Dev Chat May 14 Highlights
May 15th, 2007 by Ealdor
The Devs at Turbine had a IRC chat yesterday and give us some very cool information. Here is a Brief list:
Scenario_Turbine - For the Shores of Evendim update, we will be including a handful of functionality updates for fellowship/raid groups. Amongst those are brand new target marking for party leaders and visible displays for target players/npcs/mobs.
Denour - We are currently investigating the possibility of adding a Reputation System with different faction rewards associated with it. This is not something you will see with the Shores of Evendim launch, but keep an eye out afterwards for updates.
LOTRO_Patience - Hey Naithan! Need/Greed/Pass rolls will go live in the Shores of Evendim update. We wanted them too. A lot.
LOTRO_Patience - Kinship voice chat is something we’re looking into - it’s currently in what we call “Thunderdome,” so we’ll see if it survives. There are definitely some technical issues we’d have to overcome to make it possible, and not make our chat servers cry.
Sprite - *Tuner89* In the upcomming Shores of Evendim expansion, I heard that drums will be added as a playable instruemnt. How will theese fit in to the current system of notes to keyboard, or will there be a new system specifically for drums?
LOTRO_Patience - Hiya Tuner! It’ll be the same system.
Check out the transcript for all of the chat!
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“Beer will be part of the farming profession.”
‘Nuff said.
A lot of great stuff in that chat session. I’m really glad to see target of target making it in. The demand for Need/Greed has been a big topic on the forums, surprisingly with many opponents against it as well. So it looks like that issue is now settled.
Target marking? I guess… I won’t argue that it wasn’t helpful in WoW, but makes you wonder what we ever did before target marking was available.
A reputation system, huh? Between target marking, need/greed, and then seeing this come up, I was beginning to break out into a cold sweat. This isn’t World of the Ring! Just kidding, WoW was a good game but there are things we could do without. So we’ll see. WoW wasn’t the first game to utilize factions as EQ2 had factions as well. It’s all going to depend on how Turbine implements factions/rep as to whether we’ll have nightmares of rep farming like we did in WoW.
Good stuff.
Sounds good to me!
I’m getting nervous about all the WoW clone features too… not bcause I dislike WoW, but because I really hate when things aren’t original.