Ftuoil_XelRasH
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After seeing so many posts I could not possibly count them,
asking for an Anti-Idle out Plug-in, I had a few minutes to throw on togeather a few days ago.
YES, the name(An Inside #ACDEV Joke) was inspired by Drakier Although Easter is almost here 
Features:
Server Population on Login
Option to eat RED STATUS Messages
Anti Idle Logout
Log Out on Death
Play sound File on Death which can be replaced with a .wav file of choice
THIS PLUG-IN WILL NOT KEEP ELTANK RUNNING!
That would be a UCM aid.
I am not sure if any more features will be added, but you can make suggestions.
I will try to keep it updated with the newest release of Decal.
Please let me know if it works out OK of if you find any bugs.
It can be downloaded here -> QUACK
Everything Chazcon reply's with will be ignored.
I am amused daily as he is allowed to continue posting on this board.
Cheers
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How exactly is keeping El Tank running a 'UCM aid' ?
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Chazcon.. he meant plugins which allow the Anti-Idle timer in ELTank to be bypassed would be an aid to UCM... so his plugin does not help to bypass the timer in case people were considering using it for that purpose.
the Anti-Idle timer in ELTank is there to prevent it from being run unattended by making sure that it can only be run in 5 minute increments rather than DAYS at a time. Some plugins in the past have been known to bypass the timers to ELTank, thus becoming solely used for that purpose.
This plugin is not one of those.
and thanks for the props there FX. =] As soon as I saw the title, I had a feeling it was related to that.
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Why would anyone want to make an eltank anti-idle plugin when there is already a perfectly good one on the Sucamarto site?
I'm sure there is a reason but why would I need a sound on death unless, of course, I was UCMing?
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Ahhh...no. Not worth my time.
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"Everything Chazcon reply's with will be ignored.
I am amused daily as he is allowed to continue posting on this board. "
Is'nt that flamebaiting? I think I will have to report this.
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Ftuoil_XelRasH posted:
THIS PLUG-IN WILL NOT KEEP ELTANK RUNNING!
That would be a UCM aid.
You say that like it is a bad thing.
I mean, it's your plugin and you can do what you want, but the notion of somehow if people don't keep ElTank alive, UCMing will go away is getting to the point of absurdity.
There are plenty of ways to keep it alives ... assuming that the "hard core" UCMers use ElTank ... and they don't. Let's face reality, if it wasn't for UCMing, Turbine would close down AC because another 50% of their subscriptions would vanish.
It still amazes me the energy put into trying to stop ElTank from being used in a certain way.
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<< It still amazes me the energy put into trying to stop ElTank from being used in a certain way. >>
I look it as people helping El Garl to make sure Tank is used in the manner he has siad he wants it used.
I'm amazed by the energy people put into arguing rules don't apply to them.
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I might give this a try....server pop would be cool
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Someone in the guild ran it last night, and a "QUACK" message then appeared on the /a channel ... 285 people on Harvestgain at 8pm. Then the /a channel was awash with "Man, I remember days when there were 300+ and 2000+ people."
Ah, the good old days.
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I was thinking about tracking the pop on all servers on a website.
I still might do it with my guild plug-in and track Darktide's pop at least.
I would be very interested in a graph tracking population samples 24/7 from everytime someone logs in.
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IMO, it would be cool if perhaps the Population Filter was updated to allow for an upload URL to send the data to...
it could send data to the webserver with the world and population, and the server could do as you suggested and track that information.
It would be neat to see the trends in population numbers. Only problem would be that a number of people would have to run it in order to get semi-accurate data. With only a couple people running it, and it only being able to get data at the Char Select screen, the data wouldn't be nearly as robust.
It might be cool to try as a project. The other thing that bothers me about it is security. I wouldn't want some lame idiot to try to send fake results to skew the data. If it were done properly over a long period of time however, this information could be good for stat analysis and possible prediction of the direction of AC.
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i have been thinking about that also drakier, as i hosted and checked the population numbers from the zone when that was still sort accurate. personally i think that having a client log in every so many minutes would be a nice way to do it, fake data wouldn't be a problem then. but you need a dedicated account and computer to do it, and some way to login regulary on all worlds via a script or such.
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A form of AC2D might do the trick.
sameple every 10 minutes or so and average the hour.
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ACDualClient can log in a character for you.. all you'd have to do is macro it to select the world and character (assuming the character list was updated and accurate)
*shrug*
I just think having data from more than one account would make it a lot more accurate... if every time a person logged in the data was collected, you'd have pretty accurate results... if you only gather data when YOU log in, even if scripted, it wouldn't be completely accurate.
population can change quite a bit over time.. unless you had the character logging in and out of every world every minute... which would be a little too much for the servers IMO... I just think since the data is sent to every client anyway, just jotting that down to the server would be worthwhile.
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perhaps adding it to treestats might be an option, as there data is send at login anyway. shamefully updates to that plugin don't happen very often.
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