Description
Diplomancer is a simple addon that automatically watches the faction associated with your current location.
For example, while you're in Dalaran, you'll watch the Kirin Tor. Fly down to Dragonblight, and you'll watch The Wyrmrest Accord. If you're a member of the Horde, visiting Orgrim's Hammer will switch your watched faction to the Warsong Offensive, while stopping by Venomspite will watch The Hand of Vengeance. Likewise, members of the Alliance will watch the appropriate factions for their towns.
Diplomancer is fully versed in the factions of Wrath of the Lich King, the Burning Crusade, and the original World of Warcraft. Please note that Northrend data for Alliance factions may be incomplete, as I do not play any Alliance characters and cannot playtest this data myself.
Configuration
Diplomancer does not require any setup, and works "out of the box". It does have a few options, which can be found in the Blizzard interface options window, or by typing /diplomancer (or /dm for short).
Default faction is the faction you will watch when your current location doesn't have an associated zone. By default, this is your race's faction, so if, for example, you are a troll taking a weekend camping trip in the Redridge Mountains, you'll watch the Darkspear Trolls faction. Select another faction from the dropdown list to watch it instead in this situation.
Ignore exalted factions will cause Diplomancer to not watch any factions with whom you already have exalted standing.
Enable notifications will print a text message to your chat frame whenever Diplomancer changes your watched faction.
Localization
Diplomancer is currently functional in English, German, and Simplified Chinese locales. If you play in a supported non-English locale, you will need to additionally download LibBabble-Faction-3.0, LibBabble-Race-3.0, and LibBabble-Zone-3.0 to provide translations for faction, race, and zone names respectively.
While the addon could theoretically run in other locales with reduced functionality, I have opted insead to disable the addon for locales without full functionality.
If you play in a French, Spanish, Russian, Korean, or Traditional Chinese locale and are willing to help gather translations for around 90 subzone names, please send me a PM or email message!
License
Please see my license page or the README file included in the addon's folder for the full license terms under which this addon is released. In particular, redistribution without prior permission is prohibited. Compilation creators, please take a few minutes to learn about the basic details of copyright law and software licensing before you upload a bundle of other people's copyrighted work. Thanks!
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 has 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)...
