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This project is abandoned and its default file will likely not work with the most recent version of World of Warcraft. Whether this project is out of date or its author has marked it as abandoned, this project is no longer maintained.

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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_ForgeUser1442289
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Posted Apr 16, 2009
Great addon thanks for the fine work, anyone know how i make it ignore the new emblem of conquests?

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Posted Apr 17, 2009
In HeadCountOptions.lua ->
Find: [40753] = true, -- Emblem of Valor
after that add: [45624] = true, -- Emblem of Conquest

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Posted Apr 14, 2009
Thx 4 this great addon.I have CTRT removed already. :p And 1, would it be possible to annouce the whole loot list to channel by a simple click? 2, raid name could be modified?

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Posted Apr 12, 2009
I would like to ask if we could have the Player History also show previous raids, and possibly show a % of attendance across all the recorded raids so far recorded.

Great addon, been using it for ages now.

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
Have used this addon since SWP, so thanks.

I was wondering if you have plans to turn off tracking 10 mans?

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Posted Mar 10, 2009
Great add-on, which I'm currently writing both an XSL-T template for (to make the XML more readable for non-coders), but also a script to import the XML to our DKP system.

When using the addon, you can edit the distributed loot and set whether the loot was given to an offspec or it was disenchanted. But this information is omitted when exporting the data to XML.

Could you please implement this node in the XML? Otherwise it's quite useless, when you in my case wants to base the pricing and distributed DKP differently if the loot was given to a main or offspec, or perhaps disenchanted.

Should be an easy fix to the Exporter.lua file. ;)

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
I can look into this. I think the offspec/disenchanted/bank was done initially for EQdkp CTRT Import tracking. The addon just revised the player name to Bank/Offspec/Disenchanted to accomodate this.

I do understand for other export strings, this doesn't make as much sense. It would make more sense to always store the player name as the looter with bank/offspec/disenchanted as some sort of additional flag to be used as needed.

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Posted Apr 8, 2009
Any word on this change? It's one of the main problems I have... I need to know who the looter was and if it was for mainspec (default) or offspec, via the 'offspec' button.

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Posted Mar 8, 2009
I would be nice if it just showed how many items each person got in a raid summory window. Clicking on each person to check, takes a while.

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
I agree. It would be nice to restructure the loot display window so users could more easily sort by the loot, cost, or player who received loot, but there is no timetable in terms of adding this feature.

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Posted Feb 27, 2009
Stupid question. I see that waitlist export functionality has been added for xml, was that the only format that received it? or can you export it with any of the formats now.
If not I vote eqdkp be next!

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Posted Mar 12, 2009
The EQdkp CTRT export string format is a 3rd-party format that I have no control over. Wait list members are added to this list as attendees but there is no option in the format to track specific players who are on the standby/whisper wait list.

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Posted Feb 17, 2009
I'm new to this addon but I noticed after installing it that HeadCount caused Wardrobe2 to stop functioning. I don't have LUA errors turned on, nor do I want to, but I figured I'd let you know.

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Posted Feb 15, 2009
Version 1.5.6
* Added boss kill group attendance configuration.
* Added boss kill snapshot attendee removal.
* Added optional note to to wait list add whisper command.
* Added wait list contact note whisper command.
* Added wait list information to XML export format.
* Added wait list whisper notification configuration option.
* Added refresh button for export screen.
* Added returns and feeds for all export string lines.

1. Users can define which players are automatically included for attendance in a boss kill.

2. Wait list functionality was added for users to add contact notes.

There were be fewer releases for awhile due to real-life commitments. I will update sooner if any major bugs are found or if new instances are added.

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Posted Feb 14, 2009
Does this addon only track attendance if they are in the raid? Or does it take into account if people were online at all?

I am looking for something that tells me what percentage they are on on certain days of the week. I have a feeling I have certain members ducking out when the fights get hard.

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Posted Feb 15, 2009
Due to what is exposed in WoW, it can only track certain events if the player is actually in the raid. However, if a player joins the raid and leaves or rejoins, that players tracking data will remain.

HeadCount does not handle historical statistics of the tracked raid data at this time. Some users calculate this data via some of the popular web applications (EQdkp, EQdkp Plus, DKP Board) or by their own applications (Excel spreadsheets or custom XML parser).

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Posted Feb 13, 2009
Hi Seppyk, thanks for a great addon!

In the export, is it possible to add a list that lists how many items raid members have received based on loot note?

For example a CSV export could look like this:

Player name, Main spec (note), Offspec (note), Total loot count
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Darthas, 2 , 3 , 5
Tigerwoods, 3, 1, 4
etc...

Our guild use this method instead of DKP to keep track of loot distribution and aim to distribute loot to as many members as possible during a raid week.
Currently we use your addon to extract loot and do a spreadsheet manually for loot count.

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Posted Feb 13, 2009
This is possible. However, this functionality would be more appropriately staged in the receiving application, otherwise HeadCount is calculating statistics in place of a spreadsheet which is by design created to calculate statistics based on the row/column data.

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Posted Feb 7, 2009
i have several stuff in mind, however i dont know how much they are implementable. Let me begin.
1) It would be better if we could see the long term activity of a player, when we click on his/her name in the list(At the moment, it shows how long that person was in this current raid which i personally dont find very useful but it is not so bad either). Instead of showing data like "Name, Guild, Level, Gender, Race" which has no use for tracking the activity, you can add a string like RRRMRRRWRM. This string is for last 10 raids (you can do even more raids in this format), R= Joined to Raid, M= Missed Raid, W=Was in waitlist. you can also add other stuff for replaced or whatever. But this can help a guild leader to see how active that person is with one click on the name of the person. I admit this string is a simple idea, if you have better idea which shows activity better and simple, you can implement that as well.
2) It would be very good to have synchronization between the class leaders/officers/gm who are all using this addon. So that if any of these people gets "wl add" whisper for being added to wait list, it will update waiting list on all officers team's addons.
3) as bornhall said, binding names of the alts with a main character would also be very useful. because some people would like to join waiting list with their alt chars.

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Posted Feb 6, 2009
I'm having some trouble using the manual loot link. I type in the command /headcount loot add and then link the item, and it says it's not a valid option.
What am I doing wrong?

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