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Altoholic

Find equipment upgrades easily

Hi, my name is Thaoky, and I'm an Altoholic :)

Altoholic is an Ace 3 addon written for people who dedicate most of their time to leveling alts, and who want to have as much information as possible in one addon. The main feature of the addon is the search functionality which allows users to search their alts' bags or loot tables in an Auction-House-like frame (see screenshots). All this with multiple-realms/accounts support.

About the addon & the author

I've been playing WoW since the European release, and I used to rely on addons like character viewer to check my alts' inventory, but since it was more or less abandoned and not always stable for me, I decided to write an addon myself and to improve the search feature as much as I could. I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do :)

The addon has been in development since December 2007 and was officially released in late March 2008. It's still not final, and although it has considerably evolved since the initial release, there are still a lot of things I haven't had time to implement yet.
Please note that this is my first addon, and that English is not my native language.

Features:

- Languages supported: enUS, frFR, deDE, esES, ruRU, zhCN & zhTW.

- Account-wide data summary:

  • Characters' talents: Full talent trees & glyphs are supported for both specializations.
  • Money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grandtotals for the account.
  • Bag usage: see at a glance which characters should get bigger bags (bag size, free slots and types included)
  • Characters' skills: skill summary on one screen, namely the 2 main professions + the 3 secondary skills as well as riding. I may add more if there's demand.
  • Reputations: a list of all the reputations of the current realm's characters. You can see at a glance if all your alts are at least honored with Honor Hold if you want to get the new 2.4 blue PVP set. Suggestions on how to grind reputations will be available soon.

- View containers (bags, bank, keyring) of all alts, on all realms.

- Guild banks : You have 10 alts in 10 different guilds on the same server, all of them with access to a guild bank ? Not a problem, you can see them all here.

- E-mail: allows you to see which alts have mail without having to reconnect them. The addon will tell you when mail is about to expire on a character. Threshold configurable (up to 15 days). Multiple realm support as well. Mails sent to a known alt (one you've logged on at least once) will be visible in the addon without having to reconnect it.

- Equipment: See the equipment of the current realm's alts in one screen. Very useful when purchasing stuff for your alts at the AH. Multiple realms supported. Right-clicking any equipment piece will allow you to find an upgrade, this feature is similar to the official wow armory feature, and is quite performant, even though it doesn't match the accuracy of the official one.

- Search: the most important feature of the addon, it uses an AH-like frame to display search results. You can either search bags on the current realm, on all realms, or a loot table.
The loot table is a table based on AtlasLoot, but which contains only item id's, and therefore keeps memory usage minimal.

The Search menu allows you to find items based on their name (even partial), level, type or rarity, almost like at the AH. It is also possible to search known recipes.

- Quest Log: See the quest logs of all your alts, as well as an indication of which alts are on a specific quest. Clicking on a quest link in the chat log will tell you which alts are on that quest.

- Suggestions: Currently, only profession leveling suggestions are available when mousing over your current level in a specific profession. Suggestions are based on the leveling guides posted on the official US forums (credit goes to their respective authors). The addon also suggests you where to quest/grind xp depending on your character level.

Suggestions were also added for the most recent factions. More to come later.

- Auction house: You can see which auctions/bids you've placed with an alt without being logged in or being at the AH.

- Professions: You can browse all known recipes in a thotbot like frame (see screenshot).

- Mounts & Pets of all your alts.

- Achievements are tracked for all you alts (see screenshot).

- Guild Members: a list of your connected guildmates, along with their alts (if they're using Altoholic too), and their average item level. Clicking their AiL will also allow you to "remotely" inspect their equipment.

- Guild Skills: a list of altoholic users in your guild, along with their alts and direct profession links. All professions are available in one click.

- Guild Bank tabs: a list of altoholic users and the time at which they last visited the guild bank. If you haven't visited the guild bank for a few days, you can remotely update your local data without going to a capital city.

FAQ

The FAQ has been moved here : http://www.wowinterface.com/portal.php?id=372&a=faq

Credits

  • I'd like to thank my guild, Odysseüs on EU-Marécages de Zangar, for assisting me since the earliest phases, thanks guys for everything you've done :)
  • Thanks to the wowace community, you've been very helpful and this addon would not be there without the technical answers you gave me (especially Xinhuan, author of BankItems)
  • Thanks to all the guys who are behind AtlasLoot, keeping the loot table up-to-date is a tremendous work, and the search functionality of Altoholic would not be what it is without your hard work.
  • Thanks to Ayindi (wowace) & sLiz3r (curse) for the German translation.
  • Thanks to NightOwl (wowace) for the zhTW translation.
  • Thanks to Wang (wowace) for the zhCN translation.
  • Thanks to Hellbot for the ruRU translation.
  • Thanks to Laumac for the frFR translation.
  • Thanks to IrregularByte for the esES translation.
  • Brykrys for the LinkWrangler support.

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  • Avatar of dombeckbill dombeckbill Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:36:37

    Been having issues where Curse agent shows Altoholic and DataStore_* addons are modified and no longer match the database. When I reinstall them and hit refresh, they show as being modified again. However, if I reinstall Altoholic and not the DataStore_* addons, it shows the DataStore_* as being modified, yet if I reinstall the DataStore_* addons, it shows Altoholic as being out of date.

