Cards

Members can collect cards in a variety of ways. Trading, treasure hunting, lounge mini game, card packs, adding the first 10 characters to a title.

Creating Cards

You start by creating a New Collection. Then from My Collections you can select one to add cards to. It's worth reviewing Ajam's Card Guide. I would strongly suggest looking at published sets, and making sure the set you are creating is similar to them:

• Has a template
• Includes character name and card rarity in image
• Images are appropriate for all ages
• Has several cards with different rarities

Getting a Set Approved

While viewing your card collection that you want approved, click the link found in the first frame header. Due to the old layout - there are 2 more frames in edit mode. The 2nd frame labeled Set Status contains the form you can use to toggle 'Done - Approve Me'. The 3rd frame contains links to edit and add cards.

Importantance of Rarity

We start by rolling a d9. You have a 1/9 chance of getting any F-S cards on the first roll. You have a 2/9 chance of rolling again for a SS or SSS card. On the 2nd roll, you have a 5/11 chance of getting a S card, a 5/11 chance of an SS card, and a 1/11 chance of a SSS card.

The real problem is that if the is no card at that rarity in the set, you wont get a card. This bug in particular affects card packs.

You are also limited to a max collection of 10000 cards, and limited to one copy of any SSS card.

function chooseRandomCardRarity() {

       $r = rand(0,8);
       if($r < 7)      return $r;
       $r = rand(0,10);
       if($r < 5)      return 6;
       if($r < 10)     return 7;
                       return 8;

}

• case 0: return 'F';
• case 1: return 'E';
• case 2: return 'D';
• case 3: return 'C';
• case 4: return 'B';
• case 5: return 'A';
• case 6: return 'S';
• case 7: return 'SS';
• case 8: return 'SSS';

Collecting Cards

Lounge

You should always start with The lounge in Server Tab where you can type the message .cardpack to receive 3 random cards. Due to the fact you can delete lounge messages, and I am not motivated to spend the effort tracking how cards are acquired, .cardpack will not give you any cards if you have already collected 3 today.

Treasure

Each treasure chest has a chance of containing a card. However! The first 15 minutes of every hour will have a 100% chance of containing a card. Indicated by the treasure icon.

Card Packs

By following the link to your card collection you can click on any card there to pull up the option to buy a card pack. Look for the awkwardly placed button ...

Limit of 5 card packs per day!

Trade

There is a market place for buying and selling cards.

Essence Extractor

Duplicate cards can be converted into Card Essences. Unlike cards which are capped at 10,000 per member, you can have an unlimited number of card essences. These can be rolled for a chance at a random card of the same rarity. They can also be used to craft gift's for your waifu/husbando characters.

Select a Rarity

Then click on any card with a red border to extract that duplicate.

You then have the option to enter gift mode with a waifu and craft a gift.

Waifu Listing then click

Cardmaking General Guide

This guide was originally made by our staff member Akikojam in 2013, and reformatted for ease of reading.

Here are tips and rules that you should keep in mind while making a card set.

Set theme

A card set should have a theme. It doesn't exactly have to be an anime/game, you can use a tag as a theme, like making a "miko" set. You can probably use trait as a set too, like making a set of girls with long green hair or just extra-long hair. As long as this is not a random collection, any theme should work. You can use a studio as a theme too. And of course, characters have to be from anime/visual novels/manga/Japanese games and such.

Card types

Cards can be separated into character cards and event cards, regular or bonus cards. It's a good idea to reserve SS and SSS cards for bonus cards. Bonus cards are cards with stuff like group pictures, characters wearing alternative costumes they don't normally wear in the story line (like cosplaying), crossovers and stuff like that. If possible, use SS rank for bonus character cards or character pairs-trio and SSS for bonus event cards or big groups. How you distribute them is up to you.

Card

• Try to not stretch images too much. If cards get too deformed (their height-width ratio is too different from the original picture), they won't get approved and might sink the whole set. So, crop images, if they get deformed, or rotate them.
• Try to organize your cards. So, for example, if you have five cards: two S ranks, one SSS rank, one A rank and one B rank, try to put them in the order of not S A SSS B S, but S S A B SSS or B A S S SSS. That doesn't only involve rarity, but you should also organize them by picture used or so. You'll understand if you look at my Oreimo card set. I had Kirino-Ruri-Saori-Manami-Ayase-Kanako-Sena sequence repeat itself 7 times, changing theme every time the sequence finished. You'll notice it's: character-regular cg-face close-kiss-beach-ending-Magica cosplay. Well, there were some exceptions, because Sena didn't have some of those events.
• Try to not use too much fanart, I only stick with official pictures. Or only use it for bonus cards. I wouldn't want a fan artist complaining about his art being used for cards.
• Try to use high-quality pictures.
• When uploading a character card try to place a character in the center, so there won't be too much free space. Event cards are different of course.
• Don't assign rarity, based on your personal preferences, make a rule for yourself. Everyone's getting those cards and it's not fair that they are organized with who you like most. You can vary them on amount of story they have, or how hard is it to get them in game, stuff like that.

Deleting cards

Instead of deleting a single card, I recommend deleting a whole set and reuploading it. Deletion bugs up the set a little and you can end up with cards that never(or almost never) appear.

Please understand that when cards are published, they're there for good, even Rei can't do much about it or change them.

Note that you won't be able to create a set with the same name, so make sure you rename a set before deleting (if you can, if not, ask a mod, I'm not sure I remember correctly). So, for example, you have a set SETNAME and want to delete a card. You rename SETNAME to deleted1_SETNAME, delete it and create a new set called SETNAME, filling it with your cards again.

Card should contain

Size of cards is supposed to be 300x400 or larger, but still with 3x4 ratio (width to height). A bit different is fine too. I myself am using 400x600.

• Picture (must)
• Card Name (must)
• Set Name (must, unless you're using a unique frame)
• Rarity (optional, but adviced to do)
• Card Number (optional, pretty much not needed, so only add it if it won't decrease a quality)

The font should be legible, remember that cards mostly appear as thumbnails, so... a font size of around 18 is advised and try not to overdecorate it with using fancy fonts or italic. Also, the colors are important. Using a dark font on dark background (like dark red on black) is a bad idea. Try to use contrasting ones, the simplest being black on white or white on black. Also, you CAN put text over the picture, but there is a high chance it won't be readable then, because the colors on the picture are multiple. So make a separate field for all the text somewhere by the border. You can see Rei's Testing Card as an example. My advice is: if you're going to make a lot of sets - make yourself a frame.

Try to make cards look like part of a set.

All rules of ACDB apply too, so don't upload cards with nsfw pictures.

Tools

Recent Cards and stats
Essence Extractor

See Also

• Card Fixes (Moderation only)