LOTRO Events Schedule

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

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Hi Cord, I'm the sort of person that loves all the festivals and I thought I'd like to mention that as sort of a header to this.
I understand new content and new events will happen ( the wedding? )
In my playstyle, and many other folks playstyle, end game content isn't where a lot of us are at. I've been playing since the november beta 2006.
I do have one level 120 character who is semi retired.
I couple others in the 100's but for the most part, I play low level characters. many of my friends do experience capped adventuring with the stone of the tortoise.
So, here is the drawn out question;
"will there be content for us!"

Hehe, after the Anniversary bonus quest in 130 content areas, Iam now worried that the Wedding event that will take my summers usuall Festivalling away for awhile, will have nothing for low level folks.
I am hoping I am wrong. I have certain characters I play on certain days that I stream, and some I only stream at festivals with.
So I am hoping I will have something to do this summer?
I don' really want to use my retired high level character for festival type events, so I am hoping that the low level folks will not be forgotten?

Anyways, cheers, and thank you all at Standing Stones, for the great gaming, amazing content, and care you all take witht he games we love :)

In the current situation, after shifting the Summer festival, we have a few empty weekends, so once again I am asking about Anniversary encore.
No need to work - just only turn it on

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Quick Update: The Summer Festival has been rescheduled, and will run at the same time as the Farmer's Faire. The timing will be: 8/20/20@10am Eastern to 9/7/20@3am eastern. Exact timing subject to change, but that's where it sits currently.

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I am hoping the Farmer's Faire can be pushed back a little as well, like running in September along side Bilbo's Birthday and the Mariners. That way our daily grind would be a bit better spread out.

Are there plans for another double bonus LOTRO points event in the store any time soon, please? I'm looking at buying one of the bottom packs when the next one rolls around.

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Originally Posted by Shadowvisitodir

In the current situation, after shifting the Summer festival, we have a few empty weekends, so once again I am asking about Anniversary encore.
No need to work - just only turn it on

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Yeah, having a whole summer without festival is unthinkable. Please, give us anniversary or spring festival encore!

I am really crushed that there will be no summer festival during summer! Moving it at the *the end* of August just sucks! I won't be at home for a couple of weeks, since it's summer break (in Germany) and we will be in Italy for the time being. The summer festival and farmer's fair together is just the worst idea ever imho. 11 weeks without a festival ... just sucks!!! *snief* I'm really, really sad about that decision. And I really hope that the wedding will be THAT awesome!

Summer festival and Farmers Faire at the same time????

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Originally Posted by Marty7777

Summer festival and Farmers Faire at the same time????

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Yes

Why dont you release the wedding later?
I mean, most people who enjoy the festivals for summer etc. wouldnt have a problem waiting till the wedding arrives.
Im sure, we would enjoy a late but whole wedding more, than late summer+fall festival and a half worked on wedding?
Why you cause all this mess instead...

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Originally Posted by Jyndahl

Why dont you release the wedding later?
I mean, most people who enjoy the festivals for summer etc. wouldnt have a problem waiting till the wedding arrives.
Im sure, we would enjoy a late but whole wedding more, than late summer+fall festival and a half worked on wedding?
Why you cause all this mess instead...

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May be because developers thinking what festivals boring, unimportant and outdated, and want create something new.

We realized we had a gap in our Event Schedule starting today for a few weeks, so we'll be bringing back the Spring Festival for an encore! The Spring Festival Encore will become available later tonight, and will run through June 28th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 29th.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We realized we had a gap in our Event Schedule starting today for a few weeks, so we'll be bringing back the Spring Festival for an encore! The Spring Festival Encore will become available later tonight, and will run through June 28th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 29th.

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Any chance you could make that July 2? I'm only seeing 11 days and the meta is 12.
Edit: Corrected to account for the reset being at 3AM

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We realized we had a gap in our Event Schedule starting today for a few weeks, so we'll be bringing back the Spring Festival for an encore! The Spring Festival Encore will become available later tonight, and will run through June 28th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 29th.

