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Hey lilsparky.

I'm really impressed with this. It's coming along nicely.

My big request is for your help with something. I'm a big fan of Auctioneer's Glypher, which someone else already mentioned. This interfaces with your version of Skillet and can automatically queue glyphs to craft based on BeanCounter's sales history and current market prices. It's very cool functionality, and I can't use a TSF for my scribe unless I can keep it. As it stands I'm using GW for my other alts.

I'm happy to patch Auctioneer myself, but I need a fixed API to add a certain number of an item (and its prerequisites) to the current alt's queue, check whether the empty, and clear that queue. I can see the necessary code to do this, but you've separated out a public API and I don't want to hook into something that may change. Can we have a fixed, simple, queue management API? It could just be a few functions. Ideally (to me) this would be something generic so that adapters could convert this api to others—but I'll settle for anything that won't change. :-)

I have some free time at the moment if you need help with this or anything else. I don't want to step on your toes, but I'm a skilled engineer and you could farm out a piece of logic or functionality to me and hook it in how you wish. I have a special in-game interest in trade skills and have a professional history working with dependency graphs.

I have a few suggestions (or requests).

• When calculating the cost of making an item, and picking the default craft/buy settings, the default should be the cheapest path. So if I wanna make a frostweave bag, it should recognize that (on my server) the cheapest route is to craft bolts of frostweave, craft bolts of imbued frostweave, then craft a frostweave bag. This route's price should be reflected in the cost of making the bag. This route should be the default in the queue, which I can change if I want to (your mechanism for this is coming along nicely).
  • I should be able to set preferences a preference each recipe, whether I prefer to craft or buy when it's a precursor of another recipe. If specified, this would take precedence over the cheapest-path mechanism above. You could have a drop-down with cheapest, craft, buy.
• I'd like to see a feature to filter for craft items that would level me. (Your Skillet has this.) I'd also like to see it display the probability of leveling up for yellow or green recipes if you know an easy way to get this.
• It would also be nice if the window could recommend the lowest-cost (gross/net) way to level up based on market prices. This doesn't need to be a full leveling guide, just perhaps a single button to "queue best leveling option" of all the current recipes. The user would do this one point at a time and train whenever they wanted.

Hopefully these suggestions are helpful. These are some of the things I'd like to see. I have to say, after using Skillet for a while, I'm tempted to try making my own TS add-on, but I think you have a promising start and would rather do what I can to make yours the best add-on out there. So please be in touch if there's anything I can do, and I'll probably continue making occasional suggestions even if I never hear from you. :)

Keep up the good work,

Sarah

I'm sure you're aware but linking your tradeskill from gnomeworks is broken atm. Still refers to ChatFrameEditBox which is now ChatFrame1EditBox in patch 3.3.5

The main reason for using datastore would be for me, that I do not have one more Addon that records duplicate data and slows down my login/logout process. Maybe make the use of datastore dependend on DataStore being installed.

I agree with Hoeding, would be very helpful features to have, even if only able to view inventory on alts. Awesome job so far, very slick addon =)

I would think that using datastore would save a decent amount of duplicated effort (either used from a full altoholic install or as an included library), and afaik datastore was split off of altoholic specifically for this type of project.

Any way you decide to go is obviously your choice, the major things that I would like to see in this project is the queuing (which you are making very good progress on), and the ability to see how much of a **crafted** item I have on alts, specifically for maintaining stock on several different bank toons separate from my crafting toons.

Edit To add to my wishlist, and I think many glyphers would agree, I want to be able to press a single button to queue up the production of glyphs (etc) up to a configurable limit keeping in mind how much I have on alts and the alts ah/mail.  For example I want to maintain a 10 stack of a glyph. If I have 5 on a glyph alt, and 2 on alt ah I would want it to queue up 3 glyphs. The closest I have ever got to anything like this was using your lilssparkysworkshop clone and hacking in a column to show item data from altoholic and manually queuing from there.

Never mind. My problem.

I definitely like the interface. Just a note - I know it's alpha. Trying to transmute with my alchemist, and it can't find my Philospher's Stone in my inventory.

Noticed a potentially hazardous, but small, issue with the auto buy feature while recipes are in queue. If a recipe is queued to make say.... 2 of an item, & recipe calls for 1xwhatever, & the vendor sells said needed "whatever" in stacks of 5..... the addon conciders 1 stack of 5 to be 1 item, and will buy 2xstacks because there is 2 items in queue, ending up with 10xwhatever when only 2 are needed. Noticed it when i went to finally lvl cooking... and queued up 50 Spiced Breads and ended up with 340xSimple Flour's & 340 Mild Spices.. LOL..... Small issue, i'm sure easy to fix... & i love this add on.... already much cleaner & nicer than it's former relative. :)

I like this add on so far. Just one thing that doesn't work for me is the Queue All button. It only add 1 item to the queue, and I don't want to click it 50 times to make 50 bolts of netherweave :)

Am I missing something or does it just not work yet??

Cheers

I'm clearly missing something here. How do you get a list of required mats for queued items? I store all my mats on different mules over 2 accounts, and would like to be able to queue what I want to build, and get a master list of required mats. Being able to send them to another's queue (ie using /w) would be nice too, but not essential.

At this point I seem unable to queue items I have no mats for. A queue I made on a previous version is still there, but I do not see how to get a master list of required mats.

I also posted a ticket as the current head rev errors out on me and will not list my profs (alch and BS).

BTW, I've used ATSW and Skillet. Both were good in their day. Really hoping this becomes the next must have crafting mod. Thanks a lot for all your great work.