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[Plugin] Battle Pet Collector

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Andy West

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Plugin Title: Battle Pet Collector

What does it do?
It will collect the pets on the continent/area you are on. It will move from zone to zone collecting the pets in that zone (it changes the gatherbuddy profile to do this). Once it has caught all the pets you will need to start it again on a different continent, e.g. it won't jump from Kalimdor to Azeroth.

This completes various elements of the collecting achievements (Safari / Tamer / More Leashes).

For the following continents use gather buddy 2:
  • Kalimdor - Except 'Azuremyst Isle' & 'Bloodmyst Isle'.
  • Azeroth - Except 'Ghostlands' & 'Eversong Woods'
  • Outland
  • Northrend
  • Pandaria
  • Deepholm
For the following areas use grind bot:
  • 'Azuremyst Isle' & 'Bloodmyst Isle'.
  • 'Ghostlands' & 'Eversong Woods'
What it doesn't do?
It will not start or execute the pet battle. Use another plugin for that such as PokehBuddy http://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorbuddy-forum/plugins/uncataloged/81355-plugin-pok-buddy-gotto-kill-em-all.html. Note: set it up to capture pets (common level is what I use). When travelling to a new zone pokehbuddy will still engage pets on the way, so it will get there, but it may take a few mins.

It won't collect all of the pets only the low hanging fruit i.e. it won't stay in a zone to try and catch the weather dependent ones.

Because low level pets can be one shotted by your higher level pets you can use my other plugin http://www.thebuddyforum.com/honorbuddy-forum/plugins/uncataloged/96169-plugin-battle-pet-swapper.html#post947726 to use appropriate level pets, set the mode to 'Capture'.

Installation
Download it using an SVN client from: SVN or Zip and put it in your plugins folder.
Ensure the folder is named 'BattlePetCollector'.
Install a pet battler plugin e.g. Pokehbuddy to do the fighting and capturing.
Run it with gatherbuddy in zones which you can fly in, and grindbot where you can't.

Settings
Blacklist owned pets - this will blacklist any pets it sees on the map which are already owned. This only realy works if there are lots of pets tightly packed in an area.
Forfeit - A couple of options to forfeit a battle if there are no blues or if you don't need any of the pets.
Maximum zone minutes - will move on to the next zone if a new pet hasn't been caught for a while. Once all zones have been visited it will loop back around again.

Data
It uses a configuration file called 'Continents.xml' which it reads from the plugin's folder and this folder must be named 'BattlePetCollector'.
This xml file list the pets by zone and the profiles used to find them. The profiles are stored in a profiles folder and have been cobbled together from
all other the place, so thanks to those who wrote them.


Feedback
Always welcome!
 
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In the case of a pet being found in multiple zones, does this capture it from the highest level zone it can be found in?
 
KsuCoolCat said:
In the case of a pet being found in multiple zones, does this capture it from the highest level zone it can be found in?
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No it doesn't, if you want the highest level pets then, you could run the continents in the order of latest expansion first. i.e. Pandaria, Northrend, Outland, then Azeroth and Eastern Kingdoms (Twilight and Hyjal first).

Also you have the option of reordering the zones in the xml file Plugins\BattlePetCollector\Continents.xml by editing it, so that the higher ones are done first for Azeroth and Eastern Kingdoms, or just start it in Twilight/Hyjal and it will do those zones first.

But it is complicated for example 'Scopid' appears in lots of zones: Outland (17-21), Azeroth (15-24), Kalimdor(13-14) with Twilight having the highest, so I think it all depends upon what your goal is as to how far you want to go, mine was to collect them all, not necessarily to use them all for battling.

Scorpids found in:
  • Hellfire Peninsula(Outland)
  • Shadowmoon Valley(Outland)
  • Blade's Edge Mountains(Outland)
  • Shadowmoon Valley(Outland)
  • Thousand Needles(Kalimdor)
  • Twilight Highlands(Azeroth)
  • Burning Steppes(Azeroth
  • Blasted Lands(Azeroth)
 
So far really great! Exactly what I needed,

the only problem is the pets that do not spawn very often.

