Unfortunately the PSU has blown in my desktop PC so i can't play LotRO just now and its actually been a month or two since i last logged into it, just too many good games to play all at once!

Wether you go ftp or vip probably depends on the way you play it but at the end of the day your gonna have to spend some money on it even if you stay ftp.

If you enjoy the multiplayer content more (Instances, monster play, raids etc) then vip is better but if you're like me and mostly play it single player and only team up with other players for quests now and again then i recommend staying ftp and buying your quest packs whenever they go on sale (they have sales on all the time!).

I now own all of the qp's and got them all on sale and i also got some free when i bought the expansions for the game as well.

I play on the Laurelin server so if you havn't settled on a server yet then you should join it and i could help you out in-game.... once i replace my PSU!

No problem ConCorDian, thank you for the help and support you have shown to all the other x series players! :)

I've been hooked on the X games since i tried the demo for X-BTF wayyyyyy back in in '97 or maybe '98, i don't know.... It reminded me of Elite which is probably my favourite game ever. I still try and dip in to the series all the time but i've just got that many crackin games it's hard to get started.

you were asking about my name, it's Marc Gibson. I see from your profile that you're staying in Killie, that's like.. just up the road fae here.

Not at all man, appreciate it. I've been playing the X series since I got BTF in 2000 or so, so I've had allot of time to get use to the game. X2 helped me figure out what BTF didn't. So I know a fair bit about the game