World Join

Leviathan · #1 Sep 04 2009, 11:41 AM

"Join the fight wherever violence erupts with the World Join feature!"

Any theories on what this means exactly? Is it just a quick way to travel from place to place? Am I missing something obvious?

Trushott · #2 Sep 04 2009, 11:44 AM

hopefully something that gives players the feel of particiatig in EPIC battles like helms deep

ETC... massive feeling in scale ?

without having to go into the moors ( not that that feels EPIC anyway but more than other parts of game I guess )

Macbeth · #3 Sep 04 2009, 11:46 AM

Hmm. Being able to join instanced battles, I would imagine...

Sort of like WoW battlegrounds maybe?

Belwin · #4 Sep 04 2009, 11:46 AM

someone posted earlier thinking that people from different worlds could join together for stuff or something,

which would be EPIC with big battles like helms deep, minas tirith, osgiliath (spelling?), erebor etc.

Leviathan · #5 Sep 04 2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Belwin

someone posted earlier thinking that people from different worlds could join together for stuff or something,

which would be EPIC with big battles like helms deep, minas tirith, osgiliath (spelling?), erebor etc.

That would be awesome! I think the game really needs a large scale battle where many people can just jump in and fight together, without having to find a group and such, just lots of people defending a place somewhere in the world, kind of like the Amarthiel attacks.

Comstrike · #6 Sep 04 2009, 11:56 AM

I think this speaks to the long-term issue of how players could be in many places at once.

IE: how to fight in Gondor and up north in Dale, years from this release.

Also, remember we had those Ring Lore events. Seems to me that this is an expansion of it.

Toranoga · #7 Sep 04 2009, 12:14 PM

I'm hoping it will be like in Warhammer:AoR where you que for an instance. When it fills up you can then join and fight the battle.

But am expecting something more along the line of the Lore gathering event.

Zalexia · #8 Sep 04 2009, 12:39 PM

i was confused also as my previous post but someone said its by region? but not sure?

Zalexia · #9 Sep 04 2009, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Macbeth

Hmm. Being able to join instanced battles, I would imagine...

Sort of like WoW battlegrounds maybe?

i dont think its pvp though after reading it and talking to ppl.

veevito · #10 Sep 04 2009, 12:56 PM

From the vague description i'm guessing maybe that they are going to add alot more random world events like maybe massive mob attacks on various encampments, and when it happens you will get the option to port to the area to take part.

Lookis · #11 Sep 04 2009, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by veevito

From the vague description i'm guessing maybe that they are going to add alot more random world events like maybe massive mob attacks on various encampments, and when it happens you will get the option to port to the area to take part.

This is what I thought on initial speculation. Either way I am excited and know I will have fun doing it.

Spacmanbobr · #12 Sep 04 2009, 01:27 PM

Here's my guess. It'll be like battle instances, the one's in angmar and lorien. But... you go to a Master at Arms or someone who will announce something like "Esteldin is under attack by the forces of Angmar!". Then you get ported to an instanced version of Esteldin if you talk to the dude and fight NPCs that attack Esteldin and keep allied ones alive with other people who do the World Join.

I have very little hope they'll add a PvMP version to this... it would work out perfectly for that...

doug01 · #13 Sep 04 2009, 01:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Spacmanbobr

Here's my guess. It'll be like battle instances, the one's in angmar and lorien. But... you go to a Master at Arms or someone who will announce something like "Esteldin is under attack by the forces of Angmar!". Then you get ported to an instanced version of Esteldin if you talk to the dude and fight NPCs that attack Esteldin and keep allied ones alive with other people who do the World Join.

I have very little hope they'll add a PvMP version to this... it would work out perfectly for that...

Just at the same announcement to the Moors! Then creeps could join in at the same time as freeps, that would be a blast! AN army of NPCs and Creeps coming for Esteldin while a boat load of Freeps and Estelding Rangers defend.

I think it will most likely be something like random world announcements that something is under attack. You'll be able to go to different NPCs thought most of the areas and get ported to the battle (which will be an instance type setting).

Leviathan · #14 Sep 04 2009, 03:18 PM

From the article in this thread: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=289421

It sounds like World Join will just be used to join your friends in the new Skirmish battles.

**Zombie_Columbus** · #15 Sep 04 2009, 03:26 PM

World-join is a bit of a misnomer. The name of that part of the overall Skirmish system is likely being changed to the more informative "Skirmish-join." Remember the way half the community calls Fellowship Maneouvers Conjunctions because that's what it was in beta? This is one of those situations

Well, what IS Skirmish-join? There will be a dev diary on it (I'm working on it now) but the short version is it will be how players can enter the new Skirmish spaces. It's a UI that will allow players to select the group size, level, and difficulty of a Skirmish, and then be instantly transported to the Skirmish. Emphasis on "Skirmish", the system does not, as of now, interact with Instances, PvMP, Battle Instances or anything else.

The link where this information was found does a fairly good job of describing Skirmish-join, as well as some lots more about the Skirmish system that we've been working on for some time now. I, personally, am very excited about it!
http://tinyurl.com/nhknbt