Overall the open beta is going well. People can run the game on single core 2.8 GHZ cpu, 2 gigs of ram, and a GF 6800 series video cards pretty well so long as they run on a realistic resolution. If you have a Core2 Duo or a Quad Core system, you shouldn't have any problems so long as your video card is good and you are running the right drivers.  There is a known issue with GF8 cards right now, but if you go to the Nividia website and download the 174 beta drivers you should be fine.  Also there are some Vista 32 users who are having some issues, and there is a really good Vista Tweaks page that helps. For those who are having slow zone loading issues the AOC Vault did a technical round up with some advice on how to fix that

People running Vista 64 bit and Windows XP have had very few technical problems so long as their system is a single core 2.8 GHZ or higher, they have 2 gigs of ram, and their video card is decent. Overall AOC is beautiful, and it gives you a level of immersion that has been sorely missing for several years.

LotD will be on a PVP server for retail, but a server selection has not yet been decided.

Want some of this bitch?!
Age of Conan is gearing up for serious PvP. Last weekend, lucky players were allowed to play in the PvP Weekend where two games were available for play: Capture the flag and Annihilation. Both games were enjoyable, but only whetted our appetite for a fully completed game. As we look at AoC as it is now, it is absolutely beautiful. Combo chains work themselves in seamlessly, buffs last for hours, and everything is surprisingly balanced. Check out the read more for the details on the rest of our weekend!

Over the last month we've had a lot of people busy with real life, so our raiding and progression slid a little. However we're back with a new raid schedule, and progressing through Mount Hyjal and probably on to Black Temple before the Age of Conan release.  The next scheduled raid will be intended to push us further into Mount Hyjal. LotD is a casual raiding guild, but even on a casual player's schedule we're doing pretty good.

I'd like to give a big Fuck You to those chumps who /gquit over the last two weeks while we were reorganizing around some unexpected membership absences. We're determined to press as far as we can before Age of Conan, and possibly further depending on how AOC works out.

If you're here, you're visiting the new server for lotd.org.

Please let me know (via private message or email) if you find anything broken over the next bit.

edit: posting fixed now.
attachements and avatars work again
emails should be sent out now.

For most of its 13 year history, LotD has played MMO's on the side of evil. When RvR and Instanced type PVP games started coming out, the lines between evil and good became sort of blurred so we had to take our best guess on the faction that aligned with our play style. In WoW we were dead set on going Horde until it became obvious to us that the server population inbalances were tilted too heavily towards the Horde side. Since we wanted to "PVP" we figured rolling Alliance would give us more opponents to kill, and within a year we thought that some other PVP game would come out (Darkfall??!!) so we could leave WoW behind us.

Well Darkfall stayed in the lands of vapor, Warhammer and Age of Conan have taken another 2 years to develop, and we've had a belly full of dealing with "good" factions in MMO's. In the next game we're going evil no matter how bad the server inbalances look, but I'll take a moment to explain to you all why the "Good" faction in MMO's is terrible to play and why they get their asses handed to them in PVP.

Click on the read more to check out the rest of my thoughts on why the "Good" faction feels like you are gaming with a bunch of assclowns.