Exclude certain options/multiple options in the Game Finder

[billythekid]

I'm not sure if this has been suggested already but I didn't see it when I looked for it...

In the Game Finder could there be an option to exclude certain options? Or, essentially the same thing would be to allow multiple options to be selected, instead of having to select "Terminator" OR "Standard" OR "Doubles” OR “Any”, you could select "Standard" AND "Terminator" but not include "Doubles" games (in order to find all games that are either Standard or Terminator games).

This may not seem very significant with just one of the options (like game type), but when you factor in the other options there can be a lot of different combinations to search for. For example, sometimes I have done 6 to 8 different searches to find any games that are some combination of standard or terminator, sequential, escalating or flat rate, 3 or 6 players, chained or unlimited fortifications, classic map or Brazil or Africa or Space or USA, etc.

Does this make sense? Is there already a way to do this that I’m not aware of? If not, do others think this might be helpful? Let’s hear some thoughts on this…

[A Mans Part]

Check with Tr0y (maybe someone else did it), but I think someone created a modified script to filter out options

[A Mans Part]

This may or may not be what you are looking for...

I took Tr0y's game sorter greasemonkey script and made some modifications to it.

This new script allows you to filter out game settings that you don't like right on the "Join Game" screen, so that you only see the game types that you like.

http://www.ualberta.ca/~andrewl/ccgamel ... er.user.js

Disclaimer: I've only tested this on Firefox 1.5 for Mac, so if you try it on something else and it doesn't work, let me know and I will do my best to fix it.

Disclaimer 2: This is my first ever attempt at a greasemonkey script. JS is not my language of choice, if anyone wants to take a stab at optimizing it (*cough*Tr0y*cough*), go for it

--Rob

[billythekid]

ok, please forgive me for not knowing how to do this, but...

when I tried clicking on that link from IE, I got an error on line 42 and when I click on it from FireFox, it takes me directly to the code, but I am not a programmer so what do I do with it then?

thanks for the help and the suggestion (I think that will help if I can get it to work)...

[zip_disk]

First you need to have greasemonkey installed, then you can install the user script (its usually a button at the top when you view the script).

[RexRegis]

I would like this option too...

imagine if I want to play:
classic, space or Middle Earth
standard or terminator
freestyle
Escalating or flat rate
chained or unlimited
public

That is 3*2*1*2*2*1 = 24 searches...

with some minor changes in the search script and changing to check boxes this can be done in one search.

[zip_disk]

If you used Rob Roy's greasemonkey game sorter script it would take 1 search with scrolling through the maps you don't want. Or 1 each for the maps you do want (3 in your example).

I tried modifying rob roy's script to sort by maps but the picture code screws up the existing script.

Don't tell us how easy it is unless you can do it yourself. Then if you can do that you might as well do the code and have lack add it in.

[reverend_kyle]

Mine of rob's script only lets you pick so many options before it unpicks some of your options.

[zip_disk]

The script only really works as an exclusion system. If you try adding back options it screws itself up by adding any game that had that option. Regardless of whether it had an excluded option or not.

The player count part doesn't seem to work either.