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Overview

HeadCount is a configurable World of Warcraft add-on that automatically tracks raid attendance, loot, and boss kills.

HeadCount answers the following questions:

How long is a player active in a raid?
How long is a player on standby for a raid?
How long is a player offline during a given raid?
What loot dropped during a raid and who received it?
What boss kills occurred during a given raid and who was there for the kill?

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Information

HeadCount forum thread: http://forums.wowace.com/showthread.php?t=12225...

Project page: http://www.wowace.com/projects/head-count/

Wish list

All defects and enhancement requests (wish list) items can be filed and/or reviewed on the HeadCount work ticket page:
http://www.wowace.com/projects/head-c.../tickets/

Features

Raids

Raid creation: Automatically creates a new raid as you join or start a raid.
Raid finalization: Automatically ends an existing raid as you leave a raid.
Raid management: The user can end raids, remove raids, or remove all raids on demand.
Raid zone tracking: Zone name are automatically added to raids as you zone into a raid instance for the first time.

Player attendance

Player tracking: Players are tracked based on their timed participation in the raid. Players can be tracked based on configurable raid groups for raid list activity (active raiding players) and wait list players (queue/standby players).
Player removal: The user can remove tracked information for specific players on demand.
Player history: View specific player history for a raid to see how and when a player moved from activity to standby to offline and back during a raid.
No list tracking: Players can be tracked as non-raid list and non-standby players as needed. Players that go offline are automatically taken out of the raid and wait list groups for tracking purposes.
Integrated wait list: Receive whispers from members outside of the raid group in order to track them.

Boss kills

Boss kill tracking: Tracks the world bosses killed during the course of a raid and the raid list members present for the kill.
Boss kill removal: The user can remove tracked boss kills on demand.
Manual boss kill: The user can add a boss kill to the current raid at the current time with the current roster via /hc boss add [bossname]

Loot

Loot tracking: Tracks loot received during a raid based on configurable item level quality (default: Epic item level or higher)
Loot removal: The user can remove specific pieces of loot on demand.
Loot exclusion: The user can manage loot exclusion which will prevent certain pieces of loot from being tracked during a raid. (e.g. - Emblem of Valor)

Export

Export: Users can export current raid attendance and received loot information to one of a number of formats (CSV, XML, Text, EQdkp XML string, phpBB forum post, phpBB with ItemStats forum post).

Reporting

Boss kill broadcast: The user can optionally broadcast when the raid kills a boss to a configurable chat channel.
Loot broadcast: The user can optionally broadcast when a player receives a valid piece of loot to a configurable chat channel.

Performance

Fault tolerance: If the mod owner quits WoW, restarts WoW, or reloads their UI during a raid and returns to the game, HeadCount will attempt to gracefully recover from the outage to continue tracking the active raid.
Attendance delay: Configure how often HeadCount should manage attendance updates to increase or decrease performance and/or accuracy.

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JerryBlade
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Posted Aug 17, 2009
I am looking into that error valjean2. Barotgus - I am not sure why it's not showing in the XML export. It works perfect for me. Kelthir - Are you sure you have the WL and attendance settings correct? By default, it can time them out if they are offline or not in the zone. You need to change that in the right-click menu (or command line).

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Posted Aug 18, 2009
Hmm, you're right, the boss is in there, I just went through the whole report line for line and its fine. Could have possibly been something weird with wowstead.com's import system. When this happened it was with Thorim. I just did the exact same thing with Hodir and it worked fine. Would be nice if there was some way to have it add the boss by itself (so we dont have to manually do it). But Like i said the keepers dont really "die" so its not that easy, no big deal. /hc boss add [name] works fine. Sorry to blame HC for this.

Issue number 2 that I mentioned below is also not a big problem. Number 1, the listing 10 man Ulduar as heroic is very annoying however. If theres anyway I can manually fix this on my end, please let me know, it would be much appreciated. (I have basic lua knowledge, so if a code fix is needed, I can take care of that myself).

