Hello plugin developers!

I know many of you are busy with your various projects, althou I know at least 1 who just got a little more free time *wink* right Paraduck? I whine alot less than the players your used to.


I am seeking 3 utility plugins


1 - an ingame kill/item tracker for the various golem lords and hand in rewards.

I can never remember how many of each I have killed and I hate running back to see if i get a reward yet or not. I always loose my little scraps of paper where I tick off how many I've killed/handed in. Even if its click a button next to a name to advance a counter, I'd be thrilled! It should have a reset button for each kind as well.

I see people who wander the land being able to use this counter to tick off golem lords killed, or number of dark island trophys turned in. Nothing keeps me hunting that being able to see oh 5 more trophys and I get another piece of armor...


2 - over on Flynn's Asheron's Call Pages near the bottom he has an Arrowhead Calculator.

http://www.flynn1179.me.uk/ac/

I would like to see someone build something similar that works in game. Even if it didn't handle the buying but gave me the # of x item to buy and a rough estimate of how much it would cost it would be invaluable. I don't craft arrowheads as much as i used to, and I never have any idea how much it will cost when I do make them for people. I don't craft to get rich and famous, I craft to help people and make a little profit so I try to charge not much more than the actual cost. People who fletch for their clans or for just themselves could benefit from this, I know I sometimes forget to get enough aqua or a pea because I'm trying to remember the formula. Yes I know its there on the web for me to use, but please understand I play mainly on dialup and my machine isn't that happy about me tabbing out and trying to load a page.


3 - This has been brought up many times, but a tinkering calc plugin.

I remember I used to use one of the popular ones that would let me set the items in order to be applied, and it would show the % chances at each level of tinker. It showed all the various bags of salvage you had on you in work order so you could switch them around if a chance was below what you were willing to risk. With rares being well rare, it would be nice to have this calc so that people could hand my tinkerer over the items in the right order to have them applied as quickly as possible. With check boxes for Beers, Brilliance, Potato, Majors, Augs, Rares, and base skill input people could preset their salvage in the right order rather than waste time trying to find a bag thats a little better while you have a rare or 2 burning. Set your list, press a button and the salvage moves to the top of the bag so when you hand or trade it over its already in the order to be applied for the tinkerer.


Anyhow thank you for taking the time to look over my requests.

I hope that you find them interesting enough to pursue.


Wubbie - TD's 3 school battle chef...

 

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It's been my intention to create an in-game version of the arrowhead calculator for some time now, but AC+ and Minimap have been eating most of my free time. I was considering including it as part of a more complete 'calculator' plugin that does all sorts of calculations, including which salvage to use on a weapon for the best DPS, what skill you'll need to apply salvage, how much xp you'll need to reach a target level of skill, that sort of thing.


The problem with this is that the UI will be fairly huge, and the view system in Decal is about to be replaced- I'm not comfortable with doing that much work when I'll have to do it all again soon, so I've been giving priority elsewhere. That's why the UI in AC+ is fairly basic, and Minimap/Radar add-on don't even have one!


As for counting golem lord kills- personally, I see this as Turbine's job to fix. They really need to change the quest to fall in line with all the other kill quests that tell you how many you've killed. Meanwhile, ever thought about inscribing something with how many you've killed? Personally, I've got a few coords inscribed on my foci of enchantment that I need to remember. It's a lot handier than bits of paper

Thorfinn_Sigurdssen:

"... how much xp you'll need to reach a target level of skill, that sort of thing."


When you do get around to adding this feature to a plugin, you'd be welcome to the source for my web-based calculator:


http://vnboards.ign.com/ac_utilities/b5432/104265707/p1/?2


And a big thanks for your current plugins!

 

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Thorfinn Sigurdssen - I was unaware how close the Decal team was to changing the view engine... But I am glad to see this sort of thing is on someone else's "radar"


I've given up on Turbine fixing most of anything other than the new broken tech they toss in every patch. I mean when did the festival season end? Oh thats right last year and they FINALLY got around to muzzling the Viamont guy who was going on and on about the pumpkin buffer... I dunno why they bothered after waiting so long its nearly festival season again.


I would inscribe them on items, but I have a bad habit of getting distracted easily I've gone thru my weapons and armor and anything else not nailed down in my pack and found tons of coords but not the name of the place, names of people who gave me food orders, and other things... I was thinking a ticking counter would work better, but I see that it might be flawed if someone played in more than 1 location... hurm makes me wonder how many characters one can stick on a foci inscription... hurm I don;t even know if a plugin can read and write on foci...


I think you would be a big hero if you created the new ingame tinker calculator. Let people figure out the best granite iron rend etc... that combined with my other suggestions would make the calc the best possible tool.


Thank you for taking the time to respond I look forward to seeing what the future will bring, and thank you for adding so many useful tools to AC

 

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In game Arrow Making Calculator would be kind of neat as well as a Tinkering Calc plugin.


Chef: Have you tried using Trophy Hunter? It can track your kills for you, not exactly what you're looking for, but it could help.

 

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Logan - I think I ran trophy hunter a long time ago...

I just wanted something small and easy with clicky buttons

But I think I might solve it if i go thru all of my gear and clean up the inscriptions everywhere...


I think ticking them off on foci might be the best play...

if you can inscirbe foci...


hurm

 

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Yes, you can inscribe Foci. I do that with all of my characters to track pincer/jaw pick up times.

 

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I just wanted to say these are great ideas. I dont think I have time atm, but maybe when I do if someone hasnt begun them I could have a look.


Nice thinkings Chef.

Shon Tsu - I appreciate you taking the time to look.


I know my ideas in order are

1 - not so important

2 - a little to focused on tradeskillers, but useful.

3 - The new MUST HAVE plugin


I just wanted to point out there are people who would like a bit more than YATP (Yet Another Tank Plugin). There are lots of cool things that can be done, but sadly I don't program at all, but I can offer ideas and moral support.


Someday I hope to see more development on another plugin I was pushing for. It told you what different trophys were used for. It never got finished and the person writing it retired from AC again I think, but I always thought it would be a neat thing to have. Some trophys have like 4 possible uses, some give different xp from different people just wanted to work all of this into 1 plugin so sorting thru items would be easier...


maybe someday I'll see all 4 of these plugins


wubbie

 

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