Forsaken Inn's Roof!

[Kerr_Avon]

Just wondering when those lazy bu**ers are going to fix the Forsaken Inn's roof! It's had a ruddy great hole in it for at least 6 years! No wonder the beer tastes watered down... it's the bleedin' rain getting into it!

[Yula_the_Mighty]

It is like most everything else in this game. The Forsaken Inn is frozen in time. It hasn't been six years. Time has moved forward. The other issue is that within Middle Earth time has only advanced five months or so. Frodo starts his journey from Hobbiton in September, 3018. We are probably in February, 3019. The ring is destroyed in March.

Time has been moving very slowly lately. Siege of Mirkwood came in 2009 in three years we have covered about 10 days since then. The fellowship left Lothlorien on February 16, 3019. The fellowship broke on February 26, 3019. We got two expansion packs that cover less than a week each.

Note: Somebody please check my dates. It wouldn't surprise me if I make a mistake.

[bohbashum]

It is like most everything else in this game. The Forsaken Inn is frozen in time. It hasn't been six years. Time has moved forward. The other issue is that within Middle Earth time has only advanced five months or so. Frodo starts his journey from Hobbiton in September, 3018. We are probably in February, 3019. The ring is destroyed in March.

how do we see the passage of time in game? O_o

personnaly, I blaim those adventures, keep getting all the stuff back but leaving soon after for the goblins and orcs to steal it all over again endless cycle untill someone brave enough stays :P

[Yula_the_Mighty]

how do we see the passage of time in game? O_o

In very limited fashion. For example, you go to Eregion and you have the four Walls of Moria instances. In the first instances the dwarves are happily working and the Door is closed. Second instance - The Watcher is on the rampage - Door is closed - Dwarves are dying - You run. Third instance - You go back in - Drive the Watcher away - Door is closed. Fourth instance - Door is open - bunch of graves - all the dwarves have moved on except for one? dwarf standing around outside.

In some cases, the NPCs denote the passage of time based on your actions via new comments. Or you have the phasing tech that arrived in Rise of Isengard that changes the situation based on your actions. People can see small changes in the world.

Most of the time everything is static. Turbine has to program in all the various world states. An online game like Lotro is a personal story game where you share the world with thousands of other characters.

Swtor uses thousands of instances for the personal story aspect. Mini boss 378 lives in an instance. You can only get in that instance when it is time to kill her. Once you kill her, you can't get back in. The boss and all the guards only appear once. They survive or die permanently based on what you do. That assumng that the content element gives you the choice to kill or allow them to survive. All the later content remembers and is modified depending on what you did.

Turbine could if they wanted to create a "Fix the roof of the Forsaken Inn" content element. You would see hole or no hole if your character fixed the roof.

[Tribulation]

ahhhh yes....but Thornleys work site has progressed.....was just pointing that out to my wife a week or so ago....

[djheydt]

It is like most everything else in this game. The Forsaken Inn is frozen in time. It hasn't been six years. Time has moved forward. The other issue is that within Middle Earth time has only advanced five months or so. Frodo starts his journey from Hobbiton in September, 3018. We are probably in February, 3019. The ring is destroyed in March.

Time has been moving very slowly lately. Siege of Mirkwood came in 2009 in three years we have covered about 10 days since then. The fellowship left Lothlorien on February 16, 3019. The fellowship broke on February 26, 3019. We got two expansion packs that cover less than a week each.

Note: Somebody please check my dates. It wouldn't surprise me if I make a mistake.

In fact, since we recently visited Edoras and saw Eomer imprisoned, we are somewhere between March 1 (when that happened) and March 2 (when Gandalf comes to Edoras and heals Théoden). I haven't done the U11 content yet, so I don't know if anything connected with the main story-line happens in it.

Meanwhile, back in Thorin's Gate it is still the winter of 3017-8 and in Falathlorn it is spring 3018 and all the trees are in bloom. (Once you get out of the newbie instances.)

You can find all these dates in The Return of the King, Appendix A, "The Tale of Years," which once it gets to the great years of 3018-9, is rather a tale of days.

[Nymphonic]

I wonder if that bridge in Lakeshire(in World of Warcraft) ever got finished! I think that was more overdue than the Forsaken Inn. At least they can say they are just waitresses and bartenders, that bridge in Lakeshire had an actual construction crew!

[Sylrisson]

I wonder if that bridge in Lakeshire(in World of Warcraft) ever got finished! I think that was more overdue than the Forsaken Inn. At least they can say they are just waitresses and bartenders, that bridge in Lakeshire had an actual construction crew!

They actually did finally repair the Lakeshire bridge among other things. When I see construction going on in-game (Thornley's work site comes to mind) I always wonder if it will ever be complete.

[MarkoftheRealm]

ahhhh yes....but Thornleys work site has progressed.....was just pointing that out to my wife a week or so ago....

So has the construction at Adso's Camp. And the Waymeet trailer park in the Shire has grown as well over the years.

[Nymphonic]

They actually did finally repair the Lakeshire bridge among other things. When I see construction going on in-game (Thornley's work site comes to mind) I always wonder if it will ever be complete.

I did not know that. Thanks for the update!

[kmcferrin]

Why...it's almost as if the Inn were...forsaken.

[CheeseFan]

Why...it's almost as if the Inn were...forsaken.

I was going to say something very similar.

There does not seem to be much threat of rain in the Lone Lands either.

But, yes, as mentioned above, it's basically "Ground Hog Day" for all of the characters in each zone.


How the people in the major zones can celebrate different seasons (Spring, Summer, Autum and Winter) all on the same day is a bit tricky. Bree, Ered Luin and the Shire seem to exist outside of time, except for the epic, as fas as game play goes.

[Neumi]

I think they hired Asdo and his men, but they are still busy with their old job, figuring out what a roof is.

[Orivien]

too little trees in Lone-lands to craft planks for new roof! and i think supplies from Bree wouldn't work either, remember what happened to a supply cart near Midgewater Marshes?!
it must be horrible for all that folk once a storm comes.

[Khoniver]

Maybe once they finish fixing the roof of the floating log in frogmorton they will get to the forsaken inn's roof.

[Sapience]

Well it is forsaken.... just sayin'.

[Gravitystorm]

That darn roof has been in need of repair since 2007!

[SapienChavez]

when its raining, its too wet to fix...

and when its dry, its as good as any man's roof.







alos, its fine from the inside.