Stupid mistakes and stuff
Tuesday, October 21. 2008
Some people have pointed me to a strange thing that has happened with the MobMap database: most of the herbs and mining positions seem to have vanished completely from the database.
Actually that observation is true, and I just found the reason for this. I made a mistake while extending the database builder tool for WotLK which resulted in most of the herbs (and even most of the quest pickups!) being excluded from the final databases. There was however no data lost at any time, so now that I've corrected this tiny little bugger, all database builds from now on should include the herbs and mining nodes and quest pickups as intended.
Then there was another tiny mistake that broke the manual MobMap addon downloads (the manual database downloads were never affected, just as the download of the installer package or the downloads offered via the MobMapUpdater) that got fixed, too. Thanks to the people reporting this error (and keeping reporting it even when I thought everything was fine because I just checked the database and installer downloads).
I'm sorry for those mistakes, they were all not caused by anything Blizzard or someone else has done but by me forgetting about some important things.
Oh, and there still seems to be something wrong in MobMap itself with the functionality to display multiple mob positions at the same time. I'll take a look at this soon and will fix it in a new MobMap version to be released before Northrend opens its gates.
Actually that observation is true, and I just found the reason for this. I made a mistake while extending the database builder tool for WotLK which resulted in most of the herbs (and even most of the quest pickups!) being excluded from the final databases. There was however no data lost at any time, so now that I've corrected this tiny little bugger, all database builds from now on should include the herbs and mining nodes and quest pickups as intended.
Then there was another tiny mistake that broke the manual MobMap addon downloads (the manual database downloads were never affected, just as the download of the installer package or the downloads offered via the MobMapUpdater) that got fixed, too. Thanks to the people reporting this error (and keeping reporting it even when I thought everything was fine because I just checked the database and installer downloads).
I'm sorry for those mistakes, they were all not caused by anything Blizzard or someone else has done but by me forgetting about some important things.
Oh, and there still seems to be something wrong in MobMap itself with the functionality to display multiple mob positions at the same time. I'll take a look at this soon and will fix it in a new MobMap version to be released before Northrend opens its gates.