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If there's a gap in the events schedule, why not run Farmer's Faire now? :)

If no new content is being added then it's not a huge task to just make it active, and it could still run alongside the Summer festival later in the year, but would give people a chance to "get ahead" on Farmer's Faire quests. As far as I understand it the main reason the festivals were combined together was lack of time to do both, but if there's now a gap of several weeks...?

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We realized we had a gap in our Event Schedule starting today for a few weeks, so we'll be bringing back the Spring Festival for an encore! The Spring Festival Encore will become available later tonight, and will run through June 28th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 29th.

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I'm sorry, I don't get this. Why are the summer fest and farmer's faire being combined anyway? Now you say, we don't have anything at the exact time the summer fest should be taking place. This is midsummer's day on Saturday.

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Originally Posted by Morellian

If there's a gap in the events schedule, why not run Farmer's Faire now? :)

If no new content is being added then it's not a huge task to just make it active, and it could still run alongside the Summer festival later in the year, but would give people a chance to "get ahead" on Farmer's Faire quests. As far as I understand it the main reason the festivals were combined together was lack of time to do both, but if there's now a gap of several weeks...?

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Because gap in the events have 12 days, when Farmer's Faire and Summer Festival have 20 days. And looks like they aim for wedding events on 1st july, and old fashion festivals can't work in same time as wedding because of ancient coding.

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Originally Posted by Elmagor

Because gap in the events have 12 days, when Farmer's Faire and Summer Festival have 20 days. And looks like they aim for wedding events on 1st july, and old fashion festivals can't work in same time as wedding because of ancient coding.

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Hence why I said it could still run alongside Summer fest? This would just be a bit "extra", as trying to complete FF and SF at the same time is going to be a little hectic.

Clearly the wedding is being pushed back since it was originally said it would run when Summer was previously supposed to, but now apparently we have several empty weeks.

Hey ho, not that it matters much now since Spring encore is already up ;)

This is shaping up to be a very strange year for Lotro festival planning, either way...

Two updates:

To mark the passing of the great Sir Ian Holm, we've enabled the Baggins' Birthday event through June 23rd, with the event ending at 3:00 AM Eastern on June 24th. It's not much, but seemed appropriate.

We are extending the Spring Festival Encore by one day to help people get the wrapper completion. The new end date is "through June 29th", being formally shut off at 3:00 AM Eastern on June 30th.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

To mark the passing of the great Sir Ian Holm, we've enabled the Baggins' Birthday event

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Thank you! That's a lovely idea!

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We realized we had a gap in our Event Schedule starting today for a few weeks, so we'll be bringing back the Spring Festival for an encore! The Spring Festival Encore will become available later tonight, and will run through June 28th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Monday, June 29th.

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Thank you so so much for doing this. I really needed those dances, not just for play either. My girls and I thank you. (plus we got pretty new dresses. maybe I'll get a date lol.)

Well, you dolls you. Here we are complaining (a lot!) about the lack of festival and you go and create a NEW one, as well as bring back Spring. Hugs and ty

Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find anything listed about the Midsummer event and Wedding listed here. How long does the midsummer event last. I know that the book quests regarding the wedding will be available year-round.

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Originally Posted by Hannariel

Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find anything listed about the Midsummer event and Wedding listed here. How long does the midsummer event last. I know that the book quests regarding the wedding will be available year-round.

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The Midsummer Festival runs through July 20th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Tuesday, July 21st. I will get it added to the schedule today.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

The Midsummer Festival runs through July 20th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern (-4 GMT) on Tuesday, July 21st. I will get it added to the schedule today.

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This is barely long enough to do the dailies. The text says to “plan accordingly,” but that’s pretty difficult to pull off 20 days of wrapper quests in a 21 day festival, especially factoring in holidays and downtime. Can you extend it please?

