I used to use Alinco for looting/loot identification. When I switched to Virindi Classic Looter it was the best move I ever made.

-Alinco is slow
-Alinco is buggy
-Alinco misses rares
-Alinco is unstable
-Alinco uses Decal Views, which is slow, buggy, and unstable
-Alinco does not support Void casters without a lot of trickery
-Alinco is unreliable and misses items (I have conclusively verified this)
-Alinco does not play nice with dual/triple logging

Virindi Classic Looter does NONE of those things.

-VCL is fast
-VCL is not buggy and never misses an item
-VCL is stable
-VCL can pick up ANYTHING IN THE GAME
-VCL works perfectly with multiple logging


On Leafcull people have lost 3-4 high-tier rares (at least two weapons and at least one armor piece) because they were using Alinco to loot instead of Classic Looter. That's reason enough to ditch it forever, in my opinion.

Alinco has ALWAYS been a buggy plugin. It was just an easy to use. Now that it has been abandoned for a while, it is even worse.


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The one thing that I miss from Alinco was the item/time hud. For instance, I could type /find array while doing the Crystalline Array, and it would show all of the satellites and the main array. I could click on each one easily and imp/vuln, then quickly click on each one fire an arrow and click on the next one. I can do that with the chat window too, but I have to make sure that I'm not watching general chat otherwise the messages go flying off of my screen.

 

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Yeah, agreed. I've folded, spindled and mutilated Alinco to death in the past few days and it's off my bar.

FindIt! actually does everything I need to do except that I cannot prevent it from scanning my house chest, which crashes me to desktop every time. Not sure if this is caused by the sheer number of ID's or something it is not recognizing. It hasn't been updated in a while.

You know, I am down on Virindi Bundle because it doesn't have features among the included plugins that I dig, and it also crashes me when I try to use the Virindi chat window. I suppose the answer to that one is that it shouldn't be used alongside Decal. But the Decal plugins I use and love I am not willing to play without. It's unfortunate that there is not a Decal plugin currently supported and updated that works for loot ID like good 'ol Sixth Sense or the awesome BS/2, or even FindIt! in it's heyday.

And also it irks me that anyone bashes Decal, I'm a fan from way back in the day and a ton of both thanked and thankless work has gone into Decal by the Decal devs over the years. It puts my hair up when it gets slammed as buggy. The entire Decal concept and project has given countless people so much entertainment pleasure for so long. Can you be loyal to and defensive of a bit of software as if it were a person? lol...

 

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Mag-tools does this. When you open a corpse, it will tell you what items in that corpse pass your loot rules, based on the loot profile you have selected in virindi tank.

Mag-tools ID system is also far superior to anything ever implemented. It removes the excess fluff from id info that only deter from the data you're actually looking for.

Also, we're not bashing decal. Decal is great. It's decal VIEW RENDERING that is buggy and slow. Virindi View Service supersedes decal view rendering.

Lay down the crack pipe. No one is being down on Decal and the Virindi bundle uses Decal just like other plugins.

Do people have a problem with the view system Decal uses? Yes. And for good reason. You may not recall but after Decal came back from the ToD update, the developers said that the view system was supposed to be a temporary fix and needed to be overhauled, but they didn't want to hold up Decal coming back. It just never got updated and that's where VVS came in.

You can do this with Virindi Sense, though it does not save lists across logins. If it ever gains that ability (hint, hint), it will be awesome.

It doesn't save at all as far as I know. I just looked and didn't even notice that you could click on them in the detected window. I guess that's better than nothing.

 

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I never tried 1.0.1.10

1.0.1.9 seems fine though most of the time for anything I need it to do...yes i like that /find feature.

The only reason I use alinco is for the 1 button healing and the little hud thing on the bottom left that pops up with pk's/allies so i can easily click them mid fight.


Does mag tools do this? If so i am ready to drop that albatross of a program called alinco. Also the /find command is amazing, based on the rest of the thread I guess that is alinco, but I never knew which plugin did it tbh.


edit- also just remembered the right click spam to chat box for ctrl c/v...another deal breaker

 

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