Roleplay Addons, 8.0, and You – World of Warcraft Forums

zanpyr:

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The 8.0 prepatch is almost here, and there are some major changes to roleplay profile addons that everyone needs to be aware of. So please read this, and pass along the information to those you know that don’t read the forums.
First and foremost: All roleplay profile addons need to be updated for 8.0. New addons will not interact with old addons, and old addons will not work properly in 8.0. MyRolePlay, TotalRP3, and XRP will all have releases ready for 8.0 going live. I’ll update this post with direct links to the official 8.0 releases as they become available. Releases for 8.0 will only work on 8.0. Do not use them with 7.3.

• MyRolePlay: v8.0.1.415: release pending
• Total RP 3: v1.4.0: release pending
• XRP: v1.8.0: release pending

Beyond this update, be aware that all roleplay profile contents will be logged and can be reported to Blizzard for abuse. An issue arose within the past year or so where some individuals were extensively using roleplay profiles to harass others on an ongoing basis, or to publish someone else’s personal details. As such, implementing the reporting capability became a high priority for profile addons, and it has been done in time for 8.0 prepatch launch.

This means you should clean up your profiles now. The guidelines on acceptability are roughly what you’d see in public chat channels. If you wouldn’t say it in /say, don’t put it in your profile. These reports are all reviewed exclusively by Blizzard – addon authors have no power or influence whatsoever, so please don’t hurl abuse at any of them if your profile is ever reported.

That said, I ask that everyone exercise common courtesy when it comes to reporting. Don’t abuse the report system – abuse of the report system to harass someone can result in actions against your account, instead of the person being reported. Furthermore, please use your judgement when it comes to reporting – try to reserve reports for profiles that incite hatred or violence, that harass and target individuals, or that publish personal or harmful details on others. These sorts of profiles, while few and far between in a community like this, are serious enough problems that this needed to be done.

Finally, there may very well be bugs. Please keep an eye out for updates to your roleplay profile addon of choice over the coming days and weeks. If you encounter behaviour you suspect is a bug, please report it to your addon’s author, preferably on the project’s bug/issue tracker.

• MyRolePlay: https://github.com/Ellypse/MyRolePlay/issues
• Total RP 3: https://github.com/Ellypse/Total-RP-3/issues
• XRP: https://github.com/Itarater/XRP/issues

If you’re comfortable with it, please consider running the following command in your WoW game to enable Lua errors:

/console scriptErrors 1

Run the same command with 0 replacing 1 to disable Lua errors. Enabling Lua errors may help find any bugs that need to be fixed, which would be greatly appreciated. While these addons have been extensively tested on beta and PTR, nothing compares to the chaos that is live servers.

Thank you.

I will be updating this post with URLs to downloads as they become available. You can click the link to see the official post, or click here to come to the original version of this post.

Roleplay Addons, 8.0, and You – World of Warcraft Forums