Pet Battle Studio

[Studio60]

How is it going?

Good question and I am happy to answer. In order to create all the profiles I needed tons of spawn points with data about what pets the spawns team up with. I wrote a small plugin for my beta testers and they are now traveling through Azeroth starting literally thousands of pet battles. So far they have captured over 15.000 spawn points in the game and 17 zones are left to be covered.

I myself am focussing on coding of course. I noticed after a while that storing all the data for pets in XML files is not very future-proof. Initialization of the plugin took way too long and I had to come up with a different solution. I decided to go with a database that I am currently filling with tons of data and that will be update independently from the store plugin so that I can fix data issues without waiting for store approval. This database will be updated on demand so the whole Studio Companion is becoming a lot faster now. We still have quite a way to go and already poured over 1500 man hours into the project. I have also decided to add a few of the simpler quest rewards pets to the profile (for example the mechanical chicken from the OOX quests). There were a lot of challenges to overcome since the BuddyStore does not allow products to have any compiled dependencies and even though I found an open source database wrapper, I still had to add tons of code to get it into shape and into a place where it worked smoothly when run from the store.

The beta testers I have on board so far are a huge help and very diligent in making this a thing of pure awesomeness.

 

[Punch3r]

Good question and I am happy to answer. In order to create all the profiles I needed tons of spawn points with data about what pets the spawns team up with. I wrote a small plugin for my beta testers and they are now traveling through Azeroth starting literally thousands of pet battles. So far they have captured over 15.000 spawn points in the game and 17 zones are left to be covered.

I myself am focussing on coding of course. I noticed after a while that storing all the data for pets in XML files is not very future-proof. Initialization of the plugin took way too long and I had to come up with a different solution. I decided to go with a database that I am currently filling with tons of data and that will be update independently from the store plugin so that I can fix data issues without waiting for store approval. This database will be updated on demand so the whole Studio Companion is becoming a lot faster now. We still have quite a way to go and already poured over 1500 man hours into the project. I have also decided to add a few of the simpler quest rewards pets to the profile (for example the mechanical chicken from the OOX quests). There were a lot of challenges to overcome since the BuddyStore does not allow products to have any compiled dependencies and even though I found an open source database wrapper, I still had to add tons of code to get it into shape and into a place where it worked smoothly when run from the store.

The beta testers I have on board so far are a huge help and very diligent in making this a thing of pure awesomeness.

Thanks for the insight! I really do appreciate it. Its very interesting to hear it from a more (yet only slightly I guess) technical view.
But it sounds very good that you are solving issues and it also sounds like you are making good progress on it!
I really hope it will work out and that you are able to provide a working product soon.

I always loved battle pets, honestly, especially the collecting itself. But it got boring or rather annoying over time, when it was a pain
to level pets to 25 or spend gold to buy them, which didnt give you that feeling when leveling and obtaining them yourself.

Nice to hear about the quests. Any chance that you will make a "addon" for farming / capturing pets somehow? Like farming rare open world spawns.
There are profiles, but few, and they are either bad or also risky. If you would somehow implement it into the profile that it would farm specific rare spawns
and swap the location to another spawn and make it look legit.. that would be really awesome and I would gladly pay extra for that.

I just noticed your location is Germany? I won't write German here in the thread, I guess its not nice towards the non-german users.

Sorry for the little longer text, I hope you find time to read it still. Its a bad habit of mine, cant make short stories ;-P

 

[Studio60]

Thanks for the insight! I really do appreciate it. Its very interesting to hear it from a more (yet only slightly I guess) technical view.
But it sounds very good that you are solving issues and it also sounds like you are making good progress on it!
I really hope it will work out and that you are able to provide a working product soon.

I always loved battle pets, honestly, especially the collecting itself. But it got boring or rather annoying over time, when it was a pain
to level pets to 25 or spend gold to buy them, which didnt give you that feeling when leveling and obtaining them yourself.

Nice to hear about the quests. Any chance that you will make a "addon" for farming / capturing pets somehow? Like farming rare open world spawns.
There are profiles, but few, and they are either bad or also risky. If you would somehow implement it into the profile that it would farm specific rare spawns
and swap the location to another spawn and make it look legit.. that would be really awesome and I would gladly pay extra for that.

I just noticed your location is Germany? I won't write German here in the thread, I guess its not nice towards the non-german users.

Sorry for the little longer text, I hope you find time to read it still. Its a bad habit of mine, cant make short stories ;-P

I am usually the same. My old guild dreaded my wall-of-text forum posts.

Capturing is obviously going to be a part of the product. I also will probably provide profiles for those rares that do drop pets. There are a few for example on the Timeless Isle. I might even look into realmhopping options for those. Other pet rare spawns like the Unborn Val'kyr will obviously be part of the mix too. I will provide an overview of the content soon.

PS: Yes, I am from Germany, but on the forums I stick to english.

 

[Punch3r]

I am usually the same. My old guild dreaded my wall-of-text forum posts.

Capturing is obviously going to be a part of the product. I also will probably provide profiles for those rares that do drop pets. There are a few for example on the Timeless Isle. I might even look into realmhopping options for those. Other pet rare spawns like the Unborn Val'kyr will obviously be part of the mix too. I will provide an overview of the content soon.

PS: Yes, I am from Germany, but on the forums I stick to english.

What a nice coincidence ^^ I know that feeling of "TL;DR" just too well.

That sounds very nice. Yes the Valkyre is for example one of the pets I meant. Great that there will be even some farming profiles for the (rare) drops.
I am a little broke atm / saving some money, but when im "fluid" again I will also buy your raid profiles to farm the pets and support you

I just hope I wont get banned too soon.. not gonna start over another time.

