#lotro servers

[To Regional] 'I'm just here for info. I'm fairly certain I've decided where I want to go.' [servermerges] A-----: 'I will prob go to Ark' [servermerges] K-----: 'mostly info. My decision is being made by my guild(s) for the most part.' [Regional] N-----: 'If the rest of you wish, EGH will keep you updated, and will let you know where we/E community is going. (repeated)' [servermerges] R-----: 'Arkenstone' [Regional] N-----: 'This concludes the meeting...Since none of you really responded/participated, it turned into a short, informational meeting.' [Regional] N-----: 'There will be another tomoroow morning, 7 EST, hosted by J-----.' [servermerges] R-----: 'oh well nvm guess this channel was just a waste of time' [Regional] T-----: 'i JUST GOT HERE' [Regional] T-----: 'sry caps' [servermerges] D-----: 'The whole event is, imo :P' [Regional] N-----: 'Thanks for attending. If you have any more questions/concerns please contact me or my second in command J-----' [Regional] N-----: 'LOL T-----. We started 40 minutes ago' [Regional] T-----: 'where have or did you decide' [Regional] T-----: 'I am slow' You sigh. [Regional] T-----: 'just quick any decision yet' [servermerges] P------: 'Umm? There wasn't any talking in here for those who can't join ts lol' [Regional] R-----: 'Arkecstone' [To servermerges] 'Yeah... nothing was really said?' [Regional] R-----: 'Arkenstone*' [Regional] T-----: 'do any of you have alts on Ark and Glad' You tell P------, 'lololoolll' [Regional] N-----: 'That seems to be the majority of the choice. But again, my personal vote is for Landy.' [servermerges] R-----: 'no idea P------, was said in world join this for the event and info , then nothing in here really' [Regional] T-----: 'well I have toons on both' [Regional] R-----: 'bad choice' [servermerges] R-----: 'P------*' [Regional] T-----: 'there is more on Glad then on Ark' [servermerges] P------: ':/' [servermerges] D-----: '*pokes P------*' [Regional] N-----: 'Yeah' [servermerges] P------: 'Well, ITW is going to Arkenstone if that helps any. :P' [Regional] N-----: 'More BW trolls' [Regional] T-----: 'Do you not see more PvP on Glad then on Ark' [Regional] T-----: 'Brandy players do not need to move' [servermerges] I------: 'So why did they decide on arkenstone over the other servers?? what does arkenstone have that the other servers dont have?' [Regional] R-----: 'P------: 'Well, ITW is going to Arkenstone if that helps any. :P'' [To servermerges] 'Perhaps it would be better if we discussed which servers are known for which kinds of content? Casual, raiding, RP, PvP, etc?' [Regional] T-----: 'there world is not closing' [To servermerges] 'To help people decide?' [servermerges] R-----: 'All servers will be doing all content tbh,, Landy is the most RP thou' [servermerges] A-----: 'We should answer questions one by one' [servermerges] R-----: 'I'd say atm 80%+ of oceanic kins are ark bound' [Regional] N-----: 'YEAH' [servermerges] A-----: 'Arkenstone has a cool name, IMO' [servermerges] P------: 'Well, from what wwe gathered there is a community similar to E on Ark and they were pretty welcoming.' [Regional] N-----: 'Yeah*' [Regional] N-----: 'But they are moving' [Regional] N-----: 'Because they are crowded' [servermerges] P------: 'Gladden made it clear that they are not looking forward to people joining their server, even though it's enevitable.' [To servermerges] 'Well, personal opinion: Landroval seems a good fit for lore junkies or casual-serious RP types.' [Regional] T-----: 'I have not seen as many PvP on Brandy in the past 5 days' [servermerges] K-----: 'what exactly does "Oceanic" mean?' I------ tells you, 'that's a bold opinion /sarcasm ;-)' [servermerges] D-----: 'Landy is not super serious RP for the most part' [Regional] T-----: 'it looks like most of the Russians have moved on' You tell I------, ':P' [Regional] N-----: 'PVP is not always the gauge of server population' [Regional] T-----: 'I agree' [servermerges] R-----: 'Austrailia/new zealand etc time zone