FollowMe

I got this, and i like the concept, but i tried this with a friend, and it laged bad - like his toon right behind me did the jerky-run motion, and i can only run for about 15sec before i have to stop and let him catch up, else auto-follow breaks.

could it be the addon? cuz were on the same network in my house, he is wireless, im on lan-cable : let me know if this is the addon doing it or wat. thanks.

does it allow guild members to take control too?

Quoting from the Description...

Normally, players can auto-follow any other player, but since this AddOn allows other people to control you, it purposely is restricted to members of your party or raid.


So, unless your guild member is in your party or raid, no.

As many people have requested, to remove the behavior of whispering "I am following you!" to random people you autofollow, you merely have to change a single line of code in the .lua file:

search and change the following:

SendChatMessage(message, "WHISPER", nil, name);

by adding the commenting-symbol "--" before it:

--SendChatMessage(message, "WHISPER", nil, name);

I think FollowMe could become even more handy and intuitive (in terms of game-play and role-play), if you could make it react to the game's built-in /followme emote, probably with either another built-in emote or its own emotes, instead of a private whisper - and then auto-follow the initiating player upon this, as long as it's a party/guild member, friend or the currently targeted unit (optional).
I'm mostly using Cellular (which is similar to WIM) for my whispering issues, so that's where I agree that unexpected whispers can be annoying on the receiving side.
The general idea of being able to make someone else follow you is very nice as well as to have a notification on this for both sides, but while journeying and questing together we often auto-follow each other manually for smaller routes or if one has to go AFK for short. - It would be much lighter on the game-play side at this point to see something like "harl nods at Kinyen. (maybe if initiated remotely, and then) harl is now following Kinyen.", "Kinyen stopped following harl." or "Kinyen can't follow harl now, because he is still busy." in the default chat (of course that couldn't be applied to a situation where the player is out of range since he/she would probably not see the emote as well). - Additionally, when using custom emotes you could change the names displayed to the one being followed display as "you" instead (and vice versa), producing a similar result as the in-game emotes (yea, since this is just a local change that of course needs the one being followed to have the add-on then too;-).
Though I'm not able to present you any code, integrating this idea into FollowMe seems doable to me without changing its original functionality. - Just what I'd recommend is to keep as much of it optional as long as one action doesn't strictly rely on another - meaning that auto-following someone doesn't really have to include the issue of a whisper (but it wouldn't make much sense the other way), so optionally turning off any textual interaction would be a rather logical step to me.

On a side note, localisation would be nice (yea, I know you already mentioned that in the readme file, and it's not too hard to change all the text myself:).
Also, a "sticky" feature would be cool (although not essential at all), but I suspect it to be too complicated to analyse by an add-on, because following a party member doesn't mean that I automatically enter combat with him/her, so I'd have to attack something while auto-follow was enabled without cancelling it by doing so, then when in combat I could cancel it and the add-on would seemingly know that I might want to continue auto-following when I come out of combat (it would be much easier though to just manually/remotely re-follow) -or- the sticky feature would have to be toggled on and off manually (if initiated by the follower). - Alternatively, this could make being left alone in the wilderness a thing of the past by automatically re-following the followee when he/she comes into range again and if the follower didn't move in the meantime (if the following was initiated remotely or because the follower went AFK after manually following).

Ok, enough babbling me. ;)

Hi all!
I just have made a modified version of this addon. Added a tellwhisper function to toggle annoying whispers, and fixed some bugs in message sending. I want to bring this to the author's notice, it's worth considering to apply these to a future version.
Sorry for making this without asking for permission, hope you'll still like it.
All the credit goes to Kinyen, I just made the changes.

Here's the link: http://sajt-klan.extra.hu/private/Borda/FollowMe.rar

Hope you'll send me a message if you liked my work, or if you include it in the next version.
mailto:bordafan@gmail.com

agreed 100% with Saecula. the auto-whispering behavior is incredibly annoying and caused me to be unable to use this addon. I wish it could be disabled with an option; I bet many others feel the same way

I feel the opposite way regarding whispers: If I manually follow someone, then I do not want them to receive a whisper.

By not whispering, it's not any worse than if I had followed them without having this addon installed.

For me, the only time I want a whisper to go out from me to another player is as a response to them issuing a follow command to me, just to confirm that now I am following them, or that there was a problem (out of range).

I like having this addon, but by having it, I am always reluctant to manually follow someone, because they get sent a whisper that in my opinion they don't really need to see, and if I were on the receiving end, I would find it slightly annoying.

ok retry i have this on all my toons i have 3 account and sometimes drag my lower ones around when i send them a follow it put me on follow of them.
trying to make them follow me when they go off of it.
What am i doing wrong had this before and worked awesome but had a hd crash and had to reload everything and can't seem get it work like before :(

Not sure what i'm doing wrong but i cant send message to other toons to get them to follow me, all of them have follow me but wont work :(
lil help be awesome tried "!follow" and not work to get them to follow me

I really enjoy using this mod. Just a couple of comments:
1) it would be nice if I didn't send whispers to people who I'm manually choosing to follow... It confuses them, poor dears ;)
2) when in druid flight forms, I still say "Warning! I am not on my mount!" - a concern that isn't usually warranted at such times. IIRC, this warning isn't sounded if I'm in shaman ghost wolf or druid travel form.

what is the command to give to signal others using this addon to set you on follow?

I feel like a total goob but I can't find functional instructions anywhere - the usage message doesn't help either (/fm).

Nevermind *facedesk* since I used the curse client to install it I never saw the readme.txt in the addon directory.

May I suggest that there is information given on the info page for this addon somewhere that points that out?