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Can someone program something for me?

Posted: Thu Jan 10, 2008 7:06 pm
by Eyeball-Dragonmaw
Ok. I found this really useful add-on for arena. It lets me see all their armory stats with mouseover (+healing/spell dmg, +dmg, res, hp/mp, etc) It helps to determine who to kill first. He converts all the armory data of battlegroups to a .lua file. The only problem is he doesn't update enough so the data is sometimes wrong. A week or two can really alter someones gear, ratings, etc. I want to be able to download the data from my battlegroup from the armory a few times a week. So what I need is a program that lets me queue the armory for anyone in my particular battlegroup, and save the data to a .lua file.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 12:16 pm
by Rollie
Holy crap, he mines the entire battlegroup from armory and supplies it in a LUA file? How big is the file? And imho, this should be against the rules for arena. It's bad enough that you can now see people's spec in arena, being able to get exact gear info from a mouse click or hover is even further cheating the system in my opinion.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 2:42 pm
by Hybuir
if i remember correctly the guy that did the crawl could not get to unguilded players that were in arena teams, although the file may be huge, this would include a distribution/access of several hundred megabytes of information.

Its WAY easier seeing the buffs, seeing the playstyle, even the gear will let you know how they're specced. in your regular 1400-1700 bgs (2's & 3's) it makes no sense to have it. and people above that are keen enough to adapt.

Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 11:57 pm
by Eyeball-Dragonmaw
I actually talked with the author of the program. It's not really feasible to do it. It takes him 24 hrs just to extract one battlegroups info which he says hits the armory for 2-3 million hits in one day.