About AutoBand

AutoBand is an automatic warband manager, it moves and swaps players in order to balance groups. Players are sorted into 4 categories: healers, tanks, mdps and rdps. In automatic mode AutoBand spreads players by their category across all groups evenly (balances group category ratio).

Starting from version 0.40 AutoBand supports warband templates! This allows a player to design custom warband templates for different situations.

AutoBand features an automatic offline kicker, players can specify a timeout value (i.e. how many minutes before kicking an offline player). For the impatient, AutoBand can also kick all offliners at once.

The addon can report all warband players which don't meet one of the following criteria:

• Player is offline
• Player is not in the warband leader's or assistants' zone
• Player doesn't meet the minimum level requirement (e.g. fort defense requires r37)

Usage

• /ab show Show AutoBand GUI
• /ab org Organize the warband with the default template (or automatic if no default template is set)
• /ab kickoff Kick all offline players
• /ab autokick Toggles automatic kick
• /ab info Show current settings

The list of commands is getting too big to post here, type /ab help to get the full list.

Requirements

To be able to organize your warband or kick players using AutoBand you need to be a Warband Leader or Warband Assistant (Not the main assist). As you might know there can be more than one Warband Assistant in a warband.

Remarks

AutoBand can fail if a player which has to be moved or swapped leaves the warband, this cannot be avoided. A similar problem occurs if a player joins a group and takes an empty spot of a future move. If you receive an error message saying that a move/swap could not be performed just apply the template again.

Recent changelog

v0.83

• Tools: small report bug fix

v0.81

• New tab Tools. User can kick or just print all warband players which are not in the leader's or assistants' zone, offline or don't meet the minimum rank requirement
• All kicked players will receive a /tell from AutoBand along with the reason
• The minimap icon can be toggled from the GUI

v0.71

• Fixed <Kick Offline> bug.

v0.70

• Added a new player distribution algorithm. It aggregates categories instead of spreading them across groups (except for healers).
• Added "zone kick" function. All players not in the leader's or assistants' zone can be kicked by pressing a button in the config tab.

v0.61

• Button Delete is renamed to Reset when <Warband> or <Automatic> is selected in the combobox.

v0.60

• New template matching algorithm should produce better results.
• Yes we have a map icon.

v0.50

• GUI improvements: Tabs added!!! You can now configure AutoBand via Config tab.

v0.40

• Players can create custom templates for their warband. You can create a separate group for just tanks and healers, another for pure rdps, your imagination is the limit! Offensive, fort defense, mass suicide, you name it. AutoBand tries to match the template and the remainder (non matched or extras) are sorted evenly according to their category.
• GUI: You can now use /ab show to toggle the GUI and configure templates

v0.25

• Automatic offline kicking implemented: Every 60 seconds AutoBand checks and kicks players which are offline for more than 5 minutes

Dependencies: LibSlash

Comments & suggestions are welcome