Thread: Tell the Community Team - New and Revamped Systems - 4/8/10

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Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.
2.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1.
2.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. The housing system, the way hooks were implemented was poorly thought out.
Either make the hooks positionable, and connect-able, or do away with them altogether.
I mean, I can't place a table with chairs to sit around. I can't have a painting on the wall, and a book shelf beneath it? I have yet to see a single house in this game that doesn't look fake due to how inflexible positioning is. I occasionally visit Bag End, I see how housing SHOULD look. A beautiful home, with a living room. Chairs around a small table with a rustic carpet beneath, sitting away in front of a cheerily blazing fireplace. Kitchens with ovens, and racks of pots and pans above them. Now, for housing, pick ONE of the things I listed, and that's what you can place in any one given area.

Remove hooks, or put in many more, and make them connect-able. For example, if I place a large dining room table, a number of small floor hooks should pop up around it so I can place chairs.

Alternatively, re-design the way houses are shaped. The interiors of deluxe + kin halls are so wide and spacious, the small number of hooks can't compete with the large space. Giving you empty rooms that look like a concert hall rather than my living room. (ESPECIALLY hobbit deluxe houses, this looks nothing like a shire home.)

When I first started playing, Lotro came across as a game that focused on more than just combat, and getting the next piece of amazing gear. It was a game focused on story line, friendship, and enjoying the world Tolkien created. Housing seems to be one of the best ways to do this, if only it was done properly.

On a final note, I'd also GREATLY appreciate if ALL housing items no matter where they came from ceased to be BoA. I can't afford the storage to cram all these BoA housing items into my main storage. Housing is a purely cosmetic part of the game, and quite frankly I fail to see how it is important to make sure players earned something that in all likelihood only they and a handful of friends are going to see. This is taking up an incredible amount of storage holding all these special housing items I don't use constantly.

In short, needs moar cowbell.

2.
It is unfair I cannot list radiance, as this is a sore point for many players. However, I would like to point out the treasure trove you guys have with all the old instances we know and love just waiting to be re-done and made accessible for various levels of difficulty. It is sad so many newer players cannot experience the great content from by-gone times. Perhaps making all these old instances into skirmishes, with the same rewards would be a good alternative!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I would add a completely new combat system, after having played DDO and seen how well they implemented flexible combat with player skills + spells, Lotro feels so slow and restrictive. One feature I ESPECIALLY appreciated as a tank, was how you could body block enemy mobs. I feel like I'm being told not to do my job every time I place myself in front of my fellows and the monster literally walks through a dwarf wielding an axe, tower shield, and many pounds of heavy armor.

I understand this is not possible, but I think it would be good food for thought when considering the best way to improve the combat mechanic.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.
1. Spending time at inns. Some of the inns (Especially the ones in the Shire) are beautifully designed. But they are always empty. I would like to see some incentive for players to visit and spend time at inns.

2 Fishing, its a good idea for a hobby. But it is very boring, and I get put to sleep every time I try. Perhaps more involved fishing, and more recipes involving what you catch. Like recipes that require a rare fish, so players have incentives to fish. Its all well and good for farmers to provide ingredients, and us to buy them off of vendors. But what about a king-sized Salmon meal?

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing - either more hooks and less strictness about where things can be placed or getting rid of the hook system all together (which would clearly be a lot more work). I have a lot of empty space in my house where I'd like to put things, but no hooks, or places where I'd like to put things, but I can't b/c the hook is the wrong size. A good example are yard hooks. I can place a picnic table, but I can't place a bench next to it to sit on?


Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

I don't feel like I'm knowledgeable enough about game mechanics to even weigh-in on this subject, as LOTRO is my first MMO.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.

1. I rarely take time to participate in the Festivals because when I have time to play, I feel like I should be leveling my characters instead and playing catch up.
2. I wish I'd taken the time to learn instruments and ABC music as well because some really nice things have been done with it (shout out to The Fat Lute!)

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

A: 1. The LFF tool. It needs to be more intuitive. It should be as easy to use as a skill on your skillbar.
2. Old raid instances should be scalable, so that higher level players can still enjoy them and receive usable rewards.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

A: A mentoring system, or henchmen that can be utilized in PvE like our skirmish soldiers.


Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.

A:1. Live events.
2. Exploring new areas outside of the map we currently have (cause there aren't any new areas to explore )

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. UI - More customization, more user control.
2. Instances - EVERY adventure/cluster instance in the game should have a simple level scaling option.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
PvMP skirmishes

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.
1. PvMP - I have several beloved Creeps, but I have far too little time to play them enough.
2. Raiding - I love doing it, but with an infant I just can't devote the time like I used to.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Mounts - would love to see a simple trait system whereby mounts could be improved (speed, durability, summoning time etc.)
2. Houses, specifically kinship houses. Would love to see a reason for people to get together in neighborhoods. Some kind of minor temporary buffs for gathering everyone together and doing something at the house. Something similar to Hayoo's old idea for Taverns: http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=86442

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

I would like to see a system of unique drops for 3/6/12 man skirmishes. This way in DG instances you get tokens for armor and also drops, in skirmishes you get marks andn also rare drops. This would go a long way towards making them feel like "real" end game instances.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.

1. Raiding - personal life restricts it to 1 or 2 nights a week
2. PvMP - usually free time is taken up doing things I feel like I "should do" like working on LIs even when I would sometimes rather just go out and blow some creeps up

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.Traits/Deeds - I think the overall #s need to be revised according to higher levels, and possibly making some traits that are lesser used enticed.
2. Customizing clothing/armour with a 2nd color dye option..

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Exploration/Artifact finding hobby, not like scholaring, but more like going out into various places in ME and digging, (maybe explosives for rock walls, etc) and finding valuables that are of real value (maybe 2nd age artifacts or weapons) etc..

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.
1. PvMP - would like to spend more time doing that, but have barely any reason to do with current rewards, older boring fighting systems
2. I would like a reason to explore rather than finding 6 locations on a map for a deed. (See Q2 above)

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.cosmetics. include option to not show weapon and shield in cosmetic slots
2.housing. ideally, free form place anything anywhere like in the elder scrolls system

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

ability to expand the size (number of rooms)and number of hooks (trophy placement locations)of a house in the homesteds, and perhaps even an option to display weapons and armor. Getting totally carried away there could even be a closet or dresser for cosmetic clothes

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.
1. fishing. Now that the cooked fish is nearly useless we could use some more options
2. music.

question 1
revisit Housing, it looks great, but the hooks are just a pain in the glutius maximus
UI - I'd like some Turbine made skins, when ever I use player made skins they tend to ruin the way things are set.

question 2
change class progression from now on so that instead of just gaining new levels you can also choose to specialize in certain areas, for example: you like CC but don't like tactical classes like the LM, so you make a Hunter that can specialize in CC rather than damage, a person would gain points as he leveled, so he can spend them and make his character better at one of roles his class can preform

question 3
I'd like to spend more time on skirmishes, but sadly they are way too predictable, so it feels like I'm just grinding SMs.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.
2.

1. Besides the big 3 taboo subjects above, the other system that nobody seems to ever want to look at for improvements due to "time/development resource" restrictions.. HOUSING.
Briefly it needs a complete revamp, and the ideas have been plentiful in the forums over the years, no need to go into it further here.
2. See above, it's that important it needs to be suggested twice.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

The original 'as advertised' legendary system.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1.
2.

1. Chicken play.
2. Exploring.

Question 1
1.UI
-add additional quickslot bars
-allow resizing of more windows i.e. crafting window vertical sizing, including seperator bar (I run at 1920x1080, and the restricting size is very annoying)
2.Revisit old raids/battles
-Make Rift/Helegrod raid scalable to group size/level
-Rework the Aughaire battles into tiered skirmishes...there are 3 battles, so make them gated and add tier levels (I would think that the gating applies to the tiers as well...so if you do the first skirmish at tier II you could run the second skirmish at tier I or II, but not III)...obviously there would be titles/deeds...Also, I think that all the private instances in Angmar could have skirmishes (CD, URU, and make a Circle of Fear tiered skirmish set)...Additionally, the rewards at the end of each skirmish would be determined by the tier/level.

