A raid add-on that borrows heavily on WoW's "need/greed" window system to communicate loot interests in raid. Loot officers receive a window displaying raid choices. Not everyone must install, as sending a properly formatted whisper will count as communicating loot interest for the lazy mod-hating raider.
This mod DOES NOT invasively judge or determine the winners, but it will communicate them. It was made this way on purpose to support the diverse range of custom loot distribution systems in World of Warcraft, thus leaving winner determination open-ended.
Features
- Windows showing tell queues for item interest, seen by loot officer(s).
- "Need/Greed" styled custom windows. Can have 3 or 2 choices.
- Customizable frame sizes, timers, distributors, and more
- Displays guild rank of people who send in tells for easy reference.
- Install-base independent (a few in the raid without the mod won't "cramp your style"). This is good for real-world deployment.
- Interface for rapid delegation to loot officer(s).
- Easy to use, tool-tip driven menu interface.
- FuBar compatible.
- Exportable loot interest strings (so you can paste a list of names of who bid on an item to officer chat, or wherever you may dream of)
Secondary interest
This is an optional configuration choice, and it is off by default. For many guilds, this will be turned off. With it off the mod uses a choice type of "You either want the item, or you don't."
The secondary option can mean ANYTHING you want it to. As an example, I'll explain one way we use it. In Occam's Razor, we use Two DKP pools. We named them "Primary" and "Secondary." The user may choose which DKP they want to pay for the item with, so that is what selecting "Secondary" means for us.
Anyway, allowing members to communicate the desire to pay for loot out of the Secondary DKP pool is one of the features of this mod, but it is disabled by default because most guilds don't use two dkp pools or communicate a secondary option during loot distribution. It can be enabled easily in the preferences, however. The setting is communicated to the other ORLIC clients from the raid leader's copy of the mod using add-on chat, and is transparent to the average raider.
If your guild's loot system involves allowing people to express a desire other than, "I want it or I don't" - then you can use Secondary as a way to allow your members to say "I want Door #3", which is defined however you or your guild wants to.
Background/History (Zzzzz)
Our guild Occams Razor of Nathrezim has a unique loot system. As we looked around on the internet at other guilds' loot systems, we saw a lot of different things. A LOT of different things.
When deciding to write this mod, I realized its usefulness will not be as a loot or DKP determination mechanism (there seems to be enough of those around anyway), but as a loot communication mechanism. They are words that just sort of roll off the tongue, but say them carefully: determination. communication. They're different.
For a starting place, I originally borrowed from WoW's "Need/Greed" windows, but just using them "as is" has the finality of actually TAKING loot when pressing these buttons. Rather, I wanted to communicate each person's loot interest (whether they want it or they're not interested, or the "secondary" option [as above]) to a designated individual (for most guilds, this is the raid leader but doesn't have to be) who is authorized with the "right" of determining who wins the item. This can also be more than one person, as in cases where multiple people are doing tells for different items. It is up to the "tell-taker", if you will, to determine the loot winner and follow whatever system a guild uses to determine loot.
The "tell-taker" though will see a nice pretty list in a GUI window of who took interest in the item, and what level of interest taken. It then presents them with the ability to type in the winner, and it will announce it in the raid channel. They can also declare no interest in the item, so that it can be sharded or left to rot or whatever. Delegation of which item goes to which tell-taker is fairly non-trivial.
All this mod does is to communicate who is interested, and what the level of their interest is, to the right persons.
Update-
Currenty Madrak is now playing a gnome warrior on Tichondrius, but is still a friendly face in Occam's Razor and continues to maintain the mod.
Known Bugs-
Doesn't work if another mod is hooking your chatframe at the same time. Some poorly coded chat/whisper management mods do this as their primary purpose, with the hook up 24/7. Such mods will harm other whisper using mods, such as NRT. Use of ORLIC is compatible with NRT.
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ORLIC: Maax Contribution - changed chat hook to work with 3.0
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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)...
