🏆 ScoreMaster Addon – Feature Summary

ScoreMaster is a World of Warcraft addon for creating and managing guild events with participants, timed phases, quiz questions, scoring, rankings, and synchronized player progress.

📅 Event Management

• 🆕 Create and edit guild events.

• 📝 Configure names, descriptions, dates, and times.

• 🔐 Protect administrative functions with an optional event PIN.

• ▶️ Start events and control participant registration.

• 📦 Archive completed events.

• 💾 Create and restore event backups.

• 🗑️ Delete events with confirmation.

• 📋 Maintain an activity log for important changes.

📤 Event Sharing

The Share Event function is available to:

• 👑 The event creator

• 🛡️ The Guild Master

• ⭐ Guild Rank 2 members

The sharing window offers three separate recipient groups:

• 🏰 Guild – invites only online guild members.

• 👥 Party – invites only members of the active normal party.

• ⚔️ Raid – invites only members of the active raid group.

• ❌ Close – closes the sharing window without sending invitations.

The recipient groups are never mixed.

If a Guild Master or Rank 2 member sends an invitation, an accepted invitation is securely forwarded to the original event creator.

🌍 Open-World Popup Protection

• 🌳 Incoming invitation popups appear only in the open world.

• 🏰 Popups are blocked inside dungeons.

• 🐉 Popups are blocked inside raids.

• 🎭 Popups are blocked inside scenarios.

• ⚔️ Popups are blocked inside PvP instances and arenas.

• 🚫 Blocked invitations are automatically declined.

• 🧩 Local quiz and administration windows remain available.

👥 Participant Management

• ➕ Add participants manually.

• ➖ Remove participants.

• 🎯 Assign or subtract points manually.

• 🏆 Display participant rankings.

• ⏱️ Display question-completion timestamps.

• 🔍 Filter participants by synchronization status.

• 🔄 Reset synchronization status without deleting points.

• 📊 Display online, offline, waiting, transferring, completed, declined, error, and timeout states.

🖱️ Participant Question Tooltip

Moving the mouse over a participant’s name displays a detailed question overview.

• ✅ Green – correctly answered

• ❌ Red – incorrectly answered

• ⬜ Gray – not answered

• 💡 Yellow indicator – hint used

• 📂 Results grouped by phase

• 🔢 Questions ordered by question number

• 🌐 Character names with different realm formats are recognized

🔄 Synchronization

ScoreMaster supports creator-controlled, manual, peer-to-peer, and automatic synchronization.

👑 Creator Synchronization

The event creator can:

• 📥 Request the latest progress from all participants.

• 📤 Send the current event data to all participants.

• 🎯 Receive points and answers.

• 🧠 Receive quiz attempts and completion information.

• 🏁 Receive completed-phase information.

• ✅ Send event data without requiring participant confirmation.

👤 Participant Sync Button

Every registered participant receives a Sync button.

• 🔍 Requests current data from other participants.

• 🚫 Excludes the event creator.

• ↔️ Exchanges data in both directions.

• 🔒 Transfers only each player’s own progress.

• 📚 Supports multiple events simultaneously.

• 📴 Detects offline participants.

• ⏳ Uses a 45-second timeout.

⚡ Automatic Synchronization

• 🔑 Starts approximately eight seconds after login.

• 👥 Reacts to party roster changes.

• 🏰 Reacts to guild roster changes.

• 🟢 Synchronizes when another participant comes online.

• ↔️ Updates both the new player and players already online.

• 🧯 Uses a 30-second cooldown to prevent synchronization loops.

• 📂 Runs separate synchronization sessions for different events.

⏳ Event Phases

• ➕ Create multiple phases.

• 📝 Configure phase titles and descriptions.

• 🕒 Configure start and end times.

• 🔐 Protect phase administration with the event PIN.

• 🎲 Randomize question order.

• 🔀 Shuffle answer choices.

• ▶️ Allow participants to play currently active phases.

• 🏁 Allow participants to permanently complete a phase.

❓ Quiz System

Supported question features include:

• 🔘 Multiple-choice questions

• ⌨️ Short-text answers

• 📝 Alternative accepted spellings

• 🔡 Case-insensitive comparison

• ␣ Optional space normalization

• 🔤 Special-character normalization

• 🖼️ Question images

• ⭐ Difficulty levels

• 🏷️ Individual question titles

• 🔢 Custom question numbers

• 🎲 Random question order

• 🔀 Random answer order

⬅️➡️ Quiz Navigation

Participants can navigate through an active quiz:

• ⬅️ Previous – opens the preceding question.

• ➡️ Next – opens the following question.

• 🏁 Finish Phase – permanently completes the phase.

