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BrettM · Aug 29, 2008, 02:30 PM // 14:30

Fantastic news, and welcome back, Aylee. I love your program, and have recommended it to many members of my guild and alliance. They all love it, too, and thank me for the recommendation.

I do have a few requests for new features at some point down the road:

1. Location of Artisans, with a list of the materials they craft.
2. Location of SS/LB bounties in Nightfall.
3. Location of quest-giving NPCs. At least the ones out in explorable areas.

Thank you (and your team) for all the hard work you've put into this tool.

Zidane Ortef · Aug 29, 2008, 04:43 PM // 16:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylee Sedai

May the Light shine on you all, my friends.
I have to say "SORRY" for being so lazy and so absent!
Anyway, directly to the point: I'm working on MappingOut again.
I think next week I will be able to release a new update, with GWEN maps, elites and greens.
No dungeons will be added for now... I have to think about them (18 maps on more levels... damn!)

So, concluding, MappingOut is back!

To be honest. 18 multi-level dungeons but all run on a total of 6-7 maps you just enter one door one way and go out the door you came in for another. Anet is lazy so it wont be to much hassle if you do decide to do it.

Anet is lazy with weapons as well emerald, obi, ele, all 2d weapons that looks shitty.

pamelf · Aug 30, 2008, 11:47 AM // 11:47

Aylee, you are without a doubt the total best!!!! I love your program.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 06, 2008, 09:24 AM // 09:24

UPDATE 06-09-2008 (v4.0.0)

MappingOut is back with its companion GW:EN!
Sorry for being so lazy in the last year. I've been... delayed!
This is the first update containing the Eye of the North extension. It's still uncomplete, since all stuff related to dungeon is missing.
Well, let's stop chittering and have a look at the new version.
Since a new campaign has been added and we reached the number of four campaigns I decided to rise the version number to 4.0.0 (as udoh suggested me, long time ago).

major updates
- added pets informations: locations, images, levels of all charmable pets.
- removed options tab and added a menu conatinaining old options and something more (by udoh)
- added GW:EN maps (save dungeons').
- added GW:EN elites (save dungeons').
- added GW:EN greens (save dungeons').
- added GW:EN pets (save dungeons').

minor updates
- added conditional spawn to "Shekoss the Stony" in "Joko's Domain" (by Gatzu)
- fixed position of Boss Ssaresh Ratler in factions (by Gatzu)
- fixed a bug in the elite filter by boss name.
- fixed "Shiverpeaks" name, wrongly listed before. (by udoh)
- fixed statistics of Savannah Heat, wrongly listed (OutlawFMA)
- fixed description for "Elemental's Construct" in Sunjiang District (By Zander)
- changed Elonian Treasure system. Now, you can select the date on which you last opened that treasure. (by udoh)
- changed locations textes displayed in elite locations list. Now the zone is shown for first.

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Unfortunately I... ehm... lost the password to enter one of my ftp (-_-). This means the ftp "La Ruota del Tempo" into the update is no longer working.

BrettM · Sep 07, 2008, 01:37 AM // 01:37

A great update! The addition of pets and the ability to enter the date of treasure runs are nice touches. Thank you.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 07, 2008, 10:07 AM // 10:07

Thanks BrettM,
I think pets deverve a mention in MappingOut.
They fight for us.
They suffer for us.
They die for us.
They're friends, rather than merely animals.
May the Light always protect our little companions.

And may the Light shine on you all, my friends.

skretth · Sep 07, 2008, 03:11 PM // 15:11

Okay, I've opened up the program and gone update and it doesnt find any update at ANY of the 3 listed sites.
I went to mappingout.com and it still has V3
do u have a link of the V4 i can dload

Aylee Sedai · Sep 07, 2008, 06:23 PM // 18:23

Hi skretth,
this is pretty strange, but as I know my update system, I believe you completely!!! Surely, it's the worse part of all MappingOut software.
About mappingout site I have a problem with the blog platform and I could add new message nor update any pages. Anyway, the download link points to the updated mappingout version.
So these are the solutions:

1) go on www.mappingout.com in the download section and download the ZIP files. It contains MappingOut v4.0.0

2) You could do another try, before proceding with the download. And I will appreciate if you could do this, because it would show me what the problem could be. In your PERSONAL folder under MappingOut folder there should be a file named: LastUpdate.txt. have a look at the date showed there. maybe it's more updated than it should be. Try to se to the passed month (such as 01-06-2008). Save the file and launch the update. This is a try, I know. But if it works, please tell me

Thanks again and sorry for the matter

Deadly Bunny · Sep 07, 2008, 06:41 PM // 18:41

For some reason the names on the outposts/towns are like... doubled. It doesn't happen on GWEN though. It seems like it has the words from the in-game map, and then the same words from Mappingout overtop of it.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 07, 2008, 07:39 PM // 19:39

Deadly Bunny,
you make me confirm my idea that my UPDATE system sucks.
what happened to you is that you didn't have the maps updated. GWEN maps are new so they have been downloaded. But for some reasons you still have the very old maps for the other campaigns.
Here a GLOBAL solution for my update bugs:

If you encounter an update problem DELETE the file LastUpdate.txt into the PERSONAL folder. The update will download all files and everything sould be updated.
I'm very sorry for this problem. I will try to realize something for INTELLIGENT!!

