Fix ME: Unassigned

[Daugon]

Ever since LotRO went F2P if you enter a Fix ME: Unassigned it says you have entered a restricted area and then the game ports you to your home. I loved exploring outside of the maps before this. But now there is no incentive and its incredibly restrictive. Why did Turbine add this restriction? I don't understand. The Fix MEs didn't hurt anything. I don't know of one person who was against out of map exploration. Every person that I showed these places to was like, "WOW!!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!" So why take it away? My goal, in this post, is to get a response from the community and maybe Turbine will see this post and, in a future update, take this restriction away from the game. Again: Entering a Fix ME: Unassigned did not hinder the game in any way that I can think of. I am a founder and I have seen this game progress through its different stages. Its had mostly great ideas but a few really bad ones. This restriction is a bad one. Please, oh PLEASE take away the restriction.
Thanks, Daugon

[Daugon]

I know it has been awhile since LotRO went F2P but I still wanted to post a thread about this. I've been meaning to since LotRO went F2P.

[Ayrolen]

Ever since LotRO went F2P if you enter a Fix ME: Unassigned it says you have entered a restricted area and then the game ports you to your home. I loved exploring outside of the maps before this. But now there is no incentive and its incredibly restrictive. Why did Turbine add this restriction? I don't understand. The Fix MEs didn't hurt anything. I don't know of one person who was against out of map exploration. Every person that I showed these places to was like, "WOW!!! THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!" So why take it away? My goal, in this post, is to get a response from the community and maybe Turbine will see this post and, in a future update, take this restriction away from the game. Again: Entering a Fix ME: Unassigned did not hinder the game in any way that I can think of. I am a founder and I have seen this game progress through its different stages. Its had mostly great ideas but a few really bad ones. This restriction is a bad one. Please, oh PLEASE take away the restriction.
Thanks, Daugon

Turbine does not want you going outside of the playable map because there is a chance you can get yourself into an unfixable state and corrupt your character. Why take the chance of that happening? Not to mention, you could get into areas that are currently under development and subject to an NDA.

[DutchEZmoder]

Well simple, those areas are not finished and may contain stuck places or places where you will fall through the floor or bugging your character. So that's why they don't want players to come there.

[Daugon]

Ummmm.... /stuck? And to my knowledge there has only been one indecent where someone got into Foro and, to my understanding, you can use stuck if you are moving or not. You can also report a stuck ticket to a dev and they will move you. I never got stuck (not one time!) in my exploration of the Fix MEs.

[timmyloo22546]

Going into a certain Fix Me: Unassigned area allowed creeps to get into GV and freeps to get into Grams where they weren't suppose to be able to. They fixed the issue using a different route, but I think having the fix me unassigned places teleport you away when entering for more than 3s will prevent future issues.

I've explored many places and a few have potential to allow freeps of any level to enter the Moors further down the road if things like this are overlooked. It may even allow creeps to escape the Moors and wander into rivendel. It was a bummer getting teleported when exploring new places but it isn't a big deal imo.

[Ayrolen]

Ummmm.... /stuck?

Unless something has changed, /stuck doesn't work if you're stuck in a perpetually falling state where your character is moving. I got stuck in a weird place in the water in Evendim once, years ago, and had to petition a GM to get me out.

Regardless, Turbine doesn't want you exploiting the landscape or they wouldn't have put measures in to stop you, so you probably shouldn't, lest your account be banned.

[Celestrata]

While we know everyone likes to explore, there are some places that are better left untouched. As these zones are not intended for play, your character can become permanently stuck. Obviously, as we don't want this to happen to you, these are the reasons we've made this change to these areas.