Runes of Magic US / AU

Hiya folks,

Being the sucker for punishment that I am, I've decided that I'll code up that next generation of DIYCE that I had hinted at some time ago (seeing as nobody took the challenge). I call it FuzzyDIYCE, mostly as a joke, but it should give old DIYCE users a warm fuzzy feeling (in a good way). However, I've also decided to put a little twist on the project.

Though there are a few tutorials for people wanting to get their feet wet with add-on creation of which a couple were written by myself (shameless self-plug), there doesn't appear to be anything a bit more advanced. Further, many folk have been having trouble getting their minds wrapped around how the code works in the current DIYCE 2 and older DIYCE 1.4 add-ons, let alone those who simply want to use DIYCE without the hassle of actually programming the durn thing.

So to attempt to alleviate these problems, I'll be creating the project in the open. That is, the entire development of FuzzyDIYCE will be posted and commented on in the forums (unless a GM/CM/FM ixnays the concept). This would then become the programmer documentation/manual. It would also mean that anyone can contribute to both development and maintenance of the project.

As to FuzzyDIYCE itself, here is a brief breakdown of what I'm thinking (subject to change, of course):

• Fully graphical skill rotation editable in-game. Complete with drag-and-drop skills/items/etc.
  
• Just-in-time cached data variable reading so that no piece of information need be queried more than once.
  
• Shareable skill rotations/lists with other players both in-game and in forums.
  
• In-game help system.
  
• Simplified DIYCE timer usage.
  
• Skill sub-lists.
  

...and possibly more though the above are the main highlights.

So what I'd like to know here is:
a) Do you think this would be a good thing? Want it? Would enjoy contributing?
b) Would the forum gods allow a dev thread as described?

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TL;DR: Looking to see if folk want a newer easier to use DIYCE, and if the GMs/CMs/FMs would allow the openess of the project as described above.

Depends on what you mean by "Lua coding".

From a user's perspective, there wouldn't be a need (or little need) for Lua coding at all.

From the perspective of someone who likes coding up some custom stuff, I've been thinking about adding a kind of plug-in system so that new functionality could be implemented. I'm also thinking of allowing some custom Lua editing directly in the add-on.

What I'm proposing to code up would be a radical departure from the first two DIYCE so there would obviously be some rather drastic differences. That's where the thread idea come into play. Since everyone can see what decisions were made during development, and how it was implemented, changes shouldn't be too hard to do.

The last point in the feature list above would allow such constructs since you could fire of a skill list based on a PvE/PvP check and other things.

I don't know of any DIYCE-like GUI project, or any other DIYCE-like project for that matter (not that I've looked really hard).

Edit: Come to think of it, it is quite possible to have different setups in DIYCE 2.0. That was one of the things Ghostwolf did to support the mutliple class combos. Wouldn't need much of a stretch to have different skill lists based on PvP/PvE detection or any other flag you cared to check for.

I won't be creating any skill rotations myself. The entire point has always been about doing it yourself. Hence the name DIYCE or Do-It-Yourself Combat Engine.

Yes to all of that, plus the ability to share your rotations with others in-game, and add custom stuff as well.

There is still some questions on how some of it will end up working, but that is for me to figure out (or work around). Most of the features I've described I'm confident can be done.

Project is a go then.

I'll kick start its dev thread tomorrow. A tad busy at the moment (non-critical stuff). And I have some notes and junk I want to get together, but yeah. Work will start shortly.

Though I understand the desire to have an easier download for EU and other locales, I want the project to be open enough that others can take it over if they desire. This would not be possible as a CurseForge project unless I kept adding others to the project list.

I guess I'm just being lazy