{"id":344,"date":"2013-05-17T13:23:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=344"},"modified":"2013-05-17T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:29:17","slug":"the-return-of-the-release-ticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.captainspud.com\/?p=344","title":{"rendered":"The Return of the Release Ticker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back on Lost Hemisphere, I maintained a list of all currently-available Privateer Press release information in a handy ticker in the sidebar. I did this not as a service, but rather for my own benefit– I could never remember when new models were set to come out, and that gave me a convenient place to stick the information so that I could find it when I needed it. The fact that other people could also refer to it was really just an incidental bonus.<\/p>\n

I kept LH’s ticker updated in the months after the blog closed down, but at one point in March I ran into a weird technical issue on the LH server, and decided that rather than trying to fix it over there, I might as well do a bit more work and port the function over to my new site. I even added a few extra bells and whistles to the listing to make it fill out a page, since I didn’t have room for it in my sidebar here and the tiny vertical strip from LH looked really dumb sitting on its own.<\/p>\n

And so, if you click the Releases<\/strong><\/a> link in my top menu, you’ll be taken to a page that looks like this:<\/p>\n

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Aside from the filler information about model type and count, which book it’s from, and the MSRP, I’ve also set up a quick icon you can hover over that brings up a thumbnail preview of the model:<\/p>\n

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One feature that was commonly requested on LH but which I decided not to add was a notation for when during the month models are scheduled to come out– eg, May 15th, instead of just May. I decided against listing this for two reasons– firstly, because the information isn’t usually available when I punch the models in 3 months ahead of time, and I don’t want to have to be constantly checking the Warstore to see if more accurate timing has been put up; and secondly, different pre-order sources tend to list different dates for some items, and I don’t want to get into the mess of “Warstore says the 15th, Malefic says the 29th, WHY U NO LIST MY FAV’RIT SOURCE SPUD”. If you want more accurate timing information, you’re free to do the legwork and look it up yourself.<\/p>\n

So, there you go. It’s mostly there for my own use, but if anybody else finds it useful, I guess that’s a nice bonus. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And on a completely unrelated note…<\/h3>\n

Yes, I have some new models to show you soon, but I probably can’t post them until next week, as I’m currently prepping for an event on the 25th and terrain-making is eating up all of my blogging time.<\/p>\n

Stupid terrain…<\/p>\n

-Spud<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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