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TriviaBot

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Compatible with v3.3.0
Compatible with WotLK ()
Author: Zizanzu
Download size: 307.30 kB
Updated 02/11/2009 (99 days ago)
22,113 total downloads / downloads this week: 8,832 / downloads today: 1,204
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Purpose
If you ever find yourself being bored while questing, grinding, raiding or just standing around in a city, you can use this addon to host a fun quiz others can join to play. Remember not to disturb other players!.

Usage
From the main window you can edit settings, what channel to use, what set you want to use questions from and ofcourse start/stop a quiz plus a few other things.

Slash Commands
Root commands are:
/trivia or /triviabot
Without additional parameters it toggles the showing of the main window

/trivia help
Lists the usable slash commands.
/trivia clear
Clears the current game records.
/trivia clearall
Clears the all-time records incl. player records.
/trivia reset
Resets the configuration to default
Whisper Commands
These are the commands you can send to the game host for various information:

!tb help
Shows the available commands.
!tb info
Information about the active game.
!tb score
game
Shows your score in the current game or previous if none is running.
alltime
Shows your all-time scores.

Help
If you get errors trying to make your own questions from the template file found in the Questions folder of the addon, you can copy/paste the code here: http://triviabot.pastey.net and add a comment including the link to the pasted code.
Due to the comeplete rework of question format for 2.5.x you can't use old questions for 2.4.x and earlier.

Languages
English
French

Patch notes for TriviaBot
Version 2.6 10/25/2009
3.2.0 compatibility update bugfix (numeric replies - floating numbers x.y) new question set.

Author: dridzt

Latest Patch Notes at http://wow.curseforge.com/addons/trivia-bot/files/
TriviaBot, archived on 04/11/07
TriviaBot, archived on 18/11/07
TriviaBot, archived on 26/12/07
TriviaBot, archived on 06/04/08
TriviaBot, archived on 02/11/09
TriviaBot, archived on 02/11/09


