Help me....I am being sucked in, I know it and I can't help it. The game is addictive

Here I am at work (self employed) trying to concentrate doing my web work, and all I can think of is romping through the verdant fields of Middle Earth. Breeland, The Shire..... going about doing little chores for people.....zapping the occasional wolf, pig or spider that comes to close....taking down blackwolds..

How am I supposed to get any work done when I keep thinking about that alternate environment

Who ever did the design of the world and the music did an awesome job. The actual game mechanics may be a little simple at my level go fetch my pick axe, go deliver this letter, go gather wood for casks. But even those menial tasks are enjoyable considering the surroundings. I feel immersed in middle earth, if not yet the story of Tolkien


well done, Game Environment design 10 out of 10

(I especially like it when my hobbit is up to his neck in the heather ;) )

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Originally Posted by HardestyGrimwall

Here I am at work (self employed) trying to concentrate doing my web work, and all I can think of is romping through the verdant fields of Middle Earth. Breeland, The Shire..... going about doing little chores for people.....zapping the occasional wolf, pig or spider that comes to close....taking down blackwolds..

How am I supposed to get any work done when I keep thinking about that alternate environment

Who ever did the design of the world and the music did an awesome job. The actual game mechanics may be a little simple at my level go fetch my pick axe, go deliver this letter, go gather wood for casks. But even those menial tasks are enjoyable considering the surroundings. I feel immersed in middle earth, if not yet the story of Tolkien


well done, Game Environment design 10 out of 10

(I especially like it when my hobbit is up to his neck in the heather ;) )

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See how You feel in a week of doing those chores and stupid little quests, because if you want to venture in any more areas outside the F2P-zones... you will have to level up or it is YOU! who is going to be the food for Orcs and Goblins. You will get one-shotted. I'm just saying those F2P-areas have to be appealing to new players or else they wouldn't want to venture anymore outside those areas to see the rest of the "perfect work" the developers did with this game. You need to know that those starters areas were designed by different team than let's say Gondor or Arnor. So good luck and have fun, but I wouldn't quit my day job just yet. ????

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Originally Posted by Pipo

See how You feel in a week of doing those chores and stupid little quests, because if you want to venture in any more areas outside the F2P-zones... you will have to level up or it is YOU! who is going to be the food for Orcs and Goblins. You will get one-shotted. I'm just saying those F2P-areas have to be appealing to new players or else they wouldn't want to venture anymore outside those areas to see the rest of the "perfect work" the developers did with this game. You need to know that those starters areas were designed by different team than let's say Gondor or Arnor. So good luck and have fun, but I wouldn't quit my day job just yet. ????

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Congratualtions....you are the first condescending quote I have received on this forum. I was beginning to think that such things didn't exist

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Originally Posted by HardestyGrimwall

Congratualtions....you are the first condescending quote I have received on this forum. I was beginning to think that such things didn't exist

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Your opening post did sort of beg for it though.

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Originally Posted by Pipo

See how You feel in a week of doing those chores and stupid little quests, because if you want to venture in any more areas outside the F2P-zones... you will have to level up or it is YOU! who is going to be the food for Orcs and Goblins. You will get one-shotted. I'm just saying those F2P-areas have to be appealing to new players or else they wouldn't want to venture anymore outside those areas to see the rest of the "perfect work" the developers did with this game. You need to know that those starters areas were designed by different team than let's say Gondor or Arnor. So good luck and have fun, but I wouldn't quit my day job just yet. ????

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lol that will be a day when a mob/npc manages to 1-shot a character being played. Not seen that happen to anybody outside of a raid instance to date.

As to the OP: yes the world / art developers did a very good job and still continue to do so (even if other parts do lack) :)

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Originally Posted by Beaniemooch

Your opening post did sort of beg for it though.

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meh bait for the simple minded :cool:

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Originally Posted by HardestyGrimwall

Congratualtions....you are the first condescending quote I have received on this forum. I was beginning to think that such things didn't exist

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I don't know what you've just said, but I know congratulations means you wish me well, so thank you? :p

But in reply to your topic I can only say that it's nothing wrong with your imagination, if you can make anything nice and playable out of this game. ;)
Have a good game!

After 9 years I still love the game. I'm glad you like it. After all these years I still love traveling through the Shire. Yes, the game mechanics have me shaking my head at times, but I do love it.

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Originally Posted by HardestyGrimwall

Here I am at work (self employed) trying to concentrate doing my web work, and all I can think of is romping through the verdant fields of Middle Earth. Breeland, The Shire..... going about doing little chores for people.....zapping the occasional wolf, pig or spider that comes to close....taking down blackwolds..

How am I supposed to get any work done when I keep thinking about that alternate environment

Who ever did the design of the world and the music did an awesome job. The actual game mechanics may be a little simple at my level go fetch my pick axe, go deliver this letter, go gather wood for casks. But even those menial tasks are enjoyable considering the surroundings. I feel immersed in middle earth, if not yet the story of Tolkien


well done, Game Environment design 10 out of 10

(I especially like it when my hobbit is up to his neck in the heather ;) )

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You are quite right when you talk about how nice the starter areas are and indeed most of the areas in this game. This game has many faults, but the scenery in NOT one of them. I have been playing this game for 5 and a half years now and even though i now have 15 level 100 alts (i got bored with the gring so i levelled up my retired alts that were in the 80's range) I started another alt a while back. I did this for one reason and one reason alone, to visit all the "older" areas. I bought the tortoise stone so that i could stop levelling too fast and i intent to visit every single area, do every single quest, every single instance/raid on level and pretty much start to have fun and enjoy the game again through its journey rather than rushing to level cap and the endless, moronic, mindless grind. I dont care if it takes me 2 years to hit level cap with my new alt as i just want to marvel at the great scenery and story line this game offers. It has been a very long time since i quested in the older areas and a few of them have been revamped and i wanna see how they differ now from when i quested there all those years ago. Up to now, Lone Lands has been my favourite area by far and i look forward to questing there again and going up to whethertop, into agamaur and doing the GA instances at their original level. I have finished with the Shire and Ered Luin starter areas and i am now in the Bree area and look forward to doing all the GB instances at level 20 before moving to the Lona Lands. Thank God for the tortoise stone...the best item in the store IMO.

I love early game environment and I keep coming back for it. I don't have an advice, I was addicted too. Inferior later-game content got me un-addicted after a while. But I still come back occasionally to tune out the real world with a low level character.