Mounted (official thread)

[yssaril]

With the coming of WoW 3.0 we may now have as many mounts as we want since we learn them and do not have to carry them in you bags.

Thus my dilemma which mount shall i use and how can i chose them easily out of the mess of mounts found in the mounts tab.

Out of this Mounted was born. Instead of mucking about with secure code and make buttons that have to be skinned and carefully placed in your UI i instead chose to utilize the macro functions. Thus enabling you to simply use any actionbar mod.

So what does mounted actually do for you?

1. It will create a macro called Mounted in your global macro space this way you only use one slot and not one per character.
   
2. It will scan through all your mounts (and druid forms travel/flight) and create a list and sort them by speed.
   
3. It will then analyze your surroundings and edit the Mounted macro.
   1. If you can fly then it will chose a random flying mount from the fastest category it will also chose a random ground mount to be used when using a modifier with the macro.
      
   2. If you can not fly it will simply chose a random ground mount from the fastest category.
      
   3. If you enter combat it will change the macro to a combat macro which you can edit in the Blizzard Addon options.
      
   4. If you are indoors it will also change to the combat macro.
4. A new mount will be chosen for you every time you mount up.
   
5. every single macro type is customizable (editing of the attack macro is highly recommended)
   
6. macros can by customized with tags that get replaced when the macro is parsed (see below for list of available tags)
   
7. custom macros are saved globally so you will have access to them from all your characters (per account)
   
8. you can preview your macros before deciding on them
   
9. you can set priorities for mounts from 0-10 (0 = will never be selected, 10 will most likely be selected)

Macro tags are:

<ff> == Random Flying Mount (fastest speed increase)
<f310> == Random Flying Mount (310% speed increase)
<f280> == Random Flying Mount (280% speed increase)
<f60> == Random Flying Mount (60% speed increase)
<fs> == Random Flying Mount (scaling speed increase)
<gf> == Random Ground Mount (fastest speed increase)
<g100> == Random Ground Mount (100% speed increase)
<g60> == Random Ground Mount (60% speed increase)
<g0> == Random Ground Mount (0% speed increase)
<gaq> == Random Ahn'Qiraj Mount
<s#> == will be replaced with the spellname of spellid # (will not insert rank so will scale)

any suggestions or improvements are most welcome please open a ticket about them.

FYI if a Mount can not me classified it will send a message to your chat window simply copy this message in a ticket or here and i will add the mount to the correct category asap

[Xinhuan]

Do you plan to add the following feature?

Assign percentages to each mount in regards to how random each mount is chosen? Say I'll like Black Qiraji Battle Tank to be used 70% of the time, Brewfest Kodo mount to be used 20% of the time, and Amani War Bear the last 10%, and the remainder 0%?

One percentage per "can fly" and "cannot fly" scenerio. You do have "preferred mounts" right?

[yssaril]

good idea but how about a point system instead say 0-100
0 you do not like the mount so it wont get called
100 it is most likely to get called
this way if you learn a new mount i can simply set it at 50 till the user adjusts it :P

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by yssaril

good idea but how about a point system instead say 0-100
0 you do not like the mount so it wont get called
100 it is most likely to get called
this way if you learn a new mount i can simply set it at 50 till the user adjusts it :P

That's pretty much what was suggested. In your 0 to 100-point system, it directly correlates to a percentage. I would also suggest (at a certain level and/or skill-level) to show an option to disable pre-epic land/flying mounts. I don't care how many 60%-speed mounts I have. In most cases, unless I'm screwing around, I will not use them at all.

[yssaril]

Originally Posted by Torhal

That's pretty much what was suggested. In your 0 to 100-point system, it directly correlates to a percentage. I would also suggest (at a certain level and/or skill-level) to show an option to disable pre-epic land/flying mounts. I don't care how many 60%-speed mounts I have. In most cases, unless I'm screwing around, I will not use them at all.

already done it will only pick from the fastest available say you have 4 60% air mounts and 1 280% air mount it would always select the 280% one

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by yssaril

already done it will only pick from the fastest available say you have 4 60% air mounts and 1 280% air mount it would always select the 280% one

...but can I choose (mayhap with a modifier, from time to time) to use the slower one for shits and giggles?

[yssaril]

Originally Posted by Torhal

...but can I choose (mayhap with a modifier, from time to time) to use the slower one for shits and giggles?

not atm am not sure if its worth implementing for shits and giggles :P i don't want to bloat it too much

also as of 0.0.7b a priority system is in place though the options for it are not done yet (they are there but not really named properly)

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by yssaril

not atm am not sure if its worth implementing for shits and giggles :P i don't want to bloat it too much

also as of 0.0.7b a priority system is in place though the options for it are not done yet (they are there but not really named properly)

Something that small, IMHNSO, would not be considered bloat. A few if-elseif's, if that. Maybe I'll download your addon, take a peek, and PM you some small diffs if you're not into doing it yourself - just out of principle, though: at the moment (not having the option of multiple mounts) I'm not really pressed.

[yssaril]

Originally Posted by Torhal

Something that small, IMHNSO, would not be considered bloat. A few if-elseif's, if that. Maybe I'll download your addon, take a peek, and PM you some small diffs if you're not into doing it yourself - just out of principle, though: at the moment (not having the option of multiple mounts) I'm not really pressed.

lol while your at it if you see anything i should do different feel free to tell me am mostly self tough

though once the priority system is done i may look at it

[Torhal]

Originally Posted by yssaril

lol while your at it if you see anything i should do different feel free to tell me am mostly self tough

though once the priority system is done i may look at it

I am completely self-taught. C, C++, various UNIX shell (OMFG, the flavors!) scripting syntaxes, _some_ perl, and now LUA (under the Blizzard API).

Methinks I'll grab your addon and see what I can see (for lack of better verbiage) and PM you with any diffs I have.