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Title: Lands of Hope
Description: A great new game!


Dragoonus - July 14, 2005 06:28 PM (GMT)
A great new game, titled Lands of Hope, is in its final stages of open beta.

Release of the game is on 29th July and I urge you all to come along and have a look, before or after that.

From the words of the GM...

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Warning: This is a Browser Based Game - If your not into browser based games then this game is not for you, you should not attempt to play said game nor have fun in said game for fear of re-evaluating your hatred of Browser games.

If any of you have played Forlorn Hope: Online you should know that Lands of Hope is a totally different playing experience.

Some Features of Lands of Hope

Evolution based Profession and Race advancement
Skill gain through skill use
Advanced Crafting Systems
- Alchemy
- Blacksmithing
- Carpentry
- Construction
- Cooking
- Dungeon Mastery
- Furnishing
- Leatherworking
- Stonemasonry
- Tailoring
- Tinkering
- Traps (Profession Specific)

Up to 12 maps (3 currently coded) for a total of 120,000 tiles to explore
- Each map has an intended level range of 100 levels, with resource nodes and monster spawns and quests coded to suit the level range.
- Knotwood Valley - 1 to 100
- Sandydale - 100 to 200
- Riverscape - 200 - 300

Incomplete Maps
- The Barrens 300 - 400
- Lakeview 400 - 500
- Wastelands 500 - 600
- Coldbreeze 600 - 700
- Frostvale 700 - 800
- Blueshire 800 - 900
- ? 900 - 1000
+ 2 bonus maps

Gathering Skills
- Farming
- Fishing
- Foraging
- Geology
- Lumberjacking
- Mining
- Skinning

Hundreds of Quests (So far up to around 600 from the 3 added maps, i expect this number to be at least 2000 when the game is completed).
Level limit of 1000

4 Allegiances to choose from.
- Neutral - Neutral
- Exiles - At war with the Society
- Society - At war with the Exiles
- Reapers - At war with Everyone

Sieging
- Sieging in LOH is conducted through a Turn Based System allowing the Building to fight back, such as fire arrows at you. This makes for a far more realistic sieging experience. Sieged Buildings remain the property of the sieging allegiance for no more than one hour before returning to the original allegiance.

Exploration
- Explore hidden areas and uncover lost places using the Exploration skill, this skill is needed to find trainers and other such NPCs. There are currently over 120 different buildings to explore.

Guilds
- Make your own player run guild and promote/demote members within it, setup custom titles, add a guild symbol and guild colors.

Groups
- Make your own player groups to allow people to follow you and participate in group fights.

PvP
- The Grief server will support PvP the details of which are yet to be finalised.

Pet and Minions
- Players can own pets
- Profession specific skills to tame pets
- Beastmastery - Lets you tame Animals and Beasts
- Necromancy - Lets you tame undead things
- Myths and Legends - Lets you tame things such as Unicorns
- Demonology - Lets you tame Demons
- Slavemastery - Lets you tame Humanoids

Multiple Floor Buildings
Building Ownership
- Building Owners can customise a list of friends who can access their building.
- You can delete rooms
- Add Rooms using Construction Deeds - To any floor or location in a 50 * 50 grid (5 floors)
- Change the 3d preview image and 2d Map image for each room.

Rooms and Maps support layered images allowing for a far more realistic game environment.

Player Owned Vendors
Player Owned Tile/Land management

Multiple Servers
- A Grief free server for those that dont wish to be stolen from or routinely killed by enemies.
- A Grief server for those that do wish to have fun at the expense of others.

Over 500 hand drawn map and room tile images (bigger dimensions than the Fh1 map artwork)
Beautiful 3D rendered internal preview images for Rooms

Optional Sound Effects and Music

Advanced Ingame support systems
- Ingame Help System, featuring topics by players and staff.
- Ingame Suggestion System - Suggest features and have players and staff comment on them and also receive notification of when a feature you suggested is added.
- Ingame Bug Reporting

Advanced New Chat Client with great features
- Allows players to Link - some screens in the game have a Link button by pressing this button what you are looking at is sent to chat so all users in that chat room can click on the Link to view what it is your looking at.
- Fully Customiseable


This was at the begining of Open Beta, more maps have been added since then, many... many more features have been added and various changes (for the better) have been implemented.

Beta Testimonials

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LoH is quite simply the best game I have ever played! - Dragoonus

Lands of Hope combines player-administrator interactivity, multitudes of skills, stats, and player races, a fantastic community, and a constantly evolving game to create an online RPG experience not like any other. - Gaunt


I urge you all to come along and have a little play.

http://www.fho2.com

I apologise for posting this here, would you be as kind to move it into the completely off topic category? Thank You, and sorry.

Koopaking - July 14, 2005 07:15 PM (GMT)
Actually, it's the right place. It's fine here. And don't worry, you're fine too. We just don't like it when advertisers don't listen to the rules.

mike_subuzi - July 15, 2005 11:56 AM (GMT)
Actually advertisement goes in Spam forum and yes it is annoying k.k .

Dragoonus - July 15, 2005 05:30 PM (GMT)
Well, mixed emotions there, so I'll apolgise and say than you! lol.

But none the less its a great game, I'm only advertising it because I love it so much!

So if you have a spare few minutes feel free to come along and have a gander, let me know what you think and such like.

mike_subuzi - July 15, 2005 06:29 PM (GMT)
If you want to advertise do it in spam not here .

Korean Richie - July 16, 2005 02:10 AM (GMT)
You see.. It's not so much as advertising but just letting us be aware that there is a cool game out there that we might want to play.

Lavo - July 17, 2005 01:58 AM (GMT)
Besides, this forum IS about gaming.

Koopaking - July 17, 2005 08:10 AM (GMT)
Yup. I may be a Mod-intrain, mike, but I know this place more than you do, k. I know what I'm doind most of the time.




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