Lord of Ultima Tools Part 4: LoU Assistant

LoU Tweak and LoU BOS are the main scripts that I use when playing Lord of Ultima, but there are a few other scripts and extensions around that fulfil miscellaneous tasks. The first that I'll discuss is LoU Assistant, which contains a few minor but useful options.

Unfortunately it hasn't been updated for about 6 months, and every new game update seems to break a new feature.

Lord of Ultima Tools Part 3: LoU BoS Tools

See Part 1 for instructions on how to install LoU BoS and Part 2 for information about the Summary component of LoU BoS. The rest of this post assumes that you already have BoS installed.

BoS Tools are a series of tools that can be accessed via a drop down menu that appears when you click on the button at the top right of your Lord of Ultima game.

Rise of Isengard: Southern Dunland

Since my last post about LOTRO's most recent expansion, Rise of Isengard, I've covered most of the southern part of Dunland, that is, Starkmoor, Dunbog, Carreglyn and Gravenwood, as well as finishing the new epic quests that were released as part of the expansion (Volume III, Book 4). That earned me about 4 levels (from the start of 69 to almost 73).

Lord of Ultima Tools Part 2: LoU BoS Summary

Continued from Part 1

LoU BoS is by far the most complex of the LoU add-ons. It basically consists of lots of different tools, so you can use just one part of it without bothering about the rest of it. Some of the tools are more useful than others, and some of them are only really useful if you don't have ministers.

Unlike LoU Tweak, which adds buttons and information all over the place, LoU BoS only adds two buttons, "Summary" and "BOS Tools", and another little section, all circled in red below:

Lord of Ultima Tools Part 1: Script Installation and LoU Tweak

There are lots of tools out there to help with Lord of Ultima, and some of them become almost indispensable as your empire grows. But some of the most useful of them are quite complex to use. So here is a guide to the basics.

Countdown to NaNoWriMo: Resources

NaNoWriMo can be done with nothing more than a pen and a big stack of paper (although unless you're planning to sit there and count 50k words by hand you probably want to use a computer, and to officially win you'll need a computer with an internet connection at the very end). But there are a multitude of other resources out there that can help you along the way.

Countdown to NaNoWriMo: Looking Backward, Looking Forward

It's now just 9 days until NaNoWriMo begins for 2011. For the uninitiated, NaNoWriMo = National Novel Writing Month. The national part is a bit of a misnomer, since it's been international for a long time, but the rest of it is pretty self-explanatory - it involves writing a novel in a month, specifically in November.