F2P Addon
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Yde
Worg
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Are you sure the folder is in Interface > AddOns?
Tried to replicate this but couldn't. New download of Addon as it is right now on curse works fine for me.Has anyone tried to download f2paddon recently? I accidentally deleted it, redownloaded, and now it doesn't work. Does'nt even show up in the Addon List at the loading screen....HEEELLLPPPP
Are you sure the folder is in Interface > AddOns?
Yde
Worg
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Hope you figure out how to fix it soon!
That's frustrating.Yup it is where it should be, thank you for that though! I even downloaded a second addon for safety (bgspy) and that one works fine.
Hope you figure out how to fix it soon!Wh3tst0nE
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Hey guys. I just want to say that this is a great addon. Channel wasn't posting announcements (x joined channel, x left channel) and when a Friend comes online, it didn't make that sound notification go off, so it was perfectly non-spammy.
However, I got a problem here. More of aesthetic one. This small box randomly popped up in the middle of the screen when I was flying, with 2 options: Leave and Cancel.
I accidentally clicked Leave and found out I had left the f2ptwink channel. So I /joined it, but the sound alerts now are present and whenever someone comes online, it sends that extra line of announcement. Player has left the channel... very spammy.
I tried reinstalling, deleting Saved Variables and deleting chat-cache. Nothing worked.
Edit: It has worked, whatever I did, but when I go to chat settings, global channels and wanna change color of the channel, it is unchecked and I have to check it or then it starts giving me an error, but if I do check it, the announcements are back.
Hey guys. I just want to say that this is a great addon. Channel wasn't posting announcements (x joined channel, x left channel) and when a Friend comes online, it didn't make that sound notification go off, so it was perfectly non-spammy.
However, I got a problem here. More of aesthetic one. This small box randomly popped up in the middle of the screen when I was flying, with 2 options: Leave and Cancel.
I accidentally clicked Leave and found out I had left the f2ptwink channel. So I /joined it, but the sound alerts now are present and whenever someone comes online, it sends that extra line of announcement. Player has left the channel... very spammy.
I tried reinstalling, deleting Saved Variables and deleting chat-cache. Nothing worked.
Edit: It has worked, whatever I did, but when I go to chat settings, global channels and wanna change color of the channel, it is unchecked and I have to check it or then it starts giving me an error, but if I do check it, the announcements are back.
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Lycanne
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
So my friend got a problem with the F2Paddon, everytime he comes online he gets errors and he can't see what people are saying in the chat and he can't see if people are coming offline or online. So does anyone know what's wrong with his addon?
So my friend got a problem with the F2Paddon, everytime he comes online he gets errors and he can't see what people are saying in the chat and he can't see if people are coming offline or online. So does anyone know what's wrong with his addon?
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Srs
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
I would like to thank the author, Yasueh, for his ongoing work on the f2p addon. After taking a break from WoW and f2p for awhile, I was pleasantly surprised, after coming back, to find that the addon is in better shape than ever. The addition of the options menu in the interface control panel is especially nice.
I understand that an undertaking such as this sometimes brings more hassle than gratitude, so I would just wanted to let you know how awesome it is that you continue to support this community by continuing to update the addon.
It's your f u to Blizzivision what enables this colossal goatf**k we call f2p to thrive.
I would like to thank the author, Yasueh, for his ongoing work on the f2p addon. After taking a break from WoW and f2p for awhile, I was pleasantly surprised, after coming back, to find that the addon is in better shape than ever. The addition of the options menu in the interface control panel is especially nice.
I understand that an undertaking such as this sometimes brings more hassle than gratitude, so I would just wanted to let you know how awesome it is that you continue to support this community by continuing to update the addon.
It's your f u to Blizzivision what enables this colossal goatf**k we call f2p to thrive.
blue09
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Here is a macro for Subtlety rouges,for a sick opening(you must have the Subterfuge talent and some Thistle Tea):
#showtooltip
/use [mod:shift] Thistle Tea
/castsequence reset=10/nocombat Ambush,Ambush,Ambush,Eviscerate
After you use the first and the second Ambush, you pop a tea for a energy refill(hold the shift for that), and burn another Ambush. If you move quick enough,you can get all of this done in the 3 sec window that Subterfuge provides,and finally,burn a 5-point Eviscerate. Hope this helps!
Here is a macro for Subtlety rouges,for a sick opening(you must have the Subterfuge talent and some Thistle Tea):
#showtooltip
/use [mod:shift] Thistle Tea
/castsequence reset=10/nocombat Ambush,Ambush,Ambush,Eviscerate
After you use the first and the second Ambush, you pop a tea for a energy refill(hold the shift for that), and burn another Ambush. If you move quick enough,you can get all of this done in the 3 sec window that Subterfuge provides,and finally,burn a 5-point Eviscerate. Hope this helps!
