames or passwords unless you want there to be - just need a guild name and you're golden.

The site is free right now. Eventually I'm going to start needing to cover hosting costs and maybe even some programming time. There'll be a free version, while the pay version will be around the cost of a Ventrilo server ($13-15/month).

Anyway, I'll be active in this thread or you can email me at aliset@fake.domain.name . I'm certain that if you try it, you'll like it. Questions and suggestions are greatly appreciated!

[bela]

We love Swagbook! We have been Beta testing it since the expansion, it is so simple to use and has some great features for tracking who's been awarded what gear. I am happy to talk to anyone about our experiences using it.

[Nezoia]

Keep up the good work for the people who still use Dragon Kill Points

Though, you should get a designer. Some of the colour match ups are really horrible.

[Aliset]

Keep up the good work for the people who still use Dragon Kill Points

Though, you should get a designer. Some of the colour match ups are really horrible.

No kidding. I would LOVE a designer. All my graphic artist buddies are up to their eyes in new projects, so no go there. If anyone is interested, I'd love to talk to you. aliset@fake.domain.name

Nezoia, what does your group use to determine priority?

[Nezoia]

Loot Council

Loot's a tool, not really nessary to log. Specially not in World of Casualcraft where you can't even trust itemlevels anymore.

[Pure Lunacy]

Aliset-

I support your cause, but still think you smell funny.

-Kahluna

[Aliset]

Aliset-

I support your cause, but still think you smell funny.

-Kahluna

Like sunshine and kittens. And you love me for it.

[Aliset]

By the way, if you create a guild and run into problems (so far 1 person had a weird import bug that I'm working on right now...everything else has been great!), if you have a user account with an email address I can let you know when things are fixed. Otherwise you might never know!

[Aliset]

To whomever made the Domini guild and tried to import their run: could you let me know what program you used to track that raid? You had gear recipients who were not attendees (and some were perhaps misspellings of actual attendees).

Either way, Swagbook now accepts an import with such an error now, though the new runners will have an error box to let you know they're not quite right.

Thanks!

[Aliset]

I've noticed a few people go to the YAML import page and stop. If you want to do an export of eqDKP (or another site) and you're having trouble just let me know. For eqDKP there's a linked .php file you drop in and it does an export of your old data.