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Lord of the Rings Online: Improving Game Mechanics
News Discussion « General Discussion 6/18/09 2:34:51 PM
Combat I would love to have the realism of ranged attacks (including for LMs and RKs) having to negotiate the risk of hitting your own side instead of unrealistically passing straight through them. Area Damage should similarly affect your own side, requiring cunning tactical deployment and team coordination instead of just being a gift.
OP:> I love LOTRO how it is but, hey, the guy asked! Movement In the two years of play, one of the areas that most annoys me is just the straightforward moving around the world -- mine and everyone else's. How stupid is it that everyone can highjump their own height, land on their feet and immediately do it again -- to the point that they careen across the landscape bouncing like Tom Bombadil on springs?! Make it cost Power so people don't do it in hostile areas, and ive everyone a 5 jump limit that takes 60 secs to cooldown. And make going round things be preferable to flinging yourself off a cliff. It's one thing to have a mechanism to prevent people frmo dying unnecessarily just for misjudging the environment, but it should cost you Morale as well as just a movement penalty. And it's just wrong that everyone streaks along the shortest lines from A to B, such that the artistically winding roads just guarantee that no one follows them. Give people a Hustle factor of 10-20% for being on a road. Housing The neighbourhoods are barren wastelands that happen to have houses in. The idea of encouraging a community buzz and friendship with your neighbours just fell on its face. Why is there so much empty space? (After the chests -- yay!) the second greatest thing about Houses is the teleport. But the distance to the exit from a neighbourhood, coupled with those exits' positioning in the world, means that you teleport home and map back out again. This is really weak. I think crafters should be able to buy forges for self-repair of kit, and shops to where people can buy crafted gear on order instead of just via the global Auction House. There has to be some functionality in there beyond the storage and the reduced-cost suppliers in order to give people a reason to ever come into these areas.
Well that was just off the top of my head in a spare few minutes... Am I alone on these things? Cheers, |
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Lord of the Rings Online: Fellowship Etiquette
News Discussion « General Discussion 12/21/08 1:44:59 PM
Hi Jim, Thanks for making a post from the ranks of the right-minded! I play a loremaster too, and have been through my fair share of irritation at having my Blinding Flash mezzes broken. ("Mez" as short for Mesmerise, is WoWspeak, so don't even start on the correct spelling. LOTRO calls this a Daze effect!) I've also thrown some Flashes at completely stupid times, (If 1+1 =3 for more reasons than PC AoE powers, though, I need more explanation!) I'm honestly not sure whether a group should be practising its better teamwork -- and how to make best use of its loremaster -- or not. But communication, especially from the leader, is what's needed to decide how it's going to be. Need/Greed/Pass is a fine system, somewhat abused, but also much misunderstood (especially by non English-speakers, as on the English-language servers in Europe). I sympathise with people rejecting the word Greed because greed is bad, and failing to understand the ironic way it's named.
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Lord of the Rings Online: Get a Free In Game Gift!
News Discussion « General Discussion 11/06/08 7:36:08 AM
MMORPG.com give my my LOTRO news quicker than I get it through any other channel. Viewed in terms of saving me time: yay. MMORPG.com telling me that as a player of LOTRO I can get gift X and omitting to tell me that it only applies to Turbine's direct customers and not customers of Codemasters -- COSTING me an hour of my life -- just makes it all not worthwhile. There are more negative comments on this topic than positive ones. Serve you right. I thought ".com" was meant to mean global, not backyard.
But just before I finish I'd like to see that Turbine shares the blame too. They're the ones that told me they were sending me a new password to my account's registered email address instead of just saying that I didn't have an account, as was evidently the case. --Os.
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