LOTRO Developer Twitter Chat - Thursday Januray 24, 3:00PM Eastern

Come chat with members of the LOTRO Team!

When: Thursday January 24, 2013 at 3:00PM Eastern time.
Where: http://www.twitter.com/lotro

Members of the LOTRO team will be answering your questions live on twitter at 3:00PM Eastern time.

To ask a question just tweet it to us @lotro and be sure to include the hashtags #LOTRO and #DEVCHAT.

Please remember to keep your questions short, as we’ll be re-tweeting your questions along with the answers.

The following members of the LOTRO Team will be answering your questions.

• Senior Producer Aaron “Rowan” Campbell
• Lead Systems Designer Matt “HoarseDev” Zimmitti
• Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton
• Designer (World) Travis "TheAngryKoala" Healy
• Associate designer (Systems) Jon "'Space' Rockx" Steady
• Senior Designer (Content) Jesse "Eldorudo" Smith
• Community Manager Rick "Sapience" Heaton

Can't make the chat but what to ask a question? Post your questions here and we'll select a few to answer as well. Please remember to keep your question brief and easy to tweet.

Also, take a careful look at the list of devs attending. We've added the things they're working on next to their titles. Devs can't talk about things they aren't working on personally, so if you tailor your questions to their responsibilities, you have a much better chance of getting an answer.

when will you be releasing new titles for Legendary weapon using Ancient Dwarf and Westernese Dmg type I like beleriead and all but what if i want something different.

1) Thoughts on new content --- update 10?
2) Future plans on warsteed raids?

Whatever you can tell would be great!

Oh I also forgot...
3) Any updates planned for housing?

This time around can you please not take up time/answers with filler questions this time?

Last time around you took a question that asked about scaling Helegrod. I mean really, was that necessary?

Since your time and input is so severely limited and ultra rare for your customers it would be appreciated if you didn't waste time/answers on things like that.

That said, I do like that you'll be doing another one.

My questions, please if you are going to answer any, answer the first one. It's the most important:

1) Can you please tell us what you are doing to remedy the client/UI video problems? If you say that you don't experience these problems then please give us the exact computer setup and UserPreferences.ini so that we can try to reproduce your immunity to the problem. (The client gets progressively slower the longer you play the game, especially in DirectX 10, DirectX 11 and with Higher textures and Frill enabled. DirectX 9 is not immune to this either.) This is a MAJOR MAJOR problem so please don't ignore this question!

2) Are we going to be able to have interaction again with our class devs? Many of the classes don't even know who their dev is anymore.

When will see some fixes to the Mac client?

Lack of Jwbarry makes me a sad hobbit, assuming he's still doing instance clusters.

1) I know that 'fixing' housing is probably more than a little difficult. However, surely there must be some low-hanging fruit, as it were, that can be done to improve LotRO's housing experience? (For example, making 'hooks' moveable, even if keeping the number limit, so chairs and tables can be placed reasonably close together?)

2) Accessory of the Northstar warsteed thing. LOVE it. Any chance of making more of that set?

3) Elemental pets for Loremasters (a la Grims)? Would be BEYOND awesomesauce.

4) Expanding the reach of the Reflecting Pools so we can replay more of the earlier content (even if the rewards are then subsequently limited to XP/cash - there are some damn cool missions or arcs that I would love to replay so I can film on the maps). Even better - allow them to level scale.

Besides Rockx working on the U9/U10 Loot and you, Sapience, running things on the community side, I don't really know what the rest of the devs attending are responsible for *specifically.* Could we get a little more insight into what each of the other devs' most recent project was?

Also, are we going to get any new announcements between now and then, like a Producer Letter looking ahead at 2013 or a more concrete overview of what to expect from U10 besides the rest of the RoR Instance Cluster? It just seems to me like things have been really quite lately and I would, for one, like to know what systems are currently being worked on. Things like, "is there an update to ___ in the works?" Just knowing that it is currently in process, even if it will still be 3-6 months before we see it in game still helps us to understand what the dev team is focusing on so we can give meaningful forum input before everything gets set in stone on your end.

Thanks for putting these together. The last one was cool. Looking forward to this one.

I suppose this question would be more directed at Sapience as its community related.

Any fix on the way for the leaderboards? Some tribes and kins have been missing now for many months since the EU transfer.

also,

Can you expand on the bit of information we got last time about housing, how are neighbourhoods going to change?

Q: Will Galuhad's Kinship proposal ever be considered?
Q: Any chance the Fellowship Manoeuvre system can have some love?

Q1. What is the precise role of an in-game GM?

Context: there are many instances where the answer from a GM is (paraphrased), "Sorry, but we cannot help you with that." If people knew what precise kind of help GMs can offer, this could help needless bogging down of the help system.

Q2. Is the LI system pretty much how you'd like it to be now, or are there more revisions/tweaks in the works?

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Take a careful look at the list of devs attending. We've added the things they're working on next to their titles. Devs can't talk about things they aren't working on personally

• (MTX)
• (World)
• (Systems)
• (Content)

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Q: How the hell are 98% of players supposed to understand what they can ask from.. MTX? or World -dev? or, systems -dev? Ill give it a go.. hey system dev! How fares systems of lotro and what are the future plans for them systems of lotro?

