3 Features I Want to See

[Thortok2000]

1 - When looking at a character who's recipes are visible to you, an option to see 'missing' recipes. Recipes that can be learned, that haven't been yet. Have this listed just like the recipes that are known, with links to where to get them, etc.

2 - When looking at a character, have the option for 'recommended quests'. This will take race, class, professions, reputation, etc, and use those as filters for displaying quests. Options/filters for this would be (default on unless otherwise specified):

-Show 'low level' quests (grey) (default off)
-Show 'easy' quests (green)
-Show 'recommended' quests (yellow)
-Show 'challenging' quests (orange)
-Show 'high level' quests (red) (default off)
-Show class quests
-Show profession quests
-Show repeatable quests
-Show daily quests

I'm sure more filters could be thought of. This doesn't necessarily need to detect/remove quest you've already done, that would probably be too much work. It's basically a quest search, using the character as the basis for a filter.

3 - Automatic uploading. I'd like a program that can run in the background and automatically upload whenever it detects the data has changed. I'm a big fan of 'set it and forget it'.

[Rushster]

Number 1 Is on the list todo :)

Number 2. Will check and add to list of it's not on the team's list already.

Number 3. Automatic uploading is not possible because the game has to be closed down and then the data uploaded to make sure its all correct. The client can not interact with the game in anyway as that is against Blizzard's rules and guidelines.


1 - When looking at a character who's recipes are visible to you, an option to see 'missing' recipes. Recipes that can be learned, that haven't been yet. Have this listed just like the recipes that are known, with links to where to get them, etc.

2 - When looking at a character, have the option for 'recommended quests'. This will take race, class, professions, reputation, etc, and use those as filters for displaying quests. Options/filters for this would be (default on unless otherwise specified):

-Show 'low level' quests (grey) (default off)
-Show 'easy' quests (green)
-Show 'recommended' quests (yellow)
-Show 'challenging' quests (orange)
-Show 'high level' quests (red) (default off)
-Show class quests
-Show profession quests
-Show repeatable quests
-Show daily quests

I'm sure more filters could be thought of. This doesn't necessarily need to detect/remove quest you've already done, that would probably be too much work. It's basically a quest search, using the character as the basis for a filter.

3 - Automatic uploading. I'd like a program that can run in the background and automatically upload whenever it detects the data has changed. I'm a big fan of 'set it and forget it'.

[Thortok2000]

Automatic uploading's possible, I have another program that automatically uploads census data. I won't mention the name in case that's not allowed, but basically all it does is wait and monitor for a change in the lua file. (Possibly all it does is periodically check the 'last modified' date on the file and compare it to the last one it uploaded.) When the lua file has changed, it uploads it. WoW typically updates this lua file when you log out.

For instance, open up one of your savedvariables LUA files in a program like Notepad++. Then go into the game, change a setting, and come back out. There's a message in Notepad++ that says "the file has been changed. reload?" You click yes, and it refreshes to show the settings you just did. All an automatic uploader would need to do is detect the exact same kind of change in the file, and then just upload whenever a change occurs.

If you want me to send you the program or the link to it, so you can check it out and see how it works (and possibly if indeed it does break Blizzard's rules, in which case I'll stop using it), just let me know.

As far as I know, that's all done within windows without any interaction with any of the code with WoW, and therefore totally fine. WoW modifies the file, all the uploader does is detect that modification and upload the file.