In: Developer Notes
16 May 2007The following is a summary of the developer notes for Tuesday, May 15th.
Level 50 class quests
Level 30 Guardian Quest
Level 30 Hunter Class Quest
Level 30 Burglar Class Quest
Level 30 Captain Quest
Level 45 class quests unequal?
Shores of Evendim: Group Content Teaser
Bundle for Michael Delving
In: Developer Notes
15 May 2007The following is a summary of the developer notes for Monday, May 14th.
Petition for more clothes!
Female Dwarves
Can I use a LOTRO game card on DDO?
Bug: Implements of the Hunt - Putrid Fingernails
Lorebook Introduction
Privacy issue with Kinships
The Tome of Swords
In: Developer Notes
15 May 2007The Devs at Turbine had a IRC chat yesterday and give us some very cool information. Here is a Brief list:
Target of Target and Marking
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 [...]
MadeofLions gives us a little precious information concerning the upcoming book 9 found in the Shores of Evendim. He revealed this information while answering a question concerning the order of the Epic Quest line.
Book 8 is actually in the game already and takes place deep in Angmar. The one that’s coming with ‘Shores of [...]
In: Developer Notes
13 May 2007To all the mothers out there, Happy Mother’s Day!
Here’s a summary of the developer notes for Sunday, May 13th.
Block vs Parry vs Evade
Ancient Damage
Auto target and auto fire please fix
Epic supposed to be received out of order?
MadeOfLions, Quest designer for LOTRO, discusses some of the things we can expect in regards to soloable content in the upcoming Shores of Evendim.
In: Developer Notes
10 May 2007“What time is it?”
“How much longer till nighttime?”
“Does anyone know what time it is?”
I’m sure by now anyone who’s been playing LOTRO has heard these same questions asked time and time again. Well come June, an in-game clock will be available to those who wish to use it.
Now we’ll only need to answer the [...]
In: Developer Notes
10 May 2007Weather? Good news…
We let loose the gates of weather in Beta. There were a few issues that arose out of the system and felt it was best to iron those issues out first. In particular, some might remember the lightning being akin to a strobe light.
In the Shores of Evendim update, weather is back, [...]
In: Developer Notes
10 May 2007The question was posed by Vanimar regarding what to expect in terms of time commitment for instances and raids in the game.
Scenario, LOTRO Lead Worldbuilder, answered with the following comments.
One of our efforts in the Instance department was to make them something you could tackle in chunks.
Many of our larger instances have built in by-passes [...]
In: Developer Notes
10 May 2007The price of traveling have you down? In the Shores of Evendim update, we can expect to see some tweaks to the costs of traveling.
The Shores of Evendim update will include some tweaks to the costs associated with the Travel System/Stablemasters. — Scenario
Horse trip prices are way out of whack.