Board Thread:General Mod Discussion/@comment-26296200-20160403042703/@comment-26296200-20160403182906

AlteOgre wrote: DavidReidHowe wrote: AlteOgre wrote: Servers with Utumno factions or Melkor owners have retarded ways in my personal opinion. Same holds for servers where admins are also OP players and act as Valar or Maiar. That defines a very stupid and immature way of roleplay as far as I'm concerned. i own a server and am in no way stupid. i rp as manwe and my co-owner is melkor. another servers co-owner is melkor, and a server owner is melkor, so watch it. i rp very well and even if i dont have the most players everyone who joins say they like the server and are active.

I'm not saying you're stupid. I'm saying those are stupid ways for server set-up, management and roleplay with this mod. The type of roleplay you use is stupid, in my distinct opinion on this matter, regardless the quality of your roleplay. It inherently has a huge risk of derailing and for it to function properly it requires a level of mutual trust and maturity (of both staff and players, and between staff), I don't expect will be available on any roleplay server without a whitelist and very strict roleplay rules and supporting systems. That is my distinct opinion, regardless the starting points and gameplay objectives of the mod. Yet, as far as I understand / interpret the way the mod is designed, the LOTR mod isn't set up to support this way of roleplay, apart from the fact that specific plugins and/or additinal mods are required to achieve such a set-up. Given these two observations/interpretations, I can only conclude that it would not be sensible for the mod to support the gameplay options you desire. listen you dont know the way i rp.

on my server depending on the fac to become a leader you have to get a set number of align plus a medium city, to get a special role you have to get 1000 align with the alignment resembling the role, and to become an ainur or maia (not istari which are a subset of maia) you have to get 5000 for maia, and 10000 for ainur. unless your admin or above then you get offered and ainur or maia rank.

i am just trying out this rp style i usually rp on servers, as a leader or king. and even on my own server i was saruman before the big restart. i may even switch to be king of umbar/dale/rhun when the update comes out. if you prefer a different way of rp thats ok just dont insult server who do that if they have players on then they arent stupid in their players eyes. so thats that