Were you tempted to try Aion ? I was! I loaded up my pre-order special edition and was all ready to rock when the headstart gave way.  I did manage to get on when it opened up, but today I get to see the horror that others have been talking about.  I got home around 7pm-ish to be welcomed with the following after logging in…

Now I’m a reasonably patient guy, but where do you draw the line!? 7pm + 5 hours = zzZ zzZ.  Some of us do actually need to work in order to pay for our gaming habits, and starting off a gaming session at midnight isn’t quite the best time of the day for most people.

I can only hope that this is just a teething problem.  Quoting from NCSoft “Total server limits will be increased once we see that server populations balance out.” I hope that limit is in the 1000’s as my queue isn’t the largest I’ve seen kicking around fan sites today.

Some people have shown their disgust on the official forums mentioning cancelling already.  As extreme as this may seem, I too can see the reasoning for giving it the boot, especially if I can only play from midnight onwards.  Time can only tell.

Do you have long wait times ?  How do you pass the time ?

(Btw, the other fubar NCSoft/Steam had was that I didn’t have time to go out and pre-order the Collector’s Edition from a store, so I thought of getting it online through Steam.  Turns out, they can’t even give out the proper codes/extra online goodies till after the game has launched.  Headstart my arse…)

For a few days now I’ve had a small chunk of my car key sitting around in the ignition after it went and broke on me at the gas station.  I have tried to get the little bugger out, but not having the right tools for the job it managed to stay snug in the key hole.

Today I get a email reply from a locksmith with a quote to come and remove it…. £75 + vat he says.  Thats about £86.25!  Now being faced with the prospect of having to shell out a pretty hefty sum for what seems to be such a silly little matter got me motivated to get that sucker out!

In the end all it took was my dad and an awesome set of tweezers!

All this got me to thinking… what does it take for you to get motivated?  Would the prospect of having to shell out hard earned cash get you up and about for something which seems simple?

Oh, and as a little note, I have released another WoW addon.  Maelstrom (for Shamans only) will give a visual on your current Maelstrom Weapon buff and also let you know when your shield is down!  Sound good? Well head on over to WoW Interface to snag the download.

(Kitn:  Motivation?  Eventually I’ll get motivated to get a blog post in here, but man!  I’ve finally gotten back into working and there’s a big difference in motivation when you’ve come back from a long day.  At the end of it all, I definitely don’t feel like sitting up at a computer writing.  I just want to curl up in bed (after making and eating dinner).  If it wasn’t for the firewalls (since it’s a school), I’d totally write something while on the job.. but I guess I wouldn’t be working if I did, right?  Ah well..  I’ll catch up with some writing eventually!)

Creating a Frame in XML can be a long winded process, especially when you see how little it takes to create one using LUA.

Let’s get to it!  Here is a sample LUA showing how to create a Frame:

MyFrame = CreateFrame("Frame","MyFrame",UIParent)
MyFrame:SetPoint("CENTER",0,0)
MyFrame:SetWidth(200)
MyFrame:SetHeight(200)

See how easy that was? What we have done here is created a frame with the name MyFrame and setting its parent to the UIParent.

If your addon isn’t going to hook it to anything else, then it’s best to set the UIParent as the parent frame. After we set its anchor, using the SetPoint function, to the Center with an offset (X & Y) of both 0. We then set the Width and Height both to 200. Now you wont actually see anything as we haven’t changed any colours or set any textures, but the frame will be there.

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