Answers remain saved while navigating:

• 💾 Short-text answers are saved as drafts.

• 🔘 Multiple-choice selections remain stored.

• ✨ Stored selections are highlighted when returning.

• 🛡️ Manual navigation cannot cause automatic progression to skip a question.

🏁 Phase Completion

• ✅ Participants can finish an active phase manually.

• 🚪 The quiz window closes after completion.

• 🔒 The completed phase cannot be reopened by that participant.

• ⏱️ The completion timestamp is stored.

• 🔄 Phase completion is included in participant synchronization.

• 🛡️ Older event data cannot reopen a locally completed phase.

🎯 Scoring

• ✅ Correct answer without a hint – 2 points

• 💡 Correct answer after using a hint – 1 point

• ❌ Incorrect answer – 0 points

• 🔒 A question can award points only once per participant.

• ➕ Manual point adjustments remain available to the event creator.

• 🏆 Rankings update after synchronized participant data is received.

💡 Hint System

• 🎟️ Participants have a limited number of hints per phase.

• ✅ Hint usage is recorded only after confirming the hint popup.

• 🎯 The hint is connected to the specific question.

• 📉 A correct answer for that question awards only 1 point.

• 🔄 Hint information remains preserved during synchronization.

• 📝 The success message clearly indicates reduced scoring.

💾 Backup and Recovery

• 🗃️ Create event backups.

• ♻️ Restore and overwrite an existing event.

• 📋 Restore an event as a separate copy.

• 🗑️ Delete individual backups.

• 🔐 Keep participant data protected during restoration.

• ⏱️ Create automatic backups during important operations.

🛡️ Security and Data Integrity

• 🔐 Administrative functions can be protected by an event PIN.

• 👑 The event creator remains the authoritative event-data source.

• 🛡️ Guild sharing permissions are limited to rank indices 0 and 1.

• 👤 Participant sync transfers only the responding player’s own data.

• 🆔 Peer synchronization requires a matching event.

• ✅ Incoming event data is validated against the recorded creator.

• 💾 Local phase completion cannot be removed by older event data.

• 💡 Local hint usage remains protected during synchronization.

• 🧯 Cooldowns prevent synchronization loops and excessive addon traffic.

  🏆 ScoreMaster Addon – Feature Summary

  ScoreMaster is a World of Warcraft addon for creating and managing guild events with participants, timed phases, quiz questions, scoring, rankings, and synchronized player progress.

  📅 Event Management

  • 🆕 Create and edit guild events.

  • 📝 Configure names, descriptions, dates, and times.

  • 🔐 Protect administrative functions with an optional event PIN.

  • ▶️ Start events and control participant registration.

  • 📦 Archive completed events.

  • 💾 Create and restore event backups.

  • 🗑️ Delete events with confirmation.

  • 📋 Maintain an activity log for important changes.

  📤 Event Sharing

  The Share Event function is available to:

  • 👑 The event creator

  • 🛡️ The Guild Master

  • ⭐ Guild Rank 2 members

  The sharing window offers three separate recipient groups:

  • 🏰 Guild – invites only online guild members.

  • 👥 Party – invites only members of the active normal party.

  • ⚔️ Raid – invites only members of the active raid group.

  • ❌ Close – closes the sharing window without sending invitations.

  The recipient groups are never mixed.

  If a Guild Master or Rank 2 member sends an invitation, an accepted invitation is securely forwarded to the original event creator.

  🌍 Open-World Popup Protection

  • 🌳 Incoming invitation popups appear only in the open world.

  • 🏰 Popups are blocked inside dungeons.

  • 🐉 Popups are blocked inside raids.

  • 🎭 Popups are blocked inside scenarios.

  • ⚔️ Popups are blocked inside PvP instances and arenas.

  • 🚫 Blocked invitations are automatically declined.

  • 🧩 Local quiz and administration windows remain available.

  👥 Participant Management

  • ➕ Add participants manually.

  • ➖ Remove participants.

  • 🎯 Assign or subtract points manually.

  • 🏆 Display participant rankings.

  • ⏱️ Display question-completion timestamps.

  • 🔍 Filter participants by synchronization status.

  • 🔄 Reset synchronization status without deleting points.

  • 📊 Display online, offline, waiting, transferring, completed, declined, error, and timeout states.

  🖱️ Participant Question Tooltip

  Moving the mouse over a participant’s name displays a detailed question overview.

  • ✅ Green – correctly answered

  • ❌ Red – incorrectly answered

  • ⬜ Gray – not answered

  • 💡 Yellow indicator – hint used

  • 📂 Results grouped by phase

  • 🔢 Questions ordered by question number

  • 🌐 Character names with different realm formats are recognized

  🔄 Synchronization

  ScoreMaster supports creator-controlled, manual, peer-to-peer, and automatic synchronization.

