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

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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.

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.)

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1. (Tie my hands why don't you!)
DEEDS! It's a good start but some lower level deeds are unbalanced--Not enough in the said area, E.g. Slugs in the Shire! There is always someone out there stealing my killz!
QUEST LOG INFORMATION!--Some quests are NOT soloable that "say" they are, some fellowship quests I can do on my Minstrel! (meaning they're not really Fellowship quests unless my mini can pwn all which is very untrue cause...NVM)

2. ETTENMOORS COSMETICS! Let's face it, if the creeps want to know what level we are, then they can just select/target us. It's how the freeps see what rank a creep is cause not all the creeps use their Current level skin Trait. Infact because Freeps don't have a Cosmetic option that puts us at a Disadvantage because the creeps can see what type of armour we're wearing and target the less fortunate.

3. SKIRMISH! I just don't do them. I get some cosmetic stuff from them but nothing else really. The book quest lines don't encourage me to level my Soldier because I can basically solo the required skirmish. Infact my soldier rarely keeps up with me. The whole cost/benefit/enjoyment ratio is quite off. I would like to run the skirmishes but it's no different than the PvMP. At least in PvMP there is the Thrill of death... well the fact I'm being challenged by an actual person.
PvMP!Creep side is a grind but awesome social aspects are why I even come back. Freep side, well I've earned my level, my gear (enough to be out in the Moors anyway), my deeds (no not really), and my items... I don't want to waste time just grinding out for the stuff that gives me that supposed "edge" in end-game content. I want to put it to use against enemies that think! NOT AI though, we could end up like the Terminator, and I don't want that to be Turbine's fault :D (while I'm at it, How about a ranged damage attack for the Burglar? HMmmmm?!)

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. Player Models/General Graphics -- Don't get me wrong, the graphics in LotRO are stunning, but the character models seem cartoony and out of place in an otherwise "realistic" (trolls and drakes excluded) setting. This game prides itself on having the most memorable and breathtaking landscapes in the MMO genre. Let's extend that to the player models themselves. More realistic hair and cloth physics, robes that actually flow as you move, cloaks and and swords that don't clip with each other, sheathes for weapons, realistic facial structures... All of these things are just a fraction of the potential we could unleash with the system we already have.

2. Housing -- This is one area that I believe was a great idea at first, but implemented poorly because of the available resources at the time. A free-form housing system would be preferable, not necessarily with custom housing placement, but definitely with custom-furniture positioning. In addition, more housing trophies (stuffed drakes, etc.) would increase interest in the system. More storage would be desirable, and considering the initial and continued cost to utilize a house, it would be more than fair. What about rewards for owning a house for a set period of time? "Gifts" from the housing community? There is much untapped potential when it comes to this.


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

Tavern Revelries and/or Gambling

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'd really like to join the PvMP scene more than I currently do, but just can't find the motivation to get out there, and sometimes I feel there is just too much else to do and PvMP is not all that rewarding in comparison.
2. Deeds -- It's almost a necessity to get all relevant virtues to rank 10, but the thought of grinding out 300 more trolls/worms makes my skin crawl. The fact that I have to do this with each toon makes me that less motivated to start a new 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. Housing (Personal & Kinship). As others have said, more options, being able to manouver things within, & being able to upgrade them.... adding crafting areas in the housing areas...more storage....fun buffs for gathering there.
2. More options for kinships: more ranking options, custom ranks/permissions, being able to send multiple attachments in the mail to members, being able to add player notes on others (or even officers being able to make player notes for others -helps with many alts), .

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Ingame pets! :D I would love to be able to have a bluebird or cat or bunny or even some other kinda funny pet follow me around or just bring it out while chatting with friends, or playing music. Currently, I do enjoy my LM getting to bring out her bunny, or turtle, & such, but my other alts are jelous. :P They could be a part of festivals (which I love) or exploring or fishing, or things like that. :D

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.

1. Relaxing stuff like the fishing, music, festivals, freeze tag, & chicken quests
2. Instances. Most of the time I don't have enough time to get through an entire instance in 1 play time. By the time we get the people together, & get 1/2 through, I've got to log. Still they are great & I love the way the story flows in with all of them!