Question 2
1.PVMP skirmishing - This would eliminate outside interference. This basic concept opens up many possibilities like: MP gear, raiding titles, BONUS INFAMY/RENOWN!!!, additional server wide bonuses, AND MP vs NPC skirmishes (which would go hand-in-hand with MP gear).
2.New hobbies
-Poker: There should be parlours in every inn (Buckland should have an inn, and a festival only location at each of the festival grounds). There would be regional/local titles i.e. Bree-land Cardmaster/Prancing Pokerist...you get the idea. There would be seperate deeds/titles for playing against NPC's only, and others for multiple player competitions.
-Insect collecting: This should be fairly simple, as all that would be needed would be unique, as well as many new, decorative mobs (like the 1 morale bugs, spiders, and snakes that roam every zone).

Question 3
1.Inn league questing - I know that the delivery quests will become repeatables, but there should be more accessibility to accruing rep.
2.Festivals - There's never enough time. Dailies should be done twice a day (semi-dalies). PLEASE add SWIFT travel points that WORK ONLY during the festivals.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. I think you should upgrade the housing experience, right now it's just paying to have a house with empty spots all over it (where you could easily put a painting or chair), sucking you dry of money and only holding a few items, Improve it! Make the players want to have houses, let players auction houses off with items or not and make money off it, have some competition, let neighbors do stuff together.
2. Combat system Sometimes while doing a rotation you can have a 1 or 2 second gap between any skills, and it's kind of depressing seeing a dwarf champ standing there getting hit, I mean you could easily punch them in that time and accomplish more.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I'd make a system so you can measure your aggro with mobs, have a scale maybe or a fellowship scale to tell who has the most aggro and with what mobs.


Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1.Festivals, there just really isn't much to do with them and the rewards are very repetitive, maybe make some rewards you could only get by grinding skirmish marks or something.
2. Crafting, it's boring to time consuming and it take's way to long to get to superior and actually make cash.

I put my answer's in the quote

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing. Housing housing housing. Give us a massive amount of items (See http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=160794), give us a more viable hook system, if not freeform. Just....give us some incentive to use, have, and decorate our houses. More neighborhoods, different tyles of buildings (Example: Elven RIvendell, Elven Lothlorien, Elven Lindon; Men Breestyle, Men Dalestyle, Men Rohanstyle; Hobbit Shire (Holes in ground), Hobbit Staddle (Houses above ground, etc) Just something!

2. I also think that you could do some polishing/rehaul on the playermodels, if that would count. Refine the face meshes, retexture the skin, eyes, hair, and add more hairstyle options. Incorporate some of the design choices from the npcs, namely the way their skin looks rather than the unicolor matte crayola thing we've got going in game. Oh, and fix the graphics glitch involving female breasts, please?
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=324479
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=294896
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=325364

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

1. While I'm tempted to say LI system like the skirmish soldier, (Seriously, DO IT.) for an entirely new system, I'd like to refer you to these posts:
Tavern Revelries
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=86442
Companies and Caravans
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=145599
Tavern Rep
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=127627
Tavern Larders
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=128323

Or just hire Hayoo and get him to design a new gameplay mechanic. He's amazing.


Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in.

1. I would love to spend more time just doing fluffy stuff- music playing, fishing. Give me more hobbies, I suppose.

2.Exploring. I love just getting in the horse and riding through the BreeFields, or along the banks of the Anduin, or along the road in Lone Lands with Amon Sul in the background. It's epic. (Though, anything involving more elf stuff is a plus.)

Question 1:
A) Housing. I think enough has been said in the forum about the needed rework, hooks, places to store souvineers, storage, and closer accesabilty to the major towns.

B) Fishing. I'm sorry, but it was more fun in "The other game". I think you should adapt alot of their ideas, and expand them.

Question 2:
A) I would go the route of adding a few social gaming mechanics similar to the farming game on facebook. It is the current rage could expand your player base.

Question 3:
A) Slayer deeds: I've done most of them, and now I have no desire to start another Alt and go through the process again.

