Friday, September 16, 2016

About Me, Route File, and Giveaway Information Part 1

Expect changes and updates as I am still trying to find things to put here that my fellow gold farmers what to know.
I have added About me Part 2 into this post.

Help out my big sister <3
Things That Could Change Your Outcome From My Routes
Are there a lot of people playing at the time you are farming?
Is there a world quest up in parts of my routes?
Is what you are farming in high demand?
Are you playing on a high populated server?
Are you using Stonehide Leather Bardings, Leystone Hoofplates, Demonsteel Stirrups, Darkmoon Firewater, Sky Golem, and or Herbalism/ mining glove enchant?
Is anyone else following or closely following the route you choose?

     So please, keep these in mind before leaving remarks such as clickbait, and any other non-helpful/ slander that could devalue the video. If I don't see that it is fit to be on my channel your comment will be removed. I have had to remove two comments (not bad in my opinion) because they weren't constructive criticism, positive feedback or questions.

     One was over the music I choose, the other was about clickbait in a highly used route, meaning the author of the comment didn't take the time to take any of the following points into consideration which is one of the reasons I'm typing this post. Most of those points are common sense, I don't have time for lazy comments and ignorance.

How Will I Do Updates for my Routes File? 
     For now, I believe I will update it either every week/ every other week until I get done with most of the routes for legion content. The reason why I say most is because more than likely once I move on to other expansions I will still continue to find routes for legion. Again, I'm not like most other farmers, I don't specialize necessarily in making gold, but in farming materials.

Here is the file Download: Opachii's Custom Routes 10/8/16 *Update 2*

When I do Update the file, I will change the date at the end when I update it so it's easier to keep track of when there were changes.

Route Previews:
About Me Part 2
Why Don't I talk in my Videos?
I have severe Anxiety. It's mostly OCD/ unwanted thoughts to the point medicine really doesn't help much with the intrusive thoughts, but it helps with the manic depression and suicidal thoughts.

I'm also generally a quite person. I'm always in my head because I'm a writer so I'm just more of a listener than a talker.

Because my mind races, I can't keep a straight thought, so I would be talking about multiple different things at once, and it would just be harder to follow rather than me using music and the recordings.

How long have I been farming?
This is actually kind of humorous. I remember starting the trail, my older brother introduced me to the game and we both played trail character; back when you only had 2 weeks, and instead of enjoying the 20 levels Blizzard granted us I stayed in Lor'Danel farming hydras I believe it was., skinning them and just vendored the leather/ grays. I don't remember if there was a gold cap for trail account back then, if not I'm assuming I had a good few hundred gold. 

When I actually got around to buying the game, it was probably a good 3-4 years later, I switch over to the horde because I wanted to play as a Blood Elf. I got to around 45 or a few levels lower, went to Un'Goro Crater and just started farming Thorium. I had around 6k just from farming Thorium, didn't even care about leveling anymore.

Being a farmer now, for about 8 or so years, I still enjoy it very much so. Though I'm not the richest player in the game, I know many different and use many different means of making gold. Enough that I make it a point to have all the professions in a specific, organized manner. Professions that use ores are on 1 character, herb professions on 1 character, tailoring and enchanting on one character, skinning, leatherworking on a character, mining/ jewelcrafting. I know that may be common, but amongst YouTubers I haven't seen it like that.

What do I do with my gold?
Most of the time I give it away/ buy close friends mounts and pets.

I also often waste a lot of it trying to find new ways to make gold, rather I lose it or not I don't really care, I just enjoy making gold though I will admit most of the time I lose rather then profit.

What is my most memorable means of farming?

My most memorable farming location in the game, I have 2, both in Deepholm as well. One would be the bats/ skinning location, I remember sitting there for hours with only stacks of 20 at the time filling up my bags

The other is the old Embersilk farming location, I think it use to yield around 2k cloth per hour and it took Blizzard forever to nerf it.

What sets me aside from most other gold farming YouTubers? 

