Introduction 

BrownieHelper is a WoW addon designed to ease administration of custom loot systems in game.  Out of the box it comes setup to work with Beny's Brownie Points, a DKP-like bidding system, but it should be flexible enough to accommodate a wide variety of loot auction or point purchase models.

There is also an external script available which works with the addon to download the latest point standings from an eqDKP website and save them to the addon's saved variables file as well as generate readable text reports of the events from previous runs.

Comparison to other auction mods 

There are some other great mods out there to help with administration of loot distribution on raids (such as Bidder/DKPmon), so why write a new one?

When looking over our options we were unable to find another addon that would easily let us implement our fairly complicated loot system.  Not only do our auctions proceed through different phases on any given piece of loot, but the rules even change for different types of items.  So BrownieHelper was designed to be extremely flexible and straight forward to customize to wide variety of different types of loot systems.  

 Here are some of the advantages BrownieHelper offers over other similar mods:

• With a little knowledge of Lua it should be very easy to implement even complicated loot systems.  Here's ours in its entirety.
  
• BrownieHelper features 3 different modes:

• The external script makes downloading and updating your guild's point database a snap if you're running an eqDKP site.
  

And here are some disadvantages:

• Support for import and export of points using in-game tools is currently fairly week.  There is only a simple import mechanism, but these facilities could easily be improved if there is interest.
• The addon is provided as an all-in-one package.  On the plus side there's only one package to worry about keeping updated, on the downside your raid members will be downloading more mod than they need.  But the memory profile for BrownieHelper is still fairly trim, and it only uses the resources it needs to run in its current mode.
• The addon is not yet localized.  This is also simple to rectify if there is interest. 

Download

The latest release of the addon can be downloaded here. 

The latest source code for the addon can be found here. 

Bugs and feature requests can be submitted to the issue tracker here.

Tutorials

• Using the BrownieHelper before patch 2.4 
• BrownieHelper Tutorials
  
• Running the external script
  
• Customizing the addon for your guild's loot system