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Custom Encounter IDs are now in the Dev preview (Patreon)

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2020-05-17 05:02:44
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Hello Patrons!

There's a big update in the works that you can now try out on the dev preview:

 https://improved-initiative-dev.herokuapp.com/ 

The tracker is now completely rendered in React which will make my app development experience a lot easier and faster. Since this is a top-down change with some far-reaching effects, it might introduce a few bugs. On the other hand, it solves a few existing issues that were waiting on this change. Hopefully you won't notice anything at all.

As a more tangible feature, Epic Initiative patrons will be able to request a custom Encounter ID that will apply to their Player View URL. The Ids are first come, first served and it will drop your Player View off the old Id when you change it. This is another often-requested feature that will benefit from some testing with multiple users before I ship it to the official website.

Thanks for your patience and your continued support in these times. It means a lot! I hope you've all been able to use online tools like Improved Initiative to continue your campaigns while social distancing.

-Evan

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Chase

Will the custom encounter ID be persistent or only apply to the specific saved encounter?

Evan Bailey
>>37048316

It's persistent; not attached to any particular saved encounter. I might change the name of the feature to "Player View Id" to avoid confusion.

Andrew Fillhart

Sounds like a pretty useful update. I haven't DMed in a while but should be a good to to use once I'm back in the chair. Thanks for the heads up. 👍

Anonymous

I'm not sure if this is related or not, but all of my player characters disappeared between yesterday and today. I can rebuild them, but wanted to mention it, just in case it was an actual issue/bug.

Evan Bailey
>>37153152

Not related to this; this update hasn't been deployed to the official site. Sorry about your Characters! It looks like you recently added Account Sync, had you been able to previously sync these characters? It's a big problem if your synced data disappeared. Thanks!

Anonymous

Thanks for the reply! I actually noticed they were gone on the device I normally use before I upgraded to the Account Sync tier. I had been planning on it anyway, as it seemed the least I can do for a service that’s been so helpful to me. Cheers!

Mark (zellspell)

This is an update I would love to see. Will we be able to have more than one for our account? I DM for 3 groups and use Improved Initiative for all 3. Would be nice to have 3 unique IDs, 1 per group. Thanks for the great work! The dev for the VTT we use also uses a version of React and really likes it.