[Addon] Jamba - An assistant for multiboxers. Old Thread

[alcattle]

"*Does this add-on allow your second character (slave) to actually copy the acceptation of quest my main does?
- For example: If I go to an npc with my main, my slave will follow me (cause of /follow macro). Then I will talk to the npc and select a quest. Will my slave automaticly
talk to this npc too and accept the quest? Or do I need to use the share quest option, and then accept it on my slave?"

No, you first must open the NPC window on both. Then it depends on the quest, but JAMBA does all it can to help. (you can't share quests when the NPC give you an object)

"*Does this add-on allow you to perform the actions needed for an quest on your slave (mirrored from my main)?
-For example: I accepted a quest on both my main and slave, and now I need to plant a banner. If I plant this banner on my main, will my slave automaticlly perform this action as well?
Or how do I need to manage this?
"

Depends on the quest. Some will give credit to every party member ( the good quests, MB wise) and some won't. Jamba can't help here

"*Does this add-on allow your character to automaticly repair stuff at an npc?
- For example: I am talking to an npc with my main. I select repair all items. Will my slave automaticly repair his items as well?"

Again you have to open the NPC window. Jamba has a option to auto-repair.

[Moorea]

Hey jafula, are you putting the code and beta on curseforge as you mentioned a while back ? when ?

Looking forward to the new release

A suggestion about the defaults: don't set UI error fwding on by default as it cause tons of lag and spam when you spam a dps key ("the spell is not ready"... x4 sent ... = lag ) - I suspect it may also cause disconnects

Thanks

[Tdog]

First off, simply awesome add-on man. I only installed this last week and I'm kicking myself for not doing it sooner. Just makes everything about multiboxing easier.

So far the only issue I've come across is whenever I change focus several times within a few minutes when I go to say complete a quest the followers will not mirror the masters choice selections even though they have the correct toon set to master in the jamba-core section. Nor can I "push" any of the settings to any of the followers either. Every other way Jamba will keep working, vendoring, repairing, auto accepting rezzes and invites, etc... but it just won't mirror the master's choices or allow me to push any settings. Nor do I experience any disconnects, or any of some of the other weird stuff people having been reporting in this thread.

It will however eventually start working again after approximately 2-3 min.s of doing absoultely nothing Jamba related, and when it does start working again it will switch the master to the last master I had focused on, then switch the master back to the toon I currently had it focused on.

So my best guess is that something is getting backed up when I change the master causing Jamba to run really slowly. I doubt it's any of the other addons I have installed as I have disabled everything on all toons except Jamba and it still does the same exact thing for the same amount of time. When I do not switch masters however I never experience this problem, or least not in the last week and a half I've had this installed.

Any help is appreciated

[Jafula]

So my best guess is that something is getting backed up when I change the master causing Jamba to run really slowly. I doubt it's any of the other addons I have installed as I have disabled everything on all toons except Jamba and it still does the same exact thing for the same amount of time. When I do not switch masters however I never experience this problem, or least not in the last week and a half I've had this installed.

Any help is appreciated

Yup; it's Jamba swamping the addon channel with too much information. You can reduce what your toons send to each other. I suggest turning off the Forward UI Errors and Forward UI Information options in the Jamba-Talk options. This should help a lot.

If you have macros that use jamba commands that use tags; you can minimise traffic by duplicating the macro on all the toons and removing the all tag. (Sorry I can't explain this further right now.)

Jamba uses the Ace3 library which in turn uses ChatThrottleLib. ChatThrottleLib is designed to make sure your characters don't get disconnected when sending addon traffic. Hence when Jamba sends too much information over the wire, you see delays and this is ChatThrottleLib managing the addon traffic. ChatThrottleLib will halve its output rate if your toons FPS is below 20. This sucks for most of us as our slave FPS is usually between 5 - 15.

