About AutoBand
AutoBand is an automatic warband manager, it moves and swaps players in order to balance groups. Players are sorted into 4 categories: healers, tanks, mdps and rdps. In automatic mode AutoBand spreads players by their category across all groups evenly (balances group category ratio).
Starting from version 0.40 AutoBand supports warband templates! This allows a player to design custom warband templates for different situations.
AutoBand features an automatic offline kicker, players can specify a timeout value (i.e. how many minutes before kicking an offline player). For the impatient, AutoBand can also kick all offliners at once.
The addon can report all warband players which don't meet one of the following criteria:
- Player is offline
- Player is not in the warband leader's or assistants' zone
- Player doesn't meet the minimum level requirement (e.g. fort defense requires r37)
Usage
- /ab show Show AutoBand GUI
- /ab org Organize the warband with the default template (or automatic if no default template is set)
- /ab kickoff Kick all offline players
- /ab autokick Toggles automatic kick
- /ab info Show current settings
The list of commands is getting too big to post here, type /ab help to get the full list.
Requirements
To be able to organize your warband or kick players using AutoBand you need to be a Warband Leader or Warband Assistant (Not the main assist). As you might know there can be more than one Warband Assistant in a warband.
AutoBand can fail if a player which has to be moved or swapped leaves the warband, this cannot be avoided. A similar problem occurs if a player joins a group and takes an empty spot of a future move.
If you receive an error message saying that a move/swap could not be performed just apply the template again.
Recent changelog
v0.83
- Tools: small report bug fix
v0.81
- New tab Tools. User can kick or just print all warband players which are not in the leader's or assistants' zone, offline or don't meet the minimum rank requirement
- All kicked players will receive a /tell from AutoBand along with the reason
- The minimap icon can be toggled from the GUI
v0.71
- Fixed <Kick Offline> bug.
v0.70
- Added a new player distribution algorithm. It aggregates categories instead of spreading them across groups (except for healers).
- Added "zone kick" function. All players not in the leader's or assistants' zone can be kicked by pressing a button in the config tab.
v0.61
- Button Delete is renamed to Reset when <Warband> or <Automatic> is selected in the combobox.
v0.60
- New template matching algorithm should produce better results.
- Yes we have a map icon.
v0.50
- GUI improvements: Tabs added!!! You can now configure AutoBand via Config tab.
v0.40
- Players can create custom templates for their warband. You can create a separate group for just tanks and healers, another for pure rdps, your imagination is the limit! Offensive, fort defense, mass suicide, you name it. AutoBand tries to match the template and the remainder (non matched or extras) are sorted evenly according to their category.
- GUI: You can now use /ab show to toggle the GUI and configure templates
v0.25
- Automatic offline kicking implemented: Every 60 seconds AutoBand checks and kicks players which are offline for more than 5 minutes
Dependencies: LibSlash
Comments & suggestions are welcome
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r132 | bola | 2009-12-10 16:04:13 +0000 (Thu, 10 Dec 2009) | 1 line
Changed paths:
A /tags/0.86 (from /trunk:131)
version bump 1.3.3
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Changed paths:
M /trunk/AutoBand.mod
version bump
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Installation Guide
- Exit "Warhammer Online" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Verify your WAR Installation Path
That is where you are running WAR from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your Warhammer Online folder. (default is C:\Program Files\Warhammer Online\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start Warhammer Online
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of WAR. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
Directory Structure
Warhammer Online
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.mod
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...
