User:HubToo/It's a hARDA world

Why a new Lord of the Rings mod server?
It's a hARDA world is a Lord of the Rings server focused on survival role play, using More Player Models to impersonate the various races of Middle Earth.

While there are other survival LOTR servers out there, we haven't found any providing an "organic", balanced experience.

Among the things that can be seen: We think that playing in these conditions is just a waste of time!
 * server owners installing so much Bukkit plugins that the vanilla Minecraft & Lord of the Rings gameplay is seriously affected,
 * administrators abusing their powers, using unavailable magical artifacts, sometimes offering or selling enchanted items or captive non player characters,
 * players abusing player location commands and teleportation to assault others,
 * cheaters using fully enchanted mithril sets of weapons and armors, probably obtained through X-Raying or administrator complacency,
 * servers suffering from so much lag that mining is a pain and mobs can't even fight back.

Instead of that, we want to play the hard way: Our only concessions being: Finally, we wanted to fully use the standard factions, alignments and way points system present in the LOTR mod:
 * in hard difficulty setting for tougher opponents,
 * unassisted (randomly) enchanted items,
 * amplified hunger for greater realism.
 * the use of (lootable) death chests, because items shouldn't disappear without reason, especially scarce enchanted items,
 * the possibility to trade items between players, regardless of distance because of the size of the world, preferably using the silver coin currency (with a stock exchange to make your trading supply and demand offers),
 * the possibility to name items for free, because this is ridiculously expensive in the vanilla game.
 * players start in their faction territory, instead of the Shire, and with already biased alignment toward their traditional allies and ennemies,
 * and there is no teleportation system other than the one provided in the mod: you are entitled to one teleportation to at defdined way point per Minecraft day (20 minutes in real time).