Deadly Bunny · Sep 07, 2008, 07:55 PM // 19:55

Thanks, that fixed it.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 08, 2008, 07:30 AM // 07:30

Good Deadly Bunny,
I'm happy you succeeded in downloading everything. Now this confirms my suspects: I have to redraw my update system -_-

Panix · Sep 08, 2008, 01:12 PM // 13:12

Thanks for this program, helped me and a few guildees while capping skills.

Waldir · Sep 08, 2008, 02:06 PM // 14:06

Beautiful program, that's all i can say, keep up the good work!

nbajammer · Sep 08, 2008, 10:58 PM // 22:58

I ran the updater and got updated to 4.0 however I get runtime errors trying to launch it now. See attached screenshot.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 09, 2008, 07:16 AM // 07:16

Quote:

Originally Posted by nbajammer

I ran the updater and got updated to 4.0 however I get runtime errors trying to launch it now. See attached screenshot.

Thank you for the post, nbajammer.
You definetely fixed one thing: my update doesn't work.
Ok, this is a fact. But your problem remains and I have no idea what happened at the download time, but for sure something went wrong and some files are corrupted. This assumption derives from the fact that it MUST work

Now, how to cure that?
Try this: create a new empty folder. Copy UPDATE.EXE in that folder and launch it. It will download everything again. I know, I know, this is not a good way to proceed, but I'm really sorry to admit I have no idea why you should get that error

If after doing this MappingOut works, copy your personal folder in this new folder and you will have all you data updated.

As everyone could have seen by the number of crashes occurred during MappingOut usage, I didn't pay too much attention at MappingOut solidity. I didn't add any CRC control other data files. I assume data files as valid. Moreover I decided to use NOT encrypted data files, in order to let other user to manage them. Well, this has not been a good idea. Now I know.
Maybe, after releasing the update containing GW:EN dungeons and collectors, I could spend some times in fixing these problems, making the software a little bit solid.

Sorry again to everyone encountered problems.
I hate creating problems.
Blood and bloody ashes!!

nbajammer · Sep 09, 2008, 01:01 PM // 13:01

Quote:

Originally Posted by Aylee Sedai

Thank you for the post, nbajammer.
You definetely fixed one thing: my update doesn't work.
Ok, this is a fact. But your problem remains and I have no idea what happened at the download time, but for sure something went wrong and some files are corrupted. This assumption derives from the fact that it MUST work

Now, how to cure that?
Try this: create a new empty folder. Copy UPDATE.EXE in that folder and launch it. It will download everything again. I know, I know, this is not a good way to proceed, but I'm really sorry to admit I have no idea why you should get that error

If after doing this MappingOut works, copy your personal folder in this new folder and you will have all you data updated.

Thanks for the reply Aylee!

Unfortunately, this new copy is also crashing, and with the exact same error message as the original.

Aylee Sedai · Sep 09, 2008, 03:50 PM // 15:50

This is pretty unusual!
Now, we have some possiblities left:

1) make a zip file of the whole folder and send the zip to me ([email protected]). I will debug and try to investigate. This is the best choice.

2) Really, I would have liked having another possibility to spare, but I could think about anything else

dawnmist · Sep 12, 2008, 10:33 AM // 10:33

I've just updated to the new version of mapping out, but seem to be having a font problem.

The font used in the legend and the item descriptions is now unreadable. A sample is visible at http://gw.dawnmist.net/MappingOutLegend.png

I'm guessing that I don't have the right font so Windows is defaulting to something awful, but am not sure what to look for. Any suggestions?

Aylee Sedai · Sep 12, 2008, 12:56 PM // 12:56

Hi dawnmist,
I like this kind of "informatic" matters. Where no reasonable answers can be given. Why should I say this? First because I didn't change niether legend nor descriptions font. Second because I'm using a standard font (or better, I thought it were!): Small Fonts.
Anyway, I encountered visualization issues only on machines where them has been changed to something else with a different default characters size.
But I don't think this is the case. Mostly, which operative system are you using? I didn't test MappingOut on WindowsVista much longer

I will investigate, trying to discover something new.