The Lands of Arda (Middle earth) Requirements :· Neverwinter Nights Game Version 1.69
· 6 HAKpacks (details below)
The HAK packs required to play this server can be found here
http://arda2forums.s...rum=arda2forums
4 of the haks have been neatly packaged with installation files and it is simply a case of installing them into the Neverwinter Nights main directory. The 5th hakpack is only very small and simply requires unzipping and copying into the directory /HAK of your Neverwinter nights install. The 6th hakpack is a collection of bugfixes and graphics revamps and instructions on where to put the component parts once unzipped is included in the link above.
There you are done and ready to enter the server.
The server can be found by selecting multiplayer, then direct connect to the following IP address
IP: landsofarda.servebeer.com A bit about this server The project of creating Lands of Arda began back in 2002 its mission statement was to create the ENTIRE WORLD of Arda as described by J.R.R Tolkein through his series of books, not limited to but including The Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and Silmarillion. Since this time there has been a constant flow of new areas added. The resultant server spans from Mithlond of the Grey Havens, Bree Rivendell, Moria, Rohan, Minas Tirith through to Mordor, Harradwaith and Down into the deep south of Arda and areas such as Gaven, the yellow mountain etc etc….
In fact there is now pretty much no area from any Tolkein literature that is not represented in this server. Many you will have heard of and know the lore behind, many may be new to you.
At its height Arda had 8 people working pretty much full time on designing and moulding its areas. (Some of which have now gone on to a full time profession in computer game design).
When I say this server is Huge, it is an understatement I have never seen anything close to its size in any Neverwinter module.
-I want to take this opportunity to Reassure you the 1Gb Hakpak download IS worth it. (I know its huge, but there is 11 years of a growing server in here!)
A massive quantity of the Content in this server is custom content, some designed and skinned from scratch by its designers other via the amazing Neverwinter designer community. To give you an example of how much custom content exists here a quick count just of Player equipable unique items shows 2704 at present, the server takes 2 hours+ to compile when we do work on it. In short it really has been a labour of love for many people over the past 11 years.
The server was mothballed shortly after support for gamespy was removed from neverwinter (Although a few die hards continued to work on it for fun, adding new things etc etc).
So basically A few of us have got together and resurrected the server after learning many people still play Persistent worlds in Nverwinter, and believing you haven’t seen anything until you have seen this server. It is currently running on a temporary server on the IP given above, however we have plans to move it to its own dedicated server within the next 2 weeks (Infact the hardware is already set up, we just want to add 1 more set of areas to the module before updating and moving it to its new home!)
So what Do you Get in Lands of Arda?? · Hundreds of different areas and landscapes encompassing all your favourite areas from Middle earth
· Unique NPCs from middle earth Chat to Bilbo, Slap a Nazgul, give Shadowfax a sugar lump, Kick tom bombabdil in the nuts etc etc.
· Forget the Jaggered boring Neverwinter Graphics, Beautiful reskinned areas, Items and Mobs (be wowed by Moria, Imlandris and Minas Tirith)
· Hundreds of varied dungeons all from Tolkein Lore (I believe around 400 at present)
· Custom spells, Custom items, Custom bosses, Custom NPC AI and mobs. – Not enough to go into what exists needless to say there is a 1gb Hakpak full of this stuff.
· Roaming mobs with unique AI
· Day and night influencing Dynamic areas and mobs
· Persistent banks
· All Unique named items taken directly from Tokein Lore (say goodbye to “Longsword +3 and hello to Sting, Glamdring and the Arkenstoneâ€)
· Unique crafting system to Craft Ardas most powerful Items.
· Relevelling and respecting service via npc’s (No more this character is borked I best start again)
· Ressurection system of characters. (Get to level 40 and resurrect them at level 1 with bonus stats and added extras – do it as many times as you want)
· Hundreds of costumes for your roleplaying needs
· Progressive levelling with areas scaling for party play as well as solo play.
· Quests (whilst the land is mainly sandbox style there are still many quests)
· Custom moving music and sound effects.
· Friendly community consisting of new players and vets who have dipped in and out of the server for the past 11 years.
We would love to see you in the game to expand our community and see the server full once more (Some of the raid style scripted bosses are getting lonely with not enough people on to take them down).
Well that’s about it, Bite the bullet download the massive hak and come join us.
Oh as far as rules go, Devastating Critical is banned. The server does check for it randomly and bans characters with the feat, but we rely mainly on peoples honesty not to select it.
Many thanks
Modifié par Guppy01232, 12 février 2014 - 11:14 .
