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  • Created 1/16/2007 3:09:53 PM
  • Updated 12/24/2010 4:57:47 AM
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About Nauticus

Tracks the precise arrival & departure schedules of boats and Zeppelins around Azeroth and displays them on the Mini-Map and World Map in real-time.

For better accuracy, get your friends and guild mates to install Nauticus as well.

Official Homepage: drool.me.uk/naut

Click here to report an issue or request a new feature
(Please do not post in the comments section to report bugs)

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Please read the entire addon description below - especially the Frequently Asked Questions section! You can also comment on the WowAce.com page.

What is Nauticus?

Nauticus tracks the precise arrival & departure schedules of boats and Zeppelins around Azeroth and displays them on the Mini-Map and World Map in real-time.

Look up arrival & departure schedules for any transport and know exactly when you need to be there. Less time waiting on platforms, more time at the AH or mailbox, less duelling rogues or shamies who want you to take a seat while they crit you... 'for fun'...

To track a transport requires that you, or someone else running the addon, has taken the route sometime earlier. Nauticus uses hidden addon-to-addon communications to synchronise and share up-to-date schedules between players automatically.

Important: This addon works best the more players on your realm also using the addon. So get your friends and guild mates to install Nauticus - the more the merrier! Even if you don't use transports because you're only ever in Outland, you can help store and transmit up-to-date data to everyone that needs it. Nauticus performs well in the background and you can disable the map icons for zero interference.

Main Features

  • Plots all (16) Horde, Alliance and neutral transports on the World Map in real time
    • Displays the most relevant transports on the Mini-Map, based on your current zone
    • Map icons rotate to show their actual direction at any point in time
    • Shows arrival or departure schedule for each platform when you mouse-over any map icon
  • Discovers schedule by travelling a route in either direction
    • Calculates future schedules, based on precisely measured round-trip cycles
  • Automatically share schedules with other users of the addon on your realm
    • Differential delayed updates keep communication bandwidth low even with many users (O(1))
    • Ranks quality of data based on number of reboots and swaps, always picking the best
  • Remember schedule data even after computer reboot (see FAQ for caveat)
  • Select any transport for viewing in any LibDataBroker (LDB) display addon.†
    • Shows the next arrival or departure event in the button text.
    • Button icon changes colour to indicate status (yellow = docked, red = about to depart, green = in transit)
    • Auto-selects nearest transport when standing at a platform (optional)
    • Alt-click button to manually set audio alarm to warn you before next departure
  • Less spam: Filter ship crew talk and Zeppelin Master yells from your chat window (optional)

† If you're new to Broker plugins, they're a bit like FuBar plugins but displayed how you want. Try StatBlockCore, Button Bin or Fortress for display addons and see here for more plugins. Titan has LDB support built-in. FuBar requires the lightweight bridge addon Broker2FuBar (not to be confused with FuBar2Broker, which does the opposite).

Usage

Find out the status of a transport via World Map/Mini-Map or via an LDB button display.

For options, type /nauticus or /naut in the command line.

To Do

  • Auto pop-up tooltip and/or sound arrival/departure alarm (i.e. Zeppelin horn or boats bell) when at platform

Note: Nauticus is always in continual development. You should try to keep your version up-to-date, not least because the addon interacts with other users and they rely on good quality data from you. You'll be notified upon login when there's a new version available, after other users are seen using a later version. For this reason, please DON'T redistribute or include in a compilation pack!

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. I just installed Nauticus, why don't I see any schedules?
A player with the addon needs to travel on the boat/Zeppelin/turtle before the schedules come up. This could be you or someone else who may have taken the transport earlier. The most recent schedules are synchronised between other players running the addon, so after a short while the data will most likely be available to you before you take any transport. Get as many of your friends and guild mates to install Nauticus - the more the merrier.

Q. How does Nauticus get the schedules?
There are no Blizzard-provided API methods to directly determine the transport schedule. Thus we do it indirectly by getting player coords and comparing them to a known set of coords along the route. When the player 'triggers' these coords, we know the cycle and can subsequently work out future schedules at any point in time.

Q. How accurate is it?
Round-trip cycles have been calculated to one microsecond (six decimal places) over a 1-2 week period. This is significantly better resolution than provided by the API, which only measures in milliseconds (three decimal places). Baring slight adjustments in Blizzard's clocks etc., 99.9% of the time there should be no observable drift of more than a second or two.

Q. Why are some of my schedules wrong?
Rarely, schedules can become corrupted due to changes in your computer's system clock that may occur between WoW sessions/reboots. This can also be caused by dodgy CMOS batteries and some over-clocked systems. Otherwise, Nauticus can normally keep track of schedules between reboots. Additionally, while realm servers appear to keep very precise clocks for running the transports and to generate their positions, from time to time they may re-synchronise these clocks, sending the data slightly out of wack. Nauticus should quickly fix the schedules, as it will gather more recent and better quality data from other users or from your own travels.

Q. Doesn't weekly maintenance ruin the schedules?
It doesn't! We can only assume how Blizzard calculates transport schedules and their positions but it's probably based on the realm server's system clock, which is likely synchronised with a centralised ntp time server at each data centre. You can verify this by visiting another realm (at least, in the same geographical location - e.g. EU, US Eastern) to observe exactly the same schedules. This is another way to obtain accurate schedule data - from other realms. If there is one, an epoch is presently unknown - if any maths wiz can manage to reverse engineer it (simultaneous equations?), do let me know!

Q. Why does Nauticus have to use a chat channel?
Blizzard's SendAddonMessage() API is effectively limited to guild and raid addon communication, which is insufficient to get data spread furtherest across your realm. For maximum availability and accuracy of schedules, we need to use a chat channel. You shouldn't be concerned if you have the channel slot spare - we're extra careful not to mess up channel numbers.

Q. Where did the GUI disappear to?
The red window was removed in favour of map icons with tooltips. It became difficulty to maintain the rather clunky code necessary to provide this functionality and consumed more resources than desirable. Plus it didn't cater for other languages very well due to its fixed size. Native FuBar support was removed in favour of LibDataBroker (Broker/LDB) displays. Broker allows ''you'' to choose your method of displaying plugins. The lightweight bridge addon Broker2FuBar returns the old FuBar functionality, as well as allowing you to put it as a Mini-Map button (even if you don't use FuBar).

Q. Can you add the Deeprun Tram?
Unfortunately no, since it's treated as an instance and we can't properly track player coords within instances.

Nauticus is a complete rewrite of ZeppelinMaster which was originally conceived by Sammysnake. He runs a DKP hosting service online @ dkphost.net.

v4.0.5
- FIX: missing world map icons! (whoops)

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  • Posted 5/1/2011 1:43:01 AM #155
    Veyilla
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    • Posts: 29
    Comes to it an Update?
    I like this addon and i will it not miss,it works not more in 4.1
  • Posted 6/24/2011 1:52:06 AM #156
    Daedala
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    It "works" if you enable "Load out of date AddOns" in WoW. I say "works", though, because not everyone knows that, or wants to allow out of date addons to run, and the usefulness of this addon depends entirely on how many people are running it. If not enough people on your server use it, it becomes useless. Since 4.1, usage on my server has declined to the point where I uninstalled it myself -- there was just no point to it. I keep checking, hoping it gets updated and people will start running it again, but for now it's pretty pointless to install, at least on my server...
  • Posted 12/22/2010 11:05:11 AM #148
    Enigma_TL
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    In Org I am showing no routes at all do we have to ride the zepplins to get the routes to show? Even made sure show all and other options were turned off. Other than that no errors so far.
  • Posted 12/22/2010 5:17:53 PM #149
    Drool
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    Yes, you have to ride the zeps - it's all explained in the handy description above. ;)
  • Posted 12/23/2010 10:07:51 AM #150
    Enigma_TL
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    I don't mean the scheduals to show I mean in Org it shows NO transporta as if I was in say Ashenveil or another "no transport" zone. Also even after riding the zepplins they don't show on the MMap or world map. I deleted all the savevar files and set it to show transports in the zone and still nothing. If I turn it to show all transports and manualy pick one then ride it I get a timer but if I leave it for naut to show it is always none.
  • Posted 12/23/2010 7:26:31 PM #152
    Drool
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    Okay, found a small bug relating to Orgrimmar routes not showing in the right-click menu, but it shouldn't affect the map icons or the data pertaining to them. New version released.
  • Posted 12/23/2010 6:20:22 PM #151
    Drool
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    Still don't quite understand what you mean by "showing no transports / routes". Are you just referring to the map icons or something else?

    You don't need to select anything for it to pick up schedules / icons, but you MUST complete a journey from one platform to another. In Orgrimmar, it won't immediately show until you reach the edge and zone to Tirisfal, Grom'gol etc.. If you ride it back to Orgrimmar again, it should definitely show up.

    But don't delete the save vars as that isn't gonna help you - you're just destroying the schedule data and you'll need to travel again.

    Do you use any other addons, specifically map-related?
  • Posted 12/23/2010 8:55:36 PM #153
    86d
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    its showing up on my mini map but not my world map.
    I use sexymap (mini map ui mod)
    but no global map addons like atlas are turned on atm
  • Posted 12/24/2010 3:01:21 AM #154
    Drool
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    Whoops, fixed! Teaches me to try fix non-broken things at 3am in the morning.
  • Posted 11/26/2010 10:33:16 AM #145
    Xemeten
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    a humble suggestion too drool, add something in for the deeprun tram :)
  • Posted 11/30/2010 9:31:51 PM #146
    86d
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    maybe an option to just click when the tram stars and stops? to set our own timer?
  • Posted 11/5/2010 10:55:50 AM #143
    CobraA1
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    What are your plans for Cataclysm? It looks like most of the routes will be changing.
  • Posted 11/5/2010 7:46:19 PM #144
    Drool
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    Yup, I'll have to recalibrate everything and add all the new routes - easy enough to do, but very time consuming. :)
  • Posted 11/5/2010 9:02:14 AM #142
    Drool
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    New version 4.0.1 out, fixing all the errors and the broken UC GG route. If you set Curse Client to alpha release type, best to set it back to release or beta for future (it should still down the latest release).
  • Posted 10/14/2010 1:32:37 PM #141
    Drool
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    A new revision 150 has been released as alpha, with fixes to all the obvious errors I could find so far. To download, set the addon to alpha release type in Curse Client. There's at least one boat (Undercity Grom'gol) out of sync, which I'll get around to re-plotting in the next release, and I intend to check it all over for a proper final release type in a next few days.
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