I completely agree with the complete and utter lack of documentation.
There are absolutely no clear guides on how to create a profile, what tags exist, how to use them, what they're for, what values to set with them, and how to check for errors.
I made the most BASIC possible 1-12 human guide, which contained only hotspots, venders, a few blackspots, and a few avoidmobs... HB errored, fixed a missing </> string... After that, the profile wouldnt go to hotspots correctly, or would attempt to fight mobs backwards, sideways, upside down, etc..
When other profiles look exactly the same as my profile yet some may work flawlessly for a few levels using the same code and structure it pisses me off.
Theres no documentation on how properly code a plugin, or a profile, or anything. And there is definitely no way of advancing your knowledge when the only person who knows ALL code tags is bossland. And since I have been here he hasnt posted anything but HB revisions with small barely described changelogs. He provided two guides on how to make a profile and meshes... In his meshes profile step 2 simply states "MAKE CIRCLES AND TRIANGLES"..... Where? How? With what program? What code? Where do I save it? What DO? And the profile guide is completely outdated, half the code doesnt work, or half of it doesnt exist anymore it seems.....
Someone with a firm grasp on grinding profiles, and someone with a firm grasp on questing profiles (which there are obviously none) need to collaborate on the forums and tell the community how to make their own shit. Because we're all getting caught using buggy profiles that make us jump into trees for 8 hours while we sleep and get reported 50 times.
Everyone who knows what they're doing is just going to different websites and collaborating with other knowlegable profile makers to make one big public profile... What if I want to make my own? What if I want to make a profile that runs a circle around barrens and collect mining nodes...
I cant do that because theres no clear up to date source that explains how to do so...
This community and program would be so much more effective if people knew wtf they were doing
tl;dr, fucking read.