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Massively Speaking Episode 185: Bree-to-play
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Posted: Sep 1st 2008 1:36PM (Unverified) said
I wonder how communication addons will be handled, some gains to be made there as well if they're server-synchronized (scheduling, banking, etc), though I imagine this would create too much overhead and Blizzard is incorporating their own solutions anyway, which don't have to rely on custom channels. The settings of which, though not strictly ui, would be great to see server-side as well.
As is, the re-setting up of addons is the major pain of a reset or reinstall for me, so hurray for server-side settings!
Posted: Sep 2nd 2008 12:27PM (Unverified) said
From the sounds of it, they are only saving the configuration for things that are built-into their client, "Macros, keybindings and UI settings." (Notice they said "UI settings" and not "custom UI settings." Big difference.) All those things could be saved into a simple text document of a fixed size, so it wouldn't be too difficult for them to keep 1 small file on their servers for every active account. I'd be really surprised if they took it upon themselves to backup all our custom, player-made addons, though.
So, you can log on from anywhere and the account will remember whether or not you had your cloak and hood hidden or not. It will remember how far you have your camera zoomed out, and it will know whether you had player nameplates turned on or player titles enabled. However, you won't have your Omen and Pitbull frames OR the configurations for those extra custom addons unless you backup the SavedVariable files yourself and transfer them to the new computer, as it's always been.