Wolfson wrote:Since the patch, I've been using Rematch instead of my usual Pet Battle Teams, and I just keep thinking that if someone could combine the best features of both, it would be the ultimate pet mod. I love Rematch's feature that allows you to set teams for npc tamers and then automatically switch to those teams on mouseover. I love the more organized team section that allows you to save teams under different subgroups, and I like having the levelling queue (though some more detailed controls for it would be nice). But I don't like how Rematch basically tries to replace the default pet screen (to the point of locking out your search function in the default window when Rematch's Pet tab is up) rather than working as an addition to it like Pet Battle Teams does. I also prefer Pet Battle Teams' larger icons and font sizes.
Like I said, if someone could combine the convenient extra features of Rematch with the superior interface of Pet Battle Teams, that would be the pet mod to end all pet mods.
I think a lot of it has to do with the search options of Rematch. Gello implemented a very powerful search option that you just can't get with the default pet journal nor do I think you can mod the default journal to provide it. The ability to search for all of X family pets with speed > 300 that have X ability is a very powerful tool once you play with it. Additionally, the ability to find all pets in levels 10-15 that are not family X with health>X and then with one button push place all of those pets into your levelling queue is huge.
As far as I have seen, you can't capture the actual search box portion of the journal (maybe there is a way, but I wasn't able to find it). In addition there are some API restrictions of what you can do while the journal is actually open. Gello could probably explain better why. I'm just going off of what little experience I had trying to mod the journal before. PBJE has some features that I would like to have in Rematch and I think those could be added, however, I wouldn't want to give up the search box capabilities to get better journal integration.