Any news about Currator or Fig? We never seen them again? More and more people reach figments cap every day, and devlopers keep silence. We don't asking anything new, just bring back some of old vendors.

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Originally Posted by Elmagor

Any news about Currator or Fig? We never seen them again? More and more people reach figments cap every day, and devlopers keep silence. We don't asking anything new, just bring back some of old vendors.

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Exactly! Im with you, totally.

I was "thinking" about August (buried treasure was last Curator visit), but now with summer... would be perfect!

The Midsummer festival has been extended by 6 days to more reasonably allow completion of 'The Majesty of Midsummer' and all of the corresponding tiers of the Fondness for Festivity quests.
The Midsummer Festival will run through July 26th, 2020 and will turn off at 3 am server time on Monday 7/27/2020.

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Originally Posted by Tybur

The Midsummer festival has been extended by 6 days to more reasonably allow completion of 'The Majesty of Midsummer' and all of the corresponding tiers of the Fondness for Festivity quests.
The Midsummer Festival will run through July 26th, 2020 and will turn off at 3 am server time on Monday 7/27/2020.

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Thank you! Now I may try to get some decorations on a second server too xD

I may be being thick and blind, but I didn't see anything about the Tournament event and the Bombadil server. When is that due to finish? Asking in-game got me several different dates throughout July.

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Originally Posted by PointyEaredBowTwanger

I may be being thick and blind, but I didn't see anything about the Tournament event and the Bombadil server. When is that due to finish? Asking in-game got me several different dates throughout July.

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It was in the original announcement. June 17th through July 14th meaning it will end at 3am July 15th.

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Originally Posted by Fatefoot

It was in the original announcement. June 17th through July 14th meaning it will end at 3am July 15th.

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Yeah I knew about the original date. :) I was seeing stuff about it maybe having been extended for a few more days but no one seemed to know the new finish date for sure (or even if there was a change), that's why I was asking. Seems people (probably including me) were confusing the festival being extended with this event and thought maybe both had. :)

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Originally Posted by PointyEaredBowTwanger

Yeah I knew about the original date. :) I was seeing stuff about it maybe having been extended for a few more days but no one seemed to know the new finish date for sure (or even if there was a change), that's why I was asking. Seems people (probably including me) were confusing the festival being extended with this event and thought maybe both had. :)

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I understand. I am not a great Twitter follower, but I noticed after I replied that they tweeted a reminder that Bombadil would be closed in today's restart. I guess following twitter can avoid us getting cornfuzzled lol

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Originally Posted by Tybur

The Midsummer festival has been extended by 6 days to more reasonably allow completion of 'The Majesty of Midsummer' and all of the corresponding tiers of the Fondness for Festivity quests.
The Midsummer Festival will run through July 26th, 2020 and will turn off at 3 am server time on Monday 7/27/2020.

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Due to the server issues, will there be an additional extension?

Is it possible that this year you can start these two Festivals earlier?
At least the 1st of each month, not 1 or 2 weeks after.

Harvestmath Festival 10/1/20
Yuletide Festival 12/1/20

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Originally Posted by Derquin

I'd appreciate another extension, too.

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Me, three! And in addition to the Festival Extension... Could we also please have a repeat "Crafting boost Weekend"? ...Maybe on the 23rd? ...I don't think many of us even got 0ne cumulative Day on our U.S. home Servers, to do much tier crafting either, because of all the Downtime + the festival. And there is only One more Crafting weekend planned for the rest of the year. ...Please add another? ~Tyvm

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Originally Posted by Ciarran

Could we also please have a repeat "Crafting boost Weekend"?

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Yes, please re-schedule the bonus Crafting XP event. I had been looking forward to it for a long time and did not get to log in at all through the entire duration.

