BaB Forever Changelog

1.0.3

Changed

• Less chat spam when handing out loot. When awards are announced in raid chat, that line is all you get. BaB Forever no longer adds its own message after it, like "Sent ... to ..." or "... goes to ... - send it from the corpse ...". This goes for disenchants and changed awards too. You still get a message if an item couldn't be sent from the corpse. With Announce awards in raid chat turned off, the messages show as before.
• The loot history export no longer has a Votes column. Votes are secret, so the spreadsheet leaves them out.

1.0.2

Changed

• Nothing gets lost when your messages stop reaching the guild. The game sometimes stops passing on a player's BaB Forever messages for a few minutes, for example after a rank change or joining the guild. Until now, BaB Forever told you about it but didn't do anything else. Now:
  • It keeps checking while it lasts, so it knows the moment your messages get through again.
  • Then it catches up with the guild by itself. It asks for anything you missed, and sends again anything you changed while nobody could hear it, like a BiS list or a bank request.
  • It also spots a single message that went missing when the ones after it got through, and sends it again.
  • /bab diag shows how many of your messages never got there, and how many were sent again.

Fixed

• Joining the guild mid-session syncs straight away. If you joined (or rejoined) the guild while logged in, you got no guild data until the next half-hourly check. Now you catch up within a few seconds.

1.0.1

New

• BaB Forever tells you when your messages aren't reaching the guild. Sometimes the game quietly stops passing on a player's addon messages, for example for a few minutes after a rank change. Until now everyone else just looked silent: nobody answered your sync, and your version check called the whole guild out of date. Now:
  • You get one message in chat saying so, and another when it's working again.
  • The versions window shows "Unknown - your check didn't get out" instead of "Wrong version or not installed", and officers can't send update reminders until it's working.
  • A sync that nobody heard says so, instead of blaming the officers online.
  • /bab diag shows whether your messages are getting through, and what your rank is allowed to do in guild chat and officer chat.

Changed

• Roster: members who aren't online now have their name greyed out, so you can see at a glance who's on.
• Promotions and demotions take effect straight away. When your rank changes, BaB Forever tells you if you've become (or stopped being) an officer and updates its windows. A new officer gets the officers' data, like contribution points, within a minute instead of at the next half-hourly sync.
• Settings > Guild warns about officer ranks that can't use officer chat. Contribution points travel over officer chat, so a rank counted as officers without officer chat never gets them. Officers on such a rank are told why they can't give or remove points, instead of giving points nobody else sees.

Fixed

• Officers' updates are no longer held back for a minute after you log in. BaB Forever works out which ranks are officers from the guild's rank settings. If it looked before the game had loaded them, it used the top two ranks for a full minute, so updates from a third-rank officer were held back. It now looks again a few seconds later.
• Officer ranks are read correctly on newer game clients, which give the rank permissions in a different way.
• A newly promoted officer's updates arrive without a false warning. You no longer see "Held back guild updates from..." for someone who has just been promoted. BaB Forever now gets a fresh guild list first, and their updates go through as soon as it shows the new rank.
• Contribution points stay among the officers when syncing. An officer's login sync used to tell the whole guild how many points records there were and when the last one was given (never who got what). That part of the sync now goes over officer chat. Points themselves always went over officer chat.
• Loot council: raid members whose guild rank BaB Forever hadn't loaded yet are now placed on (or off) the council using the guild rank the raid frame shows, instead of being left off.