Naw, the addons cant apply the enchants … thus people get quite angry if they get invited by an AFK enchanter … good way to get put on a bunch of peoples ignore list
Yes, that’s exactly how it works. I was one of the orig people with enchanting auto-invites, and for pretty much all of classic I was the only show in town. I only gave my code to a handful of other trusted people and we soon found out that the whole thing was highly latency dependent. Since I live in downtown Chicago and use an ISP other than the failure of a company Comcast, I have a 2ms ping to Chi 2 colo at 350 E Cermak Rd … which is likely where the bliz servers for east cost reside.
Initially since I was the only one in control of the code base, the people I had given the code too and I all had a gentlemans agreement to not run the code at the same time. This worked out quite well and there where minimal to no issues till TBC when 2x things changed.
- Everyone and their brother switched to Enchanting as their primary prof
- Someone Opensource the auto-invite code
The opensource version is not nearly as good as my version as mine was primarily designed to prevent false positives. The opensource version not only doesn’t make any attempt to prevent false positives and further gimps itself in other ways like not responding if someone says “LF Enchanter” w/ out a specific enchant being named.
No, its highly unlikely bliz will do anything about this as I have been running my version of the code for 2.5 years now with tens if not hundreds of reports against me … yet I have never had the opportunity to speak to a GM about it.
Well, technically its not against the ToS. There was another similar addon that would wisper people and auto-invite people to guilds … iirc this addon was broken because it was annoying people.
However, the enchanting auto invites are quite the opposite … in order to trigger them you literally have to ask for the exact service that is being provided. The only diff is ~5ms for an automated response vs ~5-10s for a manual response. The fact that 15+ people whisper you is not caused by the addon, its just a factor of that many people sitting in trade wanting your business. People just find it jarring that some of the offers come in mere milliseconds after they pressed enter.
Again, as I said previously prob nothing will be done. However, I highly doubt this will trickle over to other professions for one very simple reason. All other professions can make use of the AH to sell their crafts. They can spam trade chat, but the majority of their business is via AH because customers are lazy and would rather search of a given item than advertise in trade for hours on end.
To this end, this is actually the whole reason I wrote my code … both I and my customers want to be lazy. Neither I nor my customers want to spam trade chat for hours on end. And if bliz really really wanted to do something about it, their best course of action would not be to break the API … but rather to simply add Velums into the game prior to Wrath. Believe it or not, this would be a massive boon to ALL parties involved. Standing in org for hours regardless of if your using code or not is kind of boring.
PS - the auto inviter is only one of the pieces of code that I have written … I also wrote https://wago.io/17ZQgjA3y to aid in my enchanting endeavors and share it openly to assist all enchanters.
