Olander's Lords of Middle Earth

Well....I am back. Some of you have heard. Voodoo wanted me to come over here to let folks know what is going on with LoME. I have been coding for a couple months now to update the ORSv4 to ORSv5 which is my grand finale to the Olander's Realistic Systems that we all play in. I went on vacation and decided to make a Campaign Module.....Anvarath or Middle Earth or Faerun. I have been playing and DMing 'Dungeons and Dragons' for 33 Years now. My own creation, Anvarath, was designed as a campaign but changed to PvP when someone talked me into it. I stayed with PvP even though the headaches were enormous. This time....No PvP! So campaign it is. I chose Middle Earth after some discussion with Old Friends.

This LoME will be Low Magic. You can still craft your gear but all will be much lower powered. Creatures are also rebalanced so ALL Casters have better selection of their spell choices. This makes the new LoME a Role Player's Dream and still gives us players the Olander Sized Adrenaline Rushes that we have all come to like.

When? BETA will begin next weekend (14JUN2008) then the following will be Opening Weekend (21JUN2008).



Server Name :: Olander's Lords of Middle Earth

Landbase :: Middle Earth
Good, Neutral, Evil all play Side by Side. PvP is ONLY allowed in the King of the Hill, Capture the Flag, and Tournament Areas.

Sauron's Hordes shall be Hostile Faction.

Game Style ::
- Local Towns with 1 to 4 Dungeons within a good walk from the township. Towns shall be Level Ranged (i.e. - 1 to 5).
- Binding Stones will be used to keep your Locale persistent.
- Good, Neutral, and Evil Players will live side by side. This basically means that like FR, MERP, or WoW that personal choice does not reflect a particular side. It DOES still affect what you can take as classes are concerned!
- Special PvP Tournament Areas are the ONLY place PvP can be initiated. DM Tournaments will be scheduled by each DM on the Forum and in Game.
- Overland shall be at the lower end of the difficulty range of the Township and the Dungeons can be whatever across the entire DC of the Township.
- Bosses get a +2 on the DC of the Township (i.e. 7th Level on a 1 to 5 Level)
- Players are given Quests to go do something or go someplace to take part in the bigger picture or an individual campaign. Some campaign stories will take 30+ levels and several NPCs to complete them.
- DMs CAN and WILL initiate In Game Stories that will develop over time by the result of Player RP.


Game Version ::
NWNv1.69, CEP2.1c

Game Tilesets ::
Deafult Bioware

Haks ::
CEP2.1c
ORSv5 (A very SMALL hak to fix 2das from Bioware and CEP plus a few must haves....will take 2 minutes or less to DL for DSL)


With PvP out of the way for the main portion of the game.....LoME will rock like never before. If folks want to beat the snot out of each other.....then head for a Binding Stone and portal to the Tourney Arena. DM Sponsored King of the Hill and Capture the Flag can also pit Player vs. Player too.

This will be a fun server......period.


Thanks to everyone who wanted to keep playing LoME and kept it alive for these couple of years. There will be some changes but you folks will not be disappointed.

Cheers
Olander

Server Forums :

http://nwnors.4rumer.net/index.htm

Haks and patches

What is the deal on the 1.69 update, the CEP v2.1 update and your add on hak file? If we install these, will we still be able to play on other servers that havent updated to 1.69 or Cep v2.1? I know that Haks usually dont cause problems from server to server just want to make sure.

I think we are waiting for the official 1.69 release

The server launches in like two weeks and Beta 10 was said to be the last beta (and it may no big changes from beta 9) so it is likely to be release very VERY soon

I will Work on the Forum and try to have it all ready before the release of the SERVER

New free forums have many new options that our old forums do not have so we will look great both in game and off

Careful!! If you update to NWNv1.69 (Beta 10 Currently) You will NOT be able to log in to other NWN Sites.

What I did was install another NWNv1.68 HoTU in another Folder so I have 2 installations on the Computer in different folders. So I can enter both versions. I have had it like this for some time actually.

The New LoME Server is coming online with NWNv1.69 and CEPv2.1c.....the ORSv5 Hak is very small but is necessary for the Towers and Doors as well as some 2da fixes in baseitems and item properties.

Actually....you could DL the CEPv2.1c

It will not be updated until late fall.....so it is pretty solid.

The ORS_Addon Hak (Includes both NWN and CEP fixes as well as content we are already used to using) has gotten smaller than before....24Meg. Takes me 58 Seconds to DL it.

Anyhow....I will be linking it on the FTP in 1 week for the Beta Opener.

RedCobra is working on a New Forum as well....looking great! Big thanks to him!

Don't update anything and wait on news from me or Odin... Too many people jumping the gun here.. I got O to post here only to let everyone know whats being worked on and to get input from current lome players... Noone but the folks working on the 1.69 patch know whats going on... The rest of us can guess away but till they release it everyone is clueless and going on guessing and making this a headache.... Play on and quit worrying about all of this... This server won't be yanked out and dropped... If everyone want's to stay here and keep on going then im not abandoning the work i've done or the friends that helped us keep going...