Free to Play: 20 Twinking and You

bankbeauty said:
That's what you think. Because you really think everyone on TI follow the rules?

Because you think no one on TI will roll 24 to rape some of you?

You think that?
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Stop bitching already
 
Bankbeauty and Opinion, this is not the thread for discussing this. If you have any feedback or helpful information regarding the OP, please feel free to contribute. Thanks.



PS: Removed your post Med'an - unnecessary to try and stir up a conflict.



Best regards,
 
lindenkron said:
Bankbeauty and Opinion, this is not the thread for discussing this. If you have any feedback or helpful information regarding the OP, please feel free to contribute. Thanks.



PS: Removed your post Med'an - unnecessary to try and stir up a conflict.



Best regards,
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linda ur the best mod
 
Whoa, hold up, what's the point of rolling trial AND switching xp off yourself? Isn't that missing the whole point of free play with a trial xp cap?



You are willing to waste 10 gold (which are a bitch to grind up on a trial) just to get into a lesser populated bracket which will ultimately be dominated by live account 20-24s with BoA gear and superior enchants, and talk about making your own rules?

That's so naive. There's absolutely no chance you can enforce any rules here. This is wow. A large portion of this game caters to people who don't listen to anyone. People do what they want, and you can't do anything about it, especially in your inferior gear.



Solution: Turn xp on. Cause it's an active a bracket where said live accounts will risk leveling, while you both save 10 gold, still keep your toon at 20 forever AND occasionally get to curbstomp regular players. That's how twinking started in the first place.



tl;dr:

20-24 xp on bracket: Shorter queues, less 24s, more gold, less qq, more levelers to roflstomp.
 
Cashmar said:
Whoa, hold up, what's the point of rolling trial AND switching xp off yourself? Isn't that missing the whole point of free play with a trial xp cap?



You are willing to waste 10 gold (which are a bitch to grind up on a trial) just to get into a lesser populated bracket which will ultimately be dominated by live account 20-24s with BoA gear and superior enchants, and talk about making your own rules?

That's so naive. There's absolutely no chance you can enforce any rules here. This is wow. A large portion of this game caters to people who don't listen to anyone. People do what they want, and you can't do anything about it, especially in your inferior gear.



Solution: Turn xp on. Cause it's an active a bracket where said live accounts will risk leveling, while you both save 10 gold, still keep your toon at 20 forever AND occasionally get to curbstomp regular players. That's how twinking started in the first place.



tl;dr:

20-24 xp on bracket: Shorter queues, less 24s, more gold, less qq, more levelers to roflstomp.
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Trials acc get to exp off BGs when you ding lvl 20, otherwise the pops would never happen.
 
You play against three players



a) trial scrubs

b) f2p scrubs

c) p2p scrubs



It's also naive to say that you can crutch on expansion/account limitations to get into a more populated bracket. Blizzard fixed that and 70s/20s still get tremendous pops.
 
i might roll one horde side on my p2p account, ill just limit myself to these rules if i feel like leveling another toon after i finish the one im working on now. seems like a neat idea
 
Site under maintenance but I added the limitations straight from their site. I'll be sure to give it a check.
 
Nothing of too much importance or anything that hasn't already been said.
 
Opinion said:
Nothing of too much importance or anything that hasn't already been said.
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True, but I thought maybe some people like the offical blizzard read about the starter accounts.



Although it got some wrong stuffs on it that they will maybe hotfix soon.
 
I've got Cata and shit downloaded atm, do I need to download the TBC version in order to play on my F2P account?
 
Opinion said:
I'm F2P. How do I talk/meet others like me?



If you are on the Aerie Peak - US servers the best way to meet people is through the public channel f2ptwink. You can join by typing /join f2ptwink and then /chatlist f2ptwink. From here you have to add them and wait for them to add you back.



Free to Play Accounts are limited to:

Party

Raid

Say

Battleground



In order to whisper someone you must have each other added.
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The /chatlist command isn't showing everyone in the channel, and it's a pain having to keep checking it and adding people to your friends list manually.





This addon might be of some use.
 
pereith said:
The /chatlist command isn't showing everyone in the channel, and it's a pain having to keep checking it and adding people to your friends list manually.





This might be of some use:





Make a folder inside your Addons folder called "f2ptwinknames"



Inside it make 3 text files, then copy/paste the following into them and rename them as below:



f2ptwinknames.toc

Code: 
## Interface: 40200

## Title: f2ptwinknames

## Notes: every 5 minutes asks the server for the list of members in the channel 'f2ptwink' and adds them to your friends list

f2ptwinknames.lua

f2ptwinknames.xml



f2ptwinknames.xml

Code: 
<Ui xmlns="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/" 

 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 

 xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.blizzard.com/wow/ui/ 

 

 ..\..\FrameXML\UI.xsd">



	<Script File="f2ptwinknames.lua"/>

	<Frame name="F2PTwinkNamesFrame">

		<Scripts>

			<OnLoad function="F2PTwinkNames_OnLoad"/>

			<OnUpdate function="F2PTwinkNames_OnUpdate"/>

		</Scripts>

	</Frame>

</Ui>



f2ptwinknames.lua

Code: 
local channelname = "f2ptwink"



local throttle = 300

local counter = 0

local friends = {}



function F2PTwinkNames_OnLoad(self)

	print("F2PTwinkNames loaded");

	self:RegisterEvent("CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL_LIST");

    F2PTwinkNames_OnUpdate(self,throttle);

end



function F2PTwinkNames_OnUpdate(self, elapsed)

	counter = counter + elapsed;

	if counter >= throttle then

		counter = 0;





        if (#friends == 0) then

            if (GetNumFriends() > 0) then

                --print("Populating list of existing friends")

                --print ("----------------");

                f_num = GetNumFriends();

                table.insert(friends, GetUnitName("player",0));

                for y = 1, f_num do

                    local name, level, class, loc, connected, status = GetFriendInfo(y);

                    table.insert(friends, name);

                    --print(name);

                end

                --print ("----------------");

            end

        end





        if ( GetNumChannelMembers(GetChannelName(channelname)) ) then

            i = GetNumChannelMembers(GetChannelName(channelname))

            --print (i.." members:");

            --print ("----------------");

            for x = 1, i do 

                channel_member = GetChannelRosterInfo(GetChannelName(channelname), x);

                exists = 0;

                for y = 1, #friends do

                    if (friends[y] == channel_member) then

                        exists = 1;

                        --print(channel_member.." already exists in friends list. Skipping.");

                    end

                end

                if (exists == 0) then

                    print ("F2PTwinkNames adding "..channel_member.." to friends list");

                    AddFriend(channel_member);

                    table.insert(friends, channel_member);

                end

            end

            --print ("----------------");

        end

	end

end





You've now got an addon that automatically adds everyone who joins that channel as a friend (if someone wants to make turn it into a .zip file people can download, go ahead. It's not really worth the effort for me to do it when it should take as long to copy/paste/rename as save/download/unzip).







The only problem is the friends list is limited to 50 people. If we get that many I could have the addon save a longer list to a text file when it exits, and then keep adding/removing people to/from the friends list as they log in and out (with a delay, in case they're just swapping to an alt for a sec).



It'd help a bit for chat in game and assembling groups, but I think xfire/vent would be a better solution in the long term.
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Thats very helpful, Ty
 
Changed the f2ptwinknames.lua file to a newer version. Turns out WoW uses 2 different ways to number it's chat channels, and none of the manuals on writing addons mentioned it.
 
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