Boss Timer (for the instanced bosses)

[COLOR="#FF0000"]UPDATE! (22-8-2011)

The tracker is almost finished. It will be released in the next few days. School is starting tomorrow again, so it will still have a slight delay.

REQUEST:
If anyone has screenshots of them killing instanced bosses that shows the AMBITION gained, it would be appreciated if posted here. If no one has them, I will hunt the instanced bosses myself and add the amount of ambition gained.
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I am currently working on a little boss timer which should help you in hunting instanced bosses (scrolls/recipes/equipment hunting for example). The limit is one per hour and keeping track of all these bosses is quite a pain.

This is the current UI;



'Controls':

• Region tabs (Bosses are not mixed up, but rather listed per region)
  
• Monster information (Click on the picture of the boss and you will get a pop up window including its HP, MP, EXP, Ambition, location and drops)
  
• Start button (This starts the countdown timer from 60 minutes)
  
• Stop button (This stops the countdown timer if activated)
  

I would not really consider this to be in the Q&A section, since this isn't really a question about MapleStory itself.

The question is, though; Would anyone consider using such a program to use?

If you're going to massacre area bosses, which just about anyone can do now, I'd suggest just make it a timer-alarm combination. Exhaustive list of bosses whose tracks you want to keep and an option for the program to obscenely annoyingly inform you of said bosses' renewal of availability.

This program wouldn't work as intended. You assume that each mini boss or whatnot spawns at a specified spawn rate when this isn't true. The spawn rates given in the WZ files are a suggestion and not fact.

This program wouldn't work as intended. You assume that each mini boss or whatnot spawns at a specified spawn rate when this isn't true. The spawn rates given in the WZ files are a suggestion and not fact.

After the last patch, bosses now DO spawn at a fixed rate. There is a portal NPC which takes you to an instanced map where the boss ALWAYS is, which you can only enter after one hour (the NPC manages the timer).

This program wouldn't work as intended. You assume that each mini boss or whatnot spawns at a specified spawn rate when this isn't true. The spawn rates given in the WZ files are a suggestion and not fact.

Do you even read your own extractions?

Most of the mini bosses that spawned are indeed instanced now just like Combattente said. The ones that are not instanced, will not even appear in this little boss timer program. Only INSTANCED bosses which have a one hour limit will be added in here. Griffey, Manon, Jr. Balrog and such will NOT be added in here.

are those the only bosses without instance? griffey, manon and j.balrog?

Do you even read your own extractions?

Fiel seems to be losing it or something. During the most recent KMST extraction he had to ask what some NPC's were despite the fact that they were in the last GMS/T extraction he did. Guess it is about time he retires. . .

I'd like to see a "table" format with the columns: boss name, time of opening, location, level, HP, MP, and Ambition (!).
Make sure to enable sorting by any column.

Double clicking on any row in the table would open that form with the drop list and with the "start" and "stop" buttons.

As for whether I would use it - probably for a few days until I work out a semi-efficient Ambition-farming schedule. (grrr! at Nexon for eliminating the free-roaming bosses... loved snowman so much </3)

Leave fiel alone!

Fiel needs some rest.....

are those the only bosses without instance? griffey, manon and j.balrog?

There's also Richie, and I'll bet the Ice Witch and Ghost Scholar (not sure if the name is right, but it spawns in the map with the three Goblin NPCs in KFT) are also not instanced.

There's also Richie, and I'll bet the Ice Witch and Ghost Scholar (not sure if the name is right, but it spawns in the map with the three Goblin NPCs in KFT) are also not instanced.

None of the old bot-catchers (those + Shade, Security Camera, Master Dummy, Bamboo Warrior and Deet & Roi) are instanced. They're the best way to get ambition currently, assuming you can kill them freely.

I'd like to see a "table" format with the columns: boss name, time of opening, location, level, HP, MP, and Ambition (!).
Make sure to enable sorting by any column.

Double clicking on any row in the table would open that form with the drop list and with the "start" and "stop" buttons.

As for whether I would use it - probably for a few days until I work out a semi-efficient Ambition-farming schedule. (grrr! at Nexon for eliminating the free-roaming bosses... loved snowman so much </3)

Thank you for your input. I will probably change it to something like that once you click on the monster image, a new small window will open up with all its info. This means the amount of HP, level, location and amibition gained etc. Good suggestion, thanks!

Thank you for your input. I will probably change it to something like that once you click on the monster image, a new small window will open up with all its info. This means the amount of HP, level, location and amibition gained etc. Good suggestion, thanks!

No image on the list/table window, please. I want to be able to see as many bosses at once as possible.

None of the old bot-catchers (those + Shade, Security Camera, Master Dummy, Bamboo Warrior and Deet & Roi) are instanced. They're the best way to get ambition currently, assuming you can kill them freely.

Rurumo is the only botcatcher that's instanced.

Rurumo is the only botcatcher that's instanced.

And the reason for that is because it's questrelated.

No image on the list/table window, please. I want to be able to see as many bosses at once as possible.

What about a detailed/simple version then?

So it's basically a tab control with multiple tabs that contain images of the various bosses with buttons to toggle a timer function?

Remove the images and leave only the name to fit the maximum amount of bosses into a small amount of space.

So it's basically a tab control with multiple tabs that contain images of the various bosses with buttons to toggle a timer function?

Remove the images and leave only the name to fit the maximum amount of bosses into a small amount of space.

I'll be working on it today and see what progress information I can give here.

BIG PROGRESS!

Sorry for the waiting, but the tracker is almost done. The only thing I'm leaving behind for now is the droplist table. It will be added in the next update for the tracker.

I will post a new image of the current tracker soon. Thanks for the waiting for those who are still interested in this.

Leave fiel alone!

This.