There’s a known bug in Warhammer: Age of Reckoning that corrupts the player’s backpack window.

The corruption manifests itself in any number of ways, from a solid white box where the backpack window should be, to jumbled backpack interface elements with no items displayed.

I tried uninstalling all interface add-ons and re-starting the client, deleting the backpack interface files and letting the client recreate them on start-up, and reloading the UI using the “/reloadui” chat command while logged in.  Nothing helped.

Thankfully, weeks ago I had backed up the \user\Interface\AllCharacters directory in the game’s root directory prior to testing some interface add-ons so I had a back-up of the original backpack interface files.

The backpack interface files are found in the game root directory under:

\user\interface\AllCharacters\EA_BackpackWindow\

I noticed that when I deleted these files and allowed the client to re-create them on start-up, they were re-created still in their corrupted state.

To solve the problem, I overwrote the corrupted backpack UI files with the original ones I had in the AllCharacters Interface back-up I had made earlier.

So if you haven’t experienced the backpack corruption bug yet, back up the uncorrupted backpack UI files NOW!

Here’s a link to my fixed backpack UI files if you need them: EA_BackpackWindow.zip

Since these backpack UI files are from the default installation, obviously your backpack settings won’t be retained, but all your inventory will once again be accessible.

As of late, gold sellers (business that do real money trading for game currencies, in-world items etc) are starting to become a nagging problem in W:AR, as they have been in other MMOs.

The game is barely out and already the spam has already started.  ‘Tells’ (private chat messages sent directly to players) and junk mail sent via W:AR’s internal mail system have increased to annoying levels.

Gold sellers like to claim that they don’t interfere with the game’s enjoyment but you’d be very hard pressed to find any player who agrees.  Spam Tells distract the player’s attention and cause otherwise important information to scroll off the chat display prematurely and users have to spend time deleting junk mail from the in-game mail system.

Warhammer: Age of Reckoning has an API (application programming interface) that allows users to add on additional functionality to the game.  One such add-on that I’ve installed recently is SpamMeNot.

It’s no exaggeration to state that SpamMeNot is a Godsend.  It intercepts spam Tells, prevents them from displaying, and automatically reports the spammer using the in-world reporting system; and it does so automatically and seamlessly.

I got a chance to see the add-on in action last night during a session:

SpamMeNot successfully intercepts a spam 'tell' msg.

It worked so seamlessly that I hadn’t even realized I had received gold seller spam until I received an unobtrusive chat message by W:AR support thanking me for issuing the report and that they’ll investigate it.

SpamMeNot also does ‘fuzzy matching’ so it can handle attempts by gold sellers to obfuscate URLs by substituting or adding characters.

You can download SpamMeNot from here. The only thing it requires is the LibSlash library, which is available here.

You do not need the Curse.com add-on client as you can install these add-ons manually by copying them from the archives with full pathnames to the Interface\Addons\ directory located in the game’s root directory.

SpamMeNot’s auto-reporting coupled with Mythic’s highly aggressive stance against gold sellers will certainly make things much harder for gold sellers.