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Developer Diary: SoM Skirmishes: Accessibility
Brian “Zombie Columbus” continues his series of developer diaries about the new Skirmish system coming in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™ with Part 6: Accessibility. Read more about the Skirmish system!
Developer Diary: SoM Skirmishes: Rewards
Developer Diary: SoM Skirmishes: Rewards
lotro.com — Brian “Zombie Columbus” continues his series of developer diaries about the new Skirmish system coming in The Lord of the Rings Online™: Siege of Mirkwood™ with Part 5: Rewards. Read more about the Skirmish system! (more) Developer Diary: SoM Skirmishes: Rewards
Developer Diary: New Main Menu
Developer Diary: New Main Menu
lotro.com — As LOTRO grows and new UI features are developed, like the new Skirmish Join and Skirmish panels, we have found that we can't just keep adding buttons to the toolbar at the bottom of your screen (or the border of your Radar) to launch the new panels. ... (more) Developer Diary: New Main Menu
LotRO: dev diary explains rewards in skirmishes
LotRO: dev diary explains rewards in skirmishes
examiner.com — LotRO: SoM, TurbineLord of the Rings Online is nearing its release date for Siege of Mirkwood.  That means we're going to see a lot of screenshots and information about the expansion before the release.In the last section of the developer diary,... (more) LotRO: dev diary explains rewards in skirmishes
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Accessing Skirmishes
MMeOw — ... The latest developer diary from ZombieColumbus was posted a short while ago on the official LotRO website. The article can be found HERE. ...

Dev Diary: Skirmishes, Take 6
Lord of the Rings Online Vault - The Ultimate Resource — ... Yet again, Zombie Columbus comes to us with a dev diary about Skirmishes. This time, he's talking about accessibility, giving us a look at the Skirmish Join UI, and discussing stat-tracking. Wondering about Skirmishes, but not planning to upgrade to Siege of Mirkwood ? He even talks about that: Skirmishes will be available to all LOTRO subscribers, but those who do not purchase the Siege of Mirkwood™ upgrade will have only limited access. Specifically, non-Mirkwood players will have their trait ranks capped, will be limited in the number of Skirmishes they can play in a ...

Skirmishes Part 6: Zombie Columbus gets Accessible
LotRO Combo Blog — Skirmishes Part 6: Zombie Columbus gets Accessible Posted on 06. Nov, 2009 by Merric in Turbine Skirmish Join Today we saw another feature Dev Diary from Zombie Columbus (the second to last one on Skirmishes!) talking about the accessibility of the Skirmish System in the upcoming expansion, Siege of Mirkwood .  He talks about their decision to make Skirmishes available through a new UI component called Skirmish-join which can be accessed once a (character?) has finished the Skirmish tutorial.  He gives in-depth ...

Dev Diary – Skirmish Accessibility
LotRO Combo Blog — ... as they want to further stress the system to make sure it is ready. Like I’ve said before, skirmishes are shaping up to be THE feature of the expansion and in my opinion easily justify the cost of the expansion on their own.  The Join feature is all full of win, and I like the death penalty – although I’m curious about item wear still.  I do like the tie to MyLotro as hopefully it will really open things up on that site and hopefully drive Turbine to some love for kinships ;) Full post here.

Episode 017: Hayoo Shownotes
LOTROCast: The Lord of the Rings Online Podcast — ... details his work on the ‘Moments of Inspiration’ in his blog, found here. Special thanks to Jerry over at DDOCast for digging up this piece on the ongoing Turbine/Atari lawsuit. It is a court document, framed certainly from a Turbine centric bias, that explains the whole dilemma. If you want to catch up on your Zombie Columbus (dev diaries, that is), you can find one on Rewards in Skirmishes here, and one on Accessability of Skirmishes here. Many special thanks to Hayoo for joining us! Both Alberos and I genuinely enjoyed the ...

Episode 017: Hayoo Shownotes
LotRO Combo Blog — ... details his work on the ‘Moments of Inspiration’ in his blog, found here. Special thanks to Jerry over at DDOCast for digging up this piece on the ongoing Turbine/Atari lawsuit. It is a court document, framed certainly from a Turbine centric bias, that explains the whole dilemma. If you want to catch up on your Zombie Columbus (dev diaries, that is), you can find one on Rewards in Skirmishes here, and one on Accessability of Skirmishes here. Many special thanks to Hayoo for joining us! Both Alberos and I genuinely enjoyed the ...

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