Export Chat Live - Help third party apps

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Depedikgon

DDOBuildHub Creator
A setting that will let you live export all the chat into a text file, so that apps on the computer can read live, showing detailed information for the player.

What kind of information?
  1. Combat logs - Currently, you are almost guessing how much you are doing, and for what reason.
    * Am I not critting because my bypass is too low, or because my attacks are grazing?
    * What is my DPS?
    * What precentage of attacks are bypassing my fortification?
    * Is my AC too low?
    * From what did I take the most damage? Do I need more mrr, prr, or something else.
    * What is doing the most damage, is it my attacks? my sneak? My imbue? By how much?
    And the list goes on and on
    Also, I don't think it will increase any kind of bullying about dps and such, as you still only see your own ( that is of course unless you share your stats, but that is the same for what is currently happening, I can just share my gameplay and people see the dps )
  2. Will let you do a bunch of stuff the dungeon helper currently does, but more easily for the community to make, as there is no nitty gritty memory reading, its just a text file, like saving your chest ransacks, your raid timers, which items you have equipped, which items you looted, and more :)
  3. It opens up a way for the developers to give the users more information in the future, whatever we as the community and the developers want to share live with third party apps, could be done from that file ( or those types of files )
There are probably a bunch more stuff that can be done I haven't written or thought of, I also want to add that the chat as is, is already good for this purpose, it already has channels describing what is relevant, and detailed information for each thing that is happening. But since it's so detailed, it's hard to go through line by line as a normal person.

I think more access for this kind of information can only do good, easing the access of information and reducing confusion for players ( for example, instead of guessing if I need more of something, I could just see a clear value ), and help the community thrive.

Hope this reaches and resonates with people, and will help bring this to life :)
 
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Zavina

Zavina

Ms Stabby Stabby
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Depedikgon

DDOBuildHub Creator
It seems he deleted whatever he uploaded before to that dropbox 🙁

And yeah, I have thought about something like that, but there are a bunch of messages being written, so like that post said you will need the chat window to be big to not miss anything, which a lot of people wont like playing like that. And on top of that since its reading the screen it can always not read it correctly and have other issues.

I also wanted to point something out I forgot to add, which is it will let us find bugs more easily, if we know we need to see something in the combat, but it is not coming up on the chat, it is currently kind of hard to see, but if we had something that could parse all of that, it would be much easier.
 
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mikarddo

Well-known member
Many years ago a 3td party program let you just just that. I had great fun parsing.

But SSG clearly does not want us to parse, not even ourselves
 
Slamandrak

Slamandrak

Member
I think this is a great idea! so tired of scrolling through messy combat log. We need an export function ASAP
 
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Depedikgon

DDOBuildHub Creator
mikarddo said:
Many years ago a 3td party program let you just just that. I had great fun parsing.

But SSG clearly does not want us to parse, not even ourselves
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I've heard that as well, though I hope that if we show that we want this to be a thing now, they will reconsider it.

But the chances of it happening without us asking is probably a lot lower :)
 
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