+1 for corpse/mob hud, including vuln tracker. That would eliminate alinco for me. I also miss a lot of those wicked cool features that AC+ had, like radar overlay that told you what mobs were attacking you. Plus it had really cool huds. I wonder if that guy still plays AC?

 

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Just to plink my opinion in

Things Alinco has that I can't find in Virindi Bundle or Mag-Tools:
-Simple loot and salvage rules that can be edited in-game. The classic looter is great I guess (from what I read) but I cannot wrap my brain around it no matter how hard I try. I'm no astronaut.
-Audible alerts for matched loot rules, alliance members, found critters, tells, etc.

If these two things were in Virindi Bundle or Mag-Tools I could get rid of Alinco today.

if they stayed at the keyboard that wouldn't have happened

I'll add audible alerts to mag-tools todo list.

Do you think there will ever be a way to make changes to the looting list while in game. The reason I like Alinco is that I can add a salvage (say ivory) to generate a bag, then take it back out of the list without having to leave the game. Helpful when I decide I need a bag of leather or ivory or whatever where I don't need 100 bags.

 

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You can already do that with classic looter. Its just a windows program you run along side of AC.

Elaboration: After making changes to your loot profile in VTCL, you have to go into VTank and re-select the loot profile being used from the drop down list. This invokes a "reload" of said profile within VTank. =)

There are ways to set max number of things to loot, It is the very first part of making a new rule, when giving the rule a name. Under "Rule Name" is "Action", choose "Keep #" and then enter a number.

Good to know. Honestly still a bit clunkier than alinco which is one button in a decal app, vs. opening a seperate program, making edits to a file, saving file, then re-selcting that loot profile in V-tank.


So let me rephrase the original statement: It would be great if we could edit the loot profile from within vtank, vs having to use a stand alone windows program seperate and apart from decal and vtank.


I am not complaining, the new classic looter is much more powerful than Alinco and I have made the switch, however the reason people are still clinging to Alinco is because it is SOOO much easier to use. Imbedded GUI for the win. Would be great to have the best of both worlds, Alinco's interface with Vtanks power and accuracy.


But since I am not a programmer, I may not understand the complexities of what I am asking for. And since it is a free program, I appreciate everyone's effort and certainly don't expect anyone to invest time and energy for nothing.


Thanks for Magtools. Really cool features.

 

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This is my question as well... It is rather baffling that such a powerful and well written suite as Virindi Bundle and Mag-Tools neglect one of the most important parts of the whole reason people use them; the loot detector. Everything else is so awesomely done and deserves high praise but the clunky overly complicated classic looter is just a pain in the arse to use. I have finally got the classic looter to pick up basic things but I still perfer the easy to use Alinco UI. Unfortunately the developer responses to this virtually begged-for feature seem to indicate that they have no interest or inclination to drag this old clunky mess into a level of quality that matches the rest of their work. That's sort of like me creating a car that runs on air and can go 600 mph but then putting wooden wagon wheels on it.