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Last Update:	April 6, 2008 (2 months ago)
Category:	PvP
Tags:	afk, battleground, and report
Project Manager:	Baudzila
Current Version:	Baud AFK Reporter 1.011 (for World of Warcraft 2.4.0)
Downloads Today:	15
Downloads Total:	7,434
Favorites:	66
Comments:	23

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Created On:	Nov. 24, 2007
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Baudzila

(Project Manager)

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About Baud AFK Reporter

Automatically reports players for being AFK in the battlegrounds after they don't move for 2 minutes. Works by using the map, and doesn't depend on you being near a player to report them.

1 Installation Guide
2 Translations
3 TOC Numbers (Out of Date Mods)
4 Mac Support
5 Directory Structure

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 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- If button is there: make sure all the mods you installed are listed and make sure "load out of date addons" is checked.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.

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)...

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random42 said
April 26, 2008, 02:59PM (2 months, 1 week ago)
defending a base that is never attacked is something I am perfectly happy to report someone afk on.

type /baudafk to disable sound

Would be handy for you to put this in the description of the addon

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Mera_LaCroisadeEcarlate said
April 11, 2008, 11:23AM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
Me i'm using TuringTest AFK reporter, too bad Baud AFK reporter is just looking for afk gamers only by map position and do not consider scores. Will maybe try it if you add scores+position but only map position is too easy to bypass the protection, human or not.

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Baudzila said
April 11, 2008, 07:30PM (2 months, 3 weeks ago)
I don't go by scores because people that defend bases don't get score for their efforts.

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Leonhearth said
Feb. 16, 2008, 01:33AM (4 months, 2 weeks ago)
Thanx for great mod, saves me loads of time.
only way to make this actually better, is to add funktion, where if found AFK, would send a message to others on bg who uses Baud AFK Reporter. upon receving this certain message, the players are notified with popup "player /namehere has found AFK player, do you wanna scan for AFK players too" if yes, map is opened and closed. OR if automatically (i know you might have something against this) upon getting this message, would force other Baud AFK Reporter users to report player too.
It would not matter, if player is defending, because (s(he would be healing or taking damage too.
These messages could run in channel, so in order this funktion to work, youd need to join specific channel in world (maybe call it baud) so you need to subscribe to this funktion so to speak)

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thegerbilguy1 said
Dec. 30, 2007, 06:31PM (6 months, 1 week ago)
Suggestion: Is there any way to change the time until you report them? If this is added, put a slash command for it. Thanks, and great addon.

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Baudzila said
Jan. 1, 2008, 12:17AM (6 months ago)
If you want, you can change this by modifying BaudAFKReporter.lua with Notepad. The number on the first line is the time until a player gets reported, in seconds.

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JohnCover said
Dec. 19, 2007, 10:17PM (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
Great addon. Quick suggestion.
Add a slash command to announce the AFKers that Baud AFK Reporter has located to Battleground chat. This should increase the effectiveness of the addon.

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Baudzila said
Dec. 20, 2007, 01:30AM (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
I didn't add this to the addon because there are legitimate circumstances where players could remain still for over 2 minutes. If the addon starts accusing players of being AFK when they're really just guarding bases, they'd very likely take offense to it.

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JohnCover said
Dec. 20, 2007, 07:23PM (6 months, 2 weeks ago)
Ah yeah good point.
Hmm... what if you gave the slash announce command stricter parameters. Like say "Hasn't moved for 4 mins" and "Has 0 damage/healing"?
Or perhaps limit it to "Hasn't moved from the starting cave for 2 mins".

Also, I thought if something else that might be neat to add. Some sort of Sync function. So like, if I join in the middle of a BG, someone else's Baud AFK Reporter can sync with mine and send it the list of AFKers to report.

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Baudzila said
Dec. 25, 2007, 12:05AM (6 months, 1 week ago)
I still don't think it would be a good idea. The synchronization thing wouldn't be necessary either, since 2 minutes after you enter the battleground, all the idle players would be reported anyways. Additionally, trusting information sent from other players could lead to the system being abused by other players so they could report whoever they want afk, since the information could be easily imitated.