OK cool, no problem. I am not one of those anti-english Germans :-D

 

[Studio60]

What a nice coincidence ^^ I know that feeling of "TL;DR" just too well.

That sounds very nice. Yes the Valkyre is for example one of the pets I meant. Great that there will be even some farming profiles for the (rare) drops.
I am a little broke atm / saving some money, but when im "fluid" again I will also buy your raid profiles to farm the pets and support you

I just hope I wont get banned too soon.. not gonna start over another time.

OK cool, no problem. I am not one of those anti-english Germans :-D

The threat of a banwave is constant. We never know what Blizzard has in store and they did become more aggressive in their attempt to get rid of us. But I don't intend to give up.

I have big plans for Honorbuddy and I just love figuring out ways to automate stuff in a nice fashion. Thank you for being a fan.

 

[Punch3r]

The threat of a banwave is constant. We never know what Blizzard has in store and they did become more aggressive in their attempt to get rid of us. But I don't intend to give up.

I have big plans for Honorbuddy and I just love figuring out ways to automate stuff in a nice fashion. Thank you for being a fan.

Hey there again ^^

How are you doing. Any news on the profile?

I am actually here to ask another question about the pack.
Currenctly gearing up on my new warlock in the jungle, when I noticed the legendary battle pets there.
Will it be possible to farm all the legendary pets in tanaan every day? Ofc in case you have the needed team pets.

Please be honest, do you think the profiles will be working / released in the next 4 weeks roughly? I just ask, so I wont get too excited and then wait forever :-0

 

[Studio60]

Hey there again ^^

How are you doing. Any news on the profile?

I am actually here to ask another question about the pack.
Currenctly gearing up on my new warlock in the jungle, when I noticed the legendary battle pets there.
Will it be possible to farm all the legendary pets in tanaan every day? Ofc in case you have the needed team pets.

Please be honest, do you think the profiles will be working / released in the next 4 weeks roughly? I just ask, so I wont get too excited and then wait forever :-0

Of course profiles for the Tanaan pets will be included. You can set them up in the Studio Planner if you want to farm them. I guess 4 weeks is also a reasonable timeframe. I want to see them released before the next Pet Battle event at the latest and iirc that should be the last week of May.

 

[Punch3r]

Of course profiles for the Tanaan pets will be included. You can set them up in the Studio Planner if you want to farm them. I guess 4 weeks is also a reasonable timeframe. I want to see them released before the next Pet Battle event at the latest and iirc that should be the last week of May.

Sounds great. I hope im not banned by the time you release

That is the exact reason why I asked, with the bonus event end of may, and also the little girl "Squirt" visiting your garrison, when the event is on, in combination with your profile,
you could farm sooo many lv. 25 pets. You just need the enchanted broom + pudge pet tactic and you are able to level every random lv. 1 pet on her. Usually you get like 2k roughly, so with item + event
you have an easy 6.5-8k xp per defeat.

Greetings

 

[minastilith]

Good luck and really appreciate for your hard work! Hope to see your achieve soon!

 

[Punch3r]

I hope the silence means nothing bad?

 

[Studio60]

I hope the silence means nothing bad?

Of course not. My testers are happy, they got their hands on it and right now things are getting done pretty quickly.

It just means I am really busy at work.

 

[Punch3r]

Of course not. My testers are happy, they got their hands on it and right now things are getting done pretty quickly.

It just means I am really busy at work.

Glad to hear that

 

[drdeath]

i have to say this is the best pet bot i have used works great easy to use even for a person like me thats not geart at bots this is one for all to keep watching and get as soon as it out

 

[Punch3r]

i have to say this is the best pet bot i have used works great easy to use even for a person like me thats not geart at bots this is one for all to keep watching and get as soon as it out

I really hope you are right! Was often disappointed with HB or profiles, but since Studio60 is german and has nice raid profiles, if anyone can do it, its them

 

[ducky]

im looking forward to try this one, havnt bought a single product yet, but tried some of them since i just started again. and looking forward to check if thisone is purchable aswell

 

[Studio60]

im looking forward to try this one, havnt bought a single product yet, but tried some of them since i just started again. and looking forward to check if thisone is purchable aswell

I know it sounds very bold, but it will blow anything out of the water you have ever seen in regards to pet battle botting.

 

[Erdemozy]

I am happy that I am able to test this project and to be honest it is 'much' better then I expected. It is really easy to use even it has so many options available. It is getting better and better each passing day with the updates. Congrats

 

[Punch3r]

The XP-Event is getting closer. I am already preparing by buying / capturing Level 1 pets so I just have to bump up my pets once your profiles and the event start

Probably gonna get your Retro Raid bundle too, to get some extra pets, once I got 1 more level 100 who can farm them.

 

[Studio60]

The XP-Event is getting closer. I am already preparing by buying / capturing Level 1 pets so I just have to bump up my pets once your profiles and the event start

Probably gonna get your Retro Raid bundle too, to get some extra pets, once I got 1 more level 100 who can farm them.

I am really stressed out about the upcoming event. It might be a close call. But I can't make it, feel free to hit me up with a PM. I do have one more slot for a beta tester if you're up for it.

 

[Punch3r]

I am really stressed out about the upcoming event. It might be a close call. But I can't make it, feel free to hit me up with a PM. I do have one more slot for a beta tester if you're up for it.

Ah damn, that would be too bad. Sure, I would gladly help you out in case you won't make it in time.