B) End game raiding. Even in a large Kinship, it takes a lot of effort and time to pull off. Nature of the beast I guess. If raiding did not involve my favorite part of the game which is the socialization, I would not participate.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. HOUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There are a zillion posts on the topic already!! PLEASE overhaul it and give us free-form placement and more creative house designs!
2. HOUSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Kin Community fun: Some form of tournament system (sparring amongst multiple players in teams) --- perhaps using that nice field up near the Bree Fields or limited to the homesteads-- so kinships could organize an event! Also some form of party event in the homesteads so you could have npcs or clickable party tables give away food, drinks, pipeweed that you provide.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Silly fluffy stuff - like chicken play
2. I love the festival stuff!

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Kinships. To me, the kinship is completely left up to us players to make work, roles defined...etc. The game offers little to nothing in assisting us in running a kinship.
Recruiting is limited to spamming global chat "Please join Uber Swords of Bree....blah". This is horrible.
Even facebook games (*ouch*) have better recruiting mechanics than this game.
I could give you some great tips on this, PM me if interested in refining this system and I'll share.
2. The hobby system.... key word expanded.
There are dozens of small little games you can add to this game.
e.g. dice games, card games, darts (yea, put a dart board in the prancing pony!)

END GAME REALLY REALLY needs something besides a new RAID, or PHAT LEWT!

Maybe end game for some players might envolve retiring from the meyham for a while and take up hanging out at social gatherings and PLAY some ingame, games...

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Put an (official) Arena in somewhere, where players could challenge one another and keep records... posting them on the billboards outside the arena...
You already have an arena in the game. The 21st hall... You might as well make a REAL one, where people can actually have a ladder to climb...

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
I can't answer this, because if there is something in the game I want to do, I make the time to do it.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Cosmetic weapons and shields. You could either have weapons and shield usable across the board as cosmetics, which would cause animation problems, or you could limit to the same item-type as the character is wielding as well, which would be fine. There is a lot of very cool looking weapon and shield models out there that hardly anyone use.
2. CJ's. I feel that an interface upgrade could encourage people to use them more, keep track of the more rare ones, and give the burgs some needed love in this area.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Mounted combat http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.php?t=325869

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Horse-races. The rest of the festival I could care less about.
2. PVMP. However the culture seems a bit exclusive, and the dominance of stealth based classes is off-putting.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. HOUSING!!! (a total overhaul including house design from the ground up would be amazing, but even a transition away from predefined hook based decoration would be great)
2. Crafting (make it more active and creative, and less passively watching your character strike an anvil for hours on end)

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Ooh.. tough one. A new type of hobby system including multiplayer and VS AI games (board games, card games, etc.) would be cool but I'm not sure that qualifies as a new gameplay mechanic.

Maybe some sort of stance based or targeting based combat mechanic with the ability to aim strikes, knock down targets, etc.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Exploring (the focus is so much on character progression, questing, levelling, etc. that I don't find myself just exploring as often as I'd like given that there aren't really enough tangible rewards for doing so)
2. PvMP (there's a part of me that wants to PvMP, on both sides of the war, but I never do it for various reasons such as lack of experience, more desire to simply keep building my characters or not seeing much tangible reward to heading to the Moors)

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. LFF system - Make it more comprehensive.
- Allow you to flag any quest that you are looking for a group on any char

- Allow someone that is trying to form a group to indicate that they want to use the LFF system

- The LFF system would then notify anyone that has flagged that quest on any one of their chars (regardless of which char they currently have logged on).

- They could then contact the person organizing the quest and see if they can use the char they have that needs the quest. If so then they could switch to that char and join the fellowship.

- This could hopefully also be used to form groups for skirms

2. [bHousing[/b]
- allow us to put large and/or small house deco items in the "special slot"

- allow us to move the location of the slots so that it is possible to do things like put a chair (small furntiure) next to a table (large furniture)

- allow us to configure the types of house deco slots we want (swap small wall slot for a small furniture slot etc)

- allow us to earn more total house deco slots

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

In the name of all that is holy, please come up with something to get all of these tokens and skirm marks out of my backpack/bank (festival tokens, DG tokens, more different types of skirms marks than I care to think about, etc)

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. PVmP - I usally only do this once I have my toons all leveled, geared, etc. It would be nice if I could work on gear while I PvMP. I still wouldnt PvMP all the time but it would be a nice additional option. (Tired of running SH and grinding skirms... Maybe tonight Ill do some PvMP to work on getting runes/relics/whatever)

