Sneaky Hobbits Update – New LotRO Lottery!

Update from Sneaky Hobbits:

LotRO Lottery – Win stuff for your characters! « Sneaky Hobbits

Turbine announced today a new meta-game experience for Lord of the Rings Online, the LotRO Lottery! Playing the LotRO Lottery is as simple as logging into your My LotRO account, and selecting various drawings via a widget on the left hand side of the screen (default location).

This sounds like a very nifty system! I know that I will be trying my luck at it (though my luck with online competitions tends to.. well.. suck).

LotRO News Update – Orion on Factions/Rep; Skirmish System Dev Diary Part 3

LotRO News Update – Sneaky Hobbits LotRO Blog – Orion on Factions/Reputation; Skirmish System Dev Diary Part 3

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Lord of the Rings Online Developer Orion posted on his My Lotro 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:

Lots of interesting information posted by Turbine today – should keep the forumites busy I think.

LotRO Quest Log Update – Questing in Angmar Part 3

LotRO Sneaky Hobbits Alert:

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Jumped into Lord of the Rings Online during daylight hours today to get some more questing in Angmar done, as well as to take advantage of the +25% XP enabled for the current Welcome Back Week event (Fall Festival is running now too folks!).

Lord of the Rings Online Fall Festival Live!

LotRO Sneaky Hobbits Alert:

Fall Festival is Live… No, Really « Sneaky Hobbits

Well, the Lord of the Rings Online fall festival should be 100% live right now, Sapience made a post on the LotRO forums about it:

Read the entire post

From Sneaky Hobbits LotRO blog.

Fall Festival… False Start… Sorry Folks

Well, the fall festival for Lord of the Rings Online was scheduled for today, but it was ‘tentatively’ scheduled (something I probably should have pointed out huh?). All reports from In Game show the Festival has not gone Live yet, no word on the Turbine front but it looks like it is delayed.

I will be sure to update when I find out that the festival is indeed truly live.

~Branadoc

(Credit for alerting me to this goes to Goldenstar & Merric from A Casual Stroll to Mordor via Twitter)

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(Originally posted on my LotRO Blog: Sneaky Hobbits)

Lord of the Rings Online: Welcome Back Weekend

Lord of the Rings Online will be having a Welcome Back ‘weekend’ from October 15th through October 21st. During this time period previous players of LotRO can come back to their accounts and play for free, and everyone who plays will receive a 25% XP buff for the duration of the event.

Looks like it is a drive towards the release of the next expansion (Siege of Mirkwood) as the forum post regarding this points out that any returning customers who re-up with a multi-month subscription plan will receive Siege of Mirkwood for free.

Quoted Source:

Lord of the Rings Online: Forums

Posted by Sapience:
During The Lord of the Rings Online™ Welcome Back Week from October 15th through October 21st, you can play your old characters for free and get a +25% XP Bonus. Plus, if you come back now and renew your subscription to LOTRO with any 3-, 6-, or 12-month $9.99/month* subscription plan by October 31st, we’ll give you The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™ digital expansion for free! (Click here) for full details!

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(Originally posted in my LotRO blog: Sneaky Hobbits)

Lord of the Rings Online Event Notification: Fall Festival

Thats right folks! The weather is cooling, the leaves are starting to fall, and pumpkins are afraid for their lives! It is fall festival time in Middle Earth!

The festivals in Lord of the Rings Online are just one more reason that people enjoy the game so much, there are tons of events (From cooking to horse races to just general fun) to be done, and special deeds to be hammered out.

The Fall Festival is set to run from Tuesday, October 13th to Thursday, October 29th.

(Originally posted in my Sneaky Hobbits blog)

Turbine Pumpkin Carving Contest 2009

New event in theme for the Halloween holidays, Turbine announces the Pumpkin Carving Contest!