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Nova-Neko said
Dec. 8, 2007, 05:40PM (6 months, 4 weeks ago)
I love your addon a lot and have posted on on my battlegroup forum so everyone can get it

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MoreMagix said
Nov. 29, 2007, 07:15PM (7 months, 1 week ago)
Baudzilla,

I chatted with 2 different GM's and they both confirmed using a bot or script to intentionally prevent your character from going AFK is an exploit. They do investigate these exploits.

Your mod is a step in the right direction! Thanks!

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TheAvenger said
Nov. 27, 2007, 02:27AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
i was a little concerned about the automated reporting that it might be considered some form of botting, that i consulted a GM about it, it took me 3 tickets (the other 2 were just deleted with either a forum redirect or, we cannot endorse all addons [wich wasnt even the question]) before i finally had someone to whisper me.

He told me that it and i quote "shouldnt be a problem". Just wanted to let you know baudzilla. I have been using a couple of your mods for a long time now, the best one ever yet was baudbag :) god bless u for creating a replacement for allinonebag :)

So i would like to make a suggestion as to introduce 2 or 3 slash commands.

- 1 (or 2) to enable/disable the mod ingame
- 1 (or 2) to enable/disable the automated reporting
- add slashcommand for manual reporting

and maybe change the sound to a simple "ding" sound. But thats just a very minor issue since the sound can be disabled.

i've just discovered baud mark, ill be definately using that one too.

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Baudzila said
Nov. 27, 2007, 11:20AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
From what I've read, anything addons can do is considered fair game. If Blizzard doesn't like something that the addon system can do, then they change the system. Blizzard only prohibits addons that do things which would be unacceptable even if you did them manually.

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MoreMagix said
Nov. 27, 2007, 01:26AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
Great mod! I've seen some AV players use bot scripts to recall (AV trinket) over and over, then target the nearest friendly player, sometimes following them. Other bots are running out of the cave, stopping for 20 seconds, then running again for 20 seconds. I hope future versions can address these AFKers too.

Slackers beware. You're reported!

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Baudzila said
Nov. 26, 2007, 04:16AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
I'm surprised how much interest there is with this addon. I added an option to disable the reporting sound with /baudafk. A client restart will be needed for the setting to save. I also made it so when multiple players are reported afk simultaneously, it will no longer play the reporting sound multiple times (which just made it sound louder).

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JRGUE32 said
Nov. 25, 2007, 05:43PM (7 months, 1 week ago)
Ive been pimping your mod in every AV. Everyone should have this. 5/5 stars

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dukeigthorn said
Nov. 25, 2007, 03:48PM (7 months, 1 week ago)
Pretty good mod, the only thing I would add is a toggle for the sound but other than that works real well. I've been looking for a AFK reporting tool and this seems to do the trick. No work, just plug and play. Everyone should at least give it a whirl, maybe we can get some more movement in the AV matches.

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picachu said
Nov. 25, 2007, 01:12PM (7 months, 1 week ago)
Yep nice autom-addon, simple yet working as intended :P

Auto reporting 10-15 afk players (cave leechers) at every single AV battle, without having to click on every single one of them for taking advantage of the others, ftw.

Although it seems that the debuff is too easy 'dispelled' seeing that some people get reported more times, but that is something that blizz has to look into to improve their system.

Agree with something like adding command line options to turn on/off the voice ? - I don't mind it, but sometimes it sounds way louder then any other sound in game and makes me jump when it comes up after some moments of silence.

All in all its a nice addition that every player should use too, or maybe blizz should implement such feature in their afk reporting system aswell.

Anyway, thanks for this. :)

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JRGUE32 said
Nov. 25, 2007, 07:37AM (7 months, 1 week ago)
kudos to you. it actually works! Just one suggestion or an option to turn the voice off when it reports someone. thanks so much!

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