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Attention all Hobbits - Lotro F2P
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InfiniteFury 864 posts
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InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWhoops!
Right then, with the news going up about the free-to-play launch for Tuesday, I thought I'd see if anyone was interested in forming a Eurogamer kinship. Those who are playing are spread around a few servers at the moment and I don't think we have a collective thing going on.
I'm on Snowbourn but if enough people are interested in giving it a go I don't mind re-rolling. So, anyone planning to take the plunge and try it out?
Edit we're on Snowbourn and the Kinship is called The Smaugasbord
Friends to add for an invite (EG then LOTRO names)
Infinite Fury: Stormweasel / Strobelight / Strangebrew
DFawkes: DFawkes
Jetset_UK: Jetset
PlushGraffiti: Engric -
THFourteen 54,987 posts
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Registered 16 years agowonder if my character is still active. was level 22 or so when I quit. -
Whizzo 44,810 posts
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Registered 20 years agoI'm certainly going to take another look, it's been a long time since I've logged in and it'd be interesting to see what's changed.
My characters were on Snowbourn as well. -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoyeah i am up for rolling on a new server -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoTHF - I think it's an unwritten rule of all MMOs now that you never delete a character. For the sake of a few bytes of database space, you don't want to stop people putting the spike back in their arm. To the best of my knowledge, Turbine/Codies have never deleted a character.
If we have other people on Snowbourn, I'd like to stick here if it won't cause any drama or stop the kinship happening. I will start a character from scratch though so we can level up at the same rate and hit some instances.
Assuming the server's alright, what about the kinship name? No offense to the originator of this common EG name but I'm fine with just about anything except New Level. There is no room for boy bands in Middle Earth. -
Jolly_Armadillo 575 posts
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Registered 11 years agoI don't hav the game but how about "dark illusion" "flying circus" or "meteora" as your kinship. What you think? -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoNew Level is uncontroversial and nice and familiar. Please nothing like:
- For the Fellowship
- Defenders of the Light
- Protectors of Justice -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoDarkfall Defense Force?
j/k - I'll have a think. -
DFawkes 32,786 posts
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Registered 16 years agoHow many character slots to freeloaders get? I've got a character from when I was subbing and if it's one slot only I'll have to delete him. He's shot though, but still. -
MikeP 2,975 posts
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Registered 18 years agoI'm up for a bit of F2P middle-earthery too. It'll make a change from spaceships. -
Ranger_Ryu 1,567 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'll probably download this when it goes free to play looks interesting,besides more fantasy MMO's won't hurt 
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DFawkes 32,786 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI'm pretty sure you can download the client just now, it'll just need patched for the changes. At least I hope the existing client works, it'd be a pain if it didn't. -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWell, patch is having some major connection issues, wrong hash codes etc. I would grab the direct client on the side if you're having no luck patching up.
Forums are down as well but I suppose a surge is to be expected. -
DFawkes 32,786 posts
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Registered 16 years agoI'm not so fussy that I'll download the whole blinking thing again, so I do hope they fix it.
Still, having actually bothered to check it seems you get 2 character slots, which I think is per server, so anyone that doesn't have one on Snowbourn could make one, even freeloaders like me.gif)
However, it is one of the high population servers so there might be queues. If that's the case it might be worth starting on a low pop server. Time will tell if that'll be the case though - I expect it should be fine. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoThe hash code thing has - I think - been resolved. I've been trying for a couple of hours to get it to work and then it just started patching... And patching... And patching... -
Bloodloss 4,497 posts
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Registered 14 years agoCan beta/preview clients be changed to work on the proper servers? -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoIt didn't occur to me that people using the free-to-play scheme would be subject to log-in queues so I'm up for a fresh start on Withywindle which is the new server being launched.
On the other hand, that server may end up flooded so it may be a case of queues there. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoNot sure, Bloodloss, but I doubt you'll be able to log-in anyway. I keep getting a time-out whenever I try to sign-in.
I know they're all happy about the F2P move and things but they should be giving priority to subscribers/lifetimers when it comes to logging in. -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoFuck it, I'm going back to Runes of Magic for a few days until it all calms down and I can log-in when everybody's NOT trying to grab the new client/patch... -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoAre you trying to log into the game or get the patch? If it's the hash code error I think it's being worked on (or even fixed now).
If it's the game, none of the servers have been brought online yet:
Server Status -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIt's the server log-in. I'd have thought they'd be online by now... -
Ranger_Ryu 1,567 posts
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Registered 13 years agoIt's up now by the way -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoWill probs be on snowbourn tonight then... is that defo our server of choice? -
Benno 11,854 posts
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Registered 16 years agoOh, I have just read above - are people playing on withywindle? I imagine a lot more lower level players will be on that server which would be good for the grouping/social aspect. Don't really want to be leveling in ghost towns.
On the flipside, withywindle will definitely be full of wow kids which is a major downside.
Someone make a call -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI'm trying to play on Eldar and it's still down.
The new character creation screen is too cluttered. These shoes smell. Why can't I get a decent hotdog these days. Get off my lawn. -
InfiniteFury 864 posts
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Registered 16 years agoQueuing - I think as free to players, it will be the same whether you pick a new server or an established one.
Population - good point although I would expect a lot of subscribers to be bringing friends to the game and on their server.
I don't want to make the decision on which server as I have a vested interest in saying Snowbourn - therefore, someone else make the call and I'll go with the crowd.
Also, kinship name - I'm absolutely stuck, these are all terrible, I already know:
Eurotrash
The Europeans
Death by Papercut
Help My Hands Are on Fire*
Army of Socks / Sock Army
(* actually that's probably the best one which shows how stuck I am)
Edit - a random name generator gave me "Spastic Legion". Damn shame we couldn't use that -
iokthemonkey 4,662 posts
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Registered 13 years agoScrew it, I'm going back to play Runes of Magic.
Somebody give me a prod when the servers are all back online. -
I really like Help My Hands Are On Fire. I know it's silly but I like silly.
(shame you'll probably wait to wait till tuesday to downlaod the cilent though) .gif)
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