New map desktop app coming soon (as long as it's still kosher with p99 rules)

[Jauna]

Wow, im still using my /loc notebook and black and white maps I printed in my old high school and going from memory from back when. This thread is for millennial hipster kids who wanna pretend they are oldschool. For shame on all you people who played in 99-02 and think this is cool. For fucking shame.

Also whats with everyone hitting enter twice after each sentence?

Like is this normal?

Should I start doing this?

This happens a lot on 4chan too.

Im starting to wonder if I am out of touch with forum etiquettes

[Kika Maslyaka]

if you think about this for a moment - the classic EQ didn't had in game maps, cause the devs didn't wanted you to know that you are approximately somewhere in the east part of Kithor Forest (like vanilla WoW maps), yet they gave you an ability to see your EXACT map coordinates down to a decimal point!
I am surprised self /loc parser didn't came out all way back in 99! [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Yonkec]

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But I still love you.

[myriverse]

MQ2's map feature goes way beyond anything this is doing.

[tristantio]

Originally Posted by myriverse [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

MQ2's map feature goes way beyond anything this is doing.

I wouldn't doubt it, what's up so far is a couple hours of work on my end (ie, not much time) - isn't MQ2 against the rules? (it reads packets and such doesn't it?)

The entire point of this is to provide synchronized maps/coordination among people/guilds while keeping in the classic spirit (only reading data from /log vs touching any active memory/packets).

[jarinaEQ1]

Very nice tools, does it possible to install has stand alone ?

[Lyrith]

I think it's awesome you keep working on new projects and it's always fun to see what your programming skills can do as you keep learning. However I don't think I want to see this implemented. But that's fine because it is up to the person to install it and use it. I don't think I could ever see guild's requiring their members to use it as it would take time to look where everyone was.

However it could be handy if you could "Friend" people on it per say with their permission so you can see what zones they are in and such.

[Yonkec]

How can you provide synchronized coordinates amount people without either spamming the HELL out of a chat window or illegal MQ2ing shit?

Originally Posted by Lyrith [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I think it's awesome you keep working on new projects and it's always fun to see what your programming skills can do as you keep learning. However I don't think I want to see this implemented. But that's fine because it is up to the person to install it and use it. I don't think I could ever see guild's requiring their members to use it as it would take time to look where everyone was.

However it could be handy if you could "Friend" people on it per say with their permission so you can see what zones they are in and such.

like a /who all friend?

[tristantio]

The idea is:

• Bind /loc to a movement key (similar to how Sense Heading is commonly done)
• Program reads your latest "Your Location Is yy,xx,zz" from your log file
• Program shoots that off to ahungry.com for storage
• Map render queries ahungry.com to pull player's in same zone and their last stored coords

Right now I have the program running entirely locally in my testing (no shared coords) and it does great to track where a player is on the map currently.

No spamming of chat needed (since /loc doesn't show to anyone but you).

[Lyrith]

Originally Posted by Yonkec [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

like a /who all friend?

Your friends aren't /anon or /role?

I need to get new friends...