Standby Players

[Zevious]

I'd like to look at adding standby features and wanted to see what kind of feedback anyone could provide. This will probably involve adding another frame in options for standby players to determine how they are awarded. There may be another tab listing standby players to aid in who is online and waiting.

[Thellanorn]

I really like this idea that someone posted earlier about how they do standby dkp.
http://dkptracker.com/index.php?topic=25.0

I was going to add code for this but then I saw this post.

Adding Standby players:
Add players to the Standby list via a frame.
I would just award full dkp for that player. I'm sure a percentage isn't a bad idea for general users.

Awarding DKP:
I was going to create a new chat channel. Being I have raiders who are not in my guild.
Then anyone who responds in N seconds will get added to the latest dkp award.

Limits/Restrictions:

• Only the players on the Standby list will be award dkp too if it's an Auto award or award to all players has been selected via select all button.
• They must whisper their Main/Alts name. i.e. !standby Thellanorn
• Disallow them to add their name more than once to the latest dkp award. If they are already in the award list then just ignore.

Doing this will take the tracking off the master looter and make it the responsibility of the raider to get awarded.
Otherwise, the master looter will have to keep track of who is "actually" playing the game on an alt or main.
Which is pretty tough to do IMHO.

I hope this helps and good luck.

Thellanorn

[Zevious]

Thellanorn, it does help. I kind of have a system laid out on paper which seems similar to what you have. My thinking is kind of like this right now:
Adding / Removing Standby Players:
1. The DKP user could add/remove a user to a standby list in a new frame.
2. Users could add themselves by whispering the user !standby
Some feedback I need here is how to handle if someone leaves early. Someone could add themselves to the list then just log off and not return. I could probably monitor their online status but if they decide to log on an alt it would still remove them from the list.

Displaying the standby players:
This would be done as mentioned above via a new frame which would probably be nearly identical to the existing frame listing all players.
This would also need the ability to award these players separate awards.

Standby Options:
These would be options under a new tab in the options menu to allow for some customizing on standby player.
1. Enable/Disable
2. Include standby in the timed award
3. If they are included in the timed award do you want them to get a percent of that timed award and if so what %.
4. Include standby in the boss auto award
5. If they are included in the boss auto award do you want them to get a percent of the award and if so what %
6. Do you want to include standby players in the attendance tracker?

Other:
Another option would be to add the standby players directly into the main raid frame and create a new filter called Standby. I would probably need to add a new variable to label them as standby in a column somewhere for this.

I think that once I get started on this things will start to shape themselves. I'm going to wait for more feedback before beginning and will probably start a thread similar to the raid attendance one to display how things are coming so people can comment on it.
Thanks for the posts.

[Daworm]

I don't know if any of it's still availabe, but if you check out ndkp (Nurfed DKP) they had an awesome DKP mod... could always check their Standby Code as it supported players on Alts (so long as you or the alt registered their standby).

But all that's already posted is what I would imagine be available.

Simple raider / alt whisper commands of

"!standby add" from their main character first, with an auto-reply saying they are added and if they go to an alt to "register" the alt with appropriate command.
"!standby alt <main char>" so

!standby alt Daworm

will link "Bobby" with "Daworm" as an Alt and they are awarded the Timed DKP or whatever other options.

Allow the ability to choose what the standby players get.
So they can get "timed DKP" "loot DKP" "bosskill DKP" "first-kill DKP" and similar.

Also, allow the ability to click and whisper the standby players, maybe have another option that will whisper them every X minutes (as RL decides) to ensure they are actually playing and not afk'ing in a city. That isn't standby IMO. (We have players do that occcasionally).

[Kurtayn]

If anyone is still reading this (since the dates are from a couple months ago), would it be possible to switch up the addon to give everyone in the raid a radio button, instead of the way they are selected now? The standby people could be selected this way too...you just select them by radio button.

Another way to do this could be to have a user defined channel for standby. Have the addon send a message to this channel asking for tells from people with "standby <main name>" in the body within 30 seconds. The addon would then automatically award them points.

[Zevious]

Hey Kurtayn,

I still check the boards. I was hoping for more feedback and lately I haven't heard much regarding WebDKP from users so I kind of figured things were either running fine or that there's been less use as people drop WoW waiting for the expansion.