Any chance for an extension of the Midsummer Festival due to the frequent issues over the past 4-5 days? Please? :-D

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Originally Posted by AurinStarbow

Any chance for an extension of the Midsummer Festival due to the frequent issues over the past 4-5 days? Please? :-D

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Cordovan has confirmed this already, the extension will be decided once the problems are solved.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...60#post8022160

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Originally Posted by Morellian

Cordovan has confirmed this already, the extension will be decided once the problems are solved.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/showthr...60#post8022160

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Thank you! I missed that.

We have extended the Midsummer Festival through August 3rd, turning off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Tuesday, August 4th.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

turning off at 3:00 AM Eastern on Tuesday, August 4th.

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Thank you, that's the unambiguous information we're looking for.

I will answer later ;)

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Ooops ... wrong thread

Thanks for the updates.

Can we ask for two more small things:

1) Can this page announce the availability dates of seasonal figment vendors, especially the Curator? As we've seen in many other threads, the fact that the Curator is almost always unavailable, then returns sporadically without any predictability, is one of the most frustrating and counterproductive choices SSG has made. Having the Curator in game more often would be a great incentive to have people keep repeating content, by making rewards available and giving people something on which to spend fully capped currencies. If you're capped on your Embers/Figments/Motes and have nothing left to buy, you're much more likely to stop playing altogether -- I've never understood why SSG would want to incentivize such player behavior. Honestly, if they activated Curator, that would be a much better gift than the Thank You Gift they offered today. Anyway, even if they're going to continue the super-baffling choice of keeping Curator unavailable except a few days a year, at the very least they can give us some predictability about when she'll be back in game by including the dates on this Events page.

2) Can this page also announce the availability of the Ill Omens event? The couple times it has happened, it has not been mentioned on this page, as far as I know. That's one of the reasons I think so few players know about this event. Ill Omens can be quite a nice change of pace during downtime between other events, and it encourages both solo and group exploration of old content, so at least you could mention it here to let more players know about it.

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Originally Posted by john_anthony

Thanks for the updates.

Can we ask for two more small things:

1) Can this page announce the availability dates of seasonal figment vendors, especially the Curator? As we've seen in many other threads, the fact that the Curator is almost always unavailable, then returns sporadically without any predictability, is one of the most frustrating and counterproductive choices SSG has made. Having the Curator in game more often would be a great incentive to have people keep repeating content, by making rewards available and giving people something on which to spend fully capped currencies. If you're capped on your Embers/Figments/Motes and have nothing left to buy, you're much more likely to stop playing altogether -- I've never understood why SSG would want to incentivize such player behavior. Honestly, if they activated Curator, that would be a much better gift than the Thank You Gift they offered today. Anyway, even if they're going to continue the super-baffling choice of keeping Curator unavailable except a few days a year, at the very least they can give us some predictability about when she'll be back in game by including the dates on this Events page.

2) Can this page also announce the availability of the Ill Omens event? The couple times it has happened, it has not been mentioned on this page, as far as I know. That's one of the reasons I think so few players know about this event. Ill Omens can be quite a nice change of pace during downtime between other events, and it encourages both solo and group exploration of old content, so at least you could mention it here to let more players know about it.

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Oh, I concur. It would be nice to anticipate the curator's return. I decided to just let my figments cap out, since I already have everything I want for my characters. Either the cap should be increased or the Curator and new items should not be so infrequent and short-lived, when he/she does return.

Thank you VIPs! We've added a VIP Event Boost that is now underway and runs through August 13th (8/14@3am shutoff).

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Thank you VIPs! We've added a VIP Event Boost that is now underway and runs through August 13th (8/14@3am shutoff).

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Thanks!

Hobnanigans (aka chicken soccer) is extremely difficult for players like myself who have arthritis. I played one game and had to not only quit Hobnanigans, but LotRO altogether, for the night because my hands hurt so bad. If I could have a keyboard shortcut to kick with, I might could do it. I generally love the festivals and games in LotRO, but I'm going to have to pass on this.