2. Fluff - fishing, music, festivals are all awesome in this game, but its hard to find time to participate in all of it.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Housing (Allow weapons/armour/shields to be placed on the wall! Horse stables! and free placement of items to name a few.)
2. User Interface. Need more quickslot bars, and increased support for multi-monitor systems using ATI eyefinity. (user interface is stretched in some places, cannot move the main function/skill bar)

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
1. The ability to scale (and allow the user to select) the difficulty/size of all major instances/raids in the game, with increased rewards the harder you make it. (I am talking gear/jewellery here, not just a % of barter items)

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. End Game Raiding (BG at the moment)
2. Everything else I have done, except those darned awesome events which will never come back but for my dreams and fantasies. (chicken ball and ettenmoors run)

Question 1:

Housing.

I have tried to adapt and appreciate the limited-scope housing that was given in LOTRO. It never achieves what I would like it to achieve. As of this moment, I treat my houses like they're intended by Turbine -- empty, undecorated, and using the chests.


Question 2:

Guardian/Warden Taunts should have some level of adverse affect during PvMP. Perhaps a debuff, perhaps a temporary override of control. Something that would make our skills applicable in the PvMP environment instead of the one-trick pony that they are right now with Shield-wall.

Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.


LFF system: Specific quest spot could be revised so player could select a list of activites/quests they are up for.

Deeds: Upgrade could include adding in new virtues, upper level class deeds, higher tier virtues, etc..


Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

A mentoring system would be wonderful. Even just a debuff down to the quest level like the Epic line currently buffs us up. Players could even purchase the debuffer 'stones' for open landscape quest mentoring sessions.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
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I can never seem to find enough time for crafting or hobbies.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing... there is even a great thread about how it could be revised in the suggestions forum.
2. Crafting "archtypes." I would like to see them as duos with a choose-your-own as the third. So if I took Historian, I would for example have Scholar and Farming, and could take Forester (wood and leather trade) as my third trade.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Gardening... as a hobby. They could be used to beautify our homes, and would of course require us to be at our house, not crafting off in one of the far away places. Grow bushes and flowering plants in pots and baskets in spots, or even have them in our homes.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Fishing... it doesnt do much of anything. I would like to fish more, but I dont get anything out of it. I would like to see something else done with it. Perhaps make it so that we have to go to certain zones for different fish, or occaisionally get loot from it (no rare weapons or the like).
2. I would like to see more social activities... currently some of the best RP spots are cluttered by either mobs, or they are filled with chatty npcs.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

Oh Thank you so very much for this "Tell the Community Team" please hear my voice... er ah... read my post.

1. I would love, absolutely love, to be able to change my race. I don't know if this qualifies as a system but I'm putting it in here to begin with. I think if maybe you could switch your cosmetic look with another alt, keeping the deeds and crafting experence the same. All except the racials but I would not mind regrinding those again. I don't know if this would be possible but would love to switch from a Hobbit Mini to an Elf mini or even man.

2. The ability to have houses on Landscape, to actually have a house inside of the town of Bree, or maybe one of those neat little Hobbit holes in the Shire. Evindim, places like that have housing instaces that are used by the player base.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

The ability to change races... or did I put that already. (You know that this is a great desire of mine don't you?)

I would like to read lore from the differnt Libraries in the game, you know, like the Library in Evindim, I think it would be neat to read about the lore of those places in game not using the Lore Book.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. I just don't have enough time to finish my books on all my Characters, I am refering to Volume 2. I'm etiher helping someone out, grinding out deeds, or leveling a new alt to fill a need in the Kin.

2. The festivals (see above post) I think I have to many alts to maintain....

Question #1
#1 I would love to see the housing get revamped, make it so there is more choices in what to do with them. Like adding stable masters to your house and crafting areas. Also add new houses to further places like Lothlorien, Moria, Rivendell, and many other that would be new.
#2 The hobby system also needs a revamp. Since bk 13 fishing has been left on the shelf with little to nothing added to it. I would love to see either some more fishing advancements added, or a totally new hobby. Like maby add special items to insances in angmar moria and mirkwood that you could collect, like in moria in the gs make a number of items that are rare that only 1 person could collect at a time that when you collect all of them you get a special reward or it makes you more powerful when you do the gs.

