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

[Jafula]

Yes, if it's not too complicated, I mean .. Would I have to assign to a channel, that I made myself? If that's a "yes", then it would almost be too complicated - what I mean, is that Jamba would make the so-called private channel itself.

In wow, type

/join creazilchannel

and see what happens ... now do that on another character.

Jamba will give you the option to type the channel name and password in the settings - and will automatically join the channel for you upon login. Set once for each character and forget.

[Creazil]

Hehe, sounds great :-)

[Fizzler]

I like your feedback - is the spam the only think about the quest sharing that bothers you? More fine grained controls over what spam quest spam is sent? At the moment, its just on or off. A clone channel is a good idea. I distinguish between chat and warnings; chat is normal priority and warnings are high priority, so the warnings get send first. The official wow addon channel can be slow at times. Maat suggested combining / throttling messages and I'd want to do that work along with the clone chat channel.

Throttling might work out but it might also add a bit of complexity. When I am two boxing I like to see quest updates flash across the screen via MSBT or SCT. When I am 5 boxing though it becomes very spammy seeing all that text flying across the screen. Having an option to send chat/warning information to custom channels, or SCT would be nifty for sure. Some folks might even want to see updates via /g or /tell.

My ideal situation is to set warnings to MSBT or SCT and chat/status updates to a specific channel. I can use msbt filters to control some of that action externally.

One thing I am noticing is how I am becoming numb to raid warnings. Where in the past RW was something very important during a boss battle that really captured my attention it is now a bit spammy from /follow breaks and hit warnings. I am become very accustom to it going off. I suppose the best example would be car alarms. They go off so often these days that folks barely pay attention to it. The gut reaction is to double check if its your car and to roll back to sleep if it is not.

Regarding a cooldown/timer update from your toons if you can at least send that over to a channel I can filter it out again using msbt or the like. Ideally a bar would be grand but I can also create a filter for bloodlust cooldown, chain lightning, totems, etc..

Thanks!

[Drakkun]

Great addon, but only worked well for a few hours.

I am working on the class specific quests at level 50 and have different classes. The slaves spam every second that they are missing the quest that the master has. I had to turn off the option for mirroring the master's quest watch (2nd to last option in quest section). This stopped the spam, but now I can't get the slaves to use the flight master's or mirror the master's selections in quest dialogs.

After finishing the class specific quests I removed the addon and removed the saved variables lua file for each character. I then placed the addon back in and set up the settings but its still broken. Everything else seems to work, but not the flight master following and quest dialog following.

[Jafula]

I am working on the class specific quests at level 50 and have different classes. The slaves spam every second that they are missing the quest that the master has. I had to turn off the option for mirroring the master's quest watch (2nd to last option in quest section). This stopped the spam, but now I can't get the slaves to use the flight master's or mirror the master's selections in quest dialogs.

Thanks for your feedback; I appreciate it, I like bug reports! (As Jamba gets better when they are fixed.)

You can stop the spam; by choosing the Quest Silently option in Jamba-Quest.

I believe this is a bug and I'm not clearing down the last quest selection variable properly in some cases and it gets stuck thinking your master is selecting a quest on certain quest event updates. I'll investigate tonight.

After finishing the class specific quests I removed the addon and removed the saved variables lua file for each character. I then placed the addon back in and set up the settings but its still broken. Everything else seems to work, but not the flight master following and quest dialog following.

I think I know why this has happened.

Jamba sends quest spam/commands across the wow addon channel. Jamba throttles the rate these messages get sent, so you don't get disconnected, should spam like you noticed happen because of a bug. Also wow throttles the rate at which the addon messages are sent from the server to the master. If you left the spam running for a while (like you say finishing class specific quests), there could be a big queue of it on the server.

Because of this particular bug you mention, I believe that the commands for the flight master and quest dialog are getting queued up at the wow server side behind all the quest spam. So what is happening to you is, is the characters are still processing the spam quest addon messages and the new characters master/quest selection commands are at the end of that queue and have not made it to the master yet...

So to fix this NOW before I fix the bug you can:

Wait about 10 or so mins or so for the spam backlog to clear; start wow for each character individually, and choose the Quest Silently option in Jamba-Quest. This will stop quest messages being sent to the master.

To help try and confirm this, was there much time between when you removed the addon/saved variables and restarted wow?

I'll get on and fix that bug.

[Dooz]

Jaf,

Downloaded and loving the addon on, thanks. I look forward to future builds.

[Otlecs]

As of this weekend, my wife and I are both converts to Jamba too.

Awesome. Thanks alot for sharing your work with us :love:

[Savage]

I just have a quick question about the Push button. Its supposed to push all of the settings from THAT page to the characters that are checked off on the main page, correct? Does it need a log out? It doesnt seem to be working for me.

[Otlecs]

from THAT page to the characters that are checked off on the main page, correct? Does it need a log out?

Make sure the guys you're pushing to have whoever you're pushing from on their member list, and that their name it ticked.

When it's working properly, you get a chat message on the screen for each character who successfully received an update. You don't need to logout / ReloadUI / etc.

I did it this way:

- On main screen, add entire team as members.
- Set me as main.
- Tick all the boxes (main and drones) on the group page.
- Set up all options, on all pages, how I want them.
- On each of the drones, add only the master as a member and tick his box.
- On the master, push each page of settings to the members (including the full member list).

Remember that names are case-sensitive, so capitalise the first character of each one.

Works like a dream once you have the lines of communication set up

[Savage]

from THAT page to the characters that are checked off on the main page, correct? Does it need a log out?

Make sure the guys you're pushing to have whoever you're pushing from on their member list, and that their name it ticked.

When it's working properly, you get a chat message on the screen for each character who successfully received an update. You don't need to logout / ReloadUI / etc.

I did it this way:

- On main screen, add entire team as members.
- Set me as main.
- Tick all the drone boxes on the group page.
- Set up all options, on all pages, how I want them.
- On each of the drones, add only the master as a member and tick his box.
- On the master, push each page of settings to the members (including the full member list).

Remember that names are case-sensitive, so capitalise the first character of each one.

Works like a dream once you have the lines of communication set up

Oh, ok I see! I didn't know that they had to be ticked on the alts as well - sweet! Does each page need to be updated with the button or does the button on the first page transfer all of the settings across?