Thanks for the opertunity to let ya know what we are thinking!

Question 1
1. Character Models- Enivronment wise lotro looks great everything feels and looks like middle-earth... except for the characters. who definitlly seem like the engine used to render them is a generation older than everything else in the game. They just feel very plastic.
2. Kinship functionality- Kinships at the moment are just friendlists. It would be cool if, for instance, if enough members of a kinship, say 20%, finished the deeds in a zone or instance the whole kinship would recieve a small bonus. They could include special items with local vendors, +xp or drops, or titles.

Question 2.
It would be really great since the team has a lot of experience with scaling encounters now if they would make old SoA instances scalable to level say 50;55;60;65 versions of each. They would of course have appropriate rewards for the level they are completed at.

Question 3.
1. Festivals
2. Rep with pre-moria factions.

1). Housing...I would like to see more player interaction with housing brought to the game in terms of allowing higher lvl players at some point to build crafting tables and ovens in thier personal house and craft at home. From what i gather players are only using thier house for storage, I try to interact in my house all the time. Allowing people to grow personal gardens at home would be great. Maybe this would bring people home from the grind and you can go outside and see a neighbor or two in the neighborhood instead of a dead empty instance. I like to fish in my back yard in the lake and would love to be able to fish there and bring them in and cook with my chief.

2). Mybe somehow allow combat while mounted? A skill that you would have to train and aquire like all other skills and become proficient at for accuracy.

3). All other stuff is GREAT!! I LOVE THIS GAME!!!

Two things come to mind: 1) Angmar of the endless quests is not made any better because someone decided to go fellowship happy up there. Do you know how very nearly impossible it is to put together fellowships up there? 2) The level fifty quest is ridiculous! Two pages of ingredients? Many of them of to be gotten from Elite's and ones that require a fellowship pretty much guaranteeing that anything you need will got to someone else and goes back to find help in Angmar in the first place since many of them must be gotten from Angmar in the first place. Geez Marie, what was someone thinking? And lastly, just outta of curiousity why is swift travel tied to reputation in Angmar and in Forochel, to me at least it is the silliest notion I've ever seen.

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.

First off, I hope since LI's, Rad gear, and PVMP are off limits you got some good feedback and are actually making changes in these areas. As for this first question, I think I answered it recently in the 3/18/2010 thread:

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Originally Posted by lwk1138

Excluding Legendary Items and Radiance gating, what topics would you ask about if you were the Community Team? Pick TWO (2). Yes, this is where you get to tell us what you’d like us to ask you about.

1. What parts of the game do you feel have been underdeveloped, unfinished or unpolished? Please list 3 and why you feel this way and what you'd like to see done to remedy the situation.

1. Housing. Needs a major upgrade. Along with craftable furniture (more items + recipes please.) A place to keep Bound armor sets that we worked very hard for and don't want to trash (preferably armor stands, so we can show them off too.) A wardrobe for each character to keep bound cosmetics in. A weapon rack like the amour stands. The option to add rooms, stables etc to our house with incorporated crafting gates to access these rooms (do it yourself or higher someone.) Ideally no more hook system, just a free form placement. Crafting stations and maybe a vendor in your home or kin house. A bonus buff for logging off in your house. There have been so many good ideas mentioned in these forums, why not take a hint and get to it, make housing more than a bank I have to port to.

2. Racial traits (and maybe traits in general) These haven't been touched since SoA. Yeah I know they got a minor boost in SoM, but the ones that no one slotted still remain unslotted, and the ones that are slotted have seen minimal gains. I know SoM was the "re-set button" from MoM, but seriously going forward we need these to be buffed and added onto.

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1. Since 90% of these posts mention housing I'd say you have plenty to go off of. Lots of good links and ideas in this thread.