A new thing that I noticed last night. The Elders for Freya are recording as boss kills similuar to the Sanctum Sentry on Auriaya. Small annoyance, but can quickly/easily remove them from the boss tracker. Not a big deal. Possibly a ignore list, that HC loops through looking for a certain name before listing/annoucing a boss kill? Just trying to help.

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Posted Aug 19, 2009
Yeah - You need to make sure the text that your web import uses to identify a boss is consistent with what HC (or your custom /hc boss add entry) is calling them. If they are different, the web import will not pick up the kill.

Some people actually track the Elders as "kills" so the best solution is to just delete them from inside HC when the raid is done. It's a painless process, and they won't show up in the export afterwards.

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Posted Aug 17, 2009
One thing:

Could you add an achievement tracker, like boss killed and loot?

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
I've been getting this error for the past week. Usually right after zoning into a raid instance.

[2009/08/13 20:53:56-3708-x1]: HeadCount-1.6.0\HeadCountUtil.lua:344: attempt to compare number with nil

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Posted Aug 16, 2009
Me too. Same Error.

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
I use this addon with FuBar. In the past few versions (probably 1.58 and newer) the HeadCount "skull" icon in Fubar is stuck halfway across the bar. This means it gets hidden behind the other various things I have on the bar, making it unclickable. With previous versions, it behaved correctly (slotting itself between other addons and being draggable). Am I doing something wrong, or is it broken? Using FuBar 3.6, the latest version.

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
Just a couple little things I've noticed with ver 1.60.
1. When doing reg 10 man, its listing the raid as heroic.
2. Someone already said this, but its recording the Sanctum Sentry as a boss kill on Auriaya. Its recording her too though, so I just remove the sentry from the list, not a big deal.
3. Its not recording any of the keepers in Ulduar, since they dont really "die". I always just manually add them "/hc boss add Thorim". That part works fine, but when I export to XML its not showing the boss in the XML report.

Just a few minor things I've noticed, none really major for our guild's uses. We mainly use HC to export the attendance and loot and import it to our guild site. We dont use the DKP feature, so I'm not sure if any of these things effect that.

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Posted Aug 13, 2009
I'm using export "phpBB with ItemStats forum post" which is great as a report post after every raid!! :-)

For our 12 Aug raid (HeadCount 1.60) did not record Kologarn (problem with Right/Left Arm?) and recorded Sanctum Sentry as a boss kill. All the loot was recorded nicely. We are using EPGP (dkp reloaded) as well.

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Posted Aug 12, 2009
How does the attendance tracker work for raid-time if you have someone on the waitlist but not in the raid? When I get someone to join the raid via the "wl add" command, it'll show them on the attendance log as having joined and left the raid in the same instant, and I don't know how to make it update the end-time on it's own such that they accrue attendance as long as they remain on the waitlist.

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
Is there a way to manually tell HC what raid you are doing? When I zone into ToC, it just stays on 'active' instead of actually saying where we are raiding.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Headcount is now tracking the new epic gems as loot for the raid. Anyway to stop that

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Stop transmuting or cutting gems during raids?

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Posted Aug 11, 2009
/hc exclude add [Gem Link]
That would fix it, though you would have todo this for every gem. Thats the only way I know of doing it at the moment. I think Jerry has an auto exclude list for things like Abyss Crystals and the like. Probally just hasnt added them to the list yet (or didnt think they would get added to the loot list).

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
If you are not in range, then it doesn't hit your log so there is no mod that will pick it up that relies on the log. However, you can manually add it by using /hc loot add [itemlink] [raid#] [playername]. After that, you can assign it to the correct boss and update the DKP cost.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
In the future, you can edit any of the LUA files with a simple text editor. You do not need anything special to edit them. :)

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
lmao....of course it got updated today. About 20 minutes after I found, downloaded, and screamed at a .lua modifier program until I found what I was looking for to fix it. Heh

Thanks for updating Jerry, very appreciated.

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Posted Aug 10, 2009
Ok - Headcount has been updated with a variation of Infirmaboy's fix. Thanks for finding that!

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Posted Aug 9, 2009
well i hope infarmboy's quick fix work's otherwise cant wait for a updated version

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Posted Aug 8, 2009
can you update ruRU locale, pls

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