Question #2
Hmm this is a hard one, I am not one for thinking of new ideas but i'll try and do my best. How about how about a base to base war in the moors. Like what I mean in 1 either expand the moors so it is larger so it would work or 2 make a totally new area that would be very large. What you could do is use pve items to make your base like rowan wood, - tier 6 wood the higher the wood the stronger the base would be, Like you could make a new elf camp any where in the moors that you could use as a point defense. And make it so it is more fortified like if you got enough mallorn wood you could make a gate that creeps would have to destroy before they could get in and you could have wall to ground combat, and it would be alot more fun. Also you could make the npcs do what you want, like they are not as stupid as they are now where a reaver could get bubbled and run all the npcs off then have the creep raid come in and wipe the raid. Like the npcs would reset when the person that had aggrow went out of the keep or outpost so. There is many more I could add but I wont cause I dont want it to get too long, so there is my suggestion on a new mechanic!

Question #3
#1 Hmm this is a hard one cause I have alot of time on my hands so i'll only do 1 :P I im a rare breed and love to do deeds, but I think it is kind or odd that in angmar the worm slayer deed it 150/300 where as in mirkwood all the slayer deeds are 120/240, maby take the slayer deeds in angmar down a bit?

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing. More hooks, even if it means limiting the number in use (a la AC1). Permissions by chest. Housing decorations should be bound to the house owner once placed on a hook.

2. Chat. /1 is Alliance chat on some characters; a private channel on others. I invariably send comments to the wrong channel. When I type /1 it should show the name of the channel, just as /r converts to the recipient's name. And try sending a tell to Eohguenixchemythani -- why must I type a full name instead of just enough to uniquely identify the intended recipient?

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

The ability to set your effective level lower than your actual level. Rather than scale content up to my level, make it possible for me to scale myself down. That way I can take a bunch of newbs on a Rift run without trivializing the content.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Inn League stuff
2. Crafting

Both because they take gobs of time relative to the outcome.

1. a) Housing - expand the kin houses and make more room for trophies add stables/crafting areas for kins - add some relay race areas for kin competitions - add some quests that allow kin to better their kin houses.

b) Hobbies - add something new to fishing (new deeds, new trophies, new fish) add other types of hobbies ie: rare rock collecting/painting/bug collecting it would be amazing to be able to add a "butterfly conservatory" to your home or kin house.

2. Inter Kin Competition - This would be amazing - servers could set up competitions between kins - you would submit a group of 3, 4, 6, 12 or 24 from the same kin and match times against other kins for various instances. etc...

3. There is so much I want to do and never fin d the time to but I figure I will get to it eventually. Right now I would say skirmishes dont get enough attention and music

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Itemization. Bring back rare unique world drops. Make high level group content such as BG offer better rewards and incentive. Challenge mode chests should guarantee something beyond a T4-6 relic, 50-100K IXP an armor token and a (typically) useless purple item. Why does non-radiance armor drop in radiance instances? Why do main-hand weapons such as spears drop at all? Things like this serve zero purpose other than armor for cosmetics (and man, that helm is ugly anyway.

2. Conjunctions. They need some love. They need to scale to our level. They need to be more relevant in raids. This was such a cool and unique part of the game that has accumulated a real thick layer of dust. Give us some new ones as well. New functions could be related to corruption removal, certain debuffs.....lots of things.

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Deed/quest-related gating. Ditch Radiance. Gate with difficulty. The system that existed in the Rift was so much better than anything since, but I can understand why gating is deemed "necessary". Please stop doing it with armor. It might also help the itemization issue, bring back crafting, etc... Radiance put 2 professions at a real disadvantage (metalworkers, tailors)

Originally Posted by Sapience

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

Sadly, there is nothing I don't have enough time for. I'm already taking my 6th alt past level 60. I'm not a completionist, though. I get what I need and the rest is pretty moot.