Comments

99 days ago
Hello. The Triviabot Team have now reopened our sites at incgamers. Old users can now download the addon on this site.
645 days ago
Triviabot team will have our base at Curse.com for further updates and releases. Thanks for a good time :D Here on Worldofwar... http://www.curse.com/downloads/details/8643/
649 days ago
Breaking News: There's cooming a point in everyones life where you need to focus on the school, work, and going to college. Topgun wish that i'm will continue working with triviabotx. i'm will work for the project in all my time :D. I'm now Project manager aka Website Manager. we are now looking for new developers for improving our addon , fixing bugs & + + + !. self i'm know theres young Developers out there in the big world are you interesting in joining our team: Send in Applications to Zizanzu@gmail.com with the subject "Triviabot Developers".
665 days ago
i downloaded it but it doesnt show on addons and what do i type to get it start is it /trivia channel guild???? please help me
667 days ago
It wont let me download, what do i need to download this.
670 days ago
how do u install this mod i tried the ususl wway and it doesnt come up in my addons menu
674 days ago
I knew it. When i walking around in SW, someone started trivia and spams the normal /say channel pretty much. It looks funny, but perhaps a bit spammy, and please do not in the busy places. That makes talking to another members with /say harder. There are enough calmy places, or empty inns (for example in Old City area) to hold trivia rounds. You do only do /yell COME TO INN FOR TRIVIA Thank you very much.
692 days ago
we got up the site. its only a few problems to fix and we are online. mvh Ziz
699 days ago
Update new.net have registred the domain the day after we announced we will create our website on michiyoo.net. they want us to buy it for a "Nice" Price. Ziz and Topgun are posting about the issue. and we are expecting to get the site "Online" this week. in a new and beautiful domain... Reply Edit Delete Per
702 days ago
Release of Triviabot Website is set to 2007:March ??. Sorry we expected that we got the website up and running today... Zizanzu Estlis - Head of Michiyoo.net (I'm Announce more when its ready).
706 days ago
Mikaey please speakwith Topgun we will ned more Developers in our team :D.
706 days ago
Michiyo : Aleriya.com will move theyre servers to Norway between 20-30 march. they will change domain to michiyo.net they will still offer Triviabotx a space on theyre site. so after ca 30march they will get this subdomain: triviabotx.aleriya.com and will backup all currently files. Zizanzu Estlis
734 days ago
Hi folks, I've been spending the last few days working on TriviaBot and trying to help make it better. It's not completely done yet (read below), but if you want to download my version, and try it out, it's here: http://www.zaubereiacademy.com/TriviaBot.zip Here's what I've done with it: - The commands "/trivia qlist wow" and "/trivia qlist normal" now work as documented instead of causing an error. - The list of question sets now only has two options -- "Normal" and "WoW" (instead of "Question Set 1" to "Question Set 20"). - I rewrote the code that checks your answers. Put simply, I changed it so that there can be a (theoretically) unlimited number of correct answers. (The way the authors had it set up, there could be 8 correct answers, at most.) Normally, yes, there would only be one correct answer to a question, until you get to a question such as "how many planets are there in the solar system?" Is the answer "nine" or "9" (or "8" if you're one of THOSE people)? Now there's an avenue to say that "nine", "9", "IX", "8", "eight", "VIII", "zero", "36,400", and "infinity" are all correct answers. - I've been going through the general knowledge questions and trying to clean up as many questions as I can, as well as provide extra possible correct answers where appropriate. This is going to take me a while, and I'm not finished yet, although I've made it through the first 1,000 questions (there's about 5,500 in all). As an example of things I've been doing, I've been setting it up so that when an answer to a question is 23, then "twenty three", "twenty-three", and "23" are all acceptable. Or, in the case of people, making just the last name an acceptable answer as well (such as "Garland" when the answer is "Judy Garland"). I've also been removing some questions which made no sense whatsoever or would be impossible to answer correctly (for example, one question is "implants", and the answer is "breast implants"). TO THE AUTHORS: I'd like you to know that I'm not doing this as a way to insult the work you've done, but rather to help you improve upon it. If you want to take the changes I've made and integrate them into your own version, please be my guest. If you'd like to contact me in-game, I play as Mikeyal on Staghelm. Thanks!
742 days ago
Hi, I love the idea and it's right up my guild's alley... Theres just the issue of changing question sets or even from normal rotation of questions to just WoW ones. When I give the '/trivia qlist wow' command, I get the lua error: "Interface\AddOns\TriviaBot\TriviaBot.lua: 241: attempt to call global 'Trivia_QlistSelect' (a nil value)" When changing question sets: "Interface\Addons\TriviaBot\TriviaBot.lua: 1042: bad arguement #1 to 'gmatch' (string expected, got nil)" I do apologize if the problem has been brought up before, but it seems to render the functionality of the addon as limited when members only want a certain type of question to be ran... All else, there's a +fave here.
