2.01
Updated (and tested) for WotLK. The event scheduling algorithm is now more efficient.
The Battleground General pane will now hide during combat. Specifically, it will hide when an enemy player (not a pet) causes you normal or spell damage. So it won’t hide if you’re riding through AV and are attacked by NPCs such as harpies, frostwolves, archers etc. To enable or disable this feature, type:
/bgg hidecombat on|off
2.0
Battleground General has come to Alterac Valley! It works the same as before in Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin. Out of necessity the interface is different in AV.
Instead of individual players, the frames now represent areas. Mousing over the frames will show you which players on your team are in that area, and which enemies have been sighted there. If you have selected any players it will list them by their area.
You can left- and right-click on the frame do select and deselect players:
Left-Click: Select one player
Right-Click: Deselect one player
Shift-Left-Click: Select all players in that area
Shift-Right-Click: Deselect all players in that area
Left-Clicking three times will select three players from a particular area. They will be the three closest players to each other so that they can group up easily (BGG selects the player with the shortest total distance to every other player in the area- processor intensive but it only happens when you mouseover, so it’s unlikely to cause problems in combat).
The eight buttons at the top are for selecting and deselecting raid groups. For example with button 1:
Left-Click: Select Group 1
Shift-Left-Click: Add members of Group 1 to selection
Alt-Left-Click: Remove members of Group 1 from selection
Right-Click: Clear selection
Mousing over the buttons with the Alt key down will remind you of these options.
All communications are done with the /bgw command. Players on your Do Not Whisper list will never be selected. There is a shortcut for selecting groups:
/bgg select 34
...will select members of Groups 3 and 4. So the following macro:
/bgg select 57
/bgw protect bal
...will instruct members of Groups 5 & 7 to help Balinda.
