I’m hearing that with the recent announcement that the LFG addon is being limited, that it’s highly unlikely popular RP addons like TRP will be able to continue to function.
Is this true? If so, is there any possible way to allow RP addons but not the LFG addon? I’ve been using either MRP or TRP since vanilla. I think there was another but I cant remember its name. It will really kill my hype if RP addons won’t be able to work at all.
Note: please try to limit actually discussing the LFG addon as much as possible. I don’t need any drama, I just want to make sure RP addons will still work.
Without specific details on what Blizzard will be limiting in the API, it’s hard to say. I do hope not, as I’ve always enjoyed adding the kind of details that make a character unique but aren’t part of the default model (scars, thinner or thicker hair, relative height, age, etc.)
(The other one I remember from long ago was FlagRSP.)
If they disable the ability for addons to talk to each other, it basically destroys damage meters and CT/DB mods. If they stop auto invite, it stops the addons we used to create guild raids by whispering “invite” for an auto invite to the raid.
I really have no clue how addons work under the hood. Is there no way to just not let an addon see or tell talents without breaking other stuff(RP addons)? Or to let auto invite only function with members of your guild?
There are addons that existed in vanilla that understandably won’t be in Classic. Technically, the LFG addon could have but Blizzard is breaking part of it. I’ve heard that theres no way they could break that without breaking RP addons though.
I’m wondering if thats more fearmongering or true.
The base UI doesn’t let you set a description for your character that others can see by clicking on you. This communicates all kinds of things like scars, eye color, height, physique, etc.
What we’re referring to are addons that share information between players. As I mentioned above, there’s often a whole section to provide visual information about the player - eye color, height, age, scars or tattoos, all the kinds of things that the base player model is too generic to provide. Some of the addons allowed for extended names, RP hooks (ideas to start a conversations), even whole backstories or characteristics like chaste to flirtation, extroverted to introverted.
Macros wouldn’t accomplish much of that, because of chat limitations in general.
If you depend on these for RP then you are pretty much bad at RP. Role play involves believing in your character. We used to RP in UO back in 98 with hardly any of these things. Its the will of the player and the embrancement of the community that will foster RP, not cosmetics.
The problem here is that we don’t actually know what blizzard is going to do to the LFG addon. If they are just removing auto-invite and talent stuff, RP addons should work fine, but LFG will also still function as LFG does in retail (i.e. mythic+ listings, etc).
If they screw with how addons interact between players to try and break LFG completely, it will probably break roleplay addons also.
Lol. Please don’t weigh in on stuff you have literally zero clue about.
Since Vanilla there have been a bunch of different RP addons that allow for greater character customization and increased roleplay immersion. They do things like let you set your character’s name in chat/mouseover/etc so that you can have last names or modified names like zul’jin. They let you add backstories, phyiscal descriptions, modify the race you appear as, set notes about what you’re currently doing, set titles, etc, in mouseover tooltips. They let you set flags so that other players know you are actively looking for roleplay, are new to it, etc.
Seriously. Just stop. You have no idea what you are talking about, and clearly have zero experience with wow’s 15 year old RP community.
Not only is this rude, it is completely untrue. Wanting to communicate how your character looks and acts as well as possible doesnt make someone a bad RPer.
In a sense, yes, “just cosmetics” - but if you’ve never used one, you have no idea just how much more it can involve and how much it helps in an RP community to have an idea that a player walking past is open to public RP and what kind of thing might be noticed to open that conversation.
Really, we know it’s not game-breaking. (It wasn’t game-breaking to have it, either. Unlike the LFG addon, it isn’t trying to circumvent a deliberate decision by Blizzard to leave out a functionality.) So the question is fair - will the API change break them, or not?
Yes, most RPers will find a way if it breaks. We’re kind of used to that, to being one of those “unsupported” things that isn’t important enough to care if another action breaks it.