LotRO Alliance

From Turbine's website:

Sapience wrote:We have been made aware of suspicious account requests via in game email and other means. These emails are very convincing and link to a site that has cloned the appearance of the lotro.com website. All players should be aware that this is not a valid site and is in no way associated with Turbine.

Example email:
“Becasuse you suspected of lllegal trade for gold, system will freeze your ID after one hour.If you have any questions, please login (URL) to make a complaint .We will be processing as soon as possible.Thank you for your understanding!”

We are currently investigating reports and will take appropriate actions.

Sorry it took so long... the patch notes are finally up!

Enjoy!

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The Items page allows for a pretty flexible search including stats/bonuses at varying levels. This search is more advanced than any I have seen for LotRO. The problem was stat searching took too long (around 30s+). Adding a dynamic index improved performance greatly and now searching for stats takes less than 1s.

Go ahead and try out the Item search on the Items page. It is the next best thing to 'Find an upgrade' (which will probably be added soon).

Arqy

We have made it easier to add Items, traits and conjunctions to the forums!
Simply click the 'Item' button when creating a post, and a window will appear. This allows you to search the item database for the exact item you are wanting to add.



Typing the name or part of the name brings up a list of all the items in our database that match your search term. You can mouse over the items to determine the exact item you are looking for.



Simply clicking the 'insert' next to the item will add the appropriate code to your forum post wherever your cursor is located. The site will automatically generate the code and insert it for you!

The code will look something like this:

Code: Select all

[item]14942[/item]

And the end-result will be: Lothlórien Protector's Manacle Which, if you mouse-over the item, you will see the tooltip - just like in-game!

Check out this thread to find out more and how to do traits and conjunctions!

Character signatures are now available!

Signatures are auto-generated based on data from characters you create. Each race has its own theme. Each class has its own colors and each server has it's own colored textures. And you can even upload your own avatar with alpha-transparency support!

Here is an example of Aquero's signature:


To access your signature options (change avatar or set up the listing in forums) go to the User Control Panel -> Characters -> Character Signature (you must be logged in). There you will find out a little more about signature avatar size and filetypes.

Character signatures can go at the bottom of forum posts on this site, or you can copy and paste the ready-made code to forums of other websites using standard BBcode.

Recipes are back with a vengeance!

Recipes will be treated in both the Ingredient list form and the item form, giving all information pertaining to the recipe including Regular and Critical success (In-game only gives the Regular success tooltip).

Head over to the Recipes page. There is a counter near the top-right to track the number of recipes in the database.

Characters can now be linked to directly from external sites!

The direct code for character links are listed in the Edit Character section of the User Control Panel. Just click 'Select All' for the code you are wanting to use and then copy and paste.

Thanks Dey for pointing this out.

Lotro Alliance has finally re-opened the Character Journal feature! For those of you who are already familiar with the feature, you will be happy to see the improvements we've made. For those that are not familiar with the Journal, you should check it out!

The Journal can be accessed by logging into the site and clicking the Character Journal button on the toolbar located at the bottom of the page.



The Journal itself is broken into five main parts, just like the in-game journal:

• Character - where all the information about stats and items you are wearing is located. We also added your equipped traits to this tab to make it more convenient.
• Craft - where all the information about your chosen craft vocation is located. Currently, all that is displayed is your craft-tier.
• War - where all the information about the war in the Ettenmoors is located.
• Reputation - Where all the information about the reputation factions and your standing with them
• Bio - Place where you can write a little bit about yourself.

These main tabs are always visible to you, however, you can keep others from viewing specific parts of your character journal if you choose. You can change these settings under the 'Security Settings' located under the 'characters' tab in your 'User Control Panel'. Each character you create on this site can have different security settings. Please note that while anyone can see a direct link (ex: Manderero) to a character, the security settings block information. If 'View Character' is set so that a given user does not meet requirements, it will break the reference to your username (similar to ''anonymous on http://my.lotro.com ).
The security can be set up in the following manner:

• Nobody: No one can see this main tab other than you.
• Alliance Members: Just alliance members of Member status and higher.
• Alliance: All alliance members (including recruit).
• Kinship Officers: Just kinship members of Officer status and higher.
• Kinship Members: Just kinship members of Member status and higher.
• Kinship: All kinship members (including recruit).
• Non-guest Members: Non-guests are members of this site who belong to any kinship. Member status or higher.
• Non-guest: All members of this site who belong to a kinship (including recruit).
• Registered: Anyone who has registered to this site.
• Everyone: Everyone. Literally - including people who are not logged in.

Like the in-game journal, you can 'equip' and un-equip' items or traits to observe how your stats change. By opening the Character Journal while you are browsing the items page, you can simply drag an item's icon to the correct slot on your Character Journal and it will be 'equipped'. To remove an item, drag the icon from the slot to the trashcan symbol on the right side of the Journal. Traits work in the same way... simply drag the icon to the correct slot on your Journal.



We've included the ability for you to sync your character with the one on my.lotro.com This can be handy if you cannot remember the item(s) you are currently wearing.

To sync your character, go to the User Control Panel and under 'Character Builds' choose 'Sync Build'. Or you can open your Character Journal and mouse over the blue triangle next to your character's name. A drop-down will appear with the 'Sync Build' option available.



Choosing to sync your character will pull all the items you are wearing according to my.lotro.com and slot them on the journal on this site. Keep in mind there is a delay on my.lotro.com vs in-game. You might have equipped a new item that is not represented on my.lotro.com yet. To compensate, you can change what you are wearing on this site. It is also possible that the my.lotro.com has items that are not in our database yet. If this happens, this site will add a new item to our database. It will not have any stats, since those need to be added manually, but the item will exist and flagged so someone that can add the stats can get them properly added.

By going to the User Control Panel and choosing 'Characters' you can upload an avatar or picture of your in-game character so the Journal is more personalized. Try it out!