Battleground Leecher Reporting will assist with reporting those players who are AFKing/Leeching in a battleground. When you hit the "Check Leechers" button you'll be provided with a list of (5 at a time) current suspected leechers who you can then choose to report or "ignore".
Reported players are instantly reported using the new PVP AFK reporting feature in 2.2. Ignored players are removed from the list until the next leecher check.
The addon obviously cannot be fully tested until 2.2 is released, but if you want to give it a whirl on the test servers and report bugs so that it's ready for patch day then go ahead!
Enjoy :)
NB: PLEASE LEAVE COMMENTS REGARDING THE ETHICS OF LEECHING FOR ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE. KEEP THE COMMENTS CLEAN AND ADDON RELATED!
Made some UI changes making the addon more user friendly.
- On joining a BG, a "Check Leech" button will appear. This can be moved by dragging JUST outside of the button.
- /bglr will now just show the leech list without refreshing (IE, previously ignored users won't reappear until you hit check leech again).
Managed to test a little further but still in need of feedback from the PTRs!
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
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Drizimar saidWhat is the command to get the window back up? it's gone and will not come back up.
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Tarz saidPlayed another AV weekend this weekend and got a bit sick of reporting 1 by 1 myself soo, so I'll get stuck into another version soon that autoreports all the 0/0 people and gives a list of the "undecided" ones for you to work on yourself.
Lost count of how many times I reported myself because I joined a BG after it started and hadn't made it to the battlefront yet. lol
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Kamira saidHere's a list of the other mods for this category in alphabetically order that I have found:
BATTLEGROUND LEECHER REPORTING gathers data of possible afk'ers and lets you decide who to report. - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/9026/
BG REPORTER seems to do the same as the above - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/9510/
CATTLEPROD auto-reports afk'ers instead of manually selecting from a generated list. It has different modes for the various BGs. -
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...682-1.2.1.html
CAVE DEFENDERS - Reports "cave defenders" in the battlegrounds. The interesting thing about this one is that it tells you how many on both factions. -
http://www.wowinterface.com/download...Defenders.html
SNITCH is one of the older mods based on ticket reporting. It hasn't been updated since the new report feature but bears mentioning in case the author ever decides to update it. - http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/7252/
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Kamira saidI have this and use it in WSG and AB.
For AV, I use Cattleprod because it reports them automatically. http://code.google.com/p/cattleprod/downloads/list
Not sure which I'm going to use for EoTS. Nice to see many authors working on these types of mods!
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Sitanel saidWorks a treat XD thank you for this, it's just the kind of addon that anyone who's doing battlegrounds should get. The "Anti-AFK" patch was all well and good.... but unfortunately the systems only as good as the people who use it and most imo have gotten sick of reporting AFKers :( certainly gonna recommend this addon to my guild, like I said a must for PvPers.
Thanks again.
Sitanel.
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jaguar181 saidWhy even bother worrying if they are really AFK...once they move or do something, it removes the AFK debuff. My own personal opinion would be EVERYONE starts a BG as AFK, and if you are idle for 3 min (or 5 or whatever it is( or no damage/healing is done)) the debuff automatically re-applies. Maybe Blizz can setup a penalty system for those that are busted for too many AFK's and locked out of that BG for a week. For those that move and hide somewhere so they are not readily noticable as AFKers
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BR-Saigne saidAre people actually getting reported for AFK with the addon? I can report somebody who I know is AFKing, but they never get the debuff even after I call out the AFKer to the /bg channel. If I do this through the map or the raid listing, it works, though. Maybe it's just me?
The idea behind it is great, though, but it could easily handle a couple more features, like: 1. Reporting all AFKers with one click. 2. Reporting known AFKers after the first minute or two of battle rather than waiting 5 (which would mean storing their names and the ability to edit the list). 3. The ability to move the button around a little easier. There is like 1 pixel's width to grab, LOL 4. Announcing to the battleground the names of AFK people and which group number and/or location to make it easier for other players to report.
I have noticed one bug, though. Sometimes after you click the button and the list comes up, after you close it, the button is no longer viewable. I'm sure you could issue the /bglr command, but I never tried.
As for the design and layout, I think you've done a great job. Well done!
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chaud saidOpens when I go in arenas, and doesn't scale / do all the pretty things that ace addons generally do. Works well though, looking forward to a new version that has more options.
