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

[Frug]

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

U serious or dumb?

The irony, it hurts.

[Shamalam]

I, for one, think this is really cool. I would definitely use it.

[Supaskillz]

It's cool and innovative, but not sure how I feel about this.

[Bamz4l]

if it was just a local app for yourself that's fine but streaming your logfile to some dudes server ?????? not cool

[Trosh]

Look at it this way:

Some people way back when loved to play with classic default UI, and have it full screen with printed notes and maps next to them.

Some people modded the heck out of the UI and did as much customization as possible to it to make it easier or more streamlined.

Personally, I have the Velious UI active, so I can't see mana, or the con of a target in the target window, and if they had a classic UI that had more then one chat window, I'd use that bad boy, too.

On the other hand, if you want to mod out your UI or have apps for maps and such, that's your perogative, and go for it 100%. All up to the individual's taste.

Just comes to how you want to play the game. There is not right or wrong way to do it, unless you are hacking shit and buying things with real money, of course.

Relax and play nice, people! Also good work on the map thing. I won't be using it but looks like you are putting a lot of work into it, and it isn't working terribly - so good job!

[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

[Trosh]

It seperates different sentences making it neater and easier to read. Should do the same thing for business e-mails - no one likes a wall of text.

Edit: Also people won't read a wall of text, so higher chance of actually getting your point across

[Jauna]

There is a big difference between walls of text and borderline Captain Kirk speak. I think people just like how big their posts look after hitting enter so many times.

[Trosh]

it also is much more compressed in the message box where you type it in.. It looks reasonable in the smaller space, especially once the scollbar shows up, but then it gets spread out more once it actually posts

[Khaleesi]

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

Hi all,

In an effort to add some utility to my p99-patcher (https://github.com/ahungry/p99-patcher) I have added a new map app.

The tool only reads your log data (similar to the auction tracker uploader) - it does not touch raw packets or any memory/p99 files, so should be legal per policy.

The app will look through your log file for the latest /loc you have done, and map your location on the zone you are currently in.

I have plans to expand and have shared maps (latest player locations stored on my server), so you could set up a shared map account for your guild, and be able to view any guildie's location (if they were using the app and a /loc macro bound to a movement key) in real time (even across zones).

The current maps include all the details the Sony maps do (and are drawn client side in your web browser at http://localhost:4444/mapper/?map-name=ecommons (or whatever zone)).

I have plans to go through the wiki/allakhazam/eqatlas and update the map files to include the location data for static camps, so you would see pinpoints on a map that include:

• Your current location (thanks to a /loc macro)
• Your friends/guildies current locations (or maybe a global shared loc list)
• The data Sony provides (class trainer locations etc.)
• Mob spawns (maybe paths mapped out sometime as well)

The mapping is 100% real time if you do continually use your /loc macro.

I have a little work to do on auto-detecting the player's current zone (will have to have users do a /who all themself, or see if a message is entered into log when zoning), at which point i'll put up a static windows exe for download/use (the p99 patcher exe I have right now available does not have these mapper updates).

You can get it early or review the source on my github at https://github.com/ahungry/p99-patcher

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So not classic. In-game maps disabled for that very reason. We can't do anything about internet maps but we can do something about this.

Block it.