752 days ago
Hello i'm havent introduced my self here yet... I'm Zizanzu , the web manager on the triviabot team. visit our new website at triviabot.aleriya.com
755 days ago
I can't get it to run in-game triviabot program at all. am i dumb to try using this after i have no trouble with adding other addons that i have downloaded over +20 Addons...
773 days ago
Weird thing, i downloaded like always extracted perfectly but when i'm ingame at carr. selection it doesn't appear in addons button? Any help with this?
777 days ago
I tried to Download "out of date" trivia bot but they all did the same thing. Why cant i extract the file?
778 days ago
Hello everybody, my name is Matt and i am the new owned of the Trivia bot, i have recently got a new computer... sorry for the wait ^^. i will get to releasing the new version shortly, new features will include: -easier word list creation (with a program that creates the correct format from an easier format, suck as "question*answer" -fixed known bugs -more question lists will be added, and easier support for updating more. these are still in progress, right now i have been busy with the holidays. if the file is corrupt, try another site such as curse.com, it should not download as corrupt, also make sure you have "load out of date addons" checked in wow. ill be back after the holidays. :)
783 days ago
Topgunt5t is the new author of this mod. Thanks for my time here, and even though i am a bit dissapointed that i could not had done more for the community and the end results (too hard questions). Anyway, GL HF and hopefully he will be able to fix your problems. :)
795 days ago
Yea, tried downloading it, it said its corrupt. 1-click install said it could not extract the target mod.
796 days ago
Rezefty, i will be glad to be the new author if you consider me. I may not know much about some of the commands, but I will take the time to learn it. :) please contact me at Topgun5tt@yahoo.com
814 days ago
New version. Fixed some questions, and added our new site for TriviaBot, here's the url http://triviabot.aleriya.com/index.php. Thanks to Alyria for making it. I'm going to stop working on TriviaBot now. After i've received enough errors on questions to form a new version i will, but i will not do anything else. TriviaBot needs a new author, its not me anymore, im just fixing questions whilst waiting for someone.
820 days ago
I am currently looking for a new owner of this addon. I dont have time for it anymore, and i dont know if i am going to play wow anymore. Anyway, i really dont have time anymore like i said, so i am looking for someone which can take care of this addon and perhaps even coding it further.
821 days ago
Hmm, i want to keep this addon fairly simple to be honest. Hall of Fame wont come, and i doubt teams will either, but i can consider it when i am going to upgrade this addon. I will make no promises though :/ And i am glad you like it. HF ingame :)
822 days ago
I was a huge fan of the original Trivia Bot on IRC and it's great that this mod has found it's way to World of Warcraft, where it has provided much entertainment for me and fellow guildies while farming, PvPing and doing monotonous stuff in WoW. While it might sound greedy, here are a few suggestions that would make this mod even more amazing, most of them leeched off the existing IRC Trivia Bots that are up and running. # More Question types such as Scramble and even Fastest Finger where whoever types the word given first wins. # Hall of Fame: Have allotted number of rounds a single person must win to "win" the entire set which gives him 1 win in the hall of fame. Make this accessible through commands like !trivia hof to see who the current leaders are. # Other commands such as !rank and !streak that will make the game more competitive, possibly a weekly/monthly/yearly Top 10. # TEAMS! Allow the creation of teams to spice things up. Apart from that, great addon, and WTB MORE QUESTIONS!
824 days ago
Jarik, you mean that when you are done with all the questions, you have the ability to reset the questions, so you can 'play' them again? /trivia reset in that case and i think /trivia score exists, just write it. :) After you have answered this i'll see what i can do
825 days ago
this is a great addon, guild has a lot of fun with it while farming rep and things. something that would be nice, is a "/trivia score" command to show the current leaderboard on command also, any advice on how to parse trivia data from another source into the correct format to replace the questions once we get through the current set, besides manual entry?
825 days ago
well, everyone in the channel you have choosed, Dracen. For example, if you are in a party, and the trivia channel is set to party, then when you start the addon, everyone in the party can answer.
826 days ago
I would like to know who can answer this when you use this mod.
826 days ago
got this error, all I was doing is running trivia while on a mount hovering. Date: 2007-11-06 20:13:08 ID: 51 Error occured in: Global Count: 1 Message: ..\AddOns\TriviaBot\TriviaBot.lua line 723: attempt to index global 'TRIVIA_ANSWERS4' (a nil value) Debug: [C]: ? TriviaBot\TriviaBot.lua:723: Trivia_CheckAnswer() TriviaBot\TriviaBot.lua:353: Trivia_OnEvent() [string "*:OnEvent"]:1: [string "*:OnEvent"]:1
828 days ago
