Here are the options provided along with their main purpose (many professions or vocations allow you to make other things later – such as crafting tools, homestead decorations, Rune-Keeper Chisels etc). ↑ Guide Menu What LOTRO Crafting Professions/Vocations Can I Choose From?Ī wee bit after you get out of your starter zone, you are presented with the choice of what you want your crafting profession to be. This does not apply to all of them, so bear with me! Your materials need some refining first.Ĭonverting your processed materials into the items you want to make. You cannot instantly convert a bear hide into armour, or a chunk of rock into a shield. What this means is you need to first collect your materials. What is the Crafting Process?įor most professions, the crafting process can be roughly divided between This is a quest (well 3 quests) that introduce you to the basics. You quickly encounter a quest called “Outfitting Yourself and Others” after leaving your starter zone around Level 7. There are others, but I will address these in their specific situation. By “items” I mean: Armour, Jewellery, Weapons and consumables (like Trail Food, or Scrolls giving temporary stat increases).
Yeoman / Cook (Farming Crops and Making Edible Food!)Ĭrafting is the name given to the method by which you can make items for yourself, your other characters and other players.Woodsman / Woodworker (mostly wooden weapons).Weaponsmith / Armsman (mostly metal weapons).Patenting any IT tech is a hellish process in the first place, abolishing patents alltogether may just be the best idea, instead going for the copyright system Stallman proposed, where proprietary code/text (anything that can be copied infinitely) can only be copyrighted for 5-10 years, after which is becomes public domain.
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Also, code similarities where there's differences of only a few characters would have to be judged.
I'm still thinking about whether it would be better to allow patents for 'better' code or to force code that performs the same function to be open source aswell, and how it would work the other way around. If code is published as open source at any point with any of the GPL licences it CANNOT be patented, which i believe is currently not the case. This heavily encourages new companies to find better and more efficient ways of doing the same thing, promoting not just innovation to find new ways of doing things but to do current things better! Broad, generalized statements of processes and techniques should not be allowed. People judging new patents need to take their time and do the proper research - They need to have SOME knowledge on the field the patent is requested in, they CANNOT be completely uneducated workers just doing a 9 to 5 job.Īs for programs and IT related stuff, only /specific code/ should be in a patent. The system needs to become modular and adaptable to new technologies, able to move with the times. I respectfully disagree - They need to revise the system in a way that it can be used in the future aswell, looking at 3d printing. But as long as Turbine can show it was collecting data in this manner before May, it doesn't seem likely that Treehouse will get its wishes granted. Treehouse is seeking a permanent injunction, damages and attorney's fees. "Both of those games have been around since long before May 15." Good catch, and welcome to the justice system.
"But wait," you might be saying to yourself. GamePolitics reports that the patent, awarded on May 15, 2012, is for the "method and system for presenting data over a network based on network user choices and collecting real-time data related to said choices." Treehouse claims that since the games tally the number of times users select certain character attributes, they've infringed upon the patent. The suit claims that Turbine's games infringe Treehouse's patent for collecting real-time data on user choices. Turbine Inc, the studio behind Dungeons & Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online, is facing a patent infringement suit from Ontario-based web company Treehouse.