Purpose
Primarily what HKC does now is record various statistics and the results of battlegrounds and arena matches. For example, it records who won the match, how much damage you did, your position on the scoreboard relative to others, etc.
It also records how many times you've killed your opponents for the day, and for the lifetime of this addon's installation. This information used to be much more valuable, and before diminishing returns were removed, this addon accurately estimated your honor gained for the day.
Battleground Statistics
Statistics recorded for each battleground entered include: time of day, victors, duration, a "premade score" which is a rough guess as to how much of either side consists of a premade (ranges from 0 to 100), AFKers, your killing blows, damage, healing, and which character you played on.
Filters allow you to display records that only match specified criteria. For example, you can specify to only display records of games played during certain hours of the day.
The HKC window will open when you open your PvP window. (default key is 'h') Type /hkc for command line options.
Notes:
For honor calculations, A new day is determined by checking your current Yesterday stats and seeing if they differ from the last time you were logged in. The time blizzard considers it a "new day" seems to be roughly 1:45am pacific time on US servers. "Zoning" (relogging, going to the other continent, or entering/exiting an instance - including BGs) is required to reset the daily counter.
If your client crashes, all tracked kills and statistics for that session will be lost. Reloading your UI or logging out will force a save, if you care enough to.
The premade score is determined by the following algorithm: for each server represented in the battleground, if server population >= 20% of the battleground team size and greater than 2 people, then add this value to the score, minus (100 - value * .1). Obviously this is only an estimate and it is impossible to very accurately determine if and how large a premade is. However the larger the premade score, the more accurate it will be. If you get a low premade score, it does not necessarily mean that the team has a premade - it could just be chance that many people from the same server queued at the same time. Furthermore, some battlegroups will end up with more false positive low premade scores than others. You will have to use some judgment.
Any player who has zero damage, zero healing, and has been in the battleground for over five minutes is counted as an AFK.
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)...
