A new star on the WoW database heaven...

Thursday, September 27. 2007
...or: what I have spent my time on during the last three months.

Life is unfair. That's a fact, period!

The english-speaking user base of WoW has a great online database with a really intuitive user interface and quite some functionality - I'm referring to Wowhead, my personal favourite of all english databases. The german users however don't have anything that comes near Wowhead's flexibility. We do have Blasc and a few more less-known databases, but they're pretty crappy compared to Wowhead, at least in my opinion as a rather sophisticated web user.

But that's going to change...cause I proudly present...*drumroll*

SpeedyDragon

SpeedyDragon is the newest, most sophisticated german WoW online database that combines a user interface similar to Wowhead with even more flexibility and functionality! Give it a try - it's the perfect online complement to the MobMap ingame addon.

More about SpeedyDragon on the new SpeedyDragon devblog - or on the site itself, of course (Sorry to all you english MobMap users, that blog is written in german, because it's about a german-only website). This will be the only entry solely about SpeedyDragon on the MobMap devblog, as this is the place for MobMap-related news.
Posted by Slarti at 07:15 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

strange problems since patch 2.2

Wednesday, September 26. 2007
Okay, there seems to be at least one problem with patch 2.2 that I missed: the world map display is not working properly. It seems to work when the map is opened by MobMap, but it doesn't work when the map is opened in any other way.

I'll get to it as soon as possible, expect a new, 100% working MobMap version soon...

[update] I have done some testing now, and the problem described above doesn't seem to be caused by MobMap. I noticed it while being in SSC and having Cartographer activated, but it seems to occur only in instances and not in the outside world, and even in the instance I found out that the map initially displayed by Cartographer was generally fucked up (displaying the mouseover effects of the world map on a map of Teldrassil, for example). When the map was switched manually all the display errors were corrected, including the MobMap dots.

After a quick scan of the Cartographer forum I don't seem to be alone with having map problems in instances, so I'll just wait for the moment and see what happens when the Cartographer bugs are sorted out.

If you encounter any other errors or problems with MobMap related to patch 2.2, please leave me a comment here, so I can take a look at it.
Posted by Slarti at 19:56 | Comments (10) | Trackbacks (0)

MobMap 1.55 for patch 2.2

Wednesday, September 26. 2007
So there it finally is - patch 2.2 has gone live.

MobMap seems to be working fine with the new patch (I have done some testing on the PTRs and another quick test on the live servers today), so I can release v1.55 rather quickly. The main thing it does is change the interface version number in the .toc files, besides fixing a few minor bugs in the data collection code that could throw error messages in some rare occasions.

v1.55 is up for download via the MobMapUpdater and the MobMap website. The installer package will be updated during the next hours as well, after I have fixed some bigger hiccup in the data processing that's currently preventing a successful database rebuild.

Oh, and speaking about "big" things...I have something really big in the pipeline, hitting the road very very soon (though it will probably only be of interest for the german-speaking users). Check back tomorrow for details.
Posted by Slarti at 18:00 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

Error in english database

Friday, September 7. 2007
There seems to be a problem with the english MobMap database at the moment. I'm on it, but the database that's currently online for dowload definitely is broken, so please do not update your english databases until the problem has been found and fixed.

[update] The problem seems to be tough...however, if you have already updated to the broken database, you can manually download the english database package that's online on the website. This package contains the last correctly built database copy.

[update 2] Okay, I think I got it fixed. I don't fully understand what caused the problem yet, but it's working again, so you can safely use the Updater now.
Posted by Slarti at 19:08 | Comments (12) | Trackbacks (0)
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