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Fort Charles is at Port Royal. If you follow the beach, one end leads to Wicked Thicket, and the other end is a high that leads to Fort Charles.

Facing Sam Seabones and the beach, turn right and you will see an opening going to one of the taverns. To the left of this opening is a corner. There's a dig spot there, and I usually just run to this spot to dig.

But basically any dig spot will give you a high chance of getting the buried ring.

If all else fails you can buy a game card online at http://www.paybycash.com/lotro/codelist.php with your debit card.

In order to tweak the settings you have to pick "Custom" from the Video Quality drop down. Then all the options will light up.

You won't need to cancel if you didn't upgrade from trial. Their trials are not auto-bill.

Originally posted by alvasten

  Since the game is free, all you would need is a basic character with basic equipment. When starting I would just use a melee weapon ( as it does not need ammo), and just start hunting in the new area. After a while you can earn enough equipment to buy eqipment without having to pay irl. It will take a long grind tho so be ready to spend a lot of hours killing spawns. There also are no missions by the game. but I did here that some guilds and people are setting up missions.

Hope that helps.

Surprisingly, I just heard about EU and am intrigued, more from a study/research perspective.

I know it's a game that relies on cash transactions with in game item/money sinks. I also read a lot of comments about it being "gamble-ly" if you don't  know what you are doing.

Traditional casino wisdow tells you that you don't try to win at the casino, but rather, just try to make your money last as long as possible, because the house always win. So my question is, how far will a $15 a month investment get you in this game (comparable to other monthly MMOs), given an average working adult:

- Average skill and reasonable amount of research
- Can play maybe 10-20 hours a week
- Do like this kind of social/economic games

Basically, what I am trying to get at is, can $15 a month buy you amount of "fun", comparable to another MMO?

May 31st is the absolute last day you can enter your Pre-order key, and that's it. It will be gone from the website afterwards.

Originally posted by StanlyManly
I don't need to provide any proof.  I made no claims, only reference to another's claims.  The burden of "proof" is on you, if you do not believe them.  Just as much as you want to say those numbers are false, your word alone doesn't make it so.

I don't believe LOTRO is failing.  My stand has always been that the game is highly overrated, that some of the claims that fans have made are completely false, and that many of the reviews and posts about the game are paid advertisements.

It sounds like it's texture loading, as well as new models drawing issue. Try playing around your texture cache size. It might help.

Originally posted by CuChulainn
Dance, baby! - Ok, this is by no means a factor to base your decision to play LOTRO or not, but c'mon!  Yeah, we all know white folk can't dance, but what about hobbits and dwarves?  If you log into LOTRO for the first time and type /dance expecting to laugh as hard as you did after typing the same command for your gnome in WoW, prepare to be dissappointed.  Instead of wild tiny hip-thrusts and ass-slapping, all you'll get is clapping - and even then it seems as if your character's saying, "Oh please, do I have to?!?"

1. Get the box
2. Open the box
3. Get the Product Key inside
4. Enter it on https://myaccount.turbine.com's home page, the site will guide you for the rest :)

Originally posted by spoon91
Yeah Im thinking about starting up on playing mmos again, so would this be a good game to start back up on?

Originally posted by ASmith84
what is this?  lotro is number one?  how the hell did this happen?  what is so special about this game?  from what i heard all it is is a nothin special mmo with a lotr theme.  whats the deal here people?  tell me why it is number one.  and dont say people voted for it because i know that but why did they vote for it?

I have been playing MMO since UO and is an avid PvE player (PvP is totally not my cup of tea). I find LOTRO to be very satisfying. I played WoW for a long time, and LOTRO is just what I need, a new, fresh batch of PvE contents for me and my friends to go through together. We level together, we do fellowship and epic story quests together. It's a blast :)

Just want to say that don't assume all "veteran" MMO players have the same taste as you ;)

Monster Play
New Character with Another Race/Class
Crafting, including Crits with Rare Materials and One Use Recipes
Complete Deeds
Collect Titles
Play with the /music system
etc.