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[General] Fishing Buddy Suggestions/Comments

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  1. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    Hi -- I'm the author of Fishing Buddy, and since I'm going to be hanging out here with all of these dedicated fisher<insert noun denoting sex/race/class of reader here>, I'm open to suggestions for improvements or new features for Fishing Buddy. I don't promise to get to them all, but at least half of what Fishing Buddy does is from requests -- so bring them on!

  2. Marlburo <Extremely Salty>, 11 months ago:

    Big fan of the add on....has provided me and this site some really accurate stats! I have no suggestions really just wanted to say thanks!

    *EDIT After reading El's post yeah that would be sweet to somehow be able to cut and copy the stats intot he forum......though the only stats that were such a problem I didnt post them fully were in dalaran.....

  3. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    The new version (0.9.6p) adds the total number of fish you've caught in this location (and the current count) to the watcher -- I noticed I couldn't tell how many casts I'd made so far to see how far off the average I am for the turtle :-)

  4. Marlburo <Extremely Salty>, 11 months ago:

    Oh and I'm no expert and I'm sure its like impossible to make the add on know when you're pool fishing or non pool fishing. BUT if there were some sort of box or something you could click when you were pool fishing....and those stats would be separate from other fishing stats. Would be useful in getting accurate stats for dark herring, turtle, etc. because when you were exclusively pool fishing for these items they would be seperate from other stats!

  5. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    I have been working on separating out pool info -- unfortunately it calls for a bit of a rewrite since I kind of "bolted on" pool fishing afterwards. And detecting a pool is not an exact science -- I check to see if you're "casting" into a pool and I have code that looks at the fish you catch -- but neither one of those is easily expandable.

    I also want to separate out "quest fish" -- they mess up the stats too.

  6. Daisyvondoom <Salty>, 11 months ago:

    I love and have used the mod since I started fishing, but how about separating or at least and option to separate pygmy suckerfish catches from the rest like the way El has it on the fish finder pages so that the catch percent adds up to more than 100? Or even an option to remove them from the catches table all together so it showed a total number of casts, instead of just the number of fish you brought in. As it stands right now, if you want to know how many casts you've put in you have to subtract the suckerfish from your totals which isn't a big deal but it is kind of a hassle.

  7. Marlburo <Extremely Salty>, 11 months ago:

    what files should not be over written so I can keep my previous version data yet get the new fishing buddy? never could figure it out lol!

  8. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    You can just install the new version -- the data files aren't overwritten, they're in the "WTF" folder while the add-on lives in the "Interface" folder. If you're really worried, you can back up your "SavedVariables/FishingBuddy.lua" file -- I try very, very hard to make sure that you never lose any data (which would sort of make collecting the data pointless :-)

  9. Paralord <Salty>, 11 months ago:

    I use the addon, and love it. The down side, for some reason, I cannot cut and paste the totals. per zone. Is there a way to do this.

  10. buMf00d <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    Hi Sutorix,

    First of all I would like to thank you for writing this awesome addon! It's really made fishing easier for all of us. If it wasn't for you addon I probaly wouldn't have been fishing all that much and now it's my greatest hobby inside the game :).

    Secondly I do have one small "favor" to ask. In the version of the addon I use it doesn't seem to be able to find out when it is fishing in shallow water. This is particularly "annoying" when fishing for coins. I've seen several macros for this on this forum but I haven't been able to implement them into fishing buddy itself. Maybe it's an option I have missed but is it possibel to make fishing buddy "check" if it's fishing in shallow water and if so automatically recast?

    Thanks in advance :)

  11. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    If a macro can do it, then FB can -- I'll add it to the list (right after I figure out why ErrorMonster stops me from seeing the messages at all!).

  12. Thalen <Salty>, 11 months ago:

    If I'm remembering correctly, the macro simply cast several times instead of once. Since casting somewhere where the bobber doesn't land will not stop the current cast, it's much more likely to find a valid spot and stick there.

    That doesn't help, for instance, trying to cast into a pool, since casts outside are valid locations. But for the fountain, or trying to cast into one of those pools too close to shore, I can certainly see where it would be somewhat helpful. Maybe an option you can select to have each double-right-click cast 4 times instead of 1? If you can figure out a way to detect that the 'fishing' buff didn't stick, and auto-recast, that would be even better.

  13. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    @Thalen -- I actually have some code written that notices both "target not in sight" and "water too shallow", but with Blizz's control of when things happen all I can do is shorten it by one click, i.e. double-click, too shallow, single-click, cast.

    The only problem is that it gets stuck that way if you're nowhere near water, so single clicks keep casting :-) Trying to clamp it to two or something...

  14. Polikon <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    Ive been using fisshing buddy some time now, i think u should separate data. Because all the numbers are next to each other it is hard to tell which is which.
    Thx in advance!

  15. Svet <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    How about adding a dropdown to select the maximum lure bonus to use? that way I could have it use my fishing hat all the time - but not my glow worms unless I really wanted to use them.

  16. Trann <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    I would love if you could tell FB which lures to automatically put on your pole. It seems it always goes for my glow worms above all others, when I actually need to go through the vast number of sharpened fishing hooks I have first.

    I realize the code might be looking for the most effective lure in your inventory, however that might not be the one the user intends. I am a coder myself, and would love to offer some help with logic/code, but I have no intimate knowledge of the API.

  17. Trann <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    One more thing: As we all know, interface addons can get deleted or corrupted, but I would hate to lose the record of fish I have caught. Is there any way to back up the fishing XML or LUA file that the addon reads from to a more safe/secure location, or perhaps add a backup function to run once the game client ends?

  18. Sutorix <Salty Add-On Author>, 11 months ago:

    Fearless Fisherfolk!

    Here's a beta of the latest version of FB: http://cid-66aeff484ae5a135.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public

    Version 0.9.7
    - Display your chances of catching a fish in the current zone (on the "display current zone" line)
    - If you fish up junk (besides Felblood Snapper), do the auto-lure dance
    - Rework auto lure so that it tries to pick the lowest possible lure for the zone
    - Reduce casting to one click if the water is too shallow or the cast is out of sight
    - Custom version of LibTourist with updated fishing levels and zone information
    - Work with new fishing poles (Jeweled, etc.) which use a lowercase texture name -- (somebody please check this, I don't have one yet :-)

    Please try it out -- there aren't any changes to the underlying fish data, but to be safe -- back up your fishing data (copy SavedVariables/FishingBuddy.lua somewhere safe)

    Thanks!

    Sutorix

  19. dec13 <Angler>, 11 months ago:

    Im using the 0.9.7 beta version, but it wont work with my bone fishing pole which i got yesterday

  20. Paralord <Salty>, 11 months ago:

    I like the updates, and I have no problems with it. The only thing I wanted to know, is there any way to cut/paste the info from each region? Mainly to put on posts/forums.

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