Triviabot looking for new main developer. Are you interested in the job?
The work consists of voluntary and you should be able to code in Lua. It is an advantage to have worked with World of Warcraft addons before.
Contact me at zizanzu[at]gmail.com for interests
Replace [at] with @ - To stop spam!
Some extras
- Free Curse Premium
- Author reward program
Yours Project responsible
Marius Pettersen known as Zizanzu.
Purpose
If you ever find yourself being bored while questing, grinding, raiding or just standing around in a city, you can use this addon to host a fun quiz others can join to play. Remember not to disturb other players!.
Usage
From the main window you can edit settings, what channel to use, what set you want to use questions from and ofcourse start/stop a quiz plus a few other things.
Slash Commands
Root commands are:
/trivia or /triviabot
Without additional parameters it toggles the showing of the main window
- /trivia help
Lists the usable slash commands.
- /trivia clear
Clears the current game records.
- /trivia clearall
Clears the all-time records incl. player records.
- /trivia reset
Resets the configuration to default
Whisper Commands
These are the commands you can send to the game host for various information:
- !tb help
Shows the available commands.
- !tb info
Information about the active game.
- !tb score
- game
Shows your score in the current game or previous if none is running.
- alltime
Shows your all-time scores.
Help
If you get errors trying to make your own questions from the template file found in the Questions folder of the addon, you can copy/paste the code here: http://triviabot.pastey.net and add a comment including the link to the pasted code.
Due to the comeplete rework of question format for 2.5.x you can't use old questions for 2.4.x and earlier.
Languages
New website --> triviabot.zizanzu.org
Version 2.6 10/25/2009
3.2.0 compatibility update
bugfix (numeric replies - floating numbers x.y)
new question set.
Version 2.5.4 01/23/2009
- Fixed listing of answers if set to higher than 1
- Added delay to channel loading to further prevent custom channel to be listed as #1 (hope this works)
- Added Officer chat to chat types
Version 2.5.3 01/06/2009
- Fixed channel problem under loading
Version 2.5.2 12/30/2008
- Fixed continuation of quiz when frame was hidden
- Fixed memory spikes when changing category
- Changed question handling with indexing
- Added Strand of the Ancients to BG channels
- Added question file submitted by Hessinger (around 4900 questions)
Version 2.5.1 10/16/2008
- Fixed loading of question files
- Rewrote the whisper menu control for added flexibility
- Added option to filter out TriviaBot whispers
- Added option to use a short channel tag for channel output
- Added option for amount of answers shown if timeout is reached
- Updated for patch 3.0.2
Version 2.5.0 08/20/2008
- Rewrote a lot of the functions from 2.4.4 to add the new features
- Fixed TriviaBot response so it only listens to the current channel
- Reordered GUI for additional settings
- Introducing categorization of questions
- It's possible to add hints to questions
- Each question grants a certain amount of points related to their difficulty
- Added new game record: win-streak
- All players' personal records are stored
- Channel handling has been optimized and improved
- Various other changes
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)...