2. I'm going ahead and saying Traits and Virtues in general as number 2. Nothing fun about the grind, For the most part there are 4-5 must haves depending on class and other than that there's little reason to have the useless ones. Racial traits need a real update. Add in homeland traits, so we get another set of bonuses to play with depending on where our character comes from. Make Radiance a trait acquired at the same time you obtain an armor piece that would have radiance on it (oops I said radiance!) Maybe even consider taking set bonuses off of armor and making them traits that you acquire by acquiring various armor pieces. That would be amazing, So you don't like the 5 cap for the new BG set? No problem, equip your 6/6 VM Set Bonus Trait. You earned it right? Use it! (Plus this will keep people running older instances to acquire armor for set bonus traits! Yay another grind!) And please let's get above the 10 cap. If I have 15 Determination let me use it. Stats are capped at 650 anyway, and maybe if I could get more mileage out of traits and I wouldn't want to shove my head in an anthill whenever I think about the (downgrade) loot from BG.


Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I dunno, work on fixing everything else first.

Maybe pack horses/mules/ponies. A skill that can summon a storage container that looks like a packhorse/mule/pony. This would be most useful for crafters. In fact I'd say only let certain types of pack animals cary certain things. Pack Mules for crafting mats, Pack Horses for armour and weapons and Ponies for pots/foot/tokens/misc useful things. Pack Horses and Mules should be toon specific but it would be great to have the Pony be like shared storage, so all grouping/raid mats could be called up by any toon on an account, instead of having to go to a bank/mail from one char to another/transfer through a friend.

EDIT: OK I just though of one totally stupid fun thing. Let us change what our Skirmish soldier's warcries. Like instead of "To arms!" I want my soldier to say "For the glory of Noldor!" or something. Just another little customizable thing...

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.)
The thing is time isn't an issue for me really. It's motivation. Risk/reward is out of whack.

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.Kinship Tools/House:
A good kinship keeps players having fun and active, we need better tools to do that. If we could keep members more informed ingame and able to gather at the kin house, this would go a long way to improving kin activities. Better kin tools = longer active subs!

Ideas: Longer/more detailed MOTDs, REMOVE the cooldown timer on recalling to kin house, a calendar for scheduling kin activities, kin house bank for crafting materials/officers only, remove cooldown timers on kin house portal items (kegs and make more portal items please!), special kinhouse items or rewards for doing things together.

example: kin guilded cooks get together for a week or 2 and cook ingredients/a special food that buffs the whole kin for 1 week, like more skirm marks reward, hope and run buffs, reduction of slayer deed kills needed (a 2 for 1 kill kind of buff)

2. Avatar generation/Cosmetics: we need more options/styles on character generation for all races, more hair styles, facial and body markings, facial types. Also more cosmetic items for outfits! We want to create different looks and outfits! Please!

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

1. Regular Server wide events!! I severly miss these from AC, they were so much fun! Gathering ring lore doesn't count.

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 = seems kinda pointless without incentive to participate, if it doesn't recieve updates along with the rest of the world/game. Loot adjusted properly, rewards, cosmetics.

2. Fishing = very lackluster rewards for participating, how about some actual loot? The food you can cook from fish is not a good enough reward for the time invested.

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. Scale older instances and update them to allow Coin drops for Radiance peices.
2. Update Housing system, to allow abandoned houses in neighborhoods to be used. (IE kin members get houses in same neighborhood if not actively used)

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be? a fully featured Kin Management system. Including ability to link to Kin sites for calendar events, More control of storage chests. Perhaps work in the My Lotro info for events, announcements etc. (Not to take away for player kin sites, but tools that help promote better kin communication)

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
2. Feastival activities

Character appearance (barber). Please allow us to change more of our character appearance after creation. I've got a couple of characters where skin color, eye shadowing, etc. just didn't turn out quite right or I've gotten really tired of their look.

Even if we have to do it out of game, having the options to fix those things that start to be really annoying over time would be appreciated. Plus, it's been a long time since the barbers got new styles, etc. Perhaps make more of the styles available across races. Seems to reason that our heroic characters might adopt other racial styles over time, hanging out with each other so much.