players' [servermerges] P------: 'Landy's obssession with RP puts a lot of people off of it.' [servermerges] S------: 'hello all' [servermerges] R-----: 'lots of non oceanic plays also going to ark aswell' [servermerges] D-----: 'Heya S------!' [To servermerges] 'I don't understand tht really, though. Unless you're in the Prancing Pony or on RP channels, you really don't see that much RP on open channels on Landroval.' [Regional] T-----: 'there are many X E playes onBrandy now that will combine all there toons on 1 server' [servermerges] S------: 'hi D-----' [servermerges] P------: 'Or at least a few peeps in my kin are adamently against Landy, which was enough reason for us.' [Regional] T-----: 'this will relieve the Populaion on B' [servermerges] A-----: 'Who cares about Landy, we should discuss more about whether we go to Gladden or Arkenstone' [servermerges] I------: '^' [To servermerges] 'Its true that they're generally less tolerant of non-lore names and such, but as long as you don't go openly trolling them, they reallydon't seem to care if you RP or not.' [servermerges] D-----: 'Gladden spawned O----- aka T----- *shudders*' [Regional] R-----: 'Gladden has all the newbies' [servermerges] P------: 'Well, Gladden wasn't very welcoming, and they're the main steam server now, whoch means there will be a lot of immature kids talking about sex and drugs in chat all day.' [To servermerges] 'Well, I care about Landroval. lol.' [Regional] T-----: 'So what is wrong with Nebies' [Regional] T-----: 'I have no problem helping othewrs' [Regional] T-----: 'I can't type' [Regional] N-----: 'Pardon, but I must depart.' [Regional] T-----: 'OK' [servermerges] A-----: 'Landroval is a different issue though. I guess the problem I want to address is where all of E are going' [Regional] T-----: 'I will try for tomorrow' [servermerges] P------: 'Arkenstone's largest kinship made moves to be welcoming and kind to people who are interested in joining their server, which I think is nice.' [servermerges] S------: 'I care about Ark ;P' [servermerges] P-----: 'what i saw on Gladden is that they dont want us.... what i saw on arkenstone that they where very welcoming to us' [servermerges] P------: 'And there wasn't any talk of drugs and other negative things that children shouldn't be reading in chat (Like at Gladden)' [servermerges] A-----: 'FYI N----- has gone offline.' [To servermerges] 'I'll agree there. (Going to Landroval personally, but for the sake of the discussion) Arkenstone world chat seemed much more welcoming and friendly than Gladden.' [servermerges] P------: 'That made the choice rather clear for most of the peep in ITW to come to a decision about the merge and which server we should pick.' [servermerges] P------: 'That's okay A-----, she can be briefed when she returns. lol' [servermerges] P------: 'I joined this chat to talk about the merges, and I'll be damned if it isn't talked about. lol' [To servermerges] 'Yeah P------!' [To servermerges] './cheer' [servermerges] S------: 'lol Hi P------' [servermerges] P------: '<3' [servermerges] P-----: 'welcome to the chat P------ lol' [servermerges] S------: '<3' [servermerges] P------: 'I've been here B------, where have you been? lol' [servermerges] P-----: ':P watching it all lol' [servermerges] P------: 'lol' [servermerges] P------: 'But yeah, we had people join all the different servers open for the merge and we studied the pros and cons of each.' [To servermerges] 'What was your opinion on Crickhollow? Haven't heard much about it.' [servermerges] S------: 'default f2P. not that there is anything wrong with that' [To servermerges] 'Nothing special, then?' [servermerges] A-----: 'Does everyone agree on the community on the different servers? I personally have no idea cause I've not been on them before.' [servermerges] R-----: 'they've been talking in Regional' [servermerges] P------: 'We didn't take this merge lightly. The decision we came up with was after a long meeting (Two even)' [servermerges] S------: 'but may get alot that