    In game, it works best when I reinstall Altoholic and not the DataStore_* addons. If I reinstall the DataStore_* addons, Altoholic shows as being "Out of date" and doesn't load or work. Is this a communication error between the addons or is it something else?

  • Avatar of Highend Highend Tue, 17 Nov 2009 16:07:38

    Tried 3.2.003 but run into the same issue. I have send you all SV files via email (as a .zip archive) now.

    Regards, Highend

  • Avatar of Thaoky Thaoky Tue, 17 Nov 2009 12:42:10

    Give a try at 3.2.003 (still beta, but mostly stable). If you still have the same problem, send me your SV files by mail & I'll have a look at them.

  • Avatar of Highend Highend Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:56:22

    Hi Thaoky,

    I'm experiencing a problem with Altoholic lately ;)

    The guild bank tabs are not remembered / visible from Altoholic. If I visit the guild bank and select all tabs after another, leave it and then switch to Altoholic to see these guild bank tabs... All I get is a N/A for all tabs. The member of the guild has enough rights to view and get / put things into all guild bank tabs.

    What I did:

    1. Quit WoW 2. Deleted the Altoholic & all Datastore_* directories 3. Deleted the Altoholic.lua & all Datastore_*.lua files in the SavedVariables folder (global for all chars on an account) 4. Installed latest Altoholic version (3.2.002b / r55 after the problem persisted)

    Is this a known issue or do you have anything that I could try out to get rid of it?

    Regards, Highend

  • Avatar of Thaoky Thaoky Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:56:55

    @SpareSimian:

    There was an issue yesterday with the packager, and not all modules seemed to be available at the same time, so basically, you most likely had old versions trying to communicate with new versions. The issue wasn't fixed when I went to bed yesterday evening, but it seems ok now.

    I'm currently testing the packages before releasing as beta on curse & wowi. All runs fine on my machine, so it's only a matter of time before you guys can test the new version.

    @Mikenowo:

    I don't automatically clean up auctions from the db when they expire, this happens when you visit the correct AH (meaning your faction's or goblin, they're separate). I will automate this in the near future.

    Last edited on 16 Nov 2009 by Thaoky
  • Avatar of SpareSimian SpareSimian Mon, 16 Nov 2009 06:59:27

    FYI: svn trunk r54 seems to have an incompatibility with data from the last zip release. I just did an svn up on my altoholic and datastore* directories and it wasn't finding data anymore. I unzipped the latest release (3.2.002b) over it and it resumed working.

    The 20091115 commit looks pretty extensive, so I'm not sure where to start looking for the problem.

    While I had the "broken" (newer) version in place, I added some stuff to my inventory on an alt, and then later loaded the older version and logged into a different alt, and it showed the new items on that alt. So I think the data updates were going through, and it was just the query/display that was breaking.

  • Avatar of mikenowo mikenowo Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:53:23

    I love the addon, but recently seem to be having a problem with the AUCTIONS column on the ACTIVITY tab NOT updating certain toon's auctions. One toon (even after visiting the AH) still shows 3 auctions up, even though they have completed long ago. Any idea why this might happen. Thx.

  • Avatar of ofibpl ofibpl Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:41:21

    have been using altoholic for a long time now and i love it! great job !! keep up to killer work!

  • Avatar of Bl4ckSh33p Bl4ckSh33p Sat, 05 Sep 2009 08:49:03

    Hi! It would be nice if you could add an option to show in which guilbank tab an item is. Right now it says “Guildname: x” but it would be easier to find if it would be like this: “Guildname: TabA: X – TabB: Y”

    With the latest version Altoholic is broken. It shows no data just a blank window and lots of error messages. o.O
    (German WoW Client)

    Last edited on 05 Sep 2009 by Bl4ckSh33p
  • Avatar of HunterZ HunterZ Mon, 31 Aug 2009 20:03:30

    UPDATE: Thanks to Thaoky for answering the questions on WowInterface: http://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/fileinfo.php?id=8533#comments

    A couple of questions:

    1. What is Altoholic's memory footprint like?

    2. Can Altoholic add info to item tooltips regarding which alts (bags, mailboxes, personal banks, etc.) / guild banks have how much of that item?

    3. I see that Altoholic has features that help you find equipment upgrades. Have you thought about implementing weight tables or some kind of Pawn integration to help the user better evaluate gear?

    4. Does Altoholic provide any LDB data feeds? You mentioned that it tracks "money, /played, rest xp for each character, subtotals by realm, and grandtotals for the account" so it seems like it would almost be redundant to run AllPlayed with Altoholic.

    Thanks!

    Last edited on 02 Sep 2009 by HunterZ

Facts

Date created
20 Aug 2008
Categories
Last update
25 Nov 2009
Development stage
Release
Language
  • deDE
  • enUS
  • esES
  • frFR
  • ruRU
  • zhCN
  • zhTW
License
All Rights Reserved
Curse link
Altoholic
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