EasyWarCrates

EasyWarCrates reads a War Supply Crate transport while it is still in the air, works out which drop point it is flying to, and puts a pin there before the crate is released.

Built for raids that farm crates on a rotation, and built around one idea: the addon should tell you what it actually knows, and say so when it does not.

Predicting the drop

As a transport appears, EasyWarCrates fits its heading across successive sightings and matches it against a catalogue of known drop points for that zone. When one candidate clears the others, it commits, drops a map pin and starts the clock.

Measured against where crates actually landed, the call lands a median of about 0.1% of the map from the real spot, and usually settles within five samples of the transport appearing. When two drop points sit on the same line, it says so and names both rather than guessing.

Two questions, two columns

Every zone row answers the two things a farmer is deciding between:

• plane - when the transport will appear
• drop - when the crate will be on the ground and lootable

Both rest on measurements taken on your own client, not on numbers shipped with the addon. Cycle lengths, parachute times and the bias in the release estimate are all learned from what you see, and each is reported with how far out it could be.

It knows about shards

This is the one that wastes raids. A crate timer belongs to a copy of a zone, and flying somewhere hands you a copy you did not choose. A raid crosses the map, waits, and no transport comes - because the crate is there, its cycle is simply in another phase.

EasyWarCrates tracks which shard each timer was learned on and which one you are standing in. A countdown for a different copy is shown blank rather than confidently wrong, and the row says new shard instead of counting down to nothing.

A shard you have stood in before is remembered for a week, so an evening's break does not leave the addon blind in zones it had already learned.

It listens to your raid, whatever they run

Sightings from other players are picked up and used, and not only from people running this addon. EasyWarCrates reads the broadcasts of Hated Crate Tracker, WarCrateTracker and CrateTrackerZK as well, so one raider with any of them fills in zones nobody here can see.

Everything received is ranked below what you saw yourself, and a row that came from somebody else says who reported it and through which addon, because their report is about the copy of the zone they are in.

Left-clicking a row posts it to your group, with a clickable waypoint. The tooltip names the channel the click will use before you click it.

Spectral Battle Chests

The Spectral Battle Chest in Slayer's Rise is marked on that zone's row as it appears, with its coordinates and how long it has been lying there. It is not a crate, it arrives without a transport, and it only lasts a minute or two - so it is announced with its position rather than a countdown.

Commands

What it will not do

It will not show a countdown it cannot stand behind. A cycle that has not been measured here says so. A shard it has not seen says so. A parachute time it has only one reading for is reported as one reading, not as a fact. Where a figure has no source, the addon says whose guess it is.

It does not speak in your raid unless you tell it to. Announcing is off by default, and the automatic announcement also requires you to be leading or assisting - leading a raid is not consent to have an addon talk in its chat.

Installing

Drop the folder into Interface/AddOns or use your addon manager. No configuration is needed; the window fills as you play, and the empty state says what will fill it.

Source and issue tracker: github.com/dazmagar/EasyWarCrates - MIT licensed.