Sharing data between characters/accounts. about aux-addon

[shirsig]

Sharing between characters of the same account happens automatically. Between different accounts addons have no way of communicating anything. It could be automated but not with a wow addon. Basically you just have to copy paste the relevant parts of the savedvariables file (by hand or with a python script or whatever) at the right time.

The historical value is calculated using a (slightly time weighted) median over the last 11 daily values. The point of the median (as opposed to for example an arithmetic mean) is that it is able to completely ignore up to 5 low and high outliers.

The daily value is easy to manipulate (only downwards) even for active markets but you have to do this consistently over a few days to affect the historical value. There's no way to prevent manipulation in general as anyone with enough budget can always completely take over a market. The simplicity of the daily value is for performance reasons (only need storage space linear in the number of items rather than linear in the number of auctions scanned). I don't think downwards manipulation is enough of an issue to change that.

Thanks for the answers!

[Schaka]

Couldn't you just create a symbolic link between your WTF folder(s) to make sure your accounts share the same SavedVariables?

[shirsig]

The problem is the time when the files are saved (logout and /reload). You have to do the copying while you're logged out on the target account or it will be overwritten.

[geojak]

as already said by shirsig years ago, sharing data between different account isnt possible with a wow addon but could be done with python. i analysed the sitations and bit and plan on writing such tool either in .bash, perl or maybe pwoershell. i would then include this script into my wow launcher to auto synch ah data from my ah scan account to my other accounts. has anyone already done something like this?