A solution to this is to make sure all your toons have a minimum of 21 FPS. Another solution is to find all instances of ChatThrottleLib.lua in your Interface/Addons folder and change this line (its near the top of the file):

ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20 -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value

Glad you like Jamba and I hope some of what I have said helps!

[Jafula]

eta on next version?

I aim to have a beta version of 0.5 out for folks to test at the start of June.

Sorry folks; I'm going to have to push this date back to mid June. Silly RL getting in the way again!

[Tdog]

Yup; it's Jamba swamping the addon channel with too much information. You can reduce what your toons send to each other. I suggest turning off the Forward UI Errors and Forward UI Information options in the Jamba-Talk options. This should help a lot.

If you have macros that use jamba commands that use tags; you can minimise traffic by duplicating the macro on all the toons and removing the all tag. (Sorry I can't explain this further right now.)

Jamba uses the Ace3 library which in turn uses ChatThrottleLib. ChatThrottleLib is designed to make sure your characters don't get disconnected when sending addon traffic. Hence when Jamba sends too much information over the wire, you see delays and this is ChatThrottleLib managing the addon traffic. ChatThrottleLib will halve its output rate if your toons FPS is below 20. This sucks for most of us as our slave FPS is usually between 5 - 15.

A solution to this is to make sure all your toons have a minimum of 21 FPS. Another solution is to find all instances of ChatThrottleLib.lua in your Interface/Addons folder and change this line (its near the top of the file):

ChatThrottleLib.MIN_FPS = 20 -- Reduce output CPS to half (and don't burst) if FPS drops below this value

Glad you like Jamba and I hope some of what I have said helps!

Well I've read through something like 30 pages of this thread last night, my eyes hurt , and I've seen you make mention of the /jamba setasmaster all and /jamba setmaster {toon} all commands which I tried which didn't seem to help. However I didn't try the putting the command on the followers so I'll try that again later and see if it helps.

[Tdog]

As far as the fps yea they are usually running at about 10-15 fps on my alts. I was about to go buy a vista 64 so I could use more ram anyways so I suppose I'll just go buy that today and see if it helps.

[davedontmind]

So like the subject says: Issue with WoW windows crashing when I don't take all the toons on a taxi run. So has anyone experience it at all? I think its related with JAMBA but not sure.

Same here. Anyone already on a bird crashes to the desktop when the master takes a flight path. If they're not on a bird, you just get the warning about "I cannot figure out where to go" message. You should be able to switch it to solo mode before doing that if you're not all synched up.

/jamba solo

I've been meaning to try that but it's so rare that I do anything to cause the problem that it's not been a priority. :P

I was not able to reproduce this on my EU server. Are folks still having problems?

I've had the problem a number of times, but I don't think it can possibly be Jamba per se - it's a proper WoW crash (the WoW equivalent of a BSoD or core dump), and addons can't cause that sort of crash.

It usually happens when I have a toon on follow but don't get that toon to open the flight path NPC, so he then attempts to follow (on foot) a toon that takes off on a taxi flight .... crash!

[Jafula]

it's a proper WoW crash (the WoW equivalent of a BSoD or core dump), and addons can't cause that sort of crash.

Yes, they can; I've done it a few times while writing Jamba code.

[Bettysue]

I can recreate the crash on EU and US by:
1) disabling all addons
2) loading more than one WoW instance on a single PC (group all chars)
3) having 2 characters follow a "main"
4) take a flight on the main when my ping is less than 100ish (the chars on follow are within interact range of the flightmaster, though no dialog is open)
5) The 2 on the ground now drop to desktop...

Or I can
1) enable only jamba
2) ...same load group follow scenario as above...
3) open dialog with flightmaster on 1 follower but not the other
4) take flight with master
5) master now crashes, no dialog guy stands there looking silly, seconds follower rarely drops but does more often with a higher ping.

I used 2 routers before my cable modem to cause the higher ping for testing...

I don't think jamba is the cause, but it does change the nature of the problem so perhaps it's simply interacting with a bit of code causing trouble in WoW.