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Addon Spotlight: All aboard for Train Smashing station
Each week, WoW Insider's Mathew McCurley brings you a fresh look at reader-submitted UIs as well as Addon Spotlight, which focuses on the backbone of the WoW gameplay experience: the user interface. Everything from bags to bars, buttons to DPS meters and beyond -- your addons folder will never be the same. Useless flavor items have become an odd duck item in the MMO sphere. While we toil about in our virtual lives, amassing virtual goods in virtual storage, we also collect dumb trinkets and items that do nothing but look cool, make sounds, or annoy our friends. Why is it that we love virtual toys as much as our real life avatars do? I can deal with most of the fun vanity items out there and even proudly proclaim that the best item in the entire game of World of Warcraft is the Tol Barad Searchlight. However, I cannot stand the train emotes. Train sets sounded like a fantastic idea, complete with a funtastic toy shop in Dalaran. What we got instead, during raiding at least, was a nightmare. While combing through my emails a few days ago, I was in a particularly grumpy mood with no real pointed hatred or contempt for /train, but when my eyes finally rested on Edymnion's words, I was stirred to action. Trains need to be stopped. In his email, Edymnion recommended two addons that are designed to not only disable the /train emote completely but to find, capture, try, judge, and execute the perpetrators of train-on-ear violence.
TUAW's Daily App: Train Conductor
Train Conductor is a sort of line-drawing game, although it's not quite as open as most games of that ilk. The idea is that you've got four rails of trains running at each other, and as the conductor, it's your job to make sure nobody hits anybody else. You can stop and start trains when you want, and you can just draw tracks across from one set of rails to the other. It sounds simple, and of course, it is when you start. But as with most puzzlers like this, things get crazy quick, and eventually you're shooting trains back and forth, desperately trying to keep them coming without any crashes. The game's a lot of fun, and it's free on the App Store right now. In fact, there's even a sequel out with more locations, train types, and tons of additional features (including some coming down the update pike soon). The sequel's just 99 cents, and man, a buck is a small price to pay for all the game that's squeezed into these two apps.
