What was his response?

thats a little funny.

Thinking we might need a repost of this say mid day Saturday where we can get a few replies before Tarrant interrupts his weekend jerkoff session to close the thread again.  Think I might add "Hiring Tarrant to be a forum moderator" to the list to really get his anus all puckered up.

Demoyn wrote on Jun 14^th, 2010 at 4:59pm:


Don't forget Kate. She needs to go too.

Demoyn wrote on Jun 14^th, 2010 at 6:50pm:


I haven't heard from her since maternity leave either but a pre-emptive firing in her case would be most welcome.

Speaking of Kate...


http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=335117


She's was just named Executive Producer of LotRO 10 days ago! How the hell did we not hear about it??

Holy Shit that game is DOOOOOOOMED!

I was considering moving over to LotRO when they announced it was moving to F2P but not anymore.

I've heard rumors that Fernando may (I stress may) be going to head up some engine development group that would span multiple games.   We can only hope.

Jaxx wrote on Jun 14^th, 2010 at 4:24pm:


good stuff.
but make sure to type "Best improvemnts made by turbine" that way your not throwing dirt around you`r just applauding them (and thier ignorance) 

Astraghal wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 3:39am:
What do you mean?  I've had a few problems with keymapping over the years but never found one that didn't have a resolution.

Astraghal wrote on Jun 16^th, 2010 at 3:39am:

Yeah, they really screwed that up.  Though I'm one to use all 20, it really should have been customizable, and we know it could have been.  Here's why: back in the day, we only had 10 hotbars.  But there was a trick, using the /alias command, that many of us used to increase our number of hotbars.

So if this functionality was available to the user, that means there is some underlying structure already in place to change the number of hotbars.

Instead, they took the stupid (but easy) route and put 20 in for all.

There is a bit of a work-around, though: remove your empty bars from the scroll window and hide them behind something (like the scroll window, or control panel buttons).

Yeah, that problem got me for a while too.  I use ctrl for lots of things, hotkeys especially.  Ctrl+mmb is "secondary heal" (usually heal scrolls) for many of my characters, so I'd often find myself running backwards and trying to heal, only to have the goddamn store pop up.

I thought they'd fixed that, apparently not.  However, there *is* a workaround.  The trick is that you need to assign whatever keypress to something.  So in the case of ctrl+s, I assigned it to "move backward" (along with 's').  It's annoying to have to do, but less annoying than that goddamn store popping up mid-battle.

You can do this editing via the ddo.keymap file in the same folder as your screenshots, but it's easier for most to do it via the options window in-game.

Strakeln wrote on Jun 9^th, 2010 at 8:30pm:


You know, I originally thought dungeon scaling was a nice idea.  Make it easier to get 2-4 man groups together and run more quests.  Less time waiting for that 5th or 6th slot to fill. 

But all my main toons were capped or close when it came out.   I have a haggle bard I was working up the tree, but that one almost never soloed and very rarely short manned quests.  (Bards have no trouble finding a group and a group with a bard and cleric in it attract melees like flies to honey).

Now that I've TR'd two toons, I'm seeing that dungeon scaling really messes with your head when you solo while leveling.

Take Stormcleave for example.  I could solo on norm or hard with my level 8 melee TR.  But, step in on hard with a full party?  Totally different.  You take on even something as simple as that group of 5-7 wolves or those 3 hill giants and you are tripped or knocked down on your ass in no time.  And then the beat down begins. 

I see this particularly with new/inexperienced players a lot.  They solo stuff, get a big head and then run the same quest at the same difficulty (or maybe one level higher) with a group and are dead within 2 minutes.  Newb is all bent outta shape.  Welcome to dungeon scaling....

Arkat wrote on Jun 9^th, 2010 at 5:39pm:


Nods...