LOTRoster 1.0.0 is now available

LOTRoster is now out of beta.  Version 1.0.0 is now available for download.

As this is essentially a port of my own RosterMaster StandAlone to the Lord of The Ring Online MMORPG, there's probably not a lot of additional features left to add (RMSA itself has been pretty much in maintenance mode over the past year, after over a year of very active development, including nearly monthly releases at one point).  During development, a couple of new features were added to accommodate some needs that were specific to LOTRO.  Basically:

  • Offline Updating.  LOTRoster has to pull a LOT of XML pages from Turbine's website.  For load reasons (and as good etiquette), those separate page pulls are throttled at 1 page per second.  The need for offline updating then became essential, as opposed to RMSA that only has to pull 3 pages in total (one XML, one HTML and one CSV page).  However I still intend to port this one to RMSA, as for some large guilds it might still be beneficial.
  • Multiple roster pages.  LOTRO has a LOT more stats available to third party applications.  This forced me to implement additional stats pages (which are optional and can be disabled), each with its own configurable template.  I doubt this will get ported to RMSA, unless people actually ask for it.
  • Log filtering.  I was hoping to implement a more complete filtering system (that would, for example, let you search for entries related to a specific character).  It didn't make it into 1.0 as it would involve a fair amount of code (security is very important when implementing that kind of feature where a user can input text that gets used in a database query).  I haven't decided yet if it will appear in a future version and in exactly what form, but it's noted on my potential list of things to change.

 

And, of course, a few bugs showed up while working on LOTRoster that for some reason never appeared during RMSA development/usage.  A couple of bugs inside the charts generation code came up, and will also be fixed in RMSA.

So, what's coming next?  For LOTROster, it's wait-and-see for now.  I need to see what is the general response from the LOTRO community, to see if there is as much interest in LOTROster as there was in RMSA.  This is where your feedback is going to be important, as the amount of future development time will be highly influenced by the popularity of LOTRoster.

 

LOTRoster > Sliced Bread

This is fantastic.  Having a self-updating roster combined with linkage to forum accounts has been the Holy Grail I've been looking for.  Thanks a bunch!

I'm really looking forward to

I'm really looking forward to trying out this new version!

On the charts page, I modified the code to allow the viewer to restrict the level ranges for the charts. That way, you can see just the class distribution of endgame characters, or new recruits and alts, or even what classes are getting stuck and abandoned at certain level ranges. If that sounds like something you'd be interested in, I can send you the changes I made.

Thanks again for a great app!

charts filter

I like that idea.  Added in 1.1.0 beta 2, thanks :)