Q2: MTX, I really feel like asking you something too because I guess you just wont be having many questions.. because no one will really understand your position either.. so.. oops.. neither did I.. But I googled! and after surfing 10 pages of best hits for MTX.. No go.. First 10 pages was about some HIFI-equipment, then on 10th page I got hint about some Metalex company mining minerals in Africa.. is that your job?

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This time around can you please not take up time/answers with filler questions this time?

Last time around you took a question that asked about scaling Helegrod. I mean really, was that necessary?

Since your time and input is so severely limited and ultra rare for your customers it would be appreciated if you didn't waste time/answers on things like that.

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I agree and disagree with this. I think last time there were a few too many fluff questions answered, but that doesn't mean they have to be super serious either.

As far as class devs go, I wasn't aware we had class specific ones anymore, and the people who frequent those sections are not the best to take suggestions from. More blue posts are always nice though.

As for my questions:

How do you feel about the LI system as is?

Do you plan to improve the usefulness of class pets?

Character models upgrade? Please?

I'm actually hoping that the devs will listen to the players and consider what they say, if not, this whole Twitter chat will be worthless...

I know there are more current problems that need adressing but I feel that the following also deserves some attention:
1)Barber Revamp(please,the dwarves' beards have lost their flare and no longer attract those hairy little dwarf women)- even if you integrated the npc beards; ex. Bori, Brogur,Nar,Ori;Even if they were purchasable only by TP you would make me a happy man!
2)Cosmetic Pets...?
3)Just respect all the hard work you guys do in making this wonderful game.

1. Any plans on offering highres loginscreen-graphics and new night sky textures?
At the moment they are both very blurry. If you are using a widescreen and very high textures you expect something else.

Here are some examples how a better night sky with more stars would look like:
http://www.abload.de/thumb/hqnightsky1iikk.jpghttp://www.abload.de/thumb/hqnsforochel2kcoac.jpg

more: forochel 2 & fancy nebula

Bad texture quality of login interface:

http://www.abload.de/img/loginscreenresolutionv2u9q.png


2. Any plans on redesigning the loginscreen so we will be able to list all/more characters at once?
(This would halve the clicks while logging in)
concept:
http://www.abload.de/thumb/newlogingtrkn.jpg

3. Any plans for a new community contest in the future about user generated content like textures or items?
Perhaps a "design a painting" contest for housing.

4. Any plans on changing stats for crafting gear, especially of low level crafting items and other low level items?
(Agility on heavy armor, yellow questrewards at the end of questchains like the one in Bree [item]Bree's_Thanks[/item], very low dps on purple weapons that randomly drop from enemies compared to crafted weapons)

5. Why are you so secretive? You know, you can tell me everything ... turby!
Seriously, why not full transparency and tell the community everything they wanna know?

greetings,
Rulin

My questions pertain to why i play this game, and why i pay for my subscription:
1. What can/will you do in the near future about pvmp raid lag.My system handles three game greatly on the highest and second highest setting, but when i join a 12 man or more raid vs a raid of creeps the same size i get unbearable lag that ruins the game for me.

2. Will you ever make freep aud armour available for purchase in the store? Rolling a new freep against a creep that -has purchased skills much higher than their rank makes it very hard, and near impossible to gain comms and rank. It discourages new players in the moors i feel.

3. Will guardians ever become more, well, tank-ish again? Our self heals arent that great, we trade okay survivability in terms of pvmp for poor survivability and low dps that doesn't scratch a creep. If we're meant to be a tank class, please make us tanks and not give us a sad increase to dps.

When is the Rune-Keeper month, and/or are there plans to give us a little dps love to bring us back up to a competitive level with the other top dps classes?

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When is the Rune-Keeper month, and/or are there plans to give us a little dps love to bring us back up to a competitive level with the other top dps classes?

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I think there was a misunderstanding of what was said in the last chat. We aren't doing future class changes in a 'month of' style. They plan is to do them as a whole.

What's the ETA for U10, and will the Rohan rings get another upgrade with U10?

Space combat panel - what's it do??? (I did map a key to it, and it doesn't seem to do anything, so very curious!)

Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton

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MTX, I really feel like asking you something too because I guess you just wont be having many questions.. because no one will really understand your position either.. so.. oops.. neither did I...

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I think MTX = Microtransactions = LOTRO Store. Had some questions, but the forums ate them. Apparently, it didn't like how I was quoting bulleted items...

Designer (World) Travis "TheAngryKoala" Healy
So... *some* work on Western Rohan was done prior to the release of the RoR expansion. Are you still working on Western Rohan or have you moved on to other spaces? Hints? Alternatively, how long after you "finish" a space does it typically take for your work to actually show up in game? 6 months? a year?

Associate designer (Systems) Jon "'Space' Rockx" Steady
What percent of your job is maintaining or revising old systems and how much is creating new systems? Assuming you're on a "Systems" team, is this breakdown the same for everyone? Does it vary over time?

Senior Designer (Content) Jesse Smith
Any plans to update the new Bree so that the newