Features:
The aim of this addon was to help people decide where the best place to farm a particular item is (or just where to farm in general).
Pillager records the following data:
- Session Time
How long you have been playing for this session.
- Durability Costs Incurred
Cost to repair damage received this session.
- Earnings/Losses
This records the difference in cash in hand between the start and end of a session,
and therefore includes money earned/spent on the auction house etc.
- Loot Received
Pillager has a loot window that tracks all items received via looting.
This includes gathering professions like mining and herbalism etc.
Please remember - this is the first addon (that I have created from scratch) and is still a work in progress. More features to come!
How to Use Pillager:
Pillager is very easy to use. From the moment you logon with it enabled, Pillager will begin recording data.
Right click on the Pillager bar to drag it around the screen
To save space, the Pillager bar displays the minimum amount of information. You can expand this bar to show the details window, which offers more information as well as buttons to open the options menu or close pillager (data will continue to be recorded even if the Pillager window is closed).
All options in the options menu are also available as slash commands.
/pill commands - displays a list of available slash commands ( /pill and /pillager are interchangeable).
Planned Features:
I *plan* to have it record the vendor values of all grey items, along with AH sell prices of other items, for all items obtained during questing. You can then compare the amounts you "pillage" from various places in order to determine the best area for farming/pillaging. These features will slowly be added in various v0.X beta releases until I have incorporated everything for v1.0.
Most of the things that I intend Pillager to do are already done by other addons. I am using this as a project to teach me Lua, but I am also trying to add things that similar addons do not do, such as tracking the damage to durability ONLY for equipped items.
Feedback:
Any feedback would be much appreciated - whether it's suggesting new features, or advice on how to organize my code - which is really messy at the moment, take a look ;-)
If you have a problem, please Post a ticket with the error. I will try to fix them ASAP!
I would also like to say a big thank you to the folks on the wowace IRC channel for all their help!
tag v0.42
3861f971c1c2e6b213bbee2404b582bfa76e231d
Daniel Schramm <dpschramm@gmail.com>
2009-01-26 17:10:37 +1300
Tag release v0.42
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Daniel Schramm (1):
b6c7d4d: Fixed the reset tracking tables bug.
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)...
