Lucia Fox wrote: 1 Feb 2022, 08:33 Since you can buy things (brooms) to give you a better chance in broom sports, I thought it might be cool to have similar items which you could buy for duelling. For example, a magical strap which you could connect to your wand and your wrist to prevent you being disarmed, or a magical pair of glasses/binoculars which could help you see in the dark for those without blindvision. (It wouldn't completely negate the effect of spells like that, or work on the blinsfolding spell, but might reduce the amount of acc/eva taken off in a fumos situation for example.)

Of course, the duelling system is already awesome, and this might be hard to integrate even if the team liked the idea, but I thought it was worth suggesting just in case

Reading this, it comes to mind that Weasley's Wheezes had a Defence against the Dark Arts portion of the shop. It sold useful stuff like:
Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder
Jinx-Off
Extendable Ears
Headless Hats
Portable Swamps
Trick Wands
Shield Hats, Cloaks, etc.
Decoy Detonators

One can easily think of many strategic and practical uses for such objects in duelling. Maybe these could be added? I dunno.

These require more than a single off item as they are multiple items that seem to directly negate individual effects. Where brooms have differing benefits the apparent goal of these purchases would be to get them all to confer the greatest possible benefit. This would require more than the development of items but also the development of an inventory system and rules regarding item use during combat. That said, I copied the suggestion over to the dueling team.

Duelling is suppose to be a pure magical fight while in Hogwarts, it is heavily regulated, and like in fencing for example they don't get anything extra to stop their rapier from being disarmed but footballers still get kleats to help with traction. It is apart of the challenge,

I can say that if we do decide to come up with anything it might not even be until we are done developing the system itself.

Lear did copy this to the rest of the captains, I was going to but Lear beat me, and we will discuss. Thank you for the suggestion!

Ok, thank you! That all makes sense

(sorry for the double post but wanted this to come up as a notification for any staff who rely on notifs for knowing when new suggestions are in this thread)

With chocolate frogs, it's sometimes hard to find cards which have been donated to you, because it comes up as the name but the names aren't shown in the actual cards page. There are a few possible solutions to this but I think they'd all require coding so no worries if they wouldn't work.

The first idea is that the notification in the rememberall, instead of having the name of the card, it would have the code.
Eg.
(chocolate frog spoilers)
Donation from Lucia Fox: Gulliver Pokeby x2. "Message" would go to Donation from Lucia Fox: Bronze 1 x2. "Message" or Donation from Lucia Fox: B1 x2. "Message".

The second is that, in the cards page, the name of the card would appear on or underneath the card itself as long as you owned that card. Underneath would probably make more sense because that would mean the images satayed the same.
Eg.
(chocolate frog spoilers)
the first image in this would go to the second image in this

Thank you for considering my suggestion

I was actually thinking the same just now about half of that. Not a super priority on the list to change, if I'm honest. However, if other admin agree, I will look into it and see if that's something I can do. Not entirely sure if it can be done and what other admin think.

If it's not something admin can do, then realistically, it will likely be a no - since Zachary has quite a lot on his plate already.

I can't access the image link but will look into this suggestion when I can.

That sounds good, thank you!

edit for image links:
this might go to something like this

Ohh I see. Okay. I think that one will be harder to do and probably would be a no as it would require a lot more coding I believe, perhaps even recoding of that page to allow for that. But will see if the first or another solution is possible.

That makes sense. Thank you!

It would be a heavy rewrite for Zach in the present setting sadly for the amount of benefit. Admins refer to the acp to see how it is presently set up. Still if he has the time, feels inclined we will celebrate the update.