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BM General Discussion / New Characters randomly offering oaths

« on: December 13, 2011, 04:25:14 PM »

Several times now, I've had new players, with new characters, offer my character an oath without any accompanying letter. Due to his nature, he asks for a letter of introduction.

Seriously, what is up with people just sending an offer without any letter??!

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Helpline / Unique Items finally being useful?!

« on: December 05, 2011, 09:00:18 PM »

Spotted the following on Beluaterra (edited):

A noble is spotted wearing an armour piece.
Thanks to the unique item(s), the defender fight with full morale.

I've always wanted them to actually do something! So now, where is the like! button?!!

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Helpline / Wear & Tear in cities

« on: December 05, 2011, 06:49:06 PM »

I have my character in a city, in Dwilight, and their unit is still taking damage at much the same rate as they would outside a city. I can only presume that this has still to be fixed?

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Helpline / Starting a religion

« on: November 18, 2011, 07:29:14 PM »

Can anyone give me some pointers on how to do this please?

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Other Games / Lord of the Rings Online

« on: November 10, 2011, 05:41:17 PM »

I have been playing LotRO for even longer than battlemaster, and that is saying something! It is an excellent MMORPG, weaving your character(s) into and around the story of the One Ring and the Fellowship, and also exploring areas to which the fellowship never traveled, such as Forochel, Angmar, Thorin's Hall, Southern Mirkwood as well as many more!

It is essentially free-2-play, with you being able to level up to level 30 without needing anything extra. You can effectively get most of the game for free if you are willing to spend time, or spend some money for a subscription (and/or purchase updates).

If you are at all an MMO fan, or like Tolkien's works, you will be poorer for not checking this out.

My main character is Baelorack, on Nimrodel, and I also have a character on Landroval named Berlson.

You can some more about it at: www.lotro.com and even get started. Be warned though, it is quite a big download!

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General Talk / Malfunctioning Screensaver?

« on: November 09, 2011, 09:06:00 PM »

Something rather curious - and incredibly irritating- that i have come across on my computer: I have my screensaver set to scroll through a folder of pictures. But even though the pictures display fine when I view them, many are often blank on the screensaver. They are randomly blank, as I have tested with only a few, and after several scrolls through them, each has at least shown once, and presumably been blank once or more.

Anyone happen to have any thoughts about this? I'm still running XP.

Cheers,
Bael.

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Helpline / Update on Dwilight Estates?

« on: November 06, 2011, 12:38:31 PM »

I wasn't altogether certain where I should place this, so I'm putting it here. I am wondering if there is any progress on fixing the new estate system/if we could get any update (even if it is just: we are still working on it).

I have so far witnessed the following bugs:

1) The Lord of Thysan (Grevil Vanyard) does not show up on the "realm and regions" page - it is simply blank, as if there is no Lord.

2) Characters do not change from "Noble" to "Knight" on the character list once they have an estate.

3) Characters do not change allegiance when they change realms - Grigori Rurik was still a noble of Candiels even when he changed realm and region from Aurvandil to Barca (and took an estate in Rettlewood - related to the above one no doubt).

4) When a region changes realm ownership (due to peasant/minor noble decision), the Knights still hold estates there, but remain in their former realm (example: Evanburg).

I'm sure that people are working on this, and hopefully the above is nothing new, but just wanted to put it somewhere.

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Helpline / Bottle of Black Oil?

« on: October 30, 2011, 01:56:34 PM »

In the wiki, it states that the "Bottle of Black Oil" can be found in a badlands region. Is this still the case? Has anyone here found one within the past 6 months?

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BM General Discussion / Seasons (on the wiki?)

« on: October 29, 2011, 12:19:25 PM »

I am quite surprised that there is not a page donated to seasons. Just a single one-line footnote under the "food" heading. I could have sworn that there was a seasons page (unless I missed it?). Shall I add one?

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General Talk / Installing Java?

« on: September 17, 2011, 01:38:20 PM »

Hi all,

For some reason the Java install is bugged. It downloads the installer, then the file gets deleted and nothing happens. And Java still is not installed.

Suggestions?

Edit: Currently trying the Offline install. Result:

"Error 1330. A file that is required cannot be installed because the cabinet file C:\Documents and Settings\...\Application Data\Sun\Java\...\Data1.cab has an invalid digital signature. This may indicate that the cabinet file is corrupt."

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Helpline / Consistent Morale Loss

« on: September 07, 2011, 09:37:32 PM »

Interesting little situation here...and It involves Mixed Infantry 

It seems that every single time they fight in their first battle (as in, none within the past several days),  they consistently lose exactly 10 morale every single time. Their cohesion is very high, their training is good, and they are set as army. Furthermore, they don't take any casualties, and consistently do the most damage out of all the units.

Any ideas why this might be? Or are they just wimpy, and don't like fight? Or is the fact that they are mixed-infantry enough to explain it?

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Feature Requests / [FR] New Message Type: Announcement

« on: August 25, 2011, 09:37:06 PM »

This was put forward ages ago, in the old email-based system and received a positive response.

To summarise:

New Message Type: Announcement
Colour: Purple.
Who can send them: Anyone (like orders)
Fills the need of: Often a normal message or report feels inadequate for a certain situation. This would help sort between the standard messages, which one can miss if skimming, and the important ones. Much like the orders message type.
Used for: anything that needs announcing (could be used seriously, for important events, or for humourous effect by the odder characters )

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Helpline / "Underground activism"?

« on: August 24, 2011, 11:24:00 PM »

When a merciful court is held, one often sees the report that "Rumours say underground activism has increased." Now, if this does not affect the control, does it actually have any effect on the region?

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Helpline / What population for RC's to work?

« on: August 16, 2011, 01:44:56 PM »

I currently have two characters, who have lordship over a city and a woodland region. Both these regions have around half, or slightly more, population, and neither get any recruits. Both regions are in good shape regarding morale and loyalty.

Can someone please tell me at what percentage population I can actually expect to finally start getting recruits, and when the flaw of not being able to find any recruits in an 11k populated city will be fixed?

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Helpline / Random preaching results

« on: June 17, 2011, 05:19:17 PM »

Does anyone know what might have affected the results of preaching in the following scenario please?

I have preached four times in a townsland region of 10800, spending either 11 or 12 hours each, all in a row. The first three preachings converted perhaps 300-400 people total, with no comment on being ignored or anything (just the standard messages).

 Now, the fourth time:

You feel that you are ignored by more people than usual, possibly because of many recent preachings.
There are 234 followers of other faiths that swayed and converted to Verdis Elementum.

It's all rather odd...