Well, from what I have seen is most other YouTubers often resort to looking up guides, rarely do they find them on their own (most of the ones I watch give credits to the actually founder). Me, on the other hand, spend most of my time looking for locations.

I do plan on going over a lot of "my" locations others might have found it before me so if that is the case let me know and will credit or link their videos in the description. I will try my best not to rip other youtubers off like they have me... When I put up a play to farm netherweave cloth, other youtubers started recording the same place, same with knothide leather. Don't be those kind of Youtubers give credit. It doesn't matter about the location as much as it does content, meaning hundreds of people can record the same location and credit others, but only a handful may get lots of views. Also, people love seeing results from just more than 1 YouTuber. It doesn't even take much to write in the dicription who you found the location from.

My Posting Schedule 
I'm currently unsure what it will be like in the future. As of right now, I am trying to get a post up every day. Once I see more attention, I may do more a day as I have hundreds of locations.


Routes
http://www.mediafire.com/download/tq3bxzuu1yknoun/Opachii%27s+Custom+Routes.zip Please let me know if this works, you need the add-on routes for it to work and I don't actually know where they file needs to be. Be sure you don't open the file, instead click show in folder. There are probably other ways of doing it that are easier but I don't know them :P. C-drive-Users-Public-Games-World of Warcraft-WTF-Accounts-Saved Variables. Don't forget to extract the file to this location. 

Videos and Furture Content
My videos will contain mostly guides of any sort, mostly gold guides though because I just love to farm. On the other hand my brother is also apart of this channel (though not active yet) and he will do mostly minecraft videos and my sister was also think of doing minecraft videos :)
Don't forget to leave likes and Subscribe
I plan on doing giveaways when I reach a certain amount of subscribers, the goal is still being sought after, but in the mean time refer people :). Most of my giveaways will include the following

Game Token
Sky Golem
Vial of the Sands
TCG mounts
Assorted pets (winners choice/ Price cap)

How to qualify for giveaways.
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Get invited into "Space Cats On Toast" (probably going to create a new guild)

Giveaway Update
As of right now, I probably wont be doing giveaways. Maybe in the near future when I have more time. I am still trying to find medicine that helps with my anxiety. The medicine I was recently put on makes my really tired and I'm mostly up long enough to find a location, record, edit, upload, and then I'm back to sleep until I have to go to work.




26 comments:

  1. Hi.
    Thank you for all the maps.
    Would you ever consider posting your routes addon file?

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  2. I can, do you know how I would be able to do that? I'm also in the process of restoring most of my custom routes. I lost them all when they game crashed :/

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  3. I think all you have to do is copy the file called routes.lua in your wtf/account/saved variables folder and distribute that. If you would like routes for old zones you can try tarou wow. I will get you the link for the routes. Unfortunately it is not up to date but it's a place to start.

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  4. Alright, I will give that a try, I will probably just add the folder in this post. On the other hand, I use to have Tarou's routes I like them and all but with me doing these guides, I don't want to mix one of his up with mine. I plan on going over old content when things with Legion die down.

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  5. You can pick and choose which route to display and i think there is an addon that shows them per zone and you can just click to activate / deactivate.

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  6. Your lua file doesnt seem to do anything. Can you upload the .toc file?

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    1. Should be the lua folder, it's the only updated and getting larger so I'm not all to sure :/. I tried it myself and it worked. I got ride of my old lua folder just to test it.

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  7. The file need to go to your wow folder/wtf/account name/saved variables folder.

    Also make sure you are not in the game when you copy it and as a note if you have made some routes from before it will delete them. Another way might be to give away your gathermate 2 or gatherer files but this also will delete players found herbs so use them only if you are starting out and have nothing.. By the way are you on eu or us?

