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Topic: LOTRO TAXI to victory lasted two weeks (Read 155465 times)
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Phred
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Can you imagine seriously leveling up an alt in LoTR? I had two or three in the high teens and the thought of redoing lone lands and north downs leaves me totally cold.
The only plus I can think of is if you find a group of mostly alts they wont managed to fuck up Our greatest Find so badly as to wipe the whole group the way so many pickup groups I found did. I did it on one of my alts and someone showed us a damn shortcut that totally avoided 95% of the goblins after you pick up the item.
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« Last Edit: August 13, 2007, 03:31:32 PM by Phred »
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zubey
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Can you imagine seriously leveling up an alt in LoTR? I had two or three in the high teens and the thought of redoing lone lands and north downs leaves me totally cold.
FWIW, the Evendim expansion helped a lot there for me. The thing is, with my first character (lvl 42 burg), I ended up skipping a lot of quests. You just end up out-leveling them, since there are so many quests. So, when my (change-of-pace alt) level 35 hunter came around, there was only maybe 60% overlap in the quests I did. With Evendim content starting in the high 20s, you can afford to skip many of the quests you didn't like the first time around. I hope they continue to add quests at all levels. It makes alts a lot more palatable. |
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Venkman
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Yea, but phred is talking about the teens and 20s, and I completely agree. LoTRO has the same problem as some other titles that only really offer one line of content to progress through. Levels 1-15 (I think) are fine, but once you hit Bree, that's it. Same thing happens in WoW, but much later in the levels.
At least it does make finding PUGs easier :)
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Phred
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Yea, but phred is talking about the teens and 20s, and I completely agree. LoTRO has the same problem as some other titles that only really offer one line of content to progress through. Levels 1-15 (I think) are fine, but once you hit Bree, that's it. Same thing happens in WoW, but much later in the levels.
At least it does make finding PUGs easier :)
LFM Goblin king. :) At least your chances of finding a group for our greatest find that wont wipe will be higher. |
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« Last Edit: August 13, 2007, 03:32:20 PM by Phred »
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Nebu
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Do people's heads still explode when you yell "looking for group!" in the general chat channel?
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"Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other."
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Phred
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Do people's heads still explode when you yell "looking for group!" in the general chat channel?
You know the average MMO crowd. Any excuse to go into moron mode in general chat. |
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Venkman
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The Bree-land chat channel is modern Barrens chat. Heck, even Bree itself is better. It appears to have never evolved, even though the people in that channel are quite likely on their second or third alt and have played through to other zones. I keep expecting the asshatery that happens in Bree-land chat to migrate to at least Lone Lands as the median level of all players inevitably grow (unless they are still attracting faster than attrition).
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Venkman
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Nyght
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Updates on the business? Nah, don't care.  |
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Amaron
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So that means ~100k people play EvE since it's a game where nobody keeps playing it without buying an alt. |
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Slayerik
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I was alt-less.
I know I'm an anomoly, but we do exist. :)
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Modern Angel
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For all of LOTRO's claims to a wonderful community I was perpetually appalled at how bad it was when I was subbed. Grouping wasn't as bad as in WoW but the chat was every bit as bad, probably worse.
Not that anyone's taking the crown from Guild Wars anytime soon...
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Numtini
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The community in beta was really good, but after release it was just appalling.
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If you can read this, you're on a board populated by misogynist assholes.
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Modern Angel
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I'd agree with that sentiment.
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Venkman
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It's just the same as any other MMO, which can also be said for the expectations of the community. LoTRO is just an MMO.
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Nebu
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I was alt-less.
I know I'm an anomoly, but we do exist. :)
Didn't SWG attempt this with the one character per server thing? I'd like single character servers as well or at least give all alts the same last name as the primary character. This creates at least a modicum of accountability for douchebaggery. |
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Lantyssa
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I'd like single character servers as well or at least give all alts the same last name as the primary character. This creates at least a modicum of accountability for douchebaggery.
That's the one thing I like about  . It's a system that would be nice to see used elsewhere. |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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Phred
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Can you imagine seriously leveling up an alt in LoTR? I had two or three in the high teens and the thought of redoing lone lands and north downs leaves me totally cold.
FWIW, the Evendim expansion helped a lot there for me. The thing is, with my first character (lvl 42 burg), I ended up skipping a lot of quests. You just end up out-leveling them, since there are so many quests. So, when my (change-of-pace alt) level 35 hunter came around, there was only maybe 60% overlap in the quests I did. With Evendim content starting in the high 20s, you can afford to skip many of the quests you didn't like the first time around. from what I hope they continue to add quests at all levels. It makes alts a lot more palatable. |
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Phred
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Can you imagine seriously leveling up an alt in LoTR? I had two or three in the high teens and the thought of redoing lone lands and north downs leaves me totally cold.
FWIW, the Evendim expansion helped a lot there for me. The thing is, with my first character (lvl 42 burg), I ended up skipping a lot of quests. You just end up out-leveling them, since there are so many quests. So, when my (change-of-pace alt) level 35 hunter came around, there was only maybe 60% overlap in the quests I did. With Evendim content starting in the high 20s, you can afford to skip many of the quests you didn't like the first time around. I hope they continue to add quests at all levels. It makes alts a lot more palatable. From what I remember Evendim only really replaced angmaur though, in terms of the content range it showed up for. |
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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From what I remember Evendim only really replaced angmaur though, in terms of the content range it showed up for.
Agamaur/Garth Agarwen is roughly for levels 30-35, Evendim has quests all way up to level 40 (that is, quests are designed for these levels and marked as such) |
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Hound
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No way I will ever level an alt till they get alternate content for the lone lands. I beta'ed this bitch for over 6 months and without exaggeration put at least fifteen characters through their teens and early twenties and I do not even like riding through that area these days.
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Given the number of failures we've seen in MMORPGs, designers need to learn it's hard enough just to make a fun game without getting distracted by unnecessary drivel.
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Falconeer
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I'd like single character servers as well or at least give all alts the same last name as the primary character. This creates at least a modicum of accountability for douchebaggery.
That's the one thing I like about . It's a system that would be nice to see used elsewhere. You mean Granado Espada? You know, there's no NDA on that...  |
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