The "Needed" and "Over/Under" columns are useful, but when i am blue skying with different starting chip requirements, it would be nice to know how many players one chip typei can support given the estimated number of players. your maximum players is basically the minimum of the quantities divided by the "per player". i just want that value itemized on each row. less mental math for me. it is good for figuring out which chips i might want to order more of, for example.
Yeah, stuamurr is right. The software does this already ... unless I am misunderstanding.
while on the topic of chip sets, i am unsure if i am using the software properly, but if so, then i'm being an "idea" man.
the "save template" button on the "chips" tab saves both the chip set and chips information together. i would have thought these should be separate templates. "chip sets" don't change much, while there can be many templates that would use a given chip set. so, if i add more chips to a chip set, i now have to open all the templates and update the quantities in each. using a hierarchical approach would take care of that by simply modifying the chip set one time.
i hope that wasn't too confusing! LOL
The chipsets are collections of the chips, thus they are directly tied to the defined chips ... which is why they are saved together as one unit. I'm not sure how it would work otherwise. Or, now that I'm re-reading your post, I think you have the correlation backwards. At least, backwards from the way I thought about it when I designed it. And now you've got me questioning how it was designed...
The thinking was along the lines of "these are the types of chips that I have (red, green, yellow with dots, blue with dice, etc)" [chips] and I have these "chipsets which are composed of those chips, and here's how many of each" [chipsets]. Then, when you run the tournament, you can select which of the chips you want to display on the Tournament screen (meaning, which types are going to be used in this tournament).
Your point of view sounds more like "Here are the chipsets I have and the chips in those sets" [chipsets], and from those "here are the chips I want to use" [chips].
Am I following you? Now that I've written it out, I'm not sure one is necessarily better than the other, just a different way of thinking about it.