Question 1:

1. Looking for fellowship.

Usual scenario: any kinmates currently in game are all 10 levels above/below me, and I have 5-10 quests in the current area.
Regardless of whether I'm capable of doing those quests (solo/smal/full fellowship quests), I'd rather team up with somebody on several quests; rather than looking for 5 people to farm a specific single instance.
Skirmishes are okay, but their main effect on me is to suck players out of the world.

I want a single "LFF" toggle command. Toggling LFF 'on' would essentially invite anyone in my area to a fellowship, preferably without spamming them all with an actual invitation.
Anyone else in my area who activates the same toggle automatically joins my fellowship.

2. See number 1.

Question 2:

Distraction/temptation?

One aspect of the lore which is missing in LotRO is the distracting/tempting influence of the Ring on anyone nearby.
This effect is...shall we say important to the plot, from beginning to end.

On the other hand, I don't recall so much of stun/daze/root effects in the books, and certainly don't want to suggest adding another "can't control my character" mechanic.

Perhaps one of the existing effects could be transformed in some epic instances?

Question 3:

1. Doing anything at my house.
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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 - we need free-form decorating and more space.
2. Crafting - this needs a major overhaul, as everything you've done since Moria has ruined it, except for those making consumables. This is a crying shame and is pathetic that you're destroying a part of your game that is so widely used by players. Compared to other MMOs, crafting in this game is almost non-existent. You need to have more variety of recipes, more components that can be farmed throughout the world, not just the wood and ore but other items as well. You also need to add a system of upgrading weapons and armor through crafting. This would be game-making and would please players that are craving some customization in their characters.

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

As stated above, there needs to be a system of crafting upgrades for all weapons and armor available in 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.)
1. Raiding - as it's set up now, I have too small a kin and too little time to raid. You need shorter raids and raids that are more PUG-friendly.

2. Finishing deeds - many of them require too many mobs for completion and there's no way to efficiently finish deeds that require groups and instances that no one is doing anymore. Carn Dum and Urugarth deeds need to have skirmishes to complete them and there should be solo options for places like Sarnur and Haudh Iarchith for deed completion. Ditto for deeds in Moria.

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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.

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1. Housing. Personally I would love to see a free form system similar to what Ultima Online has with the ability to literally build the house from the ground up. I realize that may not be possible with certain LotRO housing structures such as Hobbit Holes so I would defer to at least something more free form INSIDE the house. The hook system is too limiting.

2. Cosmetics. A different approach to Cosmetics. Currently the whole issue of bag/bank/space is limiting how people can enjoy cosmetic apparel. Currently, an item is applied to a "cosmetic box" similar to a decal and the item is then displayed on one of two outfit displays. I would have the "cosmetic box" have a memory where it stores any item that has been applied to it. The player could then right-click the box and be presented with a dropdown scrolling menu of all previously worn items. It would be nice also to expand this to "Cosmetic weapons/shields/etc". I would remove Cosmetic recipes completely and instead have the actual item drop or maybe make the recipes Single Use to help create a continuos market for them.

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

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Hmmmmmm...does my item #2 from Question 1 qualify as new game mechanic?

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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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1. Seems like I never have enough time for fishing. Always running around gathering resources for crafting (managing 5 toons at the same time can be hectic). Gathering resources takes a HUGE chunk of time.

2. The in-game music system! I think the in-game music system is one of LotRO's shining stars! No other MMo has anything quite like it and I think it's extemely undervalued.

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. Very little room in even a large house. Make it have more room!!
2. More good gear to choose from. Right now there are only 2 or 3 good gear sets out (watcher, BG etc...) and BG is nearly impossible to get for people who don't have 2-4 hours to spend on a raid. I would like more selection of armor so i can customize my character more then be just another hunter with watcher gear.

Mounted combat. Doesn't have to be really too good just fits the lore a bit more.

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. Raiding. generally don't have 2 or 3 hours in a row to spare
2. Fishing. wish it was more rewarding :/

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 (or moveable hooks). I'd rather have 10 hooks in a corner of a room and use 3 of them of my choosing rather than just having 1 lonely chair in the corner. And, add more Special items, or get rid of the Special hook and change it to a Large hook. I'd also like the ability to paint or dye my furniture.

