Version 5 manufactures have been added to WLODB. If you see any missing please PM me with the name of the item and the tool used. I will be able to get all the other details in game.

Thank you,
SeaWolf

Thanks to everyone on the site for their continued support. I know it's been a while since I have been around and want to give a huge thanks to SeaWolf for stepping up to help administer the site.

With everyone's help I think the majority of version 5 items have been added to the database. Huge thanks again goes to SeaWolf for adding the new manufactures and most of the images you guys uploaded to the site.

I swear I'm going to see if I can get around to making some site updates soon enough!

Huge thanks to keyoshikira for adding all those new items to the site. I went through and updated the images. I also added all the new manufactures that I noticed. Let me know if you see anything I missed!

As always, if you have any missing images from http://wlodb.com/items/missing_images please post them here or in the missing images thread here http://wlodb.com/topics/74 and I will update them.

Sorry it's been so long since the last update. I've been working on improving the site's performance lately since I noticed it's been getting bogged down when there are more than 30 users online at a time...and I have a better idea of how to code some of the stuff now that I've had some more experience.

I ended up rewriting the items, compounds, and recycles section which improved performance a lot! The items and recycles page loads a couple seconds faster and the compounds page should pull up at least two or three times as fast now (about 2-3 seconds instead of 5-6 seconds).

I also added a fake items search filter for compounds/items and an alchemy type for compounds as well.

Another change I made which will help the server load is that the filters for the compound now only apply to the compound result and not the compound components EXCEPT for the name search (unless you check only apply name filter to compound result). I ended up doing the same thing with recycles. I think most of them probably didn't really make sense to apply these filters to all the items in the compounds or recycles anyway.

The filter changes should definitely save lots more memory on the server since they were using up lots of database resources.

Let me know if you can see the difference!

I know a few people have been asking for this so I put something together pretty quick. You can access your private messages under the home menu or http://wlodb.com/pms. I also added a couple other options under the home menu.

There is a little mail icon that will popup when you get new messages. If you mouseover the icon it will tell you how many new messages you have.

At the moment there is no way to delete the items in your outbox since at the moment this would also remove the item from the recipient's inbox. I still have to think a bit to see how I want to handle deleting messages.

The layout is pretty basic for now. Let me know if you have any ideas.

I added a paypal donation button JUST in case someone was trying to donate but didn't know how!

No worries if you don't want to donate...but they might help the site get better a little quicker ;)

I wanted to say thanks again to the others who donated a while ago when I had a button up when the site used to look like crap (I'm sure you hardcore players still remember).

Finally got the item popups working in Internet Explorer. Took me a while as I was trying to use all CSS but I ended up figuring out another way to get it working with the current javascript.

The formatting is a little different from before right now. I wanted to get something working up and I'll tweak it a little bit to match up the font and text size a little better.

EDIT: I fixed up the popups so they are back to normal looking now. Let me know if you have any suggestion about the formatting or any ideas to make them look better.

Also, I added new Item Filters for the base materials under the dropdown menu. Check them out!

Oh...and I finally think I fixed the silly ads on the top not always lining up in a row. Hopefully, that will be less annoying.

I just added a new algorithm to check the base materials each compound. Took me a while but I think I may have one that works for junior/superior as well. Basically, if a compound does not match the base materials of the result it will have a yellow exclamation next to it.

This has already helped me find a lot of incorrect compounds and a few items that had incorrect base materials set. Hopefully you guys will fix up any errors you might see, too!

Let me know if you notice any errors in the calculations as I don't even have junior/superior alchemy yet! Especially the formulas with more than 2 compound materials.

The one thing I wasn't sure about was if you compounded 3 or more items with the same rank with junior/superior. I assumed that it would use the bases in the order you put them in but I'm not sure if that's correct now after seeing this formula for red dragon gown. http://wlodb.com/compounds/5706

also, i just noticed this one which might change the rules a bit for junior/superior alchemy if it's true. I don't if the script is working exactly with the alchemy books. http://wlodb.com/compounds/5605

EDIT: BTW, don't take these to mean a compound is invalid. Some compounds have some weird rules. I expect that there are a few problems with the current algorithm so I'm hoping with everyone's input I can get it fixed this week.

I just added a checkbox for fake items and fake compounds. Once checked, these items/compounds will show a red X which I can then go through and delete from the site. The only users that currently have access to set this are the item/compound admins.

Finally finished the dropdown menus. Took a little bit longer than I thought tweaking the CSS to fit in with the site.

Should work fine on any browser IE6 and up. The only thing I noticed is that on IE the menus don't overlap properly if there are multiple dropdowns, but it's not a big deal at all.

I added some filters for items/compounds and might do something for base materials. Do you guys have any suggestions for other quick links you want added to the site?