chinajade
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Description:
Similar to the existing <RandomizeHotspots> tag, it would be appreciated if a <StartAtNearestHotspot> tag could be made available. The purpose is to have HB (when the Start button is pressed) do a distance calculation between your current toon's position, and the distance to each hotspot in the subprofile. HB should then proceed to the hotspot that is closest to it, then begin its business.
HB should set its state such that the selected hotspot is 'first', and the hotspots below it will be visited in sequence before revisiting the hotspots above the selected one in the list. This would be ideal for farming profiles, and questing profiles would see a benefit also for hotspots that are spread out.
Justification:
Farming profiles are just collections of hotspots that the toon visits to accumulate the goods. If we have to stop/start HB, then HB will abandon the nearby hotspots, and head back for the first hotspot in the profile's list. This is annoying as most of the time, those nodes have already been cleared, and we waste a bunch of time just moving to the starting position (usually across the zone) and moving back to where we were when the profile was restarted.
Stop/Start actions are sometimes required due to bad interactions in the world, or too many other people in the given area. The new tag would allow manually moving the toon to another location that can satisfy the profile's needs, and have it pick up again at the new location.
This new tag would also help profile writers as when they stop/start HB, the state would in the vicinity of where they are, rather than always going back to the 'start' of the profile. This would speed up the tuning of profiles.
thanks for the consideration!
CJ
Similar to the existing <RandomizeHotspots> tag, it would be appreciated if a <StartAtNearestHotspot> tag could be made available. The purpose is to have HB (when the Start button is pressed) do a distance calculation between your current toon's position, and the distance to each hotspot in the subprofile. HB should then proceed to the hotspot that is closest to it, then begin its business.
HB should set its state such that the selected hotspot is 'first', and the hotspots below it will be visited in sequence before revisiting the hotspots above the selected one in the list. This would be ideal for farming profiles, and questing profiles would see a benefit also for hotspots that are spread out.
Justification:
Farming profiles are just collections of hotspots that the toon visits to accumulate the goods. If we have to stop/start HB, then HB will abandon the nearby hotspots, and head back for the first hotspot in the profile's list. This is annoying as most of the time, those nodes have already been cleared, and we waste a bunch of time just moving to the starting position (usually across the zone) and moving back to where we were when the profile was restarted.
Stop/Start actions are sometimes required due to bad interactions in the world, or too many other people in the given area. The new tag would allow manually moving the toon to another location that can satisfy the profile's needs, and have it pick up again at the new location.
This new tag would also help profile writers as when they stop/start HB, the state would in the vicinity of where they are, rather than always going back to the 'start' of the profile. This would speed up the tuning of profiles.
thanks for the consideration!
CJ