2. Hobbies. Please add another hobby. Saw some great ideas listed below. I like the artifact hobby. You can make it more challenging by not having it sparkle, only found if moused over. Heh, I'd also even take bug collecting over fishing.


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

I had so much fun when Turbine was doing that stress test and everyone got to fight and try to bring down a Dev. :) I think it'd be fun to have a Dev show up randomly someplace (Halls of Zelem-melek or farm fields of the shire, etc.). Do an in-game announcement giving a general area of the location and the first kin to reach it, attack it and bring it down gets a special Kin House trophy and special item (jewelry, armour piece, weapon) to roll on and a special kudos announced in-game. Or if making it a Kin event would be too difficult/complicated, then just the first fellowship.

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 do pretty much eveything I enjoy.
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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. Some utility that would manage looting in raids. Some chest rolls take longer then the fight.

2. Cross server instances. So finding people to group with would be easier since the pool of players would be a lot larger.


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

Multi-player sparing so whole kins could square off.

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. Alas i have too much time on my hands.

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! It's a quality of life issue. Make them faster please. Current 20 mount should be changed to the speed of level 35 mount, and level 35 mount should be made faster. Also make an even higher speed/different looking mount for level cap. It doesn't effect game balance in any way.

2. UI. Allow a LOT more customization. For example, I'd like to see bigger floating combat text, but have to scale the entire UI to do so. There should be more granular control of each element.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
- More PvP. Some may hate me for this, but create a few WoW-style, objective based "battlegrounds". It doesn't need to become a second game, but more than what's available in terms of PvP would be great to see.

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. Can't think of any currently.
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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. I am going to say the quest guide thing on the map. Why does it have to cover the bottom left corner of the map? I suggest making it able to be shifted to any of the corners by the user. If I am questing around Aughair it's a pain that the quest guide thing covers most of the area around there.


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

I would love to see random treasure maps drop from mobs. These treasure maps should be fairly rare and five you quite vague directions. "10 steps from the tree with the fork in the trunk" kind of thing. There should also not be any indication where the treasure is, no glowing shimmery mound of dirt or anything. Not even a "treasure hunters shovel" item that becomes usable when you are on top of the treasure. You should also be able to "dig" wherever you want and if you get lucky, you hit trasure. If someone has a map to that treasure and they get there and dig for it they should get a message saying "This is the location shown on the map but it looks like someone beat you to it!". The treasure should be fairly substantial like 10g or a 2nd or 1st age legendary item (or crafting component). Some treasure maps may take you on a hunt all around ME and be very long and drawn out. Perhaps even taking you to "indiana jones" style temples where you have to solve puzzles.

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. Not sure.

1) I would like the housing system to be revised. From the outside it appears my house has an upper level, but alas...... it does not. It would sure be nice to have a trophy room with numerous hooks where I could display all my trophies. I mean, for all the items everyone has acquired over the past few years, there is not even close to enough room in house, or the yard to display it. So much dead space within the house! And how about a pet? I would love to see in-house pets, rather than just a mouse or bird. How nice would it be to come home to a cat or dog waiting for you?

2) Please take another look at the crafting system. I feel my craft is basically wasted. Yeah, I can craft some Marchwarden boots, but so can 100 other people...... the exact same boots. Why not make it where people can add a little variety to the items they craft? Take a tailor for example; why can't their be special threads (kind of like relics) that I collect and piece together over time, where one day I could add a level 9 thread to my item to change it characteristics? Say that level 9 thread added +65 agility, +100 morale, +20 fate, +20 vitality, +20 radiance to my item? After the hard work of making the relic and adding it, I'd have this truly unique item that i could keep or sell on the auction hall. Crafting should be about being different, creating unique items through hard work, not crafting the same 'ole stuff like everyone else. Plus, by listing it in the auction hall, it would give the casual gamer an opportunity to go after special gear. Biggest complaint my friends tell me, they don't have time with life and the kids to play and do a 2 hour runs like everyone else, they feel disgruntled they are unable to collect nice gear. There has to be another way for the casual gamer to make their toons shine with nice gear. The crafting aspect, would be the way to do that.

