BIG changes to Lorebook, MyLOTRO, Forums and data.lotro.com
Posted Wednesday 24 April 2013 by Sapience):
* [http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...ms-and-MyLOTRO Important changes coming to the LOTRO Forums and MyLOTRO] Quote:
Post #6 ETA -- mid-May, possibly later in the month. Post #12 Q: No API is disappointing. I assume that includes the item data. Not that the item data was 90% accurate or up to date at all. But this totally kills most third-party tools. Q: ust a quick question: considering that the Lottery system will go on (and that we can therefore suppose that the tech behind the characters data gathering will be still on), can we expect (possibly not at the relaese, but later) that we get the character data back (even if only as xml like in data.lotro.com)? A: These are sort of related. The data will still be there for some time, but it will not be supported or updated and will eventually be disabled. So anything, in terms of third party apps, that work now will continue to work as they do now until such time as it's finally disabled completely. |
Since I have not dived into the code, I am unsure of the answer but I wonder how this will affect various plugins that give you access to cross-character info like Cash's multi-character money total or Hugebag's multi-character backpack, vault, and shared vault access?
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This change only affects third party applications/web sites that were using XML, RSS feeds or other utilities to acquire data from the lorebook/data.lotro.com database. Some plugins will become harder to maintain, for instance some of Lunarwater's data for Compendium and my recipe data for AltViewer (previously AltInventory ver 2.x) will be a bit harder to acquire but the plugins themselves will not be directly affected. This will however have a huge impact on many fan sites and third party information sites such as lotro-wiki. |
A LotRO Twitter feed on the forums homepage is a great idea. Ridding the rep system is not so much. I feel sad for my pips.
On the other hand, I loaded Guild Wars 2 this morning at the same time as the LotRO forums and was in the game before I could bring up a single LotRO forum page, so. Whatever they need to do to make it functional. |
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