I would like to spend more time exploring a larger number of level-cap instances....if they were available. Next time, please make sure there is enough level-cap content waiting for us before raising the cap. You invalidated a whole lot of content with the 60 to 65 jump. You should have left us at 60 through Mirkwood. I have little desire to plow through the old 60 instances - even if there might be a decent piece of teal jewelry waiting for me. It's a mindless grind with no real challenge.

Q1:
- LFF: turn the panel into a useful system
- make player models more realistic and customizable

Q2: Mentoring system (a la CoH sidekicks).

Q3: Inn League, Chicken Play

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Hobbies - Expanding to things other than just fishing
2. The Volume II Epics - Revised to use the Inspired Greatness mechanic applied in Volume I.
side note: I get slightly annoyed by you all asking for input on everything but what a lot of people consider really important [myself included]. I do hope you do this because you are already working on solutions, not because you don't care.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
A mentoring or scaling mechanic that would allow you to go back and play through lower level quests/instances at the level they are meant to be played, especially with someone new or their alt.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP
2. Building Rep with pre-Moria factions.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Other than LI and Radiance gear, I am very happy with the game and wouldn't recommend expanding/changing any other areas of the game.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

I think current mechanics in place are fine. I cant think of any I want to add right now. Although I would like to request mounted combat NOT ever to be added into the game.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

I am currently content with my play time experiences, and I have time to do everything I like.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. If I have to exclude PvMP, then Hobbies is my number 1. I'd like to see something like fishing implemented, just don't know what.
2. Revise crafting. Make the best/highest recipes drop from mobs, not barterable.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Nothing. I would rather see more time and effort put into other aspects we currently have. Such as designing a loot table for Barad Guldur that suits its level of difficulty.
Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP, its the last truly fun part of end-game content, since BG's loot table leaves us very little to look forward to seeing.

hi, i think the virtue system needs looking at, sort of like if you have 10 in valour and 10 in zeal you could go to a new lvl of traits with most of both of them, or valour and mercy, etc. wisdom and zeal, wisdom and mercy, something like that. but you would need 10 in each virtue to be able to combine them to an inner circle of virtues. if there are multi to pick from ppl would still be diff and not all alike in there virtues.

would be nice when making a 2nd age lvl 60 or 65 ledgendary weapon to be able to choose 1 or 2 MAX legacies to put on it when its made

Question 1: Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. Housing ---center the hooks, update the system to make it more universal (let you put small and large furniture in special slots, small furniture in large spots, etc)
2. The user interface....add in more quickslots if desired, scaling mouse pointer sizes for those with higher resolutions, etc.

Question 2: If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Stat customization without traits and items. Throw everyone a bone, and let us from level 51+ add 5 points per level to whichever baseline stat we want Adds more customization, which is good, and lets us further individualize our characters.

Question 3: Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. PVMP
2. Raiding the end game

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Hobbies - Still only have fishing...
2. Virtues - Need to expand them beyond a cap of 10...

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Bind to Account (for barter items, housing items, etc.) - There is way too much Bind on Acquire in LotRO.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. PvMP - It *should* be the ultimate endgame in my opinion, and it used to be, but now it just doesn't seem worth the trouble.
2. Raiding - Almost always fun, but doing it for a slim chance at purple armor that's not that great and not necessarily required for future raids seems kind of ridiculous.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Housing: There is a big problem with housing, in that most of the houses are vacant, but can't be moved into. I know some players return, but the vast majority do not. We just keep creating new housing instances. My suggestion is a revamped housing system based around kinship communities. A kinship can establish a community with a large one time purchase of a kinship house and X number of Houses. As a kinship achieves higher ranks, they can purchase NPCs like vault keeper, provisioner, healer, and potentially crafting facilities.
2. Grouping - create a simple toggle on your quest tracker and in quest journal. Integrate LFF tools into the quest journal (ie show others working on this quest in your area, or anyone online). An announcement in the chat window when someone in your zone meets your criteria would also be useful.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I'm changing my answer! What I want is a WTB section in the Auction house. Integrate the AH with the lorebook database. Let people drag an item they want, and potentially set a quantity. A player wishing to sell can click something like "Fill Order", they now will have one hour to craft the item and put it in the auction house. The crafter will receive their pay as soon as the order has been filled.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
It used to be PvP, but I've started doing that. I think this is my question from a few weeks ago
1. Music System. I've always meant to learn how to do it, but never seem to find the time. (I've also been interested in pipe-weed farming or brewing, but these remain somewhat unclear to me as to how to get started).
2. Completing under-level content, I've still not faced all the bosses in the rift, helegrod, and I've never stepped inside the old BG.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. I think sparring should be expanded dramatically. I would love for there to be some sort of official duel/tournament system, for example.

