PlanningPuca: Future Site Feature List WRITTEN BY Daniel Miller

Come Sunday afternoon, you will be logging in to experience the world premiere of Future Site. We’ve talked a lot about the upcoming improvements and changes that will launch with the site, but I figured it might be useful for everyone to have a compendium for easy reference. So here it is, your official Future Site cheat-sheet.

New Features:

MTGO trading

Can be accessed by changing the toggle in the upper left of the screen from Paper to MTGO.



Your account will not have any MTGO Haves, Wants, or Watches when the site launches.



MTGO trades will be made by dropping cards off/picking them up from a PucaBot on MTGO.



You will need to link an MTGO account to your PucaTrade account in order to trade MTGO cards: this can be done from your Settings under that Account Settings tab.

Condition support



Cards can be added to your Want list in any combination of four conditions from HP to NM.



When sending a card, you can chose from any condition that your trading partner has indicated that they will accept.



You can set preferences in your Account Settings for the card conditions that you generally accept in cards that you Want.



Cards on your Have list will only have one Condition, which can be updated based on the set the card is from.



Condition can still be disputed within cases if necessary.



All cards currently on your Haves, Wants, and Watch lists will default to NM when the new site launches. This can be edited on a card by card basis after the fact.

Non-English cards

Cards can be added to your Want list in any combination of languages that the card was printed in.



When composing a trade, you can chose from any language that your trading partner has indicated that they will accept.



You can set preferences in your Account Settings for the languages that you generally accept in cards that you Want



Cards on your Have list will only have one language, which can be updated based on the set the card is from.



Language can still be disputed within cases if necessary.



All cards currently on your Haves, Wants, and Watch lists will default to English when the new site launches.

Package Trading

Package trading is a new way to use the Send a Card page.



You will be able to toggle between this view, and “Classic”.



Package trades will group together all possible cards from your Have lists that each other Member currently wants, and will allow you to trade for any number of those cards with the click of a button.

Visual view on Send a Card page

You can now toggle the Send a Card page to peruse card images instead of table rows.

Bundling PucaShield

PucaShield will now calculate based on all the cards you are Shielding at a given time.



Each time you click “Protect this Trade” you’ll be charged 3%, 2%, or 1% of that entire package’s value.



You will be able to add unshielded cards to shielded packages, and vice versa.

Add cards to packages

You now have the ability to add cards to any unshipped package for easy viewing/shipping.



This is accessed by a toggle on the Compose Trade screen, or by clicking “Add Card to Package” on any unshipped package.

Quantity on Want lists

You can simultaneously add multiple instances of a single card to your Want list. All cards added in a batch like this will be grouped together as a single, editable item.

Add another

There will now be an “Add another” button on your Haves list for faster manual card entry.

M2M Chat

The messaging system is being transitioned to a live chat functionality



You can still access chat messages in a log, similar to how your inbox functions today.

Profile customisation (background/Avatar) for PP

You will now be able to customise your avatar and profile background to show off your favorite card art.



Profile customization will cost 150, 100, and 50 pp respectively for Common, Uncommon, and Rare members.

Recent trends Nexus for wants, trades, and prices

The PucaTrade Nexus will provide a dashboard for new trending and recently traded card data.

Email alerts available for all members

Case, message, and trade alerts will now be available to all members.

Lightweight Mode for lean browsing

We’ve introduced an early prototype for a “lean mode” option for mobile users who want to reduce load times.



We intend to expand on this feature in the future, but for now toggling this view on eliminates background images on some line items.

Leaderboards page

Trading leaderboards have been split off onto their own page.

It’s quite a list, and I hope you are as excited to start using it as we are to launch it. But this is just the beginning. If you’ve been following my PlanningPuca articles, you’ll know that we’ve got lots more ideas to following this release, and a plan to deliver them quickly and efficiently. For the first two weeks following August 21st, the dev team will be exclusively focused on bug and functionality fixes that will certainly accompany the launch of such a large development project. During those two weeks, we’ll be planning for the next round of features that we’re targeting for release around mid September. While a bunch of these are top-secret, I can give you a small peek behind the curtain of some of the ideas on our short list:

Auto-matching on profiles

Trade Binder to request cards and automatically accept trades

Badges

Filter Send a Card page by how many points a user has

Public trader feedback system

I can tell you for sure that this is FAR from the complete list of changes and improvements we are preparing to break ground on, and in fact, these are some of the smallest updates we’re considering. We have big plans to aggressively tackle some of the feature we put on hold during the development of Future Site, and our primary focus will be on increasing the speed with which cards are traded within our economy. Stay tuned for more exciting developments, and tune into my PlanningPuca blog posts every other Friday for more news and info.