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• • new to game, impressions, questions

  • Originally posted by DonnieBrasco
    

    Wait a second.

    Today is the last maintenance day in April.

    Does that mean that book13 is coming out today? :)

    DB

    Yep, Today is the day!!!!!

    You can read the patch notes on the main website.  They are adding a TON of stuff. 

  • Posted: 4/24/08 7:49 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • new to game, impressions, questions

  • Hiya,

    Welcome to LoTRO!  I wasn't sure if anyone answered this, but I'm not sure if trial accounts can use the advice channel. 

    A while back, LoTRO was PLAGUED by gold spammers.  We wouldnt go five minutes without 20 gold spam tells.  It was VERY annoying to say the least.  Almost unbearable.  So they took a lot of steps to get rid of that and now, I may get 1 spam tell in a month, tops.

    To do this, they limited the trial account's access to cretain chat channels such as tells.  I think this is a much better approach as it has significantly decreased gold spammer tells and their appearance in a lot of the main channels (although if you stand in bree for any amount of time than half a second they'll be all over OOC, but you can report them easily y right clicking on their name and choosing reportas spammer.)

    So many games lately have been reducing access to their trial accounts, which may cut down on spammers, but also on paying customers.

    BTW like he said above, you didn't waste your money on the instruments.  Some you will use as a minstrel for combat purposes.  But if you like music, their music system is actually a pretty  cool and in-depth mini-game.  Check the main forums if you want to play though, there' a sticky post that tells you how to do it.  And you'll need it.

     

    I play on Meneldor and I never have a hard time population wise.  We played the other night and there were a ton of people on!  everyone in my kinship kept commenting on it.  But as they said it may be a time of day thing. 

    Hope some of this helps.  If you join Meneldor and need any help add Heatheryn, Sekia, Eeli, Aiwe, Khalion to your list and send me a tell if you have any questions at all :)

     

     

     

  • Posted: 4/24/08 7:48 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • People should play this game... just not this guy

  • He rips on everything, lol.  The thing about the Age of Conan was just a rip on himself.  Note when he says (not an exact quote, but close enough)  "did they get the ugliest guy they could find just to cover up the low production cost values?"  and then he pauses and  turns around and touches the cheaply made screen material behind him.

    He was poking fun at himself and his "show" way more so than AoC.  He just didn't quite get his timing/wording right.  Read the non-deaththreat/loser comments below and then watch it again.

    If you don't like his opinion, don't watch his live-action attempt at comedy blog ^^

    Personally, i thougth the 360/hd-dvd thing was kinda funny..because that part is pretty much based on fact.

     

     

  • Posted: 4/05/08 12:15 PM
    Age of Conan
• • Roleplaying in LOTRO

  • Originally posted by nitefly
    

    
    You can easily develop a deep character if you mean motivations, desires, dreams, hopes, ambitions, backstory and so on. Just be sure to fit it to the stasis of the game, otherwise they will never be able to come to fruition.
    
    If you are a big Tolkien fan I would personally (me personally, not like that is a gigantic truth or something, just me saying how I feel) recommend that you do not take up this game unless you are prepared to ignore the Tolkien you have read and accept Turbine's version of Middle Earth.
    
    For me, the breaking points are as follows (then you decide whether they mean anything to you, if not, go for the trial):
    
    - The world is very small. The scope and grandeur of Middle Earth is for me not present due to the world being VERY small.

    Since they are working off of matierial that was created a long time ago, they had to start out with a small portion or else they would use up all of the material that they had.  Who wants a game to release with all of the content it will ever have?
    
    - There are aggressive Monsters EVERYWHERE. This is tied in to the whole effort of making the game a generic fantasy MMO with "Kill X amount of monster Y, return to Questgiver Z" or "Collect X amount of Y, return to Questgiver Z" but it also means that the journey, the exploration, and the immersion into the world of Middle Earth is for me just a tour through a Fun Fair with a whole lot of Shooting Tents.
    
    - Healing is done by playing a drum/banjo. I kid you not. If this was morale only (a sort of alternate value apart from your health and resilience) it would make sense, but this is healing the crushing blows of dragons and trolls, not about summoning up the actual courage of fighting these things.

    "Healing" is different in this game then other games.  You do not have a health bar at all.  You have a morale bar.   Since dying and coming back constantly is not lore-tastic, they had to develop another way to go about it.  Therefore instead of dying, you retreat from battle.  So it makes sense (especially in a roleplaying sense) that you would use music to boost your confidence (morale) and enable you to stay in combat for longer periods of time, etc.

    
    
    - You have Elves, Dwarves, and Hobbits who are not even remotely recognizable to the ones you read about. This means that Bree is brimming with these rare and special races in this Age of Man. Simple solution could have been to limit them to one per account, only accessible after doing certain things or something else. The current status makes Middle Earth indiscernable from any fantasy world in any other fantasy MMO.

    I think the races fit the lore well enough, but I do agree that a ton of elves and hobbits and such running around massively in bree is a tad silly.  However, if they were to have limited this game to just the man race, there would have been riots about how it didn't fit with the lore ^^
    
    - Aggressive deers, colossal spiders (and other creatures that just make me shake my head), orcs & goblins right outside settlements (but they just stand there, waiting to be killed, it is not a flowing living world where defenders fight these creatures or where the orcs/goblins once in a while attacks). The feeling of a static world is very much present everywhere you go.

    Colossal spiders don't fit in Middle Earth?  Hobbit anyone?  I would also like to say that i think it is pretty silly to have so many aggressive deer in the open, but then again they are deer from an alternate reality, so who know s what they would do.  And its not too unbelievable that a male of a species would act aggressively when it's mates/offspring are near.
    
    This is just my opinion, other people will have other opinions

     

    True, this game is not for everyone.  Plenty of love and hate flying out towards this game.  Try it out for yourself and see how you feel.  I will agree that Landroval has a great community with plenty of RP.  If you are a true RP, I'm sure you just need a good setup to get you started and won't feel the need to have your story/characters life spoonfed to you.  You should find plenty of like-minded folks hanging around on Landroval:)

    Good luck!
    

  • Posted: 4/04/08 9:24 AM
    Lord of the Rings Online
• • Moving on for a while from WoW. Suggestions?

  • Originally posted by dixzer
    

    I've tried both EQ2 and Lotro in their free trials, but I suppose that wasn't enough time for me to deem them
    worthwhile or not, they had things I liked and things I didn't like.
    
    What I don't want though is : Endless Grinds, undetailed worlds, no purpose except for leveling and buying
    new stuff at set levels from shopkeepers, my character is supposed to feel unique and not like a total
    copy of another which is at the same level.

    In my opinion, the addition of the new outfit system in LoTRO has gone a long way towards getting rid of the feeling that you character looks just like everyone elses.  Of course, you have to hit lvl 20 to get into this.

    The LoTRO world is very detailed right now.  They have added touches like housing into the game to give it a more lifelike feel.  If you haven't played in a while, I suggest you give it another shot now that a few content patches/books have come out. 

  • Posted: 4/03/08 1:17 PM
    General Discussion