RedBanker will give you a list of the top 4 people in your guild who can use any item in your inventory, guild bank or auction house that you hover your mouse over.
You can run a guild bank quickly and easily by redistributing items as soon as they come in, getting items in the hands of your members or fellow players as soon as possible and saving the hassle of tracking donations, posting to a website and waiting for people to ask for items.
It makes its recommendations based on level, class, tradeskill levels(*), how recently people have logged and whether they're an alt or a main character(**).
Works best with large guilds, but I'm guessing may be useable for guilds with as few as 50-75 characters. Your mileage may vary.
Note(*): Tradeskill notes should be stored in players' Public Note in order to be known by RedBanker. Players can install an addon called GuildNote to update their Public Note automatically with this info
Note(**): The words "alt" or "main" should anywhere in the Officer Note in order for it to be known by RedBanker. If not, no additional weighting will be given to alts/mains.
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INSTRUCTIONS FOR USE
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Hover your mouse over any item to see a list of guild members who may be able to use it. The top four candidates are shown.
For example: Hovering over an [Emblazoned Cloak] will show something similar to the following:
| Emblazoned Cloak
| Binds when equipped
| Back
| 20 Armor
| +5 Stamina
| +2 Spirit
| Requires Level 22
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| Suitable guild members:
| Dawa (22 Priest) Aenelle's alt
| Lovemonkey (22 Warlock) Loraveris' alt
| Messabelino (23 Priest) Amobia's alt
| Mightyjett (23 Mage) Jettarus's alt
It also works for tradeskill items as well, but only if guild members have put their tradeskills and levels into their Public Note on the in-game guild panel. RedBanker will try to parse out what guild members have input, however every combination of spelling and punctuation can't be predicted, so it works best if guildies use the following format for their public note: "Enchanting 176 / Mining 40" (for example). Any other formats mean they'll be that much more difficult to match.
If you use the words "Main" or "Alt" anywhere in the officer notes for each player, it will weigh main characters *slightly* higher.
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KNOWN ISSUES
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- Tradeskill patterns and items can only be distributable with this addon if your guild members store their tradeskill information in their Public Note. This is a limitation of World of Warcraft, there's no way to detect this information otherwise. You may want to look for an addon called "GuildNote", which puts your tradeskill information into your public note automatically.
- Sometimes a recommendation can't be made, usually because there are no ideal guildies for that item. You can perhaps sell it or keep it for later.
- Sometimes weird recommendations are made either because there are not enough suitable candidates, not enough information is available (in the case of tradeskill stuff) or it's not in the ReagentData database.
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FUTURE PLANS
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- Update tradeskill database, since ReagentData is a bit old now
- Localization
- any other requests?
- Updated for WoW 3.0.2
- Better archive for friendlier unzipping
- Slight naming change to remove "SC_" prefix
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)...