I did find it fitting that the title I had active at the time was the Tired.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Thank you VIPs! We've added a VIP Event Boost that is now underway and runs through August 13th (8/14@3am shutoff).

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What is a “VIP Event Boost?”

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Originally Posted by Rhino-Man

What is a “VIP Event Boost?”

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Sergio :-)

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Originally Posted by ArmyAunt

Hobnanigans (aka chicken soccer) is extremely difficult for players like myself who have arthritis. I played one game and had to not only quit Hobnanigans, but LotRO altogether, for the night because my hands hurt so bad. If I could have a keyboard shortcut to kick with, I might could do it. I generally love the festivals and games in LotRO, but I'm going to have to pass on this.

I did find it fitting that the title I had active at the time was the Tired.

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Okay, I was able to learn a few things last night and this morning.

1. You can pull the skills from the little box onto your action bar so you can use the keyboard to hit the chicken. Much easier. (My right hand is worse than the left, so a lot of mousing gets old fast.)
2. If you have cooperative people (e.g. myself & my hubby), you can get the quest, get a stick, drop the quest, wait five minutes, get the quest again... repeat until all the sticks are gone, then the game will start. I beat hubby quite soundly while he stood around doing nothing. So I got my 15 tokens for winning and he got five. While trying to set up for a second game, somebody else came along and joined hubby's team. So I lost and they won, but afterward I took hubby's tokens. So I got 40 for the two games.

I'll just have to find time when nobody else is around.

Also, someone who saw either my post in this thread or the one in another thread was kind enough to send me a stack of tokens and a white chicken pet. I don't want to thank him by name in public so he doesn't get harassed by beggars, but I did thank him in game.

This new extended Farmer's Faire need run for more time, like Yule (and like Summer). Add two weeks to fix this.

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Can this combined Farmer's/Summer festival please be extended due to these server issues? I've now missed out on 2 days playing this festival as every 5 minutes the game freezes and I have to log out. It's almost impossible to get 1 quest completed at this point. :mad:

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Originally Posted by eduardo.scharf

This new extended Farmer's Faire need run for more time, like Yule (and like Summer). Add two weeks to fix this.

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Probably we will need more time because the servers issues. Besides the time I previous mentioned.

The Farmers Faire has been extended through September 14th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on September 15th.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

The Farmers Faire has been extended through September 14th, being turned off at 3:00 AM Eastern on September 15th.

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Farmer's Faire AND Summer Fest? (basically asking if Thrang's being extended too xD)

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Originally Posted by Laurelinarien

Farmer's Faire AND Summer Fest? (basically asking if Thrang's being extended too xD)

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There is no Summer Fest now. It's all Farmers' Faire.

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Originally Posted by NeebPlayer

There is no Summer Fest now. It's all Farmers' Faire.

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Maybe I should've included my reason for asking...

On page 1 of the Events Schedule, Cord only changed the end date for Farmer's Faire and not Summer Fest. I do think it's just an oversight but I wanted to make sure xD

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Summer Festival 8/20/20@10am 9/7/20@3am
Farmer's Faire 8/20/20@10am 9/15/20@3am

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Originally Posted by Laurelinarien

Maybe I should've included my reason for asking...

On page 1 of the Events Schedule, Cord only changed the end date for Farmer's Faire and not Summer Fest. I do think it's just an oversight but I wanted to make sure xD

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The Summer Festival has been incorporated into the Farmers Faire, and the Farmers Faire is now both events (and likely to expand in the future). I kept the old Summer Festival on the schedule so people would know the events are still there, but yeah, forgot to add to its date as well. Technically, though, it is just the Farmers Faire.

Thanks for clarifying, Cord!

Hello! I wanted to update everyone on a few things:

• The Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner is this weekend! Runs through Sunday, September 20th.
• Baggins' Birthday starts tomorrow! Begins on Friday, September 18th 10am Eastern and runs through September 23rd.
• We are shifting out the start date for the Harvestmath Festival. We'll have its start and through time listed in the future.
• The Durin's Day event remains on schedule and will not change regardless of what ends up being done with Harvestmath.