That's my two bits, sorry I can't write more, have mac 'n cheese cooking on the stove for the kids. Thank you :P

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 loot from the endgame raids. I think that there needs to be more rare items that people can look forward to having drop from boss chests in the DG instances. There isn't really anything that drops from the 3-man instances that I see people running them over and over again to try to get other than the medallions. I also think that SG and BG could use a wider variety of drops, i.e. better off-hand weapons for dual-wield classes, and more varieties of jewellery, perhaps even a 2 or 3 piece set of jewellery to try to collect?
2. The trait system. I think it's time that virtue traits either went beyond rank 10 and/or we got an new slot to trait a 6th virtue. I think we could probably use a new racial trait and extra racial slot for each race too, man-heal is becoming obsolete compared to things like the Dwarves' Endurance of Stone.

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

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 would like have more time to enjoy the endgame instances
2. I wish that skirmishes weren't so much of a grind and were fun instead of draining the life out of me. Add some drops from the mobs in there besides the marks and bounties, i.e. some rare items that only drop in certain skirmishes. I think they have a lot of potential but at the moment they are dreadful.

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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. TAVERN REVELRIES MUST BE IMPLIMENTED.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
1. TAVERN REVELRIES MUST BE IMPLIMENTED.

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. Socializing at Inns and Taverns across Middle Earth.

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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. Virtues - While the resists are nice... they could use a boost in stats, or an increase in maximum rank. It would also give us something else to work on while we wait for new content.
2. Crafting - There's still some errors that are in the crafting system (such as the Supreme Pipe-weed Recipe producing seeds that can't be used) that should be looked at and fixed.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Account Bound items. These items would be created from a relic master, and allow you to move relics from one character to another. Or a letter of recommendation generated from a quest at a specific reputation barterer when a player reaches kindred. The letter can only be used by characters on that account, and when turned in, grants the character enough rep to hit friend status with that reputation (or whatever the equivalent would be with the Lossoth).

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. Old Raid Content - The Rift and Helegrod are actually a lot of fun at 65 cause the risk is pretty narrow, but the rewards aren't there, so very few want to do them. PLEASE DO NOT SCREW WITH THE INSTANCES OR MOBS, ONLY THE LOOT TABLES, QUEST REWARDS, AND/OR BARTER ITEMS.
2. Not sure.......

Question 1
1. Housing. More hooks are definitely needed to make things more realistic...such as putting chairs around a table, etc. But I also think it would be fun to be able to add rooms. For instance, a kitchen where cooks can actually cook, a workshop where metalsmiths, weaponsmiths, and woodworkers can craft, and a sewing table where tailors can do their thing.
2. Hobbies....there is only one. I like the idea of artifact and bug collecting as long as we can get cool trophies to put in our fancy new houses.

Question 2
1. I would like to be able to change the appearance of our mounts using a cosmetic system. New saddles, saddle blankets, and bridles. You can get the items from gaining reputation or there could be special recipes that crafters can make and even dye! It's such a proud moment when you get your first horse, it would be nice to make it look like your own instead of like everyone else's.
2. I didn't have a second idea of my own, but I Really like the idea of activities at the inns! Parties, music, poker...all good.

Question 3
1. Nothing.....If I suddenly remember that I haven't done a specific activity in awhile, I go do it! It's all about slowing down and smelling the roses along the way. There's no rule that says you have to get to level 65 in 7 days!

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. older instance, could make gated versions for us to come back and do when we are level capped. i think it's nice to take some time away and go back to my roots every once in a while.
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Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Hunter ports. Ok, I'm tired of having two quick bars full of em, can i please have one skill button that brings up a menu with a list of destinations ? i think this would be great for alot of hunter's, you could even have it as an option so that hunter's could choose which way they want it.

&& can we please get married. i can have a son but no wife ? :/
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. its annoying because i cant control what i catch.
2.

Question 1

1. Get rid of Gear Gates
2. Get rid of housing hooks
3. Get rid of the quests required to use a mount

Question 2

1. Mounted Combat