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Suggestions to help oQueue

Hey, I love what you have done with oQueue. You made making groups infinitely easier to start. I have a few suggestions that I think can make oQueue even better.

  • An option where you could right-click a character and leave a comment and rating about this player/battletag. This would make people accountable when they are griefers, people who leave when they have said they were good to stay or dont pull their weight in a raid. A rating systems of 5 stars would be good. When you hover over their name maybe we could see an average of the score they have. If one wanted they could right click the name and read the comments about the player. I think this is the single most important one because it would save people a lot of headaches.
  • The ability to queue as more than one spec. There are times where people queue as one spec but the leader may not need that but would take them if they knew they had a certain offspec.
  • The option to see the raid progress of the people on the waitlist. If leaders could see how many bosses that character has killed in Normal or Heroic SOO that would be helpful to know. With Ordos and Celestials ilvl 550 doesnt mean what it used to mean.
Also, I was wondering if the addon is open source. I am trying to learn coding and would like to help with the addon if I could. It would be cool to make progress on such an important add-on


1. karma exists to allow others to rate the general behavior / participation / whatever. you can give a single point, positive or negative, once eery 24 hrs to each and any member of the groups you've been in. your karma level is visible on the wait list to the left if the person's name in parents. group leader karma is visible in the hover tooltip and in the color of their name; greener means higher karma, redder means lower

as for comment, not possible. there is nowhere to store the data and no room to send the data for wait lists or group members.

2. you can only queue for one spec as you can only wear one set of gear at a time. besides that, there isn't room for two sets of stats in the wait list request message

3. same problem, not enough room in the data packet. wait list messages are restricted to 125 characters
is there a way if i learn how addons work that i could see the code for oqueue?
All WoW addons are "open source" in the meaning that the code is completed visible withen the addons folder. The files are not "compiled" or anything like that prior to being run. They are merely loaded and intepreted by WoW as a script.

This is a product of the addons being written in LUA.

However, even though the code is easily viewable, modification of the code is strictly prohibited, even for personal use. I would take heed to the information listed in the top of the oqueue.lua file in your oQueue folder.

If you have suggestions on improvements / code examples we are more than willing to see them. Some submitted code examples have made it into released version of the addon. However we do not allow / condone the distribution of modified oqueue files.