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Frequently Asked Questions
Please find the answers to the questions we get asked frequently below.
Your profiles and local registry are stored in saved variables within your World of Warcraft installation folder. Details on accessing these can be found on the Where is my information stored? page.
To back up your own profiles, copy totalRP3.lua to another location on your computer. If you want to back up stored profiles from others (i.e. profiles you've viewed), you'll want to also copy totalRP3_Data.lua.
Information for backing up these in an automated manner via, for example, a cloud storage service can be found on the How to backup and synchronize your add-ons settings using a cloud service page.
Make sure you have joined the xtensionxtooltip2 channel by going into the Social menu (default keybinding is O), in the Chat tab and check that the channel is listed here. If it isn't there is an issue with your configuration. The game has a limit of 10 chat channels, if you already have 10 channels active, Total RP 3 cannot join xtensionxtooltip2 and the map feature cannot be used.
Note: It is also possible that nobody with Total RP 3 is currently in the zone you are scanning. This is especially true on RP servers with low activity, or on non-RP servers.
It is already here. Total RP 3: Extended is an optional module for Total RP 3 that adds the possibility to create new content in WoW: campaigns with quests and dialogues, items, documents (books, signs, contracts ...) and much more! Get it on Curse.
Companion is a broad term for pets, battle pets and mounts. You can create a companion profile in the companion section of the add-on. You can bind a companion profile to companion either by using the option on the companion profiles list or by targeting your companion and using the target bar (for mounts, you have to target yourself).
Only battle pets with a custom name can be bind to a companion profile. This is a necessary restriction. If the battle pet you are looking for is not appearing in the battle pet browser or you are not getting the target frame when targeting it, you'll have to rename that battle pet.
Total RP 3 implements the Mary Sue Protocol, a standard protocol used by every roleplaying add-on to exchange data. This means your profile will be available to people using another roleplaying add-on like MyRolePlay or XRP. However, some advanced features provided by Total RP 3 cannot be sent via the Mary Sue Protocol and are not compatible with other roleplaying add-ons (features like at-first-glance items, the location on the map, companion profiles, some advanced text formatting in the description).
Due to the game limitations, Total RP 3's cross realm support is limited. You can fully use Total RP 3 with players from realms that are merged to yours (those are the realms that share the same channels in major cities. Players from those realms have their realm next to their names when they write in those channels. They usually share the same forum on Blizzard’s website too). Unfortunately, add-ons cannot exchange data with players in cross-realm zones (zones with a low population of players where servers are dynamically merged so it feels less deserted) or in groups created via the dungeon group finder or raid finder.
Total RP 3 uses the standard SendAddonMessage() function to exchange data via the whispers channel (necessary for a one-to-one communication). This currently silently fails for the cases mentioned above. As soon as Blizzard makes it possible to send add-on messages via whispers in those cases, the add-on will be working as intended automatically without even needing an update.
Add-ons cannot send messages to players of the other faction, so Total RP 3 cannot fetch the profile of a player of the other faction or send your profile to a player of the other faction. But, Total RP 3 caches profiles in the directory and will display the cached information if it can't update a profile. This means that if you play in both factions on your server, you will be able to see cached versions of profiles of players from the opposite faction if you met them previously.
We currently have a warning when your profile exceeds a threshold of 20 individual messages needed to be sent to send your profile to another player. You can ignore this message and even disable it in the settings, but keep in mind that the heavier your profile gets, the longer it will take to send to other players. In crowded places, your profile will have to be sent to several people and the data exchange may be throttle by the server. This means if your profile is really huge it can take several minutes for a player to receive your profile, meanwhile, you won't be able to receive anything.
As we want to preserve a good user experience, we have put a limit of 5.000 characters in the text fields (which represent 20 messages of 254 characters that will be sent for only one text field).
We are currently exploring options to remove the limit on the text fields so you can truly unleash your creativity while still preserving the user experience by not sending the About section with the rest of the profile when it reaches a threshold and instead players who want to consult your About section would have to voluntarily request it. We have no ETA for this change for now.
Yes. Total RP 3 has an importing feature that allows you to import your previous profiles into Total RP 3 profiles. We have an article on How to import your existing RP profiles from another add-on on this wiki.