Aye, that is why I wanted to inform people here now. So that they can make plans for their ACMing needs.


ElTank may work for 1 month or 6 months, but eventually it will break and when it does, there will be no support for it.


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No Eltank? I will miss the Navigational tools, that helps me get from point A to point B without driving myself crazy, the self-buffing that saves me hours of boredom, the quest timer that lets me know when I can do a particular quest again, the tracking tool that help me find scarecrows, I never macroed, so that part I won't miss.... But, I will certainly miss the greatest tool ever made to enhance my AC game time, ELTANK.. when it does breakdown.


But, more than that... I wish Elgar all the best and THANK YOU, Elgar for the making AC the best gaming experience I've ever had with the assistance of Eltank.


Catriana/Majielle

 

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"Damn you people are lazy " A QUOTE FROM ABOVE!

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What a short sighted response! I'm not lazy at all and I've used Eltank forever.... it enhances my game play by taking out the tedious tasks of AC that would have surely caused me to leave the game by now.


How self-righteous of you to condemn a whole group of people with your blanket statement.


Unless you know each individual who uses Eltank, how they use it, etc.. you can't possibly know that all users are lazy.

 

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Majielle:

I know it stinks to loose this single plugin with all these features but there is still hope!

Find It! or Spies it great for tracking things

GoArrow is wonderful for navigation, it even gives you an arrow on screen to point you in the right direction

Quest Timer keeps track of your quests *Very* well


But I can't think of a buffing tool.. Alinco maybe?


I'd probably die without any of the abovementioned. Granted I don't keep ALL of them loaded all the time but they all work great in their own little way.


-C

 

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ElgarL,


First, thanks for all the years of support and fun

As I see it, ELtank was the best plug-in ever created.


I have used ELTank since it's first public BETA and will continue to untill the day it breaks.

I never had any use for it's retarded step child LT.


Although, you and I have had some serious disagreements in the past, I have long since gained great respect for both you and ELtank. Hell, I was the first person to ever be "hard-coded" into ELtank as a Ban long before the web authorization was ever put in and that was

just becuase I pissed you off about not being able to turn of elcoms


I myself learned SO MUCH from your source that I would of never had gotten as fas as I did with my private and public plug-ins. It was the conerstone of my Decal education.


I wish you all of luck in the future and hope we may run into each other again someday in cyberspace. If you ever change your mind about passing the project on, I would be happy to

secure that spot website and all. I know the older code inside and out.


CHEERS!

 

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"No Eltank? I will miss the Navigational tools, that helps me get from point A to point B without driving myself crazy, the self-buffing that saves me hours of boredom, the quest timer that lets me know when I can do a particular quest again, the tracking tool that help me find scarecrows, I never macroed, so that part I won't miss.... But, I will certainly miss the greatest tool ever made to enhance my AC game time, ELTANK.. when it does breakdown.


Catriana/Majielle"

-Majielle


well, some other plugins to use if el tank stops working later are


Go Arrow - route finding (super awesome)

BuffMe (easy to use for buffs)

Find it I suppose.. never used it, Spies is great also (tracking)

Quest timer for quests


I guess what Crelic said, but just backing it up

 

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Ok - is there a self buffing program that would meet the user agreement of Find It? Even were I to use it with Lifetank - Lifetank is "capable" of UCM, therefore even were I to use it to solely buff, that would be a violation of the....


Wait a minute....


Whatever DID happen to one of the main motivations of there being a Decal in the first place? Giving players an opportunity to enjoy our game as they see fit.


Never mind, one of the key reasons Elgar's had it in the first place.


It's not that anymore, is it?


Sorry, I digress - also - are there any other buff bot programs out there that will allow the baning of another persons armor reliably?


Might as well go cold turkey now, rather than find myself suddenly unable to provide bots at the mansion or hunt the way I have come to enjoy. Once Turbine fully realizes Elgar's history they'll intionally borq something, ensuring El Tank breaks as soon as possible. Do I know this? Nope. But, I am a firm, staunch advocate of Murphy's Law.

 

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Actually, Turbine cannot directly break a plugin at all. The plugins are have to be loaded via Decal. Monthly patches break Decal because recompiling the AC Client changes memory locations that plugins use to work. Now, Decal making a major change to it's code, such as implementing better DirectX code or making something more efficient would easily break a plugin... They wouldn't/won't do this on purpose just to *break* Eltank, but something will be done I'm sure for the advancement and improvement of the plugin. That is why he stated "1 month or 6 months", because even Decal doesn't know when the next major release will be.


-C

 

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Crelic spreads teh word.

Furthermore...


IF the Decal Devs wanted to break ElTank, they could have a long time ago. After all its their project, and choice.


Elgar isn't required to give up his source or pass his project on, its his project , and choice.


If Gouru doesn't want *It run with UCM capable plugins, again its his project, and choice.


I'm not saying I agree with any particilar decisions by these or other decal and or plugin coders, but since it is their work , I'll have to learn to live with it.

 

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Hell of a plug-in. I know I haven't played AC without it, I suppose for the last 4 years I guess. As for you leaving sir, best of wishes to you and good luck with Eve Online.

 

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C'relic... Wasn't even talking to you.