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Games Played – November 2018

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This should be a hoot. Because I didn’t play any games in November. As I mentioned last time, I spent November recovering from back pain and avoided the PC computer chair like the plague while I worked on rebuilding my upper back muscles with torturous stretches and exercises.

  • Lord of the Rings Online, 1 hour. I played my level 62 hobbit Hunter in Mines of Moria for an hour. I did not advance any levels in the allegedly super fast leveling curve that everyone says LotRO has. This little bit of gaming probably contributed to a very painful relapse of back pain in the middle of the month.

And that was it, folks. In fact ManicTime tells me I only used the PC in November for a total of 5 hours.

I did not play any PS4 games, either.

I installed two “Editor’s Choice” Android mobile games to try, the first two I’ve installed on this phone which is a couple years old now: One was some kind of “tap the screen to keep up with the music notes” game, which was mildly amusing except for the super aggressive ads in between levels. I uninstalled it in about 10 minutes. The second was some kind of text-based post-apocalyptic adventure game, but I uninstalled it in about 2 minutes because the font was so small I couldn’t read it.

Incidentally, you might think I’d be dying to get back to playing games, but honestly I don’t miss it that much.

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Wilhelm Arcturus 2018-12-02T21:51:40Z

I am not sure playing for an hour and not gaining a level is a solid data point either way in measuring the speed of leveling in LOTRO.

On the Legendary server, where there is a 40% reduction in exp awarded overall, I was still able to out-level some content (I skipped pretty much all of the North Downs) and I am closing in on level 40 despite playing only an hour or so a day. Given that, I suspect that I would be well into Moria with the same amount of play time on a standard server.

Then again, when does leveling ever feel just right? I know in Mirkwood leveling on a standard server felt very slow, but I also wasn’t enjoying the content.

Anyway, it isn’t worth your back pain I am sure, so probably best to have no leveling at all for now.

UltrViolet 2018-12-04T14:00:37Z

These days I figure an hour of game time for every level is a “fast” leveling curve, that’s where that came from. But if I’m playing a couple hours a night I usually want to level at least every other day, except maybe the last few levels before the cap. That feels “normal” to me. Slower than that and I start to feel like I’m grinding.

I think there must be a difference in leveling speed for free players and subscribing players, like RIFT does. I haven’t subscribed to LotRO in years so I think I’m getting a penalty for that.

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