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With the servers down for maintenance & my itching for WAR starting to peak, I happened across an interesting post by Pete, who pens Dragonchasers. The post details what the WAR game client folders contain, here’s an extract:

Logs
Let’s start with the Logs directory. Inside it is a Communications directory. A level deeper is a directory for each server you have characters on, and then inside that a directory for each character. So for my character Meglivorn I’m looking in:

\Program Files\Electronic Arts\Warhammer Online – Age of Reckoning\logs\communication\Averheim\Meglivorn

Averheim being the name of the server. Anyway inside here are 4 log files. chat.log, combat.log, guildnews.log and system.log. These are all text files and contain a *ton* of information if you feel like writing a parser for them. Here’s a snippet of the system log:

[08/09/14][12:55:57]You receive Druchii War Pendant.
[08/09/14][12:58:02]You sold Worked Highstaff to Galmaer Silvermoon for 1 silver and 20 brass coins.
[08/09/14][12:58:06]You sold Druchii War Pendant x2 to Galmaer Silvermoon for 24 brass coins.
[08/09/14][12:58:28]You have purchased a new ability.
[08/09/14][13:00:51]Jobildo has invited you to join the Casualties of WAR guild.

I am happy that within these folders I have a record, out of game, that I can dig through to find dates & information about my characters in WAR, as well as more limited information about my guild via the guildnews folder.

For example, Calef:

[08/09/18][11:02:27]You recieve Recruiter’s Coursegloves as a reward for Empire Chapter 1 Influence.

Nice find Pete!

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