CripzBlood
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Update Addon pls... 5.1 is out and theres no F2P chat :O
I dont want to rush you, but i miss the addon
Update Addon pls... 5.1 is out and theres no F2P chat :O
I dont want to rush you, but i miss the addon
youakim
Guest
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
Enable out of date addons and it still worksUpdate Addon pls... 5.1 is out and theres no F2P chat :O
I dont want to rush you, but i miss the addon
OP
OP
yasueh
OG
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
F2PAddon 1.2.11 has been uploaded to curse.com and is awaiting approval.
If anyone is interested in a couple of other addons I made let me know, and I'll put those up too:
I'm going to get back to Firefall
F2PAddon 1.2.11 has been uploaded to curse.com and is awaiting approval.
If anyone is interested in a couple of other addons I made let me know, and I'll put those up too:
- BGScoreShot - Automatically takes a screenshot when a BG game is completed. Attempts to sort the scoreboard by honor gained first.
- TabardRep - Changes the reputation you're tracking to match whatever tabard you're wearing, to save messing around in the reputation pane.
I'm going to get back to Firefall
OP
OP
yasueh
OG
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
I found a little problem with the options frame, where if you enter some text into the edit box for the channel name but don't hit update, the whole options frame for the addon stops working, even after /reloadui.
If you want to wait a few hours (plus whatever time it takes for curse to approve the new upload), I'll have a 1.2.12 out.
I'll also be fixing the options frame so it's text fits properly at lower resolutions, and adding the /f2paddon command to bring up the options without having to go all the way through the game's main menu.
I found a little problem with the options frame, where if you enter some text into the edit box for the channel name but don't hit update, the whole options frame for the addon stops working, even after /reloadui.
If you want to wait a few hours (plus whatever time it takes for curse to approve the new upload), I'll have a 1.2.12 out.
I'll also be fixing the options frame so it's text fits properly at lower resolutions, and adding the /f2paddon command to bring up the options without having to go all the way through the game's main menu.
KainUFC
Legend
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
So the addon now displays, what, all the alts you have on the same account? How exactly does it work? Im not necessarily against it and when I noticed it just now I thought it was a novel feature but I suppose now after seeing the above thread ppl might view it as an invasion of their privacy?
Would be nice to know who everybody is.
So the addon now displays, what, all the alts you have on the same account? How exactly does it work? Im not necessarily against it and when I noticed it just now I thought it was a novel feature but I suppose now after seeing the above thread ppl might view it as an invasion of their privacy?
Would be nice to know who everybody is.
OP
OP
yasueh
OG
Re: Yasueh's Macros and Addons for F2P
When you log in with a character running the addon, that character's name is added to a list in the addon's settings database for that realm (the settings for the addon being account wide. Each realm has a separate list). The addon broadcasts that list to everyone in the channel when you log in (it's listed in the change log under 1.2.2), and also sends it to individuals when they log in after you, in response their data packet. The original use was to increase the number of valid candidates when the addon was passing channel ownership when the current owner logs out, and in the past it was actually doing that. I stripped the code out because it was an overly complicated mess, but I'd like to have the same functionality again in future.
These lists of alts have been stored in the addon's settings since shortly after it started using a database, and were readable to anyone using a text editor on the file. Something I've had to consider is that people could modify the addon to do things it shouldn't. One of those things is broadcasting a list of alts that contains characters other than your own, claiming them to be your alts when they aren't.
For that reason the new info module doesn't just give the list of alts that's stored in the database next to a character name, but instead checks the the names in that list, to see if the active character's name appears in their alts list too. Basically when a character claims another character as an alt, that character also has to claim the first character as an alt for the addon to consider it to be genuine connection, and show it in the tooltip (or pass ownership to the level 1 alt of someone who has a level 20 F2P, over a level 1 who's waiting to get channel ownership in order to set a password).
The tooltip's purpose is to help work out who everyone is, because unlike endgame where most people play only a couple of characters, the ease of making F2Ps means that most people have a lot of them, and it's very hard to work out who the hell everyone is most of the time.
The number of malicious uses people could have for that information is small, pretty much limited to stalking, which can almost completely be countered by ignore and report (I can't remember if an ignore on one character applies to the rest of the characters on your account by default, but there are addons that will friend/ignore account wide for you).