haven't opened content yet' [servermerges] K------: 'P------, more like 3 or 4...' [servermerges] P------: 'Yes A-----, the communities are very varied.' [servermerges] W------: 'FRom my visits to world,, ark has been the most warm to welcome new people and the most mature chat. yes there is a couple trolls but most servers have them, and to be fair both the trolls i seen told ppl to put them on ignore' [servermerges] P-----: 'still i figured out that the arkenstone community is most to th eone of E's' [servermerges] P------: 'Take Brandywine for instance... *shudders*' [servermerges] A-----: 'hmm okay' [servermerges] P------: 'It's like trying to put several H----- on ignore.' [servermerges] I------: 'Question: what was the world chat like on gladden and Ark, are there a lot of people trying to run group content or just nosense things??' [servermerges] R-----: 'no information on server transfer date?' [servermerges] D-----: 'I have checked the world chat on all of them in non-american timezones, so far I would say that Landroval and Arkenstone seems rather nice' [servermerges] W------: 'world chat in gladden mostly for me is just rubbish talk ur mom jokes and drugs' [servermerges] P-----: 'what happened when i came to ark: i send a message in world chat about how ark was in community time zone pvmp and pve : i got 4 tells in 1 minute all nice and explaining the situatioins.... and also some people in world chat giving their reactions' [servermerges] P------: 'The world chat on Arkenstone is pretty steady, it's full of kinship recruituing and group runs and general pleasant chat. It's lively.' [servermerges] S------: 'I------ with 8 closed servers jamed into 4 (Bw closed) I feel all servers will have all types of action. Be it Pvp raid 6 man etc' [servermerges] P------: 'Gladden was drugs and sex and other stupid crap that I didn't want to see.' [To servermerges] 'Gladden was also full of complaints about server transfers and new players.' [To servermerges] 'At least when I looked.' [servermerges] D-----: 'I agree on gladden, not a pleasant experience' [servermerges] A-----: 'Okay, well it seems community-wise we all agree (that or similar people are just saying similar things)' [servermerges] S------: 'and some of the names. when P-----\b-----\d----- said he liked gladden. I replied ty for proving my point' [servermerges] W------: 'yesh there was a vocal group on Gladden saying they dont want more people and they wont be welcome,, was a small gorpu but vocal' [servermerges] P-----: 'i came on gladden asked about the pvmp community... they said: wanna do pvp... why dont you start playing WOW.... well that was welcoming....' G----- sits down. [servermerges] W------: 'I did a bit of gladden pvp was just a camp zerg fwith high ranked players,, the r1 and r2's were in moors and went welcome in ost' [servermerges] A-----: 'haha' [servermerges] W------: 'wernt*' [To servermerges] 'There's gonna be jerks and trolls everywhere, unfortunently.' A----- begins dancing! [servermerges] S------: 'some more on Gladden then the other servers from what I have seen' [To servermerges] 'Agree.' [servermerges] S------: 'Most that are picking gladden are PVP. should some of that on all servers' [servermerges] W------: 'Gladden seemed to be like BW all over' [To servermerges] 'All the more reason to stay away, then. >_>' [servermerges] R-----: 'agree' [servermerges] A-----: 'Player wise, will Gladden have more players then Ark?' [servermerges] W------: 'IMO yes' [servermerges] D-----: 'PvP won't affect you unless you go to the Moors ;P' [To servermerges] 'Mostly true, but then you get all the PvP drama in world chat.' [servermerges] S------: '^^^^^^' [servermerges] S------: 'Never enjoyed that' [servermerges] W------: 'All worlds will have pvp in world tbh so many players on 5 worlds' [servermerges] R-----: 'drama stinks' [servermerges] S------: 'agree' [servermerges] D-----: 'what does the drama stink like?' G----- begins dancing! [servermerges] S------: 'smell very very bad ;P' [servermerges] D-----: 