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MrPel saidTarz;
TY VERY MUCH.
Looking forward to "a button to auto-report all the 0/0 people".
Thanks again for your work here,
Pel
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MrPel saidHey,
Very nice ty much for this.
Do we have a 'REPORT ALL' feature?
It seems that may be helpful.
Maybe just 5 at a time or whatever you decide is appropriate.
Thanks again!
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Tarz saidNow I've seen how the function works in the real world (Ie, they didn't change it for final release) I can add a button to auto-report all the 0/0 people. I don't think I'll add autoreporting on the others since it sometimes takes a bit of personal judgement to see if they're leeching or not.
/bglr doesn't work anymore - you're right on that. I'll clean up the interface a touch and release a final 1.0 as soon as I can get around to it. Got a sister in law that's ready to drop my first niece so bit of a hectic schedule atm ;)
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2more saidCommand /bglr doesnt work and there are no players in the frame even if there are some leecher in BG!!!
HELP!!! and answers
I'm using Beta 0.2 Possible beacause of using a German Version of WoW???
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Tarz saidGlad to hear it's working for you guys - was a bit of a worry that patch day would roll along and it'd go to hell! lol
You can move the "Check Leechers" button by dragging JUST outside of the button - the frame (although invisible) is about 5 pixels extended past the button itself. Gonna make that a bit friendlier in a future version (and give some way to "close" the button - you don't need it in every BG every time :o). I'll possibly look into how to code "yet another" minimap button and get it on there instead - I feel that'd be a more appropriate home rather than taking up valuable screen real estate.
I'd love to put a scrollbar on the leecher report window, but I have to confess I wouldn't have the foggiest how to go about it. I never mastered dynamic lists with scrollbars :( As it stands now, when you report or ignore those 5 you see on the list they're replaced with the next batch. Any you "ignore" are re-added next time you check for leechers.
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Rama saidSome observations I made while using this mod today in AV
Listing 5 people in the BGLR window is too few. Maybe list more and put in scroll bars or an option to only show ppl that have done zero dmg and healing.
Future feature request. BGLR can monitor player dmg and healing and notify you if someone has not done any dmg or healing in say 5 minutes. This needs to take into consideration if someone just joined the BG. Cahnces he will spend at least 5 min running to the battle.
Other than that, the mod works well. Thanks for writin it :)
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thunderbolte saidlove it! works good, too.
only two things: - how do i move the check leechers button?`it's stuck in the middle of the screen for me. the opened window when i click on it it movable.
- in 3 AV the button disappeared after some time, no idea why and how i could get it back.
great add on though, keep going!
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valiliv saidlots of AV take less than 20 min and end with 400-500 honor. unless you purposely hang back on defense you WILL NOT see any opposition players to kill, just the npcs. Also, lvl 61s+ can enter, with correspondingly less damage.
if you think everyone with less than 40,000 (or 20,000 after just the first few min when SH/IB are hit) is a "leecher" you need you head examined.
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mpop saidWell lets say you are right, which i doubt. WoW's new anti-leatch system only puts a debuff on the person so they don't get honor, but once they engage in a real fight that debuff will be removed, so worse case is if some one (in your straw man) was reported x number of times and got the debuff and they were in fight, then the debuff would instanly be removed, so no harm done, the only ones it really would get are the cave farmers.
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Tarz saidI tend to add variables into my second releases once testing is out the way - the leech "line" is definately something I want to be configurable because otherwise leechers will get used to where people draw their lines and sit right on it ;p
You'll notice in the screenies I'm a paladin - normally tankadin but when I PvP I respec holy. Of course I wouldn't forget the healers :D
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mpop saidI like how you added healing done. I have been accused of leatching because some one looked only at damage done, and since I am a healer, my damage done was at 0 but my healing done was over 100K. Thanks for remembering there are us healers out here. Also maybe you could make that constant (100) a configurable paramater, would think 50 is good, but that is just my thoughts.
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zaishen saidHi, I couldn't test your addon but I look at your code.
Five minute before allowing report -------> good
Healing+Dmg > Bonus Honor * 100 -----> good, almost fullproof you have to kill a lot of wolf to keep up so can't afk.
For me 100x is a good choice...maybe a little higher (need a little of testing). but when you play for real it's very easy to attain that.
so far great job. :)
edit : did some more test and the BonusHonor * 100 was very easy to keep up playing for real. :)