Meanwhile the number of beneficial uses to which the addon can put the information is pretty big. For example, off the top of my head:
What I will do is add a line to the .toc file for the addon, so it isn't automatically enabled for every character you have, just because it's installed. That way people can restrict the list of alts shown to the characters they're happy to have in channel, and not get characters accidentally added to the list because they logged that character in without first disabling the addon for it. It may be a while before that gets released though, because in order to save people having to regularly reinstall their addon, I prefer to only do releases when I've got several new features, or something major needs fixing.
For the moment if you want to reset the list of alts your addon is giving out, once you've decided which characters are included by having the addon enabled on only them, you can use the following slash commands from any one character that is running the addon, and it'll affect all the characters for that realm on the account (if you play on more than one realm using the addon, you'd need to run it on each realm):
That will wipe the list, re-add the active character as the UI and addons reload, and send out an alts list containing just that name, overwriting the entry for the character in the database of everyone in channel at that point, and everyone else's databases the next time they see you in the channel.
In future I'd like to have the database act more like a cache, so it will be wiping character data when the characters haven't been seen online for a while.
When you log in with a character running the addon, that character's name is added to a list in the addon's settings database for that realm (the settings for the addon being account wide. Each realm has a separate list). The addon broadcasts that list to everyone in the channel when you log in (it's listed in the change log under 1.2.2), and also sends it to individuals when they log in after you, in response their data packet. The original use was to increase the number of valid candidates when the addon was passing channel ownership when the current owner logs out, and in the past it was actually doing that. I stripped the code out because it was an overly complicated mess, but I'd like to have the same functionality again in future.
These lists of alts have been stored in the addon's settings since shortly after it started using a database, and were readable to anyone using a text editor on the file. Something I've had to consider is that people could modify the addon to do things it shouldn't. One of those things is broadcasting a list of alts that contains characters other than your own, claiming them to be your alts when they aren't.
For that reason the new info module doesn't just give the list of alts that's stored in the database next to a character name, but instead checks the the names in that list, to see if the active character's name appears in their alts list too. Basically when a character claims another character as an alt, that character also has to claim the first character as an alt for the addon to consider it to be genuine connection, and show it in the tooltip (or pass ownership to the level 1 alt of someone who has a level 20 F2P, over a level 1 who's waiting to get channel ownership in order to set a password).
The tooltip's purpose is to help work out who everyone is, because unlike endgame where most people play only a couple of characters, the ease of making F2Ps means that most people have a lot of them, and it's very hard to work out who the hell everyone is most of the time.
The number of malicious uses people could have for that information is small, pretty much limited to stalking, which can almost completely be countered by ignore and report (I can't remember if an ignore on one character applies to the rest of the characters on your account by default, but there are addons that will friend/ignore account wide for you).
Meanwhile the number of beneficial uses to which the addon can put the information is pretty big. For example, off the top of my head:
- I could improve the addon so it would work with invite only channels. You can stick a password on a channel, but not give it out, then invite people to it without them learning the password. The problem would be the owner/mods would have to invite people back to the channel when they swap characters or log back in later (after the channel has closed, lost it's member list, and been reformed because everyone logged out of it), but with a list of alts the addon can handle that.
- The addon could generate the text to make a web page or post into a forum, containing links to all the armories of all the F2Ps at 20 (that one almost made it into 1.2.12).
- If I ever got round to making an arena wargame queueing system, people could queue any of their characters, while playing on any other character, and they'd get a popup to say when enough people had queued to form teams, and even say which of the queued alts to log onto, if people wanted to restrict the queue system to using specific comps.
- It could also be used for a mini F2P only census, a bit like you can find on warcraftrealms.com, so people can see the popularity of specs, races, classes, etc.
What I will do is add a line to the .toc file for the addon, so it isn't automatically enabled for every character you have, just because it's installed. That way people can restrict the list of alts shown to the characters they're happy to have in channel, and not get characters accidentally added to the list because they logged that character in without first disabling the addon for it. It may be a while before that gets released though, because in order to save people having to regularly reinstall their addon, I prefer to only do releases when I've got several new features, or something major needs fixing.
For the moment if you want to reset the list of alts your addon is giving out, once you've decided which characters are included by having the addon enabled on only them, you can use the following slash commands from any one character that is running the addon, and it'll affect all the characters for that realm on the account (if you play on more than one realm using the addon, you'd need to run it on each realm):
Code:
/run F2PAddon_Variables.Alts[F2PAddonGlobalVars.thisRealm] = {}
/reloaduiIn future I'd like to have the database act more like a cache, so it will be wiping character data when the characters haven't been seen online for a while.
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