'I'm already immune to the smell of hairy hobbit feet' [servermerges] P------: 'lol' [servermerges] A-----: 'I assume Crickhollow will have not many players' [To servermerges] 'My hobbit grooms his fur, thank you very much.' [servermerges] P------: 'lol fur' [servermerges] S------: 'imo it will be the quitest of the 5 yes' [To servermerges] 'Probably, yeah. Most seem to feel "meh" about Crick.' [servermerges] S------: 'ya' G----- throws a violent tantrum. [servermerges] A-----: 'I like Ark because it has a cool name, where as the other 4 are all boring' [servermerges] A-----: 'that's my logic' [To servermerges] 'Arkenstone does have the best name. No argument there.' [servermerges] W------: 'Ark is the jewel of lotro servers' [servermerges] R-----: 'I'm logging out of this channel... cya all in Arkenstone :)' [servermerges] A-----: 'ok bye' [To servermerges] 'I picked Elendilmir because of its name, though..' [To servermerges] '*shed tear*' [servermerges] S------: 'links if anyone wants more info> https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthread.php?574355-Elendilmir-Kin-Leaders-or-Officers-Only-Please-Official-Oceanic-Server-input&p=7421841' [servermerges] A-----: 'My kin will prob go to Ark, which is nice' [servermerges] P------: 'I picked Elendilmir because it was the server that my best friend played on with her husband' A----- challenges the heavens themselves! [servermerges] P-----: 'i just picked it cus of the reverence to elendil' [servermerges] D-----: '^' [servermerges] A-----: 'I picked it cause it was the unofficial Oceania server' [servermerges] S------: '35th in que to log into Bw came here.same liked the sound of the name' [servermerges] A-----: 'as an Aussie' A----- sits down. [servermerges] S------: 'working on making Ark the next one Aran' [To servermerges] 'So, mostly everyone's decided on Arkenstone, then?' [servermerges] S------: 'most I know yes' [servermerges] P------: 'As much as I'm aware, yes.' [servermerges] P-----: ''most peeps yea arkenstone' [To servermerges] 'Am I the only one headed for Landroval? :P Just curious! *ducks incoming flames*' [servermerges] A-----: 'yeah that's been decided' [servermerges] S------: '4 or 5 friends going to Landi. a couple pve\raiding kis to Gladden' [servermerges] A-----: 'Have fun in Landroval - it will be an experience' [servermerges] S------: 'kins*' [servermerges] P------: 'We have peeps in our kin split between Ark and Landy, but most are for Ark.' [servermerges] S------: '4 aren't coming to Ark and heading to Landi' [servermerges] S------: 'but they will come one day lol ;P' [servermerges] P-----: '^' [servermerges] S------: '2 already said they will make alts on Ark' [servermerges] P------: 'I know B-----, B-----, L-----, and R----- are going to Landy. But most others are headed to Ark.' [servermerges] S------: 'and M-----' [servermerges] P------: 'And M-----, yes' [servermerges] P-----: 'like more then 80% of our kin goes to ark thats for sure' [servermerges] S------: 'and 2 of those ^^ are making alts on Ark so they can say hi' [servermerges] S------: 'I'd go 95 % P------' [servermerges] P-----: 'B------^' [servermerges] S------: '5 out of 100' [servermerges] P------: 'And I'll be making a lowbie alt over there to keep in touch with friends over there too.' [servermerges] P-----: 'and agreed S------' [servermerges] A-----: 'The main reason we met up here is to decide where all of E is going. Now that's official that we are all moving to Arkenstone, we don't need to discuss much anymore. Anyone who wants to go to a different world has a right to their choice, and all other questions people might have are probably personal questions.' [servermerges] P------: 'I'll stay in here for a while though, in case more questions arise.' [servermerges] S------: 'ya is someone trying to kick us out P------ ;P' [servermerges] P------: 'Nah, they were just stating that court was adjourned. lol' [servermerges] A-----: 'Well it kind of is' [To servermerges] '*bangs gavel(?)