Opportunity Addon for Warcraft gem sales.
By Nelson Minar aka Flyv. http://flyv.typepad.com/
Version 1.0. May 20, 2009.
The Opportunity addon makes it easier for jewelcrafters to recognize market opportunities for cutting and selling gems. Opportunity creates a window with a snapshot of the entire rare gem market, highlighting which gems are worth cutting and selling for a profit. It does this by looking at the current Auctioneer snapshot of the market, historical prices, and sales success history via Beancounter. I've used Opportunity for well over a year to great success.
Opportunity requires the Auctioneer Suite, including Beancounter.
This addon is being released *unsupported*. The author has no plans to improve or maintain the addon and any requests for support will be cheerfully ignored. I would be happy for someone to take the addon over and develop it themselves. The code is under MIT license so requires no permission from me, but drop me a note if you decide to take it over!
Usage:
1. Go to the auction house and complete an auction scan.
2. Open your Jewelcrafting spellbook
3. Type "/opp knock" at the console.
4. A window will pop up with a snapshot of the entire gem market.
The window contains the results from Opportunity. It has a lot of information, but once you learn to read it you can quickly pick out which gems are worth cutting.
For every raw uncut gem (such as Sky Sapphire), a line is displayed with the following information:
1. Raw gem name
2. Average gem price from Auctioneer
3. List of 5 cheapest auctions for the raw gem. Green is a bargain.
For every gem cut (such as Solid Sky Sapphire), a line is displayed with the following information:
1. Cut gem name. Coloured by status of the gem.
Blue = profitable, White = not profitable, Red = been undercut.
2. Percentage of sales that were successful (from Beancounter)
3. Historical cut gem price (from Auctioneer)
4. Name of the seller for the cheapest gem.
5. Five cheapest auctions for the raw gem.
For a quick scan-and-cut, the simplest thing is to look at the window for gem names in blue. Then check their percentage sales success and if it's reasonable, cut a few. Much of the other market snapshot data is clutter you can probably ignore.
Ideas for future expansion: less cluttered display, automatic scanning of the live auction, clickable text so that gems can be cut right off the display window. I would be wary of expanding this addon to other professions, its simplicity is because of the one raw gem = one gem construction of Jewelcrafting.
First and probably final version.
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)...