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    1. Alright thanks :) another thing I should add is it you need to click "show folder" instead of just opening the file. I will test it out to see if it works. I play on US

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    2. It looks like it worked! Thank you for knowing what to do :P, if it weren't for you I'd probably have just given up on it until someone did let me know what to do. Updating the post now :)

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  8. The file you have on MediaFire is still the wrong one i think

    the file wich contains the Routes, starts with:

    RoutesDB = {
    ["profileKeys"] = {
    ["CharacterName - Realm"]
    }

    yours is the file wich generates the Routes not the Database and opening the lua files is not a Problem as long as you don't change and save! anything

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    1. I don't have the data base for routes, I know the lua file updates and will get larger when I create new routes... this is so confusing :/

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    2. i installed it freshly today and in /WTF/Account/AccountName/Saved Variables/Routes.lua
      is the RoutesDB, wich is the only thing you should need to export/import routes

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  10. I converted the file into a zipped file, not sure if that will make a difference, but I know Tarou's file is zipped

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  11. Ok a couple of things. The file populated the herbs on the map almost like a full gathermate 2 file but there weren't any routes which is a good thing to me since you can customise the routes as you see fit you can even split them as you wish into a north-south route. Or a full vs. short route. But there wasn't any mine nodes.

    I wouldnt recommend zipping the entire wtf folder as it might contain some information not to be used by other people.

    Finally, we should thank you for talking the time and effort to make your file public to us and save us alot of haslsle.

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  12. The lua file should be the only thing zipped, didn't take the time to find out how to zip a whole folder though I'm guessing it's the same way as the file. You are welcome and I'm almost bound to figuring it out. My dad is going to take a look at it then if that doesn't work I'm going to try and get a hold of tarou.:)

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    1. I unzipped Tarou's file and all it had was the lua file so i'm guessing that it's just not being put in the right folder? I had seen it's gotten almost 400 downloads so I'm also guessing that if it does work than no one able to use it has let me know -.-

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  13. First of all thanks for you work, BUT your download is just wrong. You zipped the addon LUA not the savedvariables one! You can see it in like two secons open it in any editor.
    Like others already wrote the RIGHT LUA should begin with:
    RoutesDB = {
    ["profileKeys"] = {
    ["CharacterName - Realm"]
    }
    Only because people downloaded your item doesn't mean it works. But most give it a try, find out it doesn't work and thing "screw it".
    Just open your uploaded file and search ANY keyword like highmountain or something - you wont find any DB related things because its the addon itself, not the data.
    So please, just because you already intended to share it with us - just zip the right one and reupload :)

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  14. I think I did, I just searched my computer for route.lua and opened them all in notepad and found the one with zone names and bunch of numbers underneath. Sorry for the inconvenience :/

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    1. Now it works like a charm. New files working - people can redownload and make some gold :)
      Thanks

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    2. Thank you everyone for all your help and patients! Getting this to work just made my day better. I was trying to find leystone/Felslate routes without using server hop and couldn't find one :/ spent about 2 hours trying probably close to 10 locations

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    3. Thank you everyone for all your help and patients! Getting this to work just made my day better. I was trying to find leystone/Felslate routes without using server hop and couldn't find one :/ spent about 2 hours trying probably close to 10 locations

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  15. I posted this on youtube:

    1. If you have already copy-pasted The Arcane Gamer's .lua, uninstall and reinstall Routes.
    2. Exit WoW if it was open, and reopen it. Open Routes (/routes), and Add a route. Enter name, press okay. Choose location and select "Create Bare Route". Close WoW.
    3. Go to your WoW folder, navigate to the path: World of Warcraft/WTF/Account//SavedVariables
    4. Make a copy of the routes.lua file in the location (NOT The Arcane Gamer's routes.lua) and rename one of them to routesbk.lua. This is a backup. I'm not responsible for any issues.
    5. Open routes.lua in a text editor like Notepad. I recommend getting Notepad++ for this as it makes everything a lot easier.
    6. Select everything from '["global"]' to the last "}," NOTE THE COMMA. There should just be one "}" at the end after you have made your selection. Delete the selection.
    7. Open The Arcane Gamer's "routes.lua" file. Copy everything from '["global"]' to the last "}," NOTE THE COMMA. There should just be one "}" at the end after you have made your selection. Copy this.
    8. Paste this to replace what you deleted in your file. It should be right after the "}," NOTE THE COMMA that follows your character name and server.

    Hope this is useful.

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