Authors CurseForge

Hey all,

I'm looking for some people to test alphas of my new addon:

http://www.wowace.com/addons/battleground/



My reason for writing this addon is pretty simple:
1. I wanted a quick one glance overview of a battleground status
2. I was tired of people asking for BG mods in BigWigs
3. I found timerbars to become too much of a clutter

Most of the ideas for the text rewriting come from the excellent SSPVP3 by Shadowed and are used with his permission.

The Alterac Valley and Isle of Conquest modules sync with Capping by totalpackage. I intend to support his addon msgs fully to provide better coverage.

I tried syncing the timers with DBM, but after looking at the code, sync for DBM in battlegrounds is not going to happen due to the fact that it doesn't transmit its syncs unless the player you're requesting the timers for is in combat with the designated boss of the module. Which in the case of Battleground is no boss at all.

Supported currently:
- Alterac Valley
- Isle of Conquest
- Arathi Basin
- Eye of the Storm

TODO:
- Warsong Gulch module
- Wintergrasp module
- Carrier parsing and clickable buttons for Eye of the Storm and Warsong Gulch
- Check and doublecheck the existing modules for missing features
- translations! lots!

What it will NOT do:
- Autorelease
- Autoquest turnins
- Battleground Queuemanagement
- Basically anything automating. This is a display addon, I won't make it play the game for you.

Feel free to leave a ticket or a forum post with bugs/suggestions.

-Ammo

Currently no, I considered it, but I'm not sure I want to add that.
If someone wants to have timers they can install a timer addon, spamming them over chat is kinda annoying.

-Ammo

I agree that "timer spam" can be annoying, especially if multiple people are doing it. But if someone asks me in AV how much time is left on a tower, wanting to know if they'll have time to go recap the nearby graveyard, it would be irresponsible of me to ignore them and say, "Just go install Battleground or Capping."

It is responsible for me to respond with how much time is left. Perhaps you could simply insert the time remaining in the chat edit box, if it is open, and do nothing otherwise. That way, I can send a tell to the player, click on the objective, and you could even add a plug for your addon at the end. "... This message is brought to you by Battleground. Install it yourself so you don't have to ask next time."

Edit: Also, since tickets are not yet enabled for your project, would you prefer we give feedback in this thread, or in private messages?

Does the HUD move if I move the central notifications?

Really like it so far, an option for the Raid Warning mesages would be nice, maybe to select where they go e.g. blizzard warnings/bigwigs/SCT/parrot/chat frame.

I have a feature request. Could you catch from the chat message the name of the player who assaulted each landmark (when applicable) and display that in its timer tooltip?

That way I can more easily chastise people who assault a POI and then run off leaving it unguarded. :)

Nice :) When are you planning on making options? I have a DockingStation bar at the top of my screen and I want to move the entire panel.

Quote from Xinhuan

I agree, if someone asks how much time is left to capture a GY, it is responsible to give the information as it can help win the battle.

You can now shift-click contested timers (the icon that is, not the text).

-Ammo

Battleground is doing really great so far, this got me into Alterac again ;)

Quote from ilovemrdoe

Really like it so far, an option for the Raid Warning mesages would be nice, maybe to select where they go e.g. blizzard warnings/bigwigs/SCT/parrot/chat frame.

TODO:
- Options for LibSink, currently dumps message in the RaidWarning frame by default

Quote from mrruben5

Nice :) When are you planning on making options? I have a DockingStation bar at the top of my screen and I want to move the entire panel.

The panel is currently attached to the blizzard WorldStateAlwaysUpFrame thing. So moving that will automatically move Battleground, I might make an option for moving it, but I don't like to touch the whole thing too much, people will start demanding growup, growleft, freedrag and other crap. The GUI is tailored around the BG status and won't change.

-Ammo

Quote from Nandini

I have a feature request. Could you catch from the chat message the name of the player who assaulted each landmark (when applicable) and display that in its timer tooltip?

That way I can more easily chastise people who assault a POI and then run off leaving it unguarded. :)

I can probably do that for Arathi for instance, but in AV there is no such thing.

-Ammo

Quote from Ammo

I can probably do that for Arathi for instance, but in AV there is no such thing.

-Ammo

Even just doing it in AB would be great! I think IoC might have names in the assault messages, too. I'll try to double check this later today.

I just drycoded the thing for AB, easy to add to IoC as well if it works for AB

-Ammo

The names are shown in IoC and AB now.

-Ammo

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How would you like us to provide the locales ?

add/edit the files, and don't mess it up :)

-Ammo