You can also modify some aspects of Paranoia's appearance such as panel opacity, border opacity, or maximum number of hostiles. Paranoia allows you to disable the warning sound, alert popup message, or the enemy list, so you can choose to use only the features you want. Since there are places where knowledge of nearby enemy players is not needed or wanted, Paranoia can be configured (and is by default) to disable itself in Battlegrounds, Arenas, free-for-all zones such as Nagrand Arena and Gurubashi Arena, and sanctuaries such as Shattrath City, Ebon Hold and Daralan. In addition, if other players in your party or guild are using Paranoia, it will communicate with them and share hostile data (for guild members, this is only if they are in the same zone). By right clicking on a name on the enemy list, a menu appears allowing you to send an announcement to /say, /yell, /guild, /battleground, /raid, or the LocalDefense channel. Paranoia also makes it easy to warn allies of nearby enemies. While Paranoia is mainly intended to prevent hostiles from sneaking up on you and ganking you, it also happens to be great for sneaking up on others and ganking them! Once an enemy has been detected and is on the hostile list, you can easily target them (if you are out of combat) by clicking on their name, allowing you to quickly make a decision of whether or not you want to run, hide, or fight. This is especially useful during situations when there are multiple enemies on the list, allowing you to see who is a larger and more recent threat. Paranoia will also begin fading out the names of units on the enemy list as more time passes without any activity from them. As they use more skills, Paranoia's guess will become more accurate. If they begin casting Frostbolt rank 14, Paranoia will tag them as a level 70 Mage. If a nearby enemy begins casting Frostbolt rank 6, Paranoia will tag them as a level 32+ Mage.

In addition, Paranoia will try to guess the class and level of nearby players by examining the ability they are using. For example, ' Skillzdatkillz gains Stealth', ' Ipwnface begins casting Pyroblast', or ' Hurrdurr begins Mining', will all trigger Paranoia's warning. This includes hits, misses, dodges, parries, spellcast starts, buffs or debuffs being applied or removed, tradeskills, or kills. Paranoia works by scanning all incoming combat log entries for any event caused by a hostile player. If a nearby player is detected, Paranoia will try to guess their class and level, and it will warn you by playing a sound and displaying a 'Hostile Player Detected!' message on-screen. Paranoia Enemy Player Alert, or just Paranoia, or perhaps even PEPA, is an addon that attempts to keep a constant lookout for players of the opposite faction nearby. There are also some machine translated or missing lines in the other translations as a result of new strings that were never translated. If you can translate Paranoia into one of those languages I'd greatly appreciate your help! I am missing localizations for Korean (krKR) and Traditional Chinese (zhTW).

It was last updated in December 2008, at the release of WotLK and future patches have probably broken it. This addon may or may not work with WotLK/Patch 3.0+. Add the addon to your favorites list to be notified of when a new version is released.

I've renewed my WoW subscription and I'll probably begin working on Paranoia again.

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