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Reddieeddie wrote: Dragonovith wrote:

Reddieeddie wrote: Dragonovith wrote: Come on guys, I wanna hear your sordid stories too.

Sadly, I have a few of those....unfortunately, I'm not sure they make very entertaining stories. Either that, or I've been sworn to secrecy. :P

OK, most of them aren't that bad. Although I can think of one instance...

Basically the only server I play on these days is DOME ("A New Age: The Dominion of Middle-Earth"). They have extremely specific rules concerning wars, battles, etc. Aside from standard hunts (which have to be declared), there are sieges, which take place between warring kingdoms. Each player can only have 10 troops at a siege, and each faction has a max of 4 aiding players from two different factions (which have to be officially recongized kingdoms). Despite having played on DOME for almost 9 months now, I've only been in one siege....

At the time, I was with Dunland, still something of a noob to the server. The High-Elves were at war with Angmar, and each side had won 2 sieges, so it was tight. One Saturday afternoon, the High-Elven king declares that he's going to siege Carn Dum. Initially, I didn't pay much attention to it. A few minutes later, however, an Angmar commander messages me, asking if I would like to assist them in the siege. After thinking it over for a bit, I took him up on the offer. The siege was about to start, so I grabbed some units, and tped to him.

The fortress was set on a hill/cliff, with the main entrance being accessible only by a long, broad stairway. As I recall, much of the battle consisted of us shooting down on the High-elves and their allies below, while they fired back up on us. Naturally, I had forgotten to bring arrows. And my units were glitching out, so I couldn't seem to command them properly. So I was basically stuck doing nothing, waiting to engage the Elves at melee when (if) they reached us.

One odd thing I remember about the battle was the random fires that were found on the staircase. They almost looked intentional, but they were probably resulting from bombs exploding, or something like that. Either way, they didn't help us, as the King of Angmar (Calbeius) burned to death, and a Gundie player almost suffered the same fate.

Nonetheless, the siege was going well for us. I believe we killed 4 good players before they even managed to break down the first gate. Then someone started asking questions about who all was on the evil side...

As I mentioned before, you're only allowed 4 allies from 2 different factions. In addition to the Angmar players, there were two Gundabad players who had been there since the start, so that was one. Then somebody had gotten a Haradrim player to join. And then there was me....

That made 3 factions. Then someone else realized that Dunland wasn't a kingdom yet. I had forgotten that one had to be a member of a claimed kingdom to join a siege. At that point, the High-Elven king (a mod) broadcasted that Evil had too many facs aiding, and one of the facs (Dunland) wasn't a kingdom; therefore, the whole siege was invalidated.

In short, the siege was declared illegal 'cuz I was there.

And I didn't even do a darn thing. :\

Oh well. If I had a server I would keep the rules to the bare minimum. Only sieges would have five rules: 1: The owner must be online; 2: You are allowed to put ladders and break gates (no griefing); 3: Everything inside chests can be looted; 4: You must wait 15 days until the next raid; 5: You can set fire on wood things.

I can imagine the chaos! People raiding and pillaging! Stealing would be allowed too. Anyone could declare itself a king or a queen of any place, even a puddle, you could be the king of a puddle if you so wished. Kill everyone you want! Actually, do anything you want! Man, now I want to play on a server like this so badly.

I believe this would encourage role playing. Right now most servers have rules for everything (I swear one of the these days I'm going to find a server with a rule telling you what skin to wear on Sundays), and too many rules hold back role playing, and I love role playing and burning things down with flint & steel while the owner watches hopeless as its creation gets destroyed on chaotic fires of doom and death... ahem. That would be a ton of fun. Although I'd imagine that, after a time, the seasoned, well-equipped vets would just kill everyone else and nobody would want to join. But I know what you mean about rules. DOME is considered a fairly serious RP server, and while it has some good RP moments, I feel that the extensive rules can lead to a very legalistic outlook. Few sieges happen without some rule getting violated, or at least reportedly violated.