Turbine Pumpkin Carving Contest! – The Lord of the Rings Online™ Forums

It’s that time of year again: the weather turns colder, the leaves turn colorful, and spooky fun turns up everywhere. It also means it’s the perfect time for a pumpkin carving contest! We’re looking for the best LOTRO-themed carved pumpkins! You could win a custom title on the forums, and one lucky winner will win one million copper (also known as 10 Gold). Your carving can be of your favorite creepy LOTRO creature, spooky scenes from around Middle Earth, emblems and icons, or anything else from (or about) the game! Turbine will accept digital photographs of entries from October 12th through October 30th. Eligible winners will receive a special forum title (“Master Carver”) and their winning entries may even be featured on LOTRO.com! One lucky first prize winner will additionally receive 1,000,000 copper! Entries must be original creations, should be at least 1024×768 in resolution, and no larger than 6MB in file size. Photograph your pumpkin and enter it in the following category: LOTRO pumpkins Need some inspiration, or just like to carve pumpkins? You can use this Turbine logo template to start practicing! Download the template by clicking here. How to use a pumpkin carving template:

1. Print the template on a sheet of paper.
2. Cut along the dashed lines in the corners (this will help your template lay against the round surface of the pumpkin).
3. Attach the paper to the desired side of the pumpkin where you want the design to show.
4. Follow along the black lines poking small holes through the paper into the pumpkin’s skin.
5. Remove the paper template and you will see dots in the shape of the design on the pumpkin’s skin.
6. Connect the dots, and then start carving! Keep your template beside you to help you as you go – the gray shaded parts are the ones that will come out of the Pumpkin.

Now you know how to use a template to carve your very own Turbine fan pumpkin! You can make your own templates and use the same techniques to apply them to your pumpkins! Ready to get started? Click here for official rules and tips on sending in your pumpkin entry!

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Feeling Social? LotRO extends Community Services to My.Lotro.Com

Turbine has unveiled its Live Beta for a new Social feature of the Lord of the Rings Online: Mines of Moria Community – My.Lotro.Com.

Basically a site where MySpace meets LotRO (once I stopped shuddering and checked it out I was relieved to find it wasn’t as bad as the first name mentioned); This site not only acts as a social platform for players, but it is iteration #2 of Turbines move towards web services for the game – the first iteration was the character signatures on the forum (where game data is pulled to form the signature), this one pulls full character data (a la WoW’s Armory – but different still the same) from the game servers and also offers blogging (based on WordPress – with various ‘identities’ tied to a persons characters).

This site is, in my opinion, the first step towards one of Turbines Launch promises – to have interactive data (XML Web Services) available for players to ’show off’ their characters. Next I think we might see API’s to export XML data for characters to third party sites / custom Signature sites / etc.

Keep in mind that the site is still in Beta – there are still some quirks here and there, but overall the site is a good step towards something good.

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Update Alert: City of Heroes Issue 13 goes Live

Wednesday, December 3rd – NCSoft announced the launch of the much awaited (at least by some of us!) update to City of Heroes: Issue 13 – Power and Responsibility.

This new update to the game will add some innovative new features such as Day Jobs – not to mention that Issue 13 will be the first issue that a Mac Client has been out and in the wild (well, at least in Open Beta starting ’soon’). Things are only getting better in Paragon City – and Issue 13 is just another step to ultimate victory .

Excerpt from announcement:

SEATTLE, Dec. 3, 2008—NCsoft®, the world’s premier publisher and developer of massively multiplayer online games (MMOs) today announced the next free update to its highly successful comic-book inspired MMO, City of Heroes®. The release of Issue 13: Power and Responsibility introduces several innovative features to the MMO genre. Macintosh players won’t be left out as open beta testing for the new Mac version of City of Heroes is just around the corner.

 

Issue 13: Power and Responsibility unveils some pioneering features to the MMO genre. Multiple builds is a character customization option and delivers the ability to have two different build-outs for each character. This offers enormous flexibility for players who can now switch back and forth between their two character builds, depending upon the task ahead of them, by visiting contacts in game.

Read full announcement here.
 

I know I can’t wait to download the new update… eventually at least