Hey this is a great idea! I used to LOVE doing the video game trivia bot on the #em0roms channel on irc, is there any way you could have a video game trivia on its own? I know so many nerdlings like me who would eat that up.
828 days ago
zipped? it's a rar. It seems to work for me atleast. edit: Ah, i see >_>, sorry. I am uploading the the better .rar now
829 days ago
it's not zipped up properly mate
831 days ago
I am finished with the questions now. It's roughly 1007 questions in total now. So, that is 'some' extra. :) What has been added, to name a few: - Northrend questions (a lot) - Naxxramas questions, as it will be a lvl80 dungeon in WOTLK - Quote questions, but only some few. At the moment there is only Naxx, BT, and Hyjal quote-questions - Guess the Zone's with northrend - Some new random questions - Fixed the spelling and how it looked on every question nearly. You will see a huge difrence, trust me. - 'In the upcomming patch' questions. Only around 11 though. - GUI! not a minimap button or anything like that though, mostly just a window which you can access by printing /trivia. This was not made by me, it was made by the former author. It was on the beta of TriviaBot. Expect this released around 18.00 tommorow. I just have to double-check all the questions, and make sure everything is alright. Sneak peak on one of the 'upgraded' questions: Guess the Zone: The zone contains the capital city of one of the Alliance races. The zone features no instances, but has a famous gnoll named.. Hogger! Sorry for the delay people, but you wont regret the wait. -- Rezefty It will be released today, but it will take longer time then i thought due to a mistake i did. Sorry. -- Rezefty It will be up in approximately 2 hours i reckon. It's going well, i just made some mistakes with the capitals before. I'm not native english, so please have patience. Right now my only real problem is shortening the questions a bit, but that takes no time at all really. I have included some more questions by the way. Added this question, from the Ultgarde article by blizzard, for example; Q: Prince ______ is the scourge ambassador to the Vrykul. A: Keleseth As you can see, this took even longer then i originally thought. I am sorry for posting false release times. I am not finished yet, but i am quite sure it will be finished tommorow, but i wont make any promises. But its just 200 questions left to fix, and then its good to go. -- EDIT: Will be released in about an hour.
835 days ago
Nice! :) I am a bit worried about the channel changes (you cant write much). It's really no use to have in a channel like it is now. I can try to shorthen it. And i have changed a lot of questions, so its more answers. I have also changed the questions a bit, so its no spelling errors. If you see one after my release, just tell me. I think i will have fixed all questions by today, but i wont add the northrend questions untill im completly happy with how the questions is. Beside the northrend questions, i think i will add atleast 10 more "normal" wow questions. Expect the release on Monday, around midnight i belive. Have fun with the mod, and please give me feedback if something is wrong. :) EDIT: Just some news about the progress atm. It will take longer then i expect, so im not sure i can finish it by monday. But on wednessday it will be released no matter what. I can also say that i have fixed a LOT of spelling errors and made things clearer. I have also added the option to allow more acceptable answers. You will love this addon even more when its out. Especially with the new 220~ questions. :) I am quite ashamed by some of my previous questions.. they were written very badly, and some had the wrong answers (just some very few though, like 4).
836 days ago
Well now it seems to work. I dunno but it does. Just bugged I guess. No weird characters in the name. And there are a few answer that need to be Blade's Edge MountainS with an 's' :)
836 days ago
Thouse who are having trouble with the trivia, like Suic1d3, do you have weird characters in your username? or just normal letters? Today i will focus on fixing questions though. Like, adding more options that is correct to the questions, and fixing spelling errors/badly written questions.
837 days ago
Thanks for the feedback. I'll look into it today.
838 days ago
When I do /trivia start, and am on WoW trivia and in Guild chat, and I answer the question, it does not say that I have the correct answer, it takes a few seconds, then goes right to the next question. If other people answer, then the mod acts as usual. Also, the standings dont show up, just the message, but no ranks.
848 days ago
Thanks. I fixed it aswell. I will post the new updated questions, including a lot of northrend ones around two weeks from this one. I'm not sure about the other things yet, i'm looking into it. But the northrend questions and the fixes will be comming first, then the LMS, etc if im up for it. EDIT: Changed date, its two weeks untill i will fix the questions and post the new northrend questions. Dont worry, i will make sure there is as few mistakes as possible :)
849 days ago
number of ground mounts has answers as "thirty" and "41" in the question list. Somewhere where people can submit their own questions would be cool
854 days ago
Apologies. I will fix it in the upcomming patch. You are correct in both by the way.
855 days ago
I noticed you mispelled the Maelstrom as 'Maelstorm' my group wasn't happy... I also believe the number of major cities is 9 not 8. Shattrath and all.