LORD OF THE ONE RING is released

[AGRICOLA]

Originally posted by Kobayashi

^%&*&$ you.

Thank you for your most gracious sentiment. I hope that I have earned it.

However I must object strenuously to the frivolous reference to my shortcomings as a speller

Originally posted by Kobayashi
you spelt 'Complete' wrongly. Ha - finally got you.

I'll bet that if you googled on "compleat", you would get:

- 1,290,000 hits
- a very good definition from http://www.bartelby.com/68/81/1381.html

"This obsolete spelling of the adjective complete suggests an air of antiquity that seems to please some of those who name things, usually books for which they wish to claim compleat authority, as in Izaak Walton’s The Compleat Angler (1653), where this form of the adjective got its start. Use such quaintnesses only with great restraint."

- some real gems like
The Compleat Gyde to Tolkien Calendars
A Compleat Loade of Crape
The Compleat Cockroach
The Compleat Winegeek
The Compleat Redneck
The Compleat Strategist


EDIT: A bit of a cross post as I lost my previous version when I tried to check the URL.
@Boco Thank you.

[kobayashi]

^%&*&$ drats. At this rate, we'll soon be saying stuff like

"Chinians are neither autochthonous to Magellanica or the Sovth Atlantick"

[techumseh]

That's a direct quote from AGGIE's last Opsum for one of my scenarios!

[AGRICOLA]

Originally posted by kabayashi:
"Chinians are neither autochthonous to Magellanica or the Sovth Atlantick"

Originally posted by techumseh:
That's a direct quote from AGGIE's last Opsum for one of my scenarios!

I don't recall writing that, but it certainly does sum things up rather nicely.

[kobayashi]

So am I good for ver 1.1 or do you have any final suggestions? ..like too easy, make it harder

[AGRICOLA]

Some hours ago you should have received a brief e-mail about possible changes to a couple of units.

Although I am working to finish the scen with all three monster civs destroyed, I'll tear myself away from the fun for a couple of hours, write my comments and e-mail them to you by this evening.

[kobayashi]

I have released version 1.1, downloadable from the same place. There weren't any major problems with 1.0 so the changes in 1.1 probably don't warrant playing LOTOR again. Its mostly fine-tuning stuff:

All units in Mine now do not have move allowance until the second turn.

Improved the people file, differentiating between tribes.

Increased the cost of Saruman's incendiaries by 50 percent.

Potency of pirate attacks increased via additional event.

Changed Sea of Rhun wonder to Serpent Cavalry.

Each turn is now half a day instead of one day.

Increased the differentiation in unit colours between MotW and Isengard.

All mountain terrain under cities has been changed to hills.

Increased the movement allowance of Knights to match Rohan Lancers.

You'll get free Knights instead of free Rangers.

Great Eagles now have a range of 1 instead of two and cost more.

Faramir, Gimli and Rangers move increased from 1 to 1.333.

The auto-regeneration routine of Isengard Uruks have been toned down a notch


I'd like to offer my thanks to Agricola and Elenssar for their helpful comments - especially the Cola, his reports were very detailed and insightful.

[MacGalleo]

I downloaded it yesterday and I will give it a try.
The map is very interresting. I feel that I like already this scenario.

[Elensar]

Interesting. In my progres to date (day 71), I beat Isengard without facing any incenaries. Now proceding to conquer that territory to ensure my back is clear...and to take advantage of only Pelargir, held by the knights formerly at Minas Tirith, some trained Rangers, and catapults.

Its not as easy as it looks (my situtation). But its a good fight.

'cola has being playing and testing longer than I've -heard- of this site, of course his reports are more useful. : ) Glad to have been of some help, all the same. Truly, anyone interested in LotR scenarios for Civ should at least look at this one.

My rating is about 4/5 stars (Minus one star for being so hard. The patch should make it enough less painful to ignore that. It really is supposed to be this difficult.)

I had a thought of sorts for a replacment Eomer graphic, though I don't know if its worth it. The graphics are lovely, after all.

[kobayashi]

Originally posted by AGRICOLA

- some real gems like
The Compleat Gyde to Tolkien Calendars
A Compleat Loade of Crape
The Compleat Cockroach
The Compleat Winegeek
The Compleat Redneck
The Compleat Strategist

Before the Great Vowel Shift (i.e. the time of 'compleat', this is what English looked like

Here bygynneth the Book of the Tales of Caunterbury

Whan that Aprill, with his shoures soote
The droghte of March hath perced to the roote
And bathed every veyne in swich licour,
Of which vertu engendred is the flour;
Whan Zephirus eek with his sweete breeth
Inspired hath in every holt and heeth
The tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne
Hath in the Ram his halfe cours yronne,
And smale foweles maken melodye,
That slepen al the nyght with open eye
(So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);
Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages

[AGRICOLA]

Omigod Kobi, I haven't seen Chaucer since my last year in high school, when we spent a couple weeks trying to decipher it. The language certainly has certainly evolved since the 14th century.

The tweaks you made for LOTOR v1.1 look very good, especially the major conversion of Great Eagles from bombers to multi-attack interceptors.

I'm finding that playing LOTOR as a bloodlust scen is fun to the very end. Mordor Allies bit the dust on Turn 92 and Isengard on Turn 95. Incessant Gondor attacks have so reduced Mordor's forces that it is only a question of time until Sauron's empire vanishes from Middle Earth and everyone can live happily ever after.

Fine scenario.

[AGRICOLA]

Kobi, would you consider adding a map of the Middle Earth to the LOTOR v1.1 download?

Until I found a free, but not very good, map on the net and downloaded it, I had no idea what some popups were talking about when they referred to Rohan and other locations. I read the books too long a time ago to have any recollection of the geography. Others may not have read them at all.

[kobayashi]

Cola, some time soon I intend to add location names using the AI civ's cities on odd-even tiles. I'll have to strip away all the events temporarily to create the AI settlers but it should be doable.

[kobayashi]

There is one irritating problem I can't solve.

It seems in order to use odd-even cities to create place names, you need to reveal the whole map by making the fog of war graphic transparent. If this is true, I wasted a whole tribe by reserving it for the location names.

[kobayashi]

In case anyone was wondering where I was....I bought LOTR Online as research for this scenario and after 3 months I'm still researching it full time as a level 49 Elf Champion.