Hello everyone, for a while now I have and gone, lurking, and my main meddling forum was another years ago. Originally, the Guild Wars by mega thread seemed like a good idea, but then another one came and another followed with similar questions and helpful support from the community with redirecting to where files were uploaded in such.
This same problem remains however throughout and which is consistency. This success of a thread really is concentrated in the original post, it is the first thing you see and where you expect to find information without having to go on a search party/scavenger hunt for what you're looking for. If the original post is not maintained, then the entire thread becomes a zombie and is more or less necro'd throughout to some degree.
The next big issue is even when the files are uploaded, archive, folder, and file name is not being updated nor is there a consistent stamp within the main bot file or any core supporting files critical to the bot such as those within Omni. A system I propose is <one-word bot descriptor (i.e. Kilroy)> [<Month> <Year>] so the title of the folder (.ZIP to match), main bot file, stamp within main bot script and other descriptors such as printing text to log which will all signify "Kilroy [January 1969]", minus the quotations. A major hurdle comes with GWA as well, being that certain versions are modified for the bot bundled together, so I tend to leave those alone besides a possible note within the GWA script.
My last piece I want to say is that this is a good community and has a great system to scan files with monumental trusting system. Some may ask why not just do this through Discord? The logistics of that, relying on Discord as a backup, and the loss of ad revenue would make no sense. This is not a perfect system, but without the author or a person with power to edit the original post then the contents of bots up-to-date both from any other threads and posted within become out-of-date, plus confusing to deal with due to dating.
I have cleaned up the files, folders, and archives to give you an example of my naming scheme. Will make a great deal of effort to apply this to any other bots I come across and keep the current selection up to date while trying to include every bot available to the Elite PvPers community. Thanks and may the war of the guild be within you :bandit:
This same problem remains however throughout and which is consistency. This success of a thread really is concentrated in the original post, it is the first thing you see and where you expect to find information without having to go on a search party/scavenger hunt for what you're looking for. If the original post is not maintained, then the entire thread becomes a zombie and is more or less necro'd throughout to some degree.
The next big issue is even when the files are uploaded, archive, folder, and file name is not being updated nor is there a consistent stamp within the main bot file or any core supporting files critical to the bot such as those within Omni. A system I propose is <one-word bot descriptor (i.e. Kilroy)> [<Month> <Year>] so the title of the folder (.ZIP to match), main bot file, stamp within main bot script and other descriptors such as printing text to log which will all signify "Kilroy [January 1969]", minus the quotations. A major hurdle comes with GWA as well, being that certain versions are modified for the bot bundled together, so I tend to leave those alone besides a possible note within the GWA script.
My last piece I want to say is that this is a good community and has a great system to scan files with monumental trusting system. Some may ask why not just do this through Discord? The logistics of that, relying on Discord as a backup, and the loss of ad revenue would make no sense. This is not a perfect system, but without the author or a person with power to edit the original post then the contents of bots up-to-date both from any other threads and posted within become out-of-date, plus confusing to deal with due to dating.
I have cleaned up the files, folders, and archives to give you an example of my naming scheme. Will make a great deal of effort to apply this to any other bots I come across and keep the current selection up to date while trying to include every bot available to the Elite PvPers community. Thanks and may the war of the guild be within you :bandit:
