Lizzie
Clueless newb
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Post by Lizzie on May 15, 2014 17:13:32 GMT -5
So SoI is back. Or about to be back. Character creation is open: www.middle-earth.us/You can find it...somewhere in there. I'm going to be honest. I don't know much about what the setting is going to be, other than that the orcs are apparently going to live in a cave and there is a location known as "Laketown." The site has a rather obnoxious set up, and I could care less about trying to find information. Having said that, here is another option to get away from Arm, while you all wait for Black Sands to come back up. I understand there have been major code overhauls since the last iteration, and now things like height/weight and intelligence and the like decide what your stats and skills will be at the start. |
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Post by lyse on May 15, 2014 20:40:43 GMT -5
So SoI is back. Or about to be back. Character creation is open: www.middle-earth.us/You can find it...somewhere in there. I'm going to be honest. I don't know much about what the setting is going to be, other than that the orcs are apparently going to live in a cave and there is a location known as "Laketown." The site has a rather obnoxious set up, and I could care less about trying to find information. Having said that, here is another option to get away from Arm, while you all wait for Black Sands to come back up. I understand there have been major code overhauls since the last iteration, and now things like height/weight and intelligence and the like decide what your stats and skills will be at the start. I'll check it out too. |
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Post by RogueCumSlinger on May 15, 2014 22:32:54 GMT -5
mfw most of the people on this site never got into Atonement
blegg
SoI is going to awesome, plebs please come over and play so there are more scrubs to PK.
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Post by shade0of0ishahan on May 16, 2014 1:56:10 GMT -5
Is it the same staff?
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Post by RogueCumSlinger on May 16, 2014 10:20:21 GMT -5
Ditched Kite which is what mostly matters
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Post by jcarter on May 16, 2014 10:24:28 GMT -5
I really liked Atonement's crafting system and thought it was an awesome step in the right direction. I played it a little bit years ago, but just don't have the time overall for it. Thematically, I'm turned off by the 'one city' kind of setting and prefer an open world with at least two of them and encouraging travel/movement between them.
SoI, good luck to them. I personally just don't like Tolkien stuff. Nothing against it, it's just something I could never get into.
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Post by RogueCumSlinger on May 16, 2014 10:39:14 GMT -5
SoI has at least two spheres. The orcs live in the forest in this giant cave and the humans live in the town. Games using the SoI/Atonement codebase just feel so much more alive and exciting to me. Armageddon just feels old.
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Post by jcarter on May 16, 2014 10:42:40 GMT -5
i'm not going to lie I also like being a wizard and doing weird wizard shit and I doubt SoI supports that
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Post by RogueCumSlinger on May 16, 2014 11:20:45 GMT -5
i'm not going to lie I also like being a wizard and doing weird wizard shit and I doubt SoI supports that The orcs in original SoI had shamans that did weird shit that summoned ghosts and whatnot. Not as OP as elementalists in Arm and a lot more staff interaction. One of my favorite things about SoI 2.0 is that height, weight and intelligence matters. If you want to play a big dumb brute with superhuman strength, you can. |
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Post by ask on May 16, 2014 12:16:57 GMT -5
where the fuck is the connect info? it's not anywhere. wow, gg soi. clunky website, hard to find anything.
ugh.
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Post by snorpborp on May 16, 2014 15:31:01 GMT -5
If char creation is open I can't find it. Disabled within the mud itself.
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Lizzie
Clueless newb
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Post by Lizzie on May 16, 2014 16:04:02 GMT -5
It's somewhere ~~on the website~~
The only reason I knew how to find it was a friend of mine IM'd me an...email from staff?...a forum post from staff? with the link.
Dunno how to get to it again, now.
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Post by RogueCumSlinger on May 16, 2014 16:27:22 GMT -5
Character generation is in testing, it's not "open". It's possible to submit an app and have it accepted. They plan on launching probably somewhere in the next week or two. They don't have the connect info in an obvious spot because... well, there's no reason you would need it yet?
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Post by lyse on May 16, 2014 17:33:56 GMT -5
I was looking at the site this morning...ugh.
Not sure what's in the game and what's not skill wise, I'd hate to roll a character, get in game only to find out I can't do shit. I guess a straight up warrior or a ranger is a safe bet though.
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Jeshin
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Post by Jeshin on May 16, 2014 18:56:21 GMT -5
I for one will be playing once they are out of alpha. I look forward to it and I hope that many of the SoI refugees who have been bidding their time on ARM or ParallelRPI return to their homeland to give it another chance to get them hooked.
The thing I respect the most is Icarus' excerpt from a design doc.
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