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Basic Character Sheets

Basic Character Sheets are now available for some users (I have to create each page manually ). Edit your Profile and fill in Character Name to make the link on the Profile work properly (must be your character name FROM LoTRO). As well some pages I haven't created yet, so you may get an error as well. If your page isn't available let me know I'll make it. Posted by: Dathius KahRek On: 04 Jul 2009 12:03

Basic Kinship Roster

I have made a basic kinship roster from the data from data.lotro.com. Its real shoddy the way I have it now, however it will suffice for the time being.

Its on the Portal Page. Due to caching (to limit the bandwidth consumption on data.lotro.com) it should be up to date once every 24 hours. Posted by: Dathius KahRek On: 02 Jul 2009 17:52

Things to come!

As of late, Jay and I have been working on getting XML character sheets to display, either in Flash or through XSL. So far we have made some progress however each time a new character sheet is uploaded it will require some changes made to it.

This isn't a major issue, as I could easily maintain all the files necessary to make these changes show up. I am currently researching better ways to do this, hopefully Jay and I can make something that is easy to maintain, update and display.

At the least we'll have a character page that will be either on the profile or perhaps a custom page accessible via the profile. One character will be allowed to be displayed as this will make it easier for maintanence initially. However should we figure out a way of making this work well and easily, we may have support for multiple characters.

I'll keep you posted! Posted by: Dathius KahRek On: 02 May 2009 08:54

Up and Running Again

So I have finally got this up and running again. Hopefully this kinship will come together soon. I have a list of my current plans:

-Save up for a Kinship house. This is the most daunting undertaking considering the economic situation of Lotro. Money is hard to come by at lower levels, and most quests with decent pay outs are not solo quests. I tried selling all the stacks I had but only a few sold. I'll have restructure my pricing guidelines.

So far, my guidelines are:

-200 silver for a stack of Copper (these all sold, so I think this is reasonable).
-400 silver for a stack of Barrow Iron (these did not sell).

-Things to do with the site:

• Get Lotro Items DB working so when users mouse over items, a window will display the item's stats.
• Get some sort of event calendar setup.
• Get PHPRaider installed and running.

You may be wondering why these are important. First off, all these items will greatly enhance the website. Secondly, these items will make running this kinship a little easier. The raider software, while useless at the moment since none of us can raid yet, will be quite useful for orchestrating raid play times. Posted by: Dathius KahRek On: 18 Jan 2009 07:12