Harvestmath is my all-time favorite. I just wish we could get those Skeleton and Ghost npc outfits. And I Don’t know what your are doing with the dates for this festival but please don’t shorten it.

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Harvestmath is my all-time favorite. I just wish we could get those Skeleton and Ghost npc outfits. And I Don’t know what your are doing with the dates for this festival but please don’t shorten it.

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Fully agree

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Hello! I wanted to update everyone on a few things:

• The Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner is this weekend! Runs through Sunday, September 20th.
• Baggins' Birthday starts tomorrow! Begins on Friday, September 18th 10am Eastern and runs through September 23rd.
• We are shifting out the start date for the Harvestmath Festival. We'll have its start and through time listed in the future.
• The Durin's Day event remains on schedule and will not change regardless of what ends up being done with Harvestmath.

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Thanks Cord! any chance to tell us if we'll still have the curator this year ? pleass

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Originally Posted by Bruno_Lotro

Thanks Cord! any chance to tell us if we'll still have the curator this year ? pleass

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My bet is u28

"We are shifting out the start date for the Harvestmath Festival. We'll have its start and through time listed in the future."

Yes, yes, I'm sure there is a reason (perhaps not a good one, however). But when a festival is tied so much to a RL theme (Halloween), it should not be running on for weeks AFTER the RL holiday is over. IMO, this is the only one so tightly tied to RL holiday themes (Winterhome is about WINTER, not Christmas, and so can run on for a long time, as long as it's still winter in RL). I was not happy to have the summer festival and farmers' faire squished together (and cutting down on the length of festival time by making it just one all run together). Now this. Seriously, do you TRY to mess things up?

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My bet is u28

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I understand. And you have any idea of when... ?

There's no info on the Curator. So far they've only admitted to swapping M. Mint with Filbert Fig when the expansion comes (and no, there's no official ETA on that either). If the Curator comes together with Fig, before or after, it's all guess work.

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Yes, yes, I'm sure there is a reason (perhaps not a good one, however).

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Like it happened for Summer Fest, the reason again is that they didn't have time to put any work in it. I'm personally ok with the delay as long as we get new stuff.

The harvest festival delay is a bummer, but any new content to be carried forth to future iterations of the festival (i.e. quests, deeds and such) is entirely worth doing right the first time. I'll eagerly anticipate what is to come, with whatever degree of patience that is required, as long as there is some basic understanding that these delays are for genuine content, and not for some microtransaction-hell.

Cordilocks (as my friend Oz would say), any chance you guys picked a new date for Harvestmath? :o

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(Winterhome is about WINTER, not Christmas, and so can run on for a long time, as long as it's still winter in RL).

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Come on, man... I know we at south are only 10% of world population, but part of RL too :/
We have hot Yule here :D

Jokes apart I hope they don't change the length to only two weeks again.

CORD! 0ur Supreme Leader- ...It's now September 30, and I really need to know when *FALL Fest* will happen. (Trying to schedule some festival Game time!) ...ALSO, can you Plz mention when the "Curator" will be back? ~TYSVM :cool:

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CORD! 0ur Supreme Leader- ...It's now September 30, and I really need to know when *FALL Fest* will happen. (Trying to schedule some festival Game time!) ...ALSO, can you Plz mention when the "Curator" will be back? ~TYSVM :cool:

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fully support on that. We plan a serverwide "graunight" at October 17th and it would be really nice to have the harvest Festival on board for that
Thanks a lot for all efforts

Would also like to know when the Harvest festival will be scheduled back in. It's my favourite festival, and it's October now, the fest got removed from the schedule two weeks ago, please can we find out when it will be on before people start speculating that you're just not bothering with it this year?