2. Expand housing dramatically. Improve hook system; currently even full of items, houses just seem barren. I love that we get it at all, but improvements would go a long way. I'd like more reasons to visit your home and have others visit as well. Maybe a small buff or something? Or how about you can craft and send invites for people to visit your house... they could use these to quick travel to your home (or kinship home, if they're not in your kinship) so you can have player-run events or RP stuff, etc.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Options for mounted combat. I'd even be fine if there was a new horse rider class and all other classes only got basic combat additions in that regard.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Inn league quests

2. Fishing. For me, I think more fishing based quests would make me put more time into this one.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.

1. H-O-U-S-I-N-G. There are not NEARLY enough hooks in any given house, but it's far more egregious in the Duillond houses. There's a table here, then ten feet away there's a chair. The chandelier is so high up you can't even see it.

Go into any furnished player house and look at how spread-out everything is. Then go into any NPC house (Bag End, Lowbanks estate, hell the Cat Lady's house) and see how full and cozy it is. There's something wrong when Calder Cob has better furnishings than the vaunted Saviour of the tri-county Eriador/Moria/Lorien area.

2. Kinships. For serious. Add more rank levels, add an option to cluster kinships into Alliances, or to be able to see kinship members on the map, or any number of other things. There's so much kinships could be.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?

Mounted combat. Think of the implications: tailors can make blankets and barding, smiths can make shoes and armor, or even mounted-only weapons. Just as we can get (or even make!) our own Anduril or Glamdring, where's our Firefoot or Shadowfax?

There's many suggestions on implementation floating about, they're good reads.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)

1. Skirmishes. They take too long to complete individually to really do them in between other content, so I end up having to devote the better part of an hour just to that to get anything done. Granted, it's something to do when there's nothing else of interest (which is good, and the more options like that we have, the more things we can cycle, even if it's just vastly different forms or locations of skirmishes), but it rarely fits well into the schedule with other things.

2. Raiding. It takes so long to organize a PUG, mostly from lack of interest. Most people that raid are in a raiding kin or its allies, so anyone lacking such connections is out of luck if they want to do the Watcher or the like.

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. New zones! Expand the world!
2. None, just new zones and revamping the LI system. Tell the bosses of any Turbine team mate who says they need something to work on that they need to be shifted to the "new zones" and "fix LIs" teams. heehee, only half-kidding!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be? None, tell the bosses of those Turbine teammates who asked for this question that they need to be moved to the "new zones" and "fix LIs" teams! Not kidding at all this time lol!

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. None, I have time to do it all, and I have!

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.Crafting. Delete Vocations. Allow any 1 harvesting to be combined with any combination of crafting or harvesting professions. Add a skill-adds-bonus mechanic so that crafters can mini-game their way to a critical item. Add deconstructions so that a crafter can finally do something to all that vendor trash.

2.Factions - Should be tied less to level/tier. I would like to see skirmishes leverage faction to open up more skirmishes and delve into the struggles in each faction area. Would love to skirmish at LevelCap for forochel or eglain and get skirmish marks and rep items for those groups instead of doing lots of turn ins.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Positional advantages. Combat should take into account flanking and rear attacks for everyone as well as a bonus for surrounding an mob. Any character should get a bonus if they are standing behind a mob. It promotes good tanking and removes some of the blind standing and button mashing that goes on in all mmos

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Exploring. Lots of the newer areas have become very narrow and pipe characters through from level x to level y. With near zero free space to explore and hunt when not leveling.
2. Meeting new people. Not sure how you can solve this one but I never meet anyone new. I game with the same old folks or I log on and log out when i don't see them. Very little incentive to mix it up with new players. Perhaps Social games? Or Turbine players that are out in the open to socialize and bring folks together? No idea really but its the truth.