For example, in ICECROWN, there are these undead dragons that spawn every 24 hours and only some cockroaches around
so basically the bot is gonna go to icecrown and if you already have a rare cockroach in your collection it is going to spend 40min just flying around there

Same goes for Southern barrens and that Giraffe Calf and Cheetah Cub, they spawn once a year literally xD

I think I list of those pets should be put on some special list and if found it should be captured even if poor quality.

:) Thats my 2p
 
I removed Horned Lizard from Badland Mobs. Looks like you can't find it there.
 
Hello. Want to try this, but it wont show on HB. Dunno what i'm doing wrong.
 
One more Thing, it tries to catch Pets which are inside Buildings and Caves. Is this a Plugin Issue (PetBattleCollector and/or Pokehbuddy) or Gatherbuddy related?
 
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Thanks for your super plugin!

I use a German WoW Client. Your plugin detects the pet name "Continents.xml" not because they are in English. Could your plugin please read the PetID?

e.g.

Code: 
<Zone [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='10'[/COLOR] profile='\BattlePetCollector\profiles\[GB2] [5-8] Pet Training Duskwood.xml'>
      <Pet [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='61257'[/COLOR]/> <!--'Black Rat'-->
      <Pet [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='62664'[/COLOR]/> <!--'Chicken'-->
</Zone>

Thx
 
36:17.105 V] Blacklisting F530EFB601331070 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:20.412 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015CA3DA for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:20.682 V] Blacklisting F530F1C201618A09 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:21.992 V] Blacklisting F130EE98009DAD59 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:22.213 V] Blacklisting F530EFB601557807 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:23.574 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015B5F13 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:25.223 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015B7B18 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:27.886 N] [BPC] In zone Azeroth-Silverpine Forest we have 30 minutes left to trap pets.
[09:36:27.909 N] [BPC] 78% of pets on the continent caught (18 to trap)
[09:36:27.910 N] [BPC] Pets to trap in Silverpine Forest >> Blighted Squirrel
[09:36:30.285 V] Blacklisting F530F1C20165540B for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:31.665 V] Blacklisting F530EFB60157C705 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:44.961 V] Blacklisting F530EE980165363A for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:53.240 V] Blacklisting F530EE980155D03E for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:54.600 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015B73AB for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:36:56.200 V] Blacklisting F530F1C201529D85 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:09.021 V] Blacklisting F530EFB9015BBD0F for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:29.662 N] [BPC] In zone Azeroth-Silverpine Forest we have 29 minutes left to trap pets.
[09:37:29.688 N] [BPC] 78% of pets on the continent caught (18 to trap)
[09:37:29.688 N] [BPC] Pets to trap in Silverpine Forest >> Blighted Squirrel
[09:37:35.070 V] Blacklisting F530EFB601331070 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:36.466 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015CA3DA for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:36.718 V] Blacklisting F530F1C201618A09 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:38.117 V] Blacklisting F130EE98009DAD59 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:38.308 V] Blacklisting F530EFB601557807 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:39.703 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015B5F13 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:43.004 V] Blacklisting F530F1C2015B7B18 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[09:37:47.897 V] Blacklisting F530F1C20165540B for 00:01:00 [Type: All]



The Bot flys around and Blacklist every Pet >.<
 
When running this bot on Gatherbuddy in conjunction with Mixed Mode for BgBuddy, when it zones into the battleground, BPC stops the bot. It reports (correctly so) there are no pets to collect in the battleground. This is very inconvenient... can you have a check for when the bot switches botbases, and pauses the plugin until Gatherbuddy kicks back to active again?
 
BPC targets the pet, regardless of terrain. Pokehbuddy spams "interact with target", again, regardless of terrain. (Gatherbuddy is only being used as a vehicle, via the paths from BPC, to move from one hotspot to the next.