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Hello! I wanted to update everyone on a few things:

• The Tale of the Shipwrecked Mariner is this weekend! Runs through Sunday, September 20th.
• Baggins' Birthday starts tomorrow! Begins on Friday, September 18th 10am Eastern and runs through September 23rd.
• We are shifting out the start date for the Harvestmath Festival. We'll have its start and through time listed in the future.
• The Durin's Day event remains on schedule and will not change regardless of what ends up being done with Harvestmath.

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The title says a lot of it. But, come on. Some of us need to plan things. And in any case, Harvestmath should be started at least two weeks before Halloween! Yet you remain completely silent on the subject. :mad::mad::mad:

Thank you for your patience while we worked out our schedule for Harvestmath this year. The Harvestmath Festival will run starting at 10am Eastern on October 27th and turn off at 3am Eastern on November 23rd.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Thank you for your patience while we worked out our schedule for Harvestmath this year. The Harvestmath Festival will run starting at 10am Eastern on October 27th and turn off at 3am Eastern on November 23rd.

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Yay Cord! Woohoo! Now I hope it doesn't overlap with the 3 Peaks release ;)

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Thank you for your patience while we worked out our schedule for Harvestmath this year. The Harvestmath Festival will run starting at 10am Eastern on October 27th and turn off at 3am Eastern on November 23rd.

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It will start only four days before Halloween?

Wow, that's too bad. Because it seems that this Festival more than any other matches the mood of the RL Holiday...and once the RL Holiday is past, well, enthusiasm for the "Spooky" game event seems to fade as well.

Harvestmath on October 27?!?! YOU GOT TO BE FREAKEN KIDDING ME!!!!!!!
You Developers are just unbelievable. Get you stuff together.

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Thank you for your patience while we worked out our schedule for Harvestmath this year. The Harvestmath Festival will run starting at 10am Eastern on October 27th and turn off at 3am Eastern on November 23rd.

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You're the best, thanks a lot

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Harvestmath on October 27?!?! YOU GOT TO BE FREAKEN KIDDING ME!!!!!!!
You Developers are just unbelievable. Get you stuff together.

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You know, I was always confused by the name "Harvestmath" because the Farmers Faire has much more to do with harvest than this festival. In my mind, it is rather Lotro's Helloween Festival so the new date appears very much appropriate to the content of the event.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

Thank you for your patience while we worked out our schedule for Harvestmath this year. The Harvestmath Festival will run starting at 10am Eastern on October 27th and turn off at 3am Eastern on November 23rd.

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Thanks Cord!

Stay well.

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Originally Posted by Arantha

fully support on that. We plan a server-wide "graunight" at October 17th and it would be really nice to have the harvest Festival on board for that
Thanks a lot for all efforts

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Thanks Cord, for the info. ...It's not in Chronological order on the list yet, so it looks like there's not really anything between 10/4 & 10/22, is that right? (Other than Durin's week.) ...Just making sure. ;)

Glad that we have a date! I was hoping for sooner, but I'm glad it's starting before Halloween and yay for it not being as late as the few years when it ran into December!

Time to start plotting my Haunted Burrow runs. :cool:

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Originally Posted by Narthalion

It will start only four days before Halloween?

Wow, that's too bad. Because it seems that this Festival more than any other matches the mood of the RL Holiday...and once the RL Holiday is past, well, enthusiasm for the "Spooky" game event seems to fade as well.

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We do in general prefer Harvestmath to start earlier in October, but this year is all about fitting the work into a busy schedule.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We do in general prefer Harvestmath to start earlier in October, but this year is all about fitting the work into a busy schedule.

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Understood.

Thank you.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We do in general prefer Harvestmath to start earlier in October, but this year is all about fitting the work into a busy schedule.

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That's for sure, you were been very busy also with unplanned things. Thanks for all efforts, really appreciate

We are adding a VIP Event Boost for this weekend! It'll start at 10:00 AM Eastern on Thursday, October 8th and run until 3:00 AM Eastern on October 12th.

so... a haunted Thanksgiving. Neato.