  👑 Creator Synchronization

  The event creator can:

  • 📥 Request the latest progress from all participants.

  • 📤 Send the current event data to all participants.

  • 🎯 Receive points and answers.

  • 🧠 Receive quiz attempts and completion information.

  • 🏁 Receive completed-phase information.

  • ✅ Send event data without requiring participant confirmation.

  👤 Participant Sync Button

  Every registered participant receives a Sync button.

  • 🔍 Requests current data from other participants.

  • 🚫 Excludes the event creator.

  • ↔️ Exchanges data in both directions.

  • 🔒 Transfers only each player’s own progress.

  • 📚 Supports multiple events simultaneously.

  • 📴 Detects offline participants.

  • ⏳ Uses a 45-second timeout.

  ⚡ Automatic Synchronization

  • 🔑 Starts approximately eight seconds after login.

  • 👥 Reacts to party roster changes.

  • 🏰 Reacts to guild roster changes.

  • 🟢 Synchronizes when another participant comes online.

  • ↔️ Updates both the new player and players already online.

  • 🧯 Uses a 30-second cooldown to prevent synchronization loops.

  • 📂 Runs separate synchronization sessions for different events.

  ⏳ Event Phases

  • ➕ Create multiple phases.

  • 📝 Configure phase titles and descriptions.

  • 🕒 Configure start and end times.

  • 🔐 Protect phase administration with the event PIN.

  • 🎲 Randomize question order.

  • 🔀 Shuffle answer choices.

  • ▶️ Allow participants to play currently active phases.

  • 🏁 Allow participants to permanently complete a phase.

  ❓ Quiz System

  Supported question features include:

  • 🔘 Multiple-choice questions

  • ⌨️ Short-text answers

  • 📝 Alternative accepted spellings

  • 🔡 Case-insensitive comparison

  • ␣ Optional space normalization

  • 🔤 Special-character normalization

  • 🖼️ Question images

  • ⭐ Difficulty levels

  • 🏷️ Individual question titles

  • 🔢 Custom question numbers

  • 🎲 Random question order

  • 🔀 Random answer order

  ⬅️➡️ Quiz Navigation

  Participants can navigate through an active quiz:

  • ⬅️ Previous – opens the preceding question.

  • ➡️ Next – opens the following question.

  • 🏁 Finish Phase – permanently completes the phase.

  Answers remain saved while navigating:

  • 💾 Short-text answers are saved as drafts.

  • 🔘 Multiple-choice selections remain stored.

  • ✨ Stored selections are highlighted when returning.

  • 🛡️ Manual navigation cannot cause automatic progression to skip a question.

  🏁 Phase Completion

  • ✅ Participants can finish an active phase manually.

  • 🚪 The quiz window closes after completion.

  • 🔒 The completed phase cannot be reopened by that participant.

  • ⏱️ The completion timestamp is stored.

  • 🔄 Phase completion is included in participant synchronization.

  • 🛡️ Older event data cannot reopen a locally completed phase.

  🎯 Scoring

  • ✅ Correct answer without a hint – 2 points

  • 💡 Correct answer after using a hint – 1 point

  • ❌ Incorrect answer – 0 points

  • 🔒 A question can award points only once per participant.

  • ➕ Manual point adjustments remain available to the event creator.

  • 🏆 Rankings update after synchronized participant data is received.

  💡 Hint System

  • 🎟️ Participants have a limited number of hints per phase.

  • ✅ Hint usage is recorded only after confirming the hint popup.

  • 🎯 The hint is connected to the specific question.

  • 📉 A correct answer for that question awards only 1 point.

  • 🔄 Hint information remains preserved during synchronization.

  • 📝 The success message clearly indicates reduced scoring.

  💾 Backup and Recovery

  • 🗃️ Create event backups.

  • ♻️ Restore and overwrite an existing event.

  • 📋 Restore an event as a separate copy.

  • 🗑️ Delete individual backups.

  • 🔐 Keep participant data protected during restoration.

  • ⏱️ Create automatic backups during important operations.

  🛡️ Security and Data Integrity

  • 🔐 Administrative functions can be protected by an event PIN.

  • 👑 The event creator remains the authoritative event-data source.

  • 🛡️ Guild sharing permissions are limited to rank indices 0 and 1.

  • 👤 Participant sync transfers only the responding player’s own data.

  • 🆔 Peer synchronization requires a matching event.

  • ✅ Incoming event data is validated against the recorded creator.

  • 💾 Local phase completion cannot be removed by older event data.

  • 💡 Local hint usage remains protected during synchronization.

  • 🧯 Cooldowns prevent synchronization loops and excessive addon traffic.