And, sadly, the DOME staff turned fire spreading off. :\ I've heard that was in response to someone burning down a significant portion of the Lothlorien edge, but who knows? :P The map is huge and with everyone hiding their map markers and, if possible, no achievements being shown in the chat, there would be a good chance to evade them. Also, I wasn't talking about DOME or any other specific server, I'm talking about them in general. Too many rules everywhere! A new player can't step out of the Shire before someone complains about an illegal kill or about his missing sweet roll.

LordArvedui wrote: Dragonovith wrote:

LordArvedui wrote:

LordArvedui wrote: Dragonovith wrote: Let's share things and stories that happened on LotR server. Don't let all those moments be lost in time like tears in rain!



I'll start with two stories!

1 - The Great Troll Hunt... or not - This happened last year, I think. My good friend Traceus/Anardial or whatever he calls himself these days, invited me to a Troll hunt on Angmar. If I'm not mistaken, the whole endeavor was to acquire Troll totems or, I don't know, I'm sure that it had something to do with the Troll Chieftain.

There were also two Elven players on this hunt and they were killed seconds after we teleported to Angmar! Yep, we started the hunt with the right foot. Anyway, there were too many Orcs and Trolls for Traceus and me, and we ended up taking refuge in a makeshift stone fort we built. It was quite tense! Every time we looked outside, rocks hurled by the Trolls blasted against our cobblestone walls and arrows flew over our heads.

But we found a solution to that stalemate! We teleported away...

2 - Ring Hunt - The server owner decided to make an event, a hunt for the One Ring (it happened right after a server update, I believe). The first person to capture it would get the power to become invisible or another reward if it decided to destroy it (was it a mob spawner?). All kinds of teleportation were deactivated (there was one left) and new hints for the Ring location were posted regularly on the server's website. It was quite hard, but things changed when the hint "It makes you glad" (it was more or less like that) was posted. With the help of google, I found the GLADden Fields, the place where Isildur died and the Ring was lost (Don't judge me, back then I didn't know most of the English names for Middle Earth's places).

I run as quickly as I could to the Gladden Fields. I had a companion with me (sorry, I don't remember who it was :/) that had to abandon our mighty quest for real life issues (a.k.a. bedtime). Once I entered the Gladden Fields and got the achievement for it, moments later someone also got that same achievement! I wasn't the only one to solve the puzzle! (The heads were hidden on the map).

I reached the center waypoint of the Gladden Fields, sweating like a pig. I looked everywhere, hoping to see the Ring and fearing to see a name tag. Then I remembered that Isildur died on the river, so I made my way there. Walking by the Anduin River's bank, I found a watered cave and inside that cave was a chest, and inside the chest the One Ring! I swiftly made my out of the Gladden Fields, luckily without being followed. Being a Gondorian impervious to the Ring corruption, I went to Mordor to destroy the Ring (I'm ashamed to say that I exploited a teleportation way into Mordor, because no one simply walks into Mordor, but I still had to walk and run a lot anyway). There were Orcs on the slopes of the fiery mountain, but I sneaked past them. Once I crossed the doorway to inside the mountain, I didn't think twice and I cast out the Ring onto the fires of Mount Doom. (There's some screenshots about it on my profile). Traceus goes by Alcarin now, and good to see another friend of his. Speaking of Traceus, my story is one time me and traceus were playing on AoA (R.I.P.) and I was prince of DA, he was king of Gondor, and we had some more lords with us. Sauron raided us and as we fought, Traceus fell off a roof and died! I laughed at him for like an hour, untill i fell in single combat with sauron (The mace did 14 damage with fire aspect 2 and knockback two on that server, don't judge me!) Then the last survivor, the Lord of Pinnath Gelin (Which was also what was being raided,) fought sauron and died as well. All seemed lost untill.... Drumroll... Sauron was slain by Hirluin soldier of Pinnath Gelin! Hah, it was glorious! Good times, good times... I used to play on AoA too, maybe we even saw each other. I also have another story there, but, hmm, that involves my arch-enemy and I would prefer not to mention how that rascal he outsmarted me. Well, I managed to get a double revenge in the end, but he doesn't know what the second revenge. Ah, it was so good to hang his weapons on my walls, what a trophy! Traceus saw it too. Oh who were you? Duke Petr of Redwater Ford at your disposal.