ARR ~ Add-on Idea's

[AdorraEloom]

I saw a while back something where they stated Addons would be limited to UI customization and such. Can't find the info unfortunately, so take it with a grain of rock salt. I wouldn't expect them to allow anything near the range you can get with WoW however.

I could see SE putting restrictions on addons like that, Hopefully loot atlas falls in the allowed section

[Hulan]

I could see SE putting restrictions on addons like that, Hopefully loot atlas falls in the allowed section

Anything like a "loot atlas" or what have you that is pure data look-up is pretty much guaranteed to be okay (assuming SE doesn't say something silly like "it's cheating to know this much about enemies this easily"). Basically that's just a hyped up block of text with a fancy index. What they're going to likely restrict is accessing anything deeper than visual aspects of the UI. Meaning no fiddling with 3D assets, no network IO integration, basically nothing that is more complex than a skin or a dictionary. We'll see how true that is, hard to say at this point.

[AdorraEloom]

Anything like a "loot atlas" or what have you that is pure data look-up is pretty much guaranteed to be okay (assuming SE doesn't say something silly like "it's cheating to know this much about enemies this easily"). Basically that's just a hyped up block of text with a fancy index. What they're going to likely restrict is accessing anything deeper than visual aspects of the UI. Meaning no fiddling with 3D assets, no network IO integration, basically nothing that is more complex than a skin or a dictionary. We'll see how true that is, hard to say at this point.

Good to know, Thanks for clearing that up for me

[Zenaku]

I could see SE putting restrictions on addons like that, Hopefully loot atlas falls in the allowed section

you are right addon are UI base only and they not going to allow anything as close to what wow could do. They don't want a unfair game with the ps3 users where people wont invite them because they can't use addon. Sure SE said they port the best addon over ps3 but even they know it would take months to even do a patch like that. they can't simple just make a update every day for a new addon and that why i think we have big restriction on addon.