Nihilum Raid Tracker

Kaacee · 01/05/08, 5:31 PM

Anyone have some comments, tips, and/or suggestions how to use this with eqdkp? Particularly with a bidding system?

I tried to review this thread on Nihilium, but their website was horribly slow.

NRT - Nihilum Raid Tracker - Nihilum - MMORPG Gaming Guild and Community

I reviewed the two older threads related to this topic, but they are pretty outdated.

http://elitistjerks.com/f32/t14819-r...mod_s_addon_s/

http://elitistjerks.com/f43/t11607-dkp_-_mods/

Karmen · 01/05/08, 6:00 PM

I'm using a pretty old version of it and it can spit out ctmod parsing to be used with EQDKP. Don't think that will help with a bidding system though. All I do is cut/paste the results at the end of the raid from the tracker. Not sure why you couldn't do the same if you want to use this mod but you'll just have to go to the extra step of writing down the winning bid manually.

Saroz · 01/06/08, 7:56 AM

Pretty much the same as Karmen, it's a simple mod, but it works really well compared to the alternatives.

Tehehe · 01/18/08, 6:25 PM

I've been using NRT for a very long time and have made some modifications to it (such as tracking HoDs) to keep up with my needs (as it doesn't seem to be updated anymore).

One of the things that saved me a lot of frustration was the following /script command I wrote to delete old loot data:

/script while _G.NRT.db.profile.loot[1]["date"]<time()-(60*60*24*7) do v=_G.NRT.db.profile.loot[1]; _G.NRT:Print("Removing "..date("%d/%m %H:%M", v["date"]).." "..v["player"].." "..v["item"].." "..v["from"]); table.remove(_G.NRT.db.profile.loot, 1); end

That will remove any recorded loot data older than 7 days.

Athemeus · 01/18/08, 6:50 PM

Following a guide from the old Nihilum forum thread, I added some lines into the LUA, so you can add the winnig bid to the item list by alt-clicking. Unfortunately, it doesn't put the value into the string, but its still better than pen and paper.

Just replace the original Lua with this one.

hypetech · 01/31/08, 2:26 AM

Anybody using this mod, how do you handle trash drops?

Northerner · 01/31/08, 5:23 AM

I've never used it for anything but background information in a loot council setting but it's pretty spiffy for that.

Twid · 02/09/08, 8:57 AM

I've been using this mod for a few months now, and I have developed a love/hate relationship with it. Its interface is much cleaner than CTRaidTracker, but there are several things that I have to still handle manually that are a gigantic pain.

1) You cannot input prices when items are looted to be output into the EQDKP string.
2) It does not handle trash drops gracefully at all, these must be manually added.
3) The Shade of Akama encounter is not automatically detected upon boss death
4) The Illidari Council encounter is terribly managed, only logging one boss' death and subsequent item (singular).

They have recently added several new features, that are nice, though new default options caused me to lose all of my standby players (it clipped by default to groups 1-5, and my standbys are in 6). This was easily fixed in the options menu, but I did not catch it until after the raid when exporting the strings.

I still have yet to find a DKP mod that has a solid, user friendly interface. I also have not found one that properly exports to EQDKP. I've been trying to convince one of our raiders to make an in house one, but I don't think there's much incentive to tear one's hair out over it.

Saroz · 02/09/08, 10:22 AM

There is a new version out on WowAce, where many of the above "issues" are fixed (1, 2 and 3)

nataku · 02/14/08, 1:51 PM

Originally Posted by Saroz

There is a new version out on WowAce, where many of the above "issues" are fixed (1, 2 and 3)

I had WAU update my really old but functional version of NRT to this new version, and it was causing massive FPS drops for me while in raid, dropping from 60+ fps to 1 fps for 5-10 seconds at a time. After uninstalling NRT, my problems went away. I think I have the old version around still, so I might just go back to that.