Thx, I hope it was somewhat helpfull. While speaking about young upstarts: today I had the ambition to somehow fix the background asset..
First I thought all of those panel assets are messed up, but some backgrounds are still working like
mail_base_home
itemAdvancement_inspect_background
Some hXd, notepad++ and regex replaces later (no excel tonight
) I now have the list of what I think should be the complete asset list in client_general.dat
The backgrounds are still listed and if they aren't just disabled or not recognized by the XML interpreter of Lotro there should be a way to bring them back..
Unfortunately I didn't find figure it out yet
Edit - About that "art pack release" and those "hey, don't worry, you get it soon, erm.. with the next patch, erm... addon, erm... game" statements:
Probably like most of you I'm playing mmos for several years and I'm happy if an associate of the publisher is able to attend to our (UI builders) problems. But I gave up to trust in any release date until I didn't try everything to find a workaround - even if it's just for some -erm... days
