Vinny

After much procrastination, I finally finished the timings on all the tediously slow routes in King's Gondor.

With update 37 coming on Tuesday, I'll have more work ahead this week.

Vinny

This adds the large new zone of "King's Gondor" with 15 new stable locations. This zone can only be accessed from After Battle Minas Tirith. Several locations have stables in both this zone and Old Anorien, so for those stables, I've had to add the suffix " (KG)" to the names to make them unique. There is also a Return/Guide/Muster to Pelargir (West Gate) skill that can be bartered for after achieving Acquaintance standing with "the Renewal of Gondor".

This version includes all of the Swift Travel routes, but I've only started on the slow routes and will add them in a minor update. This may take a couple of weeks, but I don't know why anyone would use them when they can take the faster route.

Vinny

I'm still working on the ST routes and it's going to be sometime next week before I post those without the slow routes. It is incredibly tedious and I can only do about 50-60 routes before it starts to put me to sleep.

I did get the Return/Guild/Muster to Pelargir added and all you need is acquaintance reputation.

Vinny

I've started working on the 15 new stables in the new "King's Gondor" zone but with over 400 new routes to time, it will take several days. I may release a partial update after I've completed the swift travel routes.

Vinny

That is what the Zone drop-down menu is for.

You can also use the '/trf' command to locate a particular stable and see which zone it is in. If there is only one location that matches the location name then it will be selected.

Finally, it always helps to read the documentation (the ReadMe file).

lotrofamily

Apologies for asking a stupid question...how do I set a different destination Zone to the starting Destination Zone?

I can only see how to travel between destinations in the same zone. Sorry if it's really obvious!

[edit] I thought I'd found it with the tickbox next to the Set Start/End, but when I went to "Find Route" I just got the message "Select a different End location". So I'm still not quite there.

Vinny

This version just adds the new Bail Avarc stable location. It is only accessible via other stables. This location has level 140 activities.

Vinny

This adds the new regions, Swanfleet and Cardolan with 13 new stable locations and three new Return/Guide/Muster locations. Needless to say, there were many tedious hours of riding all the new routes to get the times calculated, but I think I finally have them all correct.

Note that two of the Return/Guide/Muster locations can be learned by just earning Iron Coins from region quests, but the Andrath locations can only be learned from the Delving Quartermaster.

If you find any errors, please let me know so that I can correct them.

Vinny

I'm currently working on a new version for Lotro update 34, which adds 2 new regions.

Vinny

After considering the benefits, I've decided that it is more useful to have all my plugins in the same apartment so that the open window action works as before. You'll also need the latest version of VinnyLoader.

I finally got the Lyndelby stable location on my main character and have corrected the settings for that location. I also decided to change the name of Akraz-zahar to Akraz-zahar(I) to indicate that this location is in an instance as I've done for other such locations.

Vinny

If you change them all to Vinny, it will work as it used to.

I'm doing less testing lately as I'm mostly done with changes for a while, so I may change them all back to how it was. Another option is to write a script that will automatically set them the same when doing releases, but I'm still evaluating how to proceed.

JLPicard

"It is due to a limitation in the plugin configuration settings. Plugins are assigned to a Configuration Apartment. If two plugins are assigned to the same CA then they can call a function in the other plugin. However, to allow one plugin to reload another plugin, they have to be in different CAs. I changed the VL CA so that it could reload my other plugins to speed up development and testing, but that means that it can no longer ask an already loaded plugin to open its main window. You can edit the .plugin files and set them to be the same CA and then the open window in VL will work."

Thanks Vinny. I find that VinnyLoader Plugin lists CA as 'Vinny' and Travel Ref as 'TravelRef'.

I should edit them to be the same?

Vinny

It is due to a limitation in the plugin configuration settings. Plugins are assigned to a Configuration Apartment. If two plugins are assigned to the same CA then they can call a function in the other plugin. However, to allow one plugin to reload another plugin, they have to be in different CAs. I changed the VL CA so that it could reload my other plugins to speed up development and testing, but that means that it can no longer ask an already loaded plugin to open its main window. You can edit the .plugin files and set them to be the same CA and then the open window in VL will work.

JLPicard

thanks Vinny for the update. I am seeing TravelRef is not updated for VL open action, is there something I am missing?

Vinny

After many hours of riding back and forth across the Shire and Yondershire, I finally have it all updated. Yondershire adds 6 new stable locations and the Shire stables have been updated with swift travel between most locations. Connections to Duillond, Buckland, and Oatbarton have also been improved.

I've also added Haerondir as a destination so Return/Guide/Muster skills to that location can be found. The Beorning Return Home travel skill is now supported and I've added ToolTips for several fields to make them easier to understand.