This festival is going to feel pretty ridiculous before the first week is even over.

But gotta sell them "mini expansions" eh?

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Originally Posted by ElanorFb

so... a haunted Thanksgiving. Neato.

This festival is going to feel pretty ridiculous before the first week is even over.

But gotta sell them "mini expansions" eh?

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Lotro events have nothing with USA Thanksgiving. It's not about sell expansion, it's about festival can conflict with previous verison of game, with hidden changes in game structure what we can't see in patch notes.

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Originally Posted by Elmagor

Lotro events have nothing with USA Thanksgiving.

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Still weird to do halloween content at thanksgiving

Why is the a lot of little festivals, yet only ONE buried treasure event a year??

Hobnanigans is great fun but it happens several times a year.

Why can’t the buried treasure event happen more then once a year?????????????

Besides it’s only a 4 day event once a year!

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Originally Posted by Ariwen55

Why is the a lot of little festivals, yet only ONE buried treasure event a year??

Hobnanigans is great fun but it happens several times a year.

Why can’t the buried treasure event happen more then once a year?????????????

Besides it’s only a 4 day event once a year!

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Technically it happens twice a year. You must've missed one.

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Originally Posted by Laurelinarien

Technically it happens twice a year. You must've missed one.

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Look at page one on this thread is has all the scheduled festivals:
Buried Treasure Event 8/13/20@10am 8/17/20@3am

One, only one this year and 4 days short!

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Originally Posted by Ariwen55

Look at page one on this thread is has all the scheduled festivals:
Buried Treasure Event 8/13/20@10am 8/17/20@3am

One, only one this year and 4 days short!

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That's because the Event Schedule isn't showing anything BEFORE Anniversary.
First Edition of Buried Treasure was in April (16-20) & I remember coz I make poster pics for the events for my kins & social media.

https://twitter.com/MinstrelbyNight/...27583300812800
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EWDOV0pV...jpg&name=large

I anticipate the Harvest Festival each year. Having it start just days before All Hallow's Eve is very disappointing. Half the fun is playing the games in the weeks before Halloween. That makes October special. Once Halloween is over, it just feels stale. What a shame. :(

We have a couple of timing announcements today:

First, The Curator has returned! The Curator will be available in-game through November 8th. Formal event dating: 10/26/20 10:00 AM Eastern to 11/9/20 3:00 AM Eastern.

Second, here are the dates for our Tier 4 limited time Deeds for War of Three Peaks:

Tier 4 of Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold and Shakalush, the Stair Battle will become available on November 5, 2020 at 3:00 AM Eastern.
The Leading the Charge deeds for completing Shakalush, the Stair Battle and Amdân Dammul, the Bloody Threshold at Tier 4 will be available beginning on November 5, 2020.

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

We have a couple of timing announcements today:

First, The Curator has returned! The Curator will be available in-game through November 8th. Formal event dating: 10/26/20 10:00 AM Eastern to 11/9/20 3:00 AM Eastern.

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Bittersweet. It should stay for longer given how long the absences are.

The start date for the Harvestmath Festival has been pushed by a day to facilitate our patching plans for this week. We've extended Harvestmath by a day to compensate.

Harvestmath Festival: 10/28/20 10:00 AM Eastern to 11/24/20 3:00 AM Eastern

Will the Training Dummy - Warg from Bullroarer be coming to the Curator in the foreseeable future?

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Originally Posted by Cordovan

The start date for the Harvestmath Festival has been pushed by a day to facilitate our patching plans for this week. We've extended Harvestmath by a day to compensate.

Harvestmath Festival: 10/28/20 10:00 AM Eastern to 11/24/20 3:00 AM Eastern

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Boy have you guys royally screwed up Harvestmath this year. Did you know Halloween is October 31st? Who wants to go into a Haunted House after Halloween?