Blizz throttling gear inspections...

#0 - June 25, 2010, 10:44 a.m.

Saw this on MMO Champ just now. Apologies if it has been posted elsewhere.

Q u o t e:
According to WoWAce, Blizz is going to start throttling inspection requests, thus limiting addons like Gearscore's ability to generate on-the-fly GS of a player's equipment.

It’s important to understand that the throttling that is being done isn’t intended to break any functionality of add-ons, but merely to control the amount of queries that are being sent to the server at any given time. (Thus throttling the queries.) The queries will still occur, it just won’t happen as quickly as they currently seem to. You can read the statements that WoW Ace and WoW Interface have up for a bit more information on these changes. We wanted to give mod authors a heads-up prior to making the change so that they could make any adjustments they needed to on their mods.

Instead of throttling these addons why not just stop them from working altogether. Decrease serverload (lag) and remove a mostly unwanted addon at the same time?

Wryxian

#18 - June 25, 2010, 1:49 p.m.

Q u o t e:
Instead of throttling these addons why not just stop them from working altogether. Decrease serverload (lag) and remove a mostly unwanted addon at the same time?

This may or may not be a temporary solution. But whatever the case, our current solution simply means there may be some delay in how long the queries take to bring back data. If the addons are already created in such a way to cope with delays in receiving the data they request, then in theory they should function OK, albeit slower than you may have got used to. Either way, this change may bring some unexpected behaviour in some addons and this is to be expected until addon authors are able to adapt their code to cope with this change.