[Icefiddell]

Yesterday when i was scanning thos forum for a slight update, a random thought hit me.

I remember a post that Suzerane made saying 'You can be a big fish in a small pond' and devs saying that you will never become a Uber Character or never have large armys follow you or anything like that.

Well if this is true and the game is really focused on realism, dont you think that most players will never see most of Middle Earth in the Mod. For example how many people are actually going to make it Mount Doom. I mean what does one man have in making it alone.

So i was thinking isn't it quite pointless to be making lots of things that most people wont see (yes blastephemy sp?) but then again this is a tribute to Tolkien so i understand why you want to make the whole thing.

Sorry for thos i'm not to sure what my argument or point is but just wanted to share my view lol

[Ember]

Well - don't you think its going to make it infinitely replayable? If in one game its only feasible to see even as much as a quarter of the world, you can always start in a new location with a new race and explore again.

Its kind of the point.

It will be a suicide mission to go charging into mordor in any timeframe, but how lethal these areas actually are is totally timeline dependant. IMO that level of danger will make the game about 2000% more interesting than if we were utilising a difficultly more on Morrowinds level.

Ember.

[Icefiddell]

Ohhh yer i forgot about the different races start in different locations, yes i see what you mean.

Yes it'll just add to the game play so when you play with one race or character it'll be extremly different to another race that you can play. Oh gd gd.

[Slaiv]

Well, you have to fix the NPC's insane extraterrestrial ability to detect you even if you are sneaking, invisible, and completely hidden whereas even thermal vision wouldn't find you.

And assuming that you guys are including more than just the human race, which, up to this point, is the only one that seems possible.

Come to think of it, I remember Suze or Daerk saying Men might not even be playable....

[Icefiddell]

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Come to think of it, I remember Suze or Daerk saying Men might not even be playable....

Oh jeez, if elves AND men aren't playable they might as well just make a large computer graphic movie


edit: the top bit was supposed to be quoted but i'm crap and idiot and nothing vie tried will work.

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[suzerain]

At least one race will be playable. so it's not quite a film.

Only Race I can definately confirm is unplayable would be the Ents. Sorry, treehuggers.

and the reason we're creating everything is simply this: there's always going to be some male without a father who wants to go see Mount Gundabad, or the Sea of Rhun, or The Ice Bay of Forochiel, or Umbar, or Tharbad, or.....
*continues for an hour...*

Suz.

[Tor_Anders]

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I remember a post that Suzerane made saying 'You can be a big fish in a small pond' and devs saying that you will never become a Uber Character or never have large armys follow you or anything like that.

But how far can your abilities really go? Is there a limit, or do they just controll this by making the "level-up" rate very slow? Has any information about how they plan to stop players from becoming too powerfull been released?

Not that I am planning on having any wild adventures, anyway... I'm just gonna relaxe in my lovely little hole in the Shire! I might even give Belladonna Took a visit, if I can get that pesky Bungo to leave her alone...

Oh, and Mr. Suzerain? That one playable race wouldn't happen to be eagles, would it?

BTW: I've just gone from lurker to poster!!!

[Icefiddell]

Thanks for clearing that up Suzeraine, i guess it wouldn't really be a Middle Earth Mod if the whole of Middle Earth wasn't in it.

And as for playable races, i just hope the only 'definate' playable race isn't Hobbits lol

[surian]

Well, you could always use the console and cheat

No, actually I didn't say that... hehe.

[Tor_Anders]

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Well, you could always use the console and cheat

Oh, no you don't!!! I have heard that the crazy devs will actually kill cheaters...