Trivia is a fun trivia bot which gives you
something to do while you are doing things such as Grinding or
just idling at home while others want to have some fun.
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Version: 2.4.4
Introduction:
Welcome to the long awaited release of TriviaBot 2.4.4, this new version includes a lot of features and bug fixes, along with a new efficient and clean coded GUI.
New Features:
- GUI including an array of settings.
- Score reporting now limited by setting.
- Score reporting types are seperate (all time/game reports).
- TriviaBot will now join your game channel if you are not in it.
- TriviaBot now supports loading custom questions without xml file edits (up to 17 additional question files).
- TriviaBot will not start questions if you cannot join the channel.
Bug Fixes:
- Score count limiter allows for score reports without spam.
- TriviaBot correctly talks to custom channels.
- TriviaBot will no longer spam the channel when no game scores are in the database.
Code Changes:
- Most of the GUI implementation is handled via LUA, allowing changes and parameters to be read and written programatically, this has cut down vastly on the code (XML format seems to just about tripple the file size due to unnessicary structure), and allows for very easy to read code to be written with little effort.
- Removed last remaining unused functions from old TriviaBot 2.3.x days.
Known (possible) issues:
- TriviaBot allows players from other channels to answer to questions being talked about on another channel as long as the Trivia Master is listening to both channels, I believe this has always been the case, and is an extreme improbability, while code can be added to do channel checking, this could conflict with whsiper games, so unless the community specifically needs this feature, it's being left out.
Settings:
Question List - List of questions to be used in trivia game.
Channel Type - The channel type to be used, such as "Guild", "Yell", "Say", "Whisper", "Custom", etc.
Channel - When on "custom" this is the channel to be playing the game in, when in "Whisper" this is the player to whisper the game to, when in any other channel this does nothing.
Question Interval - The time between when a question is answered, and the next question comes up, in seconds.
Question TimeOut - The time the players are given to answer a question, in seconds.
Question Warning - The time that players are warned they have left, in seconds.
Score Reporting Count - How many players are printed on a score board, keep between 5-15, setting this to too high a value could spam the channel and get you kicked.
Score Report Frequency - How frequently you want the scores to auto-report, in questions asked.
Show Answers - Show the answer(s) to the question after the question has timed out.
Show Reports - Show auto-reports.
Console:
The console is still supported for those power users, which allow access to all settings (including those dangerous to tweak), be careful when modifying these as you do have direct access to them with only limited blocks in place.
Use "/trivia help" for console commands.
Use "/trivia setting" for setting listings.
If a bad setting is messing up the game use: "/trivia resetconfig".
Adding your own questions:
Create a file called questionX.lua, X being a number between 4-20 (ex: question4.lua), use the format defined in questions1.lua to construct your questions and answers.
Upgrading questions from 2.3.x to 2.4.x:
As soon as 2.4.4 is stable and any final wrinkles are smoothed out, I will write a script to convert these questions over in less than a second. Keep tuned on curse.com
Comments? Feature Requests?:
Contact the development team on Curse Gaming, or contact StrangeWill (contact info below).
http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8643/
Support:
Use the ticket system on CurseForge:
http://wow.curseforge.com/projects/trivia-bot/
About:
TriviaBot 2.4.0 and above were developed by William Roush(StrangeWill) william@wolframstudios.com in an attempt to re-write TriviaBot to be up to date with less code, written more efficiently, easier to read, and a better question database structure, this is my first project in LUA, but I have had many years experience in many other languages.
Installation Guide
- Exit "World of Warcraft" completely
- Download the mod you want to install
- Make a folder on your desktop called "My Mods"
- Save the .zip/.rar files to this folder.
- If, when you try to download the file, it automatically "opens" it... you need to RIGHT click on the link and "save as..." or "Save Target As".
- Extract the file - commonly known as 'unzipping'
Do this ONE FILE AT A TIME!
- Windows
- Windows XP has a built in ZIP extractor. Double click on the file to open it, inside should be the file or folders needed. Copy these outside to the "My Mods" folder.
- WinRAR: Right click the file, select "Extract Here"
- WinZip: You MUST make sure the option to "Use Folder Names" is CHECKED or it will just extract the files and not make the proper folders how the Authors designed
- Mac Users
- StuffitExpander: Double click the archive to extract it to a folder in the current directory.
- Verify your WoW Installation Path
That is where you are running WoW from and THAT is where you need to install your mods.
- Move to the Addon folder
- Open your World of Warcraft folder. (default is C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\)
- Go into the "Interface" folder.
- Go into the "AddOns" folder.
- In a new window, open the "My Mods" folder.
- The "My Mods" folder should have the "Addonname" folder in it.
- Move the "Addonname" folder into the "AddOns" folder
- Start World of Warcraft
- Make sure AddOns are installed
- Log in
- At the Character Select screen, look in lower left corner for the "addons" button.
- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.
- If the button is NOT there: means you did not install the addons properly. Look at the above screenshots. Try repeating the steps or getting someone who knows more about computers than you do to help.
Translations
When you download a mod, please be sure that the mod is compatible with your translation of wow. Some mods only work on the US versions, while some only work on some of the various European versions. These variations are called "Localizations".
TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
When Blizzard patches WoW, they change the Interface number. This means that all mods will be "out of date" unless or until the author releases a new version for that interface. Some people go into the .toc files and update the numbers themselves, but this is STRONGLY advised against as it will cause problems locating possible incompatibilities addons. When you log into WoW after a patch, you DO NOT have to delete your interface directory. All you have to do is simply tell WoW to ignore the interface numbers and load all the mods anyway. All you have to do is, while at the "character select" screen, look in the lower left corner and click on the "addons" button. A window will pop up listing all your installed mods.
If you look in the upper left corner of that window there should be a box that says "Load Out of Date AddOns". You want to CHECK this box. Now simply go into WoW normally and all your mods should load. As of the 1.9 patch, you will have to do this after EVERY patch/update that Blizzard posts! If you encounter any problems with a mod after a patch, please be sure to let the author of the mod know so they can fix it.
See also: About "Out Of Date AddOns"
Mac Support
WoW addons are not platformed based. As such, they can be used on either Mac or PC. You can extract both .zip and .rar files on a Mac using StuffitExpander.
Directory Structure
World of Warcraft
|_ Interface
|_AddOns
|_*AddonName*
|_ *AddonName*.toc
|_ *AddonName*.xml
|_ *AddonName*.lua
|_ (possibly others as well)...