Its really nothing that any of them are doing WRONG, per se, and nothing they could really do. I believe that both BPC and Pokebuddy have a blacklist if interact doesn't turn into a pet battle in a given amount of tries. Really, its a problem Blizz has with spawn locations, because even with bot out of the picture, you still have the issue if you did it by hand.

In my opinion, the best thing bot could probably do is try to kill the pet with a targeted or aoe attack if it can't interact with it, forcing the game to initiate a spawn somewhere else. It would depend on the pet type as to if the spawn table is limited to a general area and thus forces a spawn in that general area, or if it is on the whole map spawn timer and generates a spawn event of another mob somewhere else on the map. Regardless, that would resolve, at least temporarily, future attempts to interact with something that can't be interacted with.

lordimac said:
One more Thing, it tries to catch Pets which are inside Buildings and Caves. Is this a Plugin Issue (PetBattleCollector and/or Pokehbuddy) or Gatherbuddy related?
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Thanks for the work and effort :)
Works as stated and works well so far. Working my way around Pandaria atm and then backwards to old content.
I guess my only suggestion would that if you have 3 of said pet already it forfeits the match aswell so that is does the

Code: 
[BPC] Don't need any of these pets, forfeiting!

since we already have 3 of them kinda thing.
+ rep for you

Edit: seems to be a random thing as it does pass now and again, don't worry about it :)
 
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I have a Problem with the Pet fights.

The Bot Blacklists every pet and dont fight against battle Pets >.<

[15:35:18.980 V] Blacklisting F530EFB90002EF4F for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:19.134 V] Blacklisting F530EFB9000717C9 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:19.551 N] [Singular-DEBUG] CurrentTarget set to: Toad.17C9 h=100.0%, maxh=17, d=119.1 yds, box=1.0, player=False, hostile=False
[15:35:25.921 N] [BPC] In zone Azeroth-Swamp of Sorrows we have 1 minutes left to trap pets.
[15:35:25.938 N] [BPC] 89% of pets on the continent caught (9 to trap)
[15:35:25.938 N] [BPC] Pets to trap in Swamp of Sorrows >> Moccasin
[15:35:39.996 V] Blacklisting F530EFB90000F36D for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:40.155 V] Blacklisting F130EFB700008A88 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:40.485 N] [Singular-DEBUG] CurrentTarget set to: Water Snake.8A88 h=100.0%, maxh=17, d=116.1 yds, box=0.5, player=False, hostile=False
[15:35:41.591 V] Blacklisting F130EFB900005335 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:41.748 V] Blacklisting F530EFBA0007DB15 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:42.140 N] [Singular-DEBUG] CurrentTarget set to: Swamp Moth.DB15 h=100.0%, maxh=16, d=99.9 yds, box=0.2, player=False, hostile=False
[15:35:51.209 V] Blacklisting F530EFB90008F4A3 for 00:01:00 [Type: All]
[15:35:51.736 N] [Singular-DEBUG] CurrentTarget set to: Toad.F4A3 h=100.0%, maxh=17, d=114.3 yds, box=1.0, player=False, hostile=False
[15:35:56.026 V] Blacklisting F530EF800008FA8C for 00:01:00 [Type: All]


No idea whether the problem to Battle Pet Collector or another plugin is.
 

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Sumi said:
Thanks for your super plugin!

I use a German WoW Client. Your plugin detects the pet name "Continents.xml" not because they are in English. Could your plugin please read the PetID?

e.g.

Code: 
<Zone [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='10'[/COLOR] profile='\BattlePetCollector\profiles\[GB2] [5-8] Pet Training Duskwood.xml'>
      <Pet [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='61257'[/COLOR]/> <!--'Black Rat'-->
      <Pet [COLOR="#FF0000"]id='62664'[/COLOR]/> <!--'Chicken'-->
</Zone>

Thx
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Hi,

I have updated it to work using ids, I hadn't thought about non english clients!

:)
 
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