*' [servermerges] D-----: 'Arkenstone is named after a river?' [To servermerges] 'Well, thank you for the meeting, all. Appreciated the input - I think this will help a few friends of mine decide.' [servermerges] A-----: 'Yes' [servermerges] P------: 'Arkenstone is named after the crown jewel that is buried with Thorin's corpse.' [servermerges] D-----: 'I remember reading somewhere that Tolkien contradicts himself on that, once he says it buried with Thorin and then there's another locaton I forget...' [servermerges] A-----: 'I have another question' [servermerges] A-----: 'Regardless of every other factor, which server has the best PvP?' [servermerges] I-----: 'brandywine then gladden' [servermerges] A-----: 'Okay here is my summary of the whole thing:' [servermerges] A-----: 'There are two things to ask yourself with regards to which server...' [servermerges] A-----: 'Do you follow the crowd or do you have personal choices to make?' [servermerges] A-----: 'Server-wide issue, if we all want to stick together is: if you want to stick with majority of E friends, move to Ark.' [servermerges] A-----: 'Personal/kin-based issues: 1) If you want to stick with RL friends, move where they are going' [servermerges] A-----: '2) If you want RP go to Landroval' [servermerges] A-----: '3) If you want a lot of players, go to Gladden' [servermerges] D-----: 'I don't know what RP is exactly' [servermerges] A-----: '4) If you want peace and quiet move to Crickhollow' [servermerges] A-----: 'RP = Role playing' [servermerges] A-----: '5) If you want an awesome community, go to Ark.' [servermerges] A-----: '6) If you want PvP, go to Gladden.' [servermerges] ~D-----: 'wuff wuff' [servermerges] A-----: 'that's all I can think of in regards to peoples reasons for choosing servers' [servermerges] A-----: 'Now I am off' [servermerges] ~D-----: 'Cya A-----' [servermerges] A-----: 'Farewell' A----- lets out a mighty ROAR! [servermerges] S-----: 'where you reading my post ? lol' [servermerges] S-----: 'pretty much the same' [servermerges] A-----: 'nope, that's all my logic right there (we seem to be in sync)' [servermerges] ~D-----: 'I heard they don't serve puppies on Landroval' [servermerges] S-----: 'either way cya Aran TC' [servermerges] S-----: 'yes sync or both correct in what we know ;)' [servermerges] A-----: 'yes' [servermerges] S-----: 'hehe' [To servermerges] 'Landy's not an official RP server, so they don't have the super strict name rules that Laurelin, etc have. But they are weird about non-lore names sometimes. So, you may be right.' [servermerges] S-----: 'and listed as RP server' [servermerges] S-----: 'would almost make it easier if they changed it to rp enforced' [To servermerges] 'They're RE, not RP. Not sure if that makes a difference?' [servermerges] S-----: 'ya wondered the same Beregost' [servermerges] S-----: 're means encouraged' [servermerges] S-----: 'ah makes sense' [servermerges] S-----: 'rp means enforced' [To servermerges] 'From what forums said, RE has less strict rules and such.' [To servermerges] 'I am not sure if there are any other differences.' [servermerges] S-----: 'ya I just couldn't watch non lore names get picked on so Landi was out. Heck with Y----- and m----- and t-----. I may have been the one picked on hehe'[servermerges] P-----: 'lol]' [To servermerges] 'I can understand that. I'm a little worried myself a bout a few alts, but I'll give it a try.' [servermerges] P-----: 'Well, transfers are free between the servers until like October, so I hear. So you can always come to your senses, Becka lol' [servermerges] S-----: 'will be there every year for Weatherstock' [servermerges] D-----: 'create a level 1 with the name you dont want to keep there and get a rename token' [To servermerges] 'I don't really give a crap about RP personally, but the lore discussions on World Chat and their server-events are what's attracting me.' [servermerges] S-----: 'correct and lol P-----' [To servermerges] ':P I may just, P-----. But I gotta try first.' [servermerges] P-----: ':)'