This IS a rant, and one I am passionate about.

[Altard]

Does shard farming work/can we expect it to work when the game comes up in a few hours and the newest update is rolled out?

I was just casually browsing these forums since HB got dumped on and saw this thread saying almost everything is busted.

I hope not~! With WoW down and Swtor's bot barely working what troubles is this bot facing as well?

 

[exaccuss]

Does shard farming work/can we expect it to work when the game comes up in a few hours and the newest update is rolled out?

I was just casually browsing these forums since HB got dumped on and saw this thread saying almost everything is busted.

I hope not~! With WoW down and Swtor's bot barely working what troubles is this bot facing as well?

I Haven't heard of any reports saying it doesn't work, but i will be trying once the bot is updated again.

 

[Altard]

I Haven't heard of any reports saying it doesn't work, but i will be trying once the bot is updated again.

Not sure if you meant shard farming doesnt work or the bot doesnt work, because in the first paragraph of this thread it says

One update broke the entire flipping bot because it was using something a main bot developer didn't like? /QUOTE]

That was what initially alerted me =P

 

[Blitzx303]

Im going to be completely upfront here and say I dont really even understand the base reason for this rant.

I am just another end user here running 2 instances of rebornbuddy, although i expect to buy more soon.
I am a former user of both honorbuddy & demnonbuddy.

Im looking to understand the best way I can help this project since I can not contribute to the development/coding side due to the lack of knowledge.
Happy to contribute monetarily even to things Ive never used (lisbeth is the one that comes to mind, when i switched to that botbase all it did was crash rb for me. but I donated 50usd because it seems to be a highly popular/useful community project. even though i dont really craft.
Im most interested in a combat routine that could AE tank dungeons with me driving only the movement, I realize single target tanking basically works already with ultima ( which is the other project Ive donated to so far) in fact I use ultima a good bit for combat assist when I play bard and it does well, again if it is single target dps only combat assist.


Learning development is something im working on but currently all I dabble with is perl scripting and some very basic Ios app coding with intentions of picking up more C and C# as time goes on as I work in IT anyway only mainly I do storage & virtualization instead of development.

When I finally get into development I will avoid usage of general terms like "latest" as when I see things like, are you running the latest version? It annoys me to the bitter end.

It never fails that everytime theres a patch someone has =made a thread asking about hoe long after patch does this bot get updated? or "this version of FF is not supported" Ive seen it enough times that it even annoys me.
I cant say that more than a day has gone by without a catchup update.

So Im looking for ideas whats the best way for me to help here, I dont post much as Im not exactly a social person.


the only thing I have done for this game is in profiles like the electrum gathering one, Ive copied it and changed this part

<Items>
<ItemName>Electrum Ore</ItemName>
</Items>
to This:
<Items>
<ItemName>Elarth Shard</ItemName>
</Items>

or add the timeworm map that exists in this place as well. So that I can load up a 2nd profile when the inventory gets full and keep on gathering. Im willing to bet theres a way to make it gather electrum til inventory is full and then get earth shard another way but I couldnt figure it out but making a 2nd profile to load by hand worked for me so I called it good enough. I do have things like the pluralsight/udemy/etc courses on c# that Im using to learn with but many times my day job gets in the way. Learning the development side of things is going to be very slow moving.
So currently is the right thing for me to do is continue contributing to the plugins & such via the paypal donate thing, I realize "right" is a very debatable word in this situation. I am talking about in the sense of contributing to this project and helping it be successful in the future.

thank you for listening.


edit: many typos since I have to type with my right hand only.

Pretty much the basis for the rant is....

Lets say I want you to make a car? Have you ever created a car? Probably not.

So I'll give you a basic know how to do so.

Oh? You made this part wrong and it's done poorly.

Well...can you show me how to create this part? No, you should already know how to do it perfectly with the assets I've given you.

That's how I take it at least.

 

[Miter]

Sorry to but in here, but I notice there is a lot of discussion here about some update and profiles breaking... would this not be a good time to purchase RebornBuddy? I've used honorbuddy for a long time but have just started playing FFXIV seriously again.

Despite the bitching, the bot is solid and I'd suggest it. Everything will be working again shortly, sometimes developers need to vent. I'm sure most of the community developers would rather be here regardless of the situation because the alternative is writing in lua.

 

[Neverdyne]

Yeah, I will never write in LUA even if my life depended on it. For all the newcomers, RB is doing fine. Two days ago an update broke many of the community developed projects, but we're working on them to accommodate for the changes. It's funny, because right when a ban wave hits WoW and people are looking into other games like this one, an update breaks most plugins. It's just bad timing, most things should get updated soon enough.

 

[newb23]

Not sure if you meant shard farming doesnt work or the bot doesnt work, because in the first paragraph of this thread it says

One update broke the entire flipping bot because it was using something a main bot developer didn't like?

That was what initially alerted me =P

That post was from a very, very rough day, and was a culmination of multiple weeks of semi-internal development issues that had been brewing. Since making that post, we, (the community devs) have seen significant improvement, and have happily updated most of the most commonly, currently used plugins. It will always be a work in progress, but we're making it. And as was said earlier in the thread, yes, the bot is working, and working like it should be for the most part. There will just be growing pains from time to time, and that was one of those times.

Welcome to the community if you decide to jump in, and we look forward to seeing you around!