AddOn Profiles

[heyguyslol]

I don't know if this has been requested or not but in case it has not here is my request.

I would like an AddOn that allows you to setup different profiles for AddOns. For example there are certain addons I use just for questing, pvp, vendoring/bank/guild store, provision, woodwork, ore farming etc. Having all these addons even with a beast pc can still cause some game performance problems.

Since I have so many AddOns there are some that either conflict with others and/or having all the addons enabled causes some in game lagg. Having the option to create AddOn profiles that you can select and hit reloadui to enable would be great for someone like myself who has a lot of addons.

Oh one more thing, would be nice to be able to bind hotkeys for the profiles so you can create macro's for profile 1 & reloadui, profile 2 & reloadui, ect.

Another nice feature would be to add an option to enable or disable all addon's with a simple check box instead of having to go thru each addon individually to set on or off, would just make things a bit faster.

Thanks for any consideration into an AddOn with these features.

heyguyslol

[heyguyslol]

Just found this for the enable/disable all addons.

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info4...onClearer.html

[ESO]

had same idea this morning, would love such thing

[CatoTheElder]

IMO there is no point writing an add-on to deal with poorly written addons. In both the cases you mentioned:

1) Addons conflict
2) Addons cause lag

the addons should be optimized, and they should also have a toggle option if you want to hide them.

I suggest speaking with the addon developer(s) about the problem.

[heyguyslol]

Originally Posted by CatoTheElder IMO there is no point writing an add-on to deal with poorly written addons. In both the cases you mentioned: 1) Addons conflict 2) Addons cause lag the addons should be optimized, and they should also have a toggle option if you want to hide them. I suggest speaking with the addon developer(s) about the problem.

Well yes that is your opinion but not really conducive to this thread. There are lots of ppl creating great addons that are new to it and yes some are poorly written but you are bound to get a few poorly written addons when you use so many. Simply expecting everyone to write a perfect addon is flat out delusional imo. Even some of the most experienced addon writters have problems with their addons just look at wykkyds addons they have lots of problems.

[CatoTheElder]

Originally Posted by heyguyslol Well yes that is your opinion but not really conducive to this thread. There are lots of ppl creating great addons that are new to it and yes some are poorly written but you are bound to get a few poorly written addons when you use so many. Simply expecting everyone to write a perfect addon is flat out delusional imo. Even some of the most experienced addon writters have problems with their addons just look at wykkyds addons they have lots of problems.

Sorry I wasn't clear, let me try again. You're a ****ing idiot. Stop running so many addons that makes your game lag "even with a beast pc", or at least don't complain about it.

It isn't that I'm against the idea of add-on profiles... I'll probably look at making that in the future, if there isn't one out by the time I get around to it.

Its primarily the attitude of accepting and justifying poor quality work without providing feedback. I would agree it would be delusional to expect efficient and non-conflicting addons, if we were working for a software company with publicly traded shares, that was primarily concerned with quarterly revenue, releasing knowingly incomplete and untested code for sale. I've done that for years, but now I own a private software company, where I can write highly optimized, good quality software.

Now, if everyone took your attitude, the developers would not even know of the problems you are having. They'd never have a chance to fix them, or learn how the problems happen, and how to avoid them in the future. Effectively, you're limiting their capability to better themselves as a developer, resulting in continued creation of poor quality releases due to lack of experience, and asking others to help you do that.

Contrary to your radical assertion about everyone writing perfect addons, what I expect is users to report the problems they're having (in as much detail as possible), and developers to keep their addons working well.