Summary: Chris, Cari and Layanor are joined by Amanda the winner of the CSTM Fellowship's Walk Auction. She may never be the same. Listen now: What We Did This Week Amanda - Rebuilding Hytbold Warband hunting with kin Participated in CSTM Fellowship’s Walk to Echad Dunann Cari- Still No War-steed Ran North Cotton Farms with an unusual group makeup Entertained or abused (depends on your definition) the children of Rohan Layanor- Rebuilding Layanorville Finished all slayer deeds Finished all location deeds Finished guild rep crating Took some forum advice and did a fix to windows so the game crashes less. I am fully testing it out for now. Chris- Got my War Steed! Yeah! Running around trying to get used to it, and doing some quests before I hop back onto the Epic Story. Ding 76. News Turbine Lays off Employees (Damn it Lay! You jinxed Turbine last week!) http://www.boston.com/business/innovation/2012/10/25/needham-game-maker-turbine-lays-off-workers/XiH2pLrqfN1GDZlNlcbT9H/story.html Turbine has 400 - 500 employees Warner Brothers did a review of Turbine. Rumor says 50 or so employees lay offs. More than likely not just 50 LOTRO employees Major LOTRO and DDO updates have come out. They may need smaller staff when starting to plan the next major update in both games. Warner Brothers has also laid off staff from developers Monolith, Snowblind, and Surreal Software who are doing “Guardians of Middle-Earth”. Lotteries are back! Now with better odds! WOW!!! http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?485535-Lotteries-are-coming-back! Lotteries will now be 10 levels each instead of the previous 14 levels each. Odds go up with fewer characters in each lottery. They are also adjusting the number of winners per lottery slightly to improve the odds. Lottery days have changed http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?423980-Lottery-FAQ-and-Schedule-Update-10-24-2012 Alien abductions in LOTRO? http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?&postid=6501640#post6501640 Players get randomly ported to their original starting areas In some rare instances, your character could just fall into the ground and keep falling until your ported somewhere. If this happens make sure to bug this right away with your time and location. It has been reported that this doesn’t happen to dwarves. Must be the neekid chests or they are too heavy for the aliens to pick up. Layanor’s Did You Know? What to do if you get hacked. This was covered by LOTRO reporter in a older episode but this is something that needs to be repeated. If you are hacked, you have 10 days to report it. You will get most or all of your stuff back. If you don't get everything back, they will try to give try to give you something close to what you lost. http://support.turbine.com/link/portal/24001/24001/Article/180/I-believe-that-my-account-has-been-hacked-or-stolen-What-do-I-do The best way to protect yourself is to change your password every month. Bill has covered some password protection programs before, so I will tell you what I do. First I slam on all my keys a lot until I have a very long mess of letters and numbers. Example: jhgfiuf34982389tyufjuuytt6t56e45ey3ehk3rp050t3r89y877y7637i84uyrt3y8983y799ox04898954u58y78368xb98364678ui40o04i9t7589tyn78y794um 9039p049048u903i0ci849u89yn5cu094u58vy79u9c003co0304ci904i03i03ci403ic Then I will start to copy and paste small chunks of this into a new line for my password. The reason why I do this is if you have a key-logger. It will track what you are typing. If you just type a large line of font, it will just see all that and not know what you are doing. Example: 7y7 4i 646 8y7 cu0 ty Next thing I do is take that new line I made and just copy and paste it around to mix it up some more. I may uppercase some of these as well. Example: 78y7 cU y7 4i 640 ty 6 8y7 Cu My new password is: 78y7cUy74i640ty6
