Escort event alert

Ambrya · 06-20-09, 08:22 PM

I can't seem to find anything like this, and I'm hoping it exists. If not, I would love to encourage someone to write it.

We've all done it, been running an escort quest with some sort of "catch" (for instance, the one in Ungoro Crater where the NPC keeps fainting and you have to revive him with water from his canteen.) You can't see him because he insists on tagging along behind you instead of running ahead, and then you get distracted and don't notice the dialogue in your chat window that announces he's fainting until you've moved so far away from him that you get the "quest failed" gong sound. Another problematic quest in this vein is the escort in Ashenvale of the druid who keeps falling asleep until you blow his horn at him. Or the night elf girl in Feralas that needs to be escorted back to a rock giant, but keeps getting distracted and wandering away until you blow a whistle.

I would love to see something like the event alerts in Deadly Boss Mods that notifies you with a big warning message on the screen when the alert text for fainting/falling asleep/wandering away happens, taking it out of the chat window and putting it in big letters in the middle of the screen to make it more noticeable...preferably with some sort of warning sound as well. For that matter, an alert when your escort NPC gets attacked might not be a bad idea either. It might even work as some sort of an optional addition to DMB, perhaps?

Anyone know of a mod that does this, or are there any mod developers willing to take on such a project?

voodoodad · 06-21-09, 03:40 AM

Originally Posted by Ambrya

I can't seem to find anything like this, and I'm hoping it exists. If not, I would love to encourage someone to write it.

We've all done it, been running an escort quest with some sort of "catch" (for instance, the one in Ungoro Crater where the NPC keeps fainting and you have to revive him with water from his canteen.) You can't see him because he insists on tagging along behind you instead of running ahead, and then you get distracted and don't notice the dialogue in your chat window that announces he's fainting until you've moved so far away from him that you get the "quest failed" gong sound. Another problematic quest in this vein is the escort in Ashenvale of the druid who keeps falling asleep until you blow his horn at him. Or the night elf girl in Feralas that needs to be escorted back to a rock giant, but keeps getting distracted and wandering away until you blow a whistle.

I would love to see something like the event alerts in Deadly Boss Mods that notifies you with a big warning message on the screen when the alert text for fainting/falling asleep/wandering away happens, taking it out of the chat window and putting it in big letters in the middle of the screen to make it more noticeable...preferably with some sort of warning sound as well. For that matter, an alert when your escort NPC gets attacked might not be a bad idea either. It might even work as some sort of an optional addition to DMB, perhaps?

Anyone know of a mod that does this, or are there any mod developers willing to take on such a project?

Heh. Even the ones that run ahead of you can never seem to run as fast as any given character. They say things like "we must hurry!" but when push comes to shove, they just toddle along like they don't have a care in the world! Great idea for an addon, though!

Ambrya · 06-21-09, 10:04 AM

My interest is kinda piqued now that someone has told me this would be a "fairly simple" addon to write. I've never tried writing LUA before, and I think it's probably a bit beyond my abilities, but if I can see a fairly straightforward sample of the sort of thing I'm looking for, I might be able to cobble something together.