Episode 2, re-released with no music

posted this on March 21st, 2010.
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Due to listener requests episode 2 is now availible with no background music. The link will not start the download, as we do not want to have episode 2 show up twice on iTunes and other feeds. It's here if you want to have it with no music. We will discuss the background music issues in Episode 3.
Until then, enjoy.
-Ivan

And here it is.
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Episode 30: Broken Taunts

posted this on March 21st, 2010.
Categorized as bug, dev diary, Episodes, Episodes from 2010, Facebook, festival, lottery, pax east, volume I.

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albumart1[1]This week we duo The Battle in the Tower and have issues with the Frigid Squall lieutenant. Yes, I understands that the Frigid Squall is supposed to switch targets but chasing me around the room isn’t exactly “switching targets” and so I blame Merric.

We also started working on our journey to finish Volume I and are working on Book 10. Nothing really wrong with book 10 except for the extremely annoying habit of it forcing you to travel back and forth from Annúminas to Tinnudir repeatedly. Our faction with the Wardens of Annúminas is not great enough for them to allow us to use their stable point so we’ve been swimming it. At least the mobs in Annúminas do not aggro us so let us count our blessings.

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LOTRO Downtime March 22nd, 2010

posted this on March 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Downtime, lotro, LotRO News, turbine.

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LOTRO will have a scheduled downtime on Monday, March 22nd from 6:00am to 10am EDT (-4 GMT).

The forums and lorebook will be available but you will not be able to login or manage your turbine game account. Players already in game when the site is brought down will be unaffected unless they log out or are disconnected.


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THE KAIROS CONJECTURE & THE BELEGWE EQUATION

posted this on March 21st, 2010.
Categorized as Kairos conjecture; Belegwe equation; PUGs.

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Readers may remember that last week, I posted my belief that "it should be possible to come up with a reliable formula to indicate what the chances of any PUG completing a particular instance or raid will be". This Holy Grail of scientific LOTRO studies is now within the grasp of serious students and analysts thanks to the efforts of my esteemed colleague, Master Belegwe, to whom we owe the following remarkable formula and its explanation:
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