Dev Diary: Crafting in Free-to-Play (Volume 3.2)

posted this on August 31st, 2010.
Categorized as Codemasters, crafting, dev diary, Dev Team, faction, Free-to-Play Beta, LotRO News, reputation, turbine.

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One of the things that I personally glossed over some are the changes coming up to Crafting in the upcoming release of Free-to-Play; which is ironic since I have a ton of crafters.  For those of you who may or may not remember, Jewelers and Cooks had quite a few changes with the release of Volume 3, Book 1.  With Volume 3.2 Weaponsmiths and Woodworkers are having some revisions which “…introduces an arsenal of new crafted weapons…” that target not only their stats but their damage types as well.  However, it’s important to note that no existing crafted weapons will be changed.

Also, many existing Weaponsmith and Woodworker recipes will now be multi-output (meaning they can create different versions of the same item as can be seen in a previous post) as well, allowing players to better adjust the weapons to have stats that would be more relevant to their playing style.  I’m vastly in favor of multi-output recipes and I am very much looking forward to these options.  Mostly because it’s fairly frustrating to want to create a weapon for a character and the type that I want is meant for a different playing style.

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Poll: Mounts in the LOTRO Store

posted this on July 24th, 2010.
Categorized as faction, mounts, poll, Weekly Poll.

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We’ve seen several screenshots from Massively and Mordor or Bust showing that faction mounts are available (for now anyway) in the Beta Store. Our question this week is asking you what you think about this situation should it go live.

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Poll: Festival Faction

posted this on July 3rd, 2010.
Categorized as faction, festival, poll, reputation, Weekly Poll.

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With the Summer Festival in full swing I thought it appropriate to ask which of the two main festival factions you perfer, the Ale Association or the Inn League? For more information about these two unique factions see our Festival Quest Guide.

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LotRO Developer Orion on Rep/Faction; Dev Diary: Skirmishes Part 3

posted this on October 16th, 2009.
Categorized as Blurbs, dev diary, faction, gaming, lord of the rings online, lotro, misc, MMO, News, reputation, skirmish system, Updates.

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Developer Orion posted  on his blog regarding the Faction/Reputation system. In his post he talks about the reputation system as it is and how he is looking to work on it to bring it up to ‘par’ for players who see it as lacking. He goes over how the system is working currently, and how he sees it to be working in the future – I have to say, the post is quite an interesting read:

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