{"id":7652,"date":"2010-03-24T10:49:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7652"},"modified":"2010-05-12T09:16:20","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T14:16:20","slug":"shamus-plays-lotro-part-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=7652","title":{"rendered":"Shamus Plays: LOTRO, Part 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/articles\/view\/columns\/shamusplays\/7326-Shamus-Plays-LOTRO-Part-10\">Never before has greed and misanthropy been so gosh-darn <em>adorable<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week we do some quests in the Shire, and even dabble in crafting a bit.<\/p>\n<p>I will say that I like the farming in LOTRO, even though I can&#8217;t figure out why.  (My main is a Master Supreme Farmer.)  It&#8217;s not really a game. There&#8217;s no strategy or skill involved. It&#8217;s just busywork.  This <em>should<\/em> be something I hate. If a developer had shown me the design document for the farming gameplay I would have rolled it up and swatted them on the nose with it. But in the end it&#8217;s probably the most interesting crafting system I&#8217;ve tried. I still think there&#8217;s lots of room for improvement, but whatever they&#8217;re doing here, it&#8217;s a step in the right direction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Never before has greed and misanthropy been so gosh-darn adorable. This week we do some quests in the Shire, and even dabble in crafting a bit. I will say that I like the farming in LOTRO, even though I can&#8217;t figure out why. (My main is a Master Supreme Farmer.) It&#8217;s not really a game. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-column"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}