Whose brilient idea was it to use spell id's!?

Purities · #1 07-14-2009, 08:40 PM

I tried to toe the line yesterday with my post but my anger allowed me to go over it

The reason for the anger? The profitui devs decided, with no notice to the community, that they were going to completely change the paradigm for the raid buttons. My anger was due to finding this out after updating the spell editor with all the new spells from the previous live update.

The devs have all the right to change the program as they see fit. Though they need to take into account the community when making decisiones (if they want a happy community).

They had two options. To go cold-turkey or support and phase out the old paradigm while bringing in the new. They chose the former.

I was supprised they didn't have the foresight to choose deprication. Offer in the updater an option of which to use or include instructions in the install to rename the file to use. This would allow people to learn how to retrieve the spell ids (use the logger) or even give time for someone to create a page that would display the spell id for each spell.

The path the devs chose will leave people as frustrated as before because their buttons are as dificult to change as ever.

After the tirade I saw yesterday I've decided to pull support for the UI.

Thanks to all the support my efforts.

***Dolby*** · #2 07-14-2009, 08:53 PM

In a bad mood? Why do you want to put others in a bad mood too with such a rude post? Your advice could be posted in a much nicer manner.

Remember you are talking with real people here.

**gm9** · #3 07-14-2009, 09:00 PM

Lol what? Chrislau did the only right thing by switching to spell numbers after SOE changed the way spells work. There is no other possibility at this time to do it (spell names do not work anymore for international players). So /feedback to SOE but don't flame the modders trying to work with what SOE is giving them. Seriously, you should know better...

Purities · #4 07-14-2009, 09:07 PM

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**Drumstix42** · #5 07-14-2009, 09:50 PM

Do the spell id's change? When's the last time they changed?

Stop being selfish. You're complaining about something that is free.

dragowulf · #6 07-15-2009, 01:10 AM

Did I miss something?

Purities · #7 07-15-2009, 09:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drumstix42

Do the spell id's change? When's the last time they changed?

Stop being selfish. You're complaining about something that is free.

Selfish? Nope.

Do I have proof that they change? No because I've never cared to track them. It's a theory based off experience. Am I right? We'll find out.

If you look at the numbers though it screams primary key (I'll assume you know what I'm talking about)

Each update to a spell a new entry into the database; with the old one being switch off.

You call the previous key and you'll get 'this spell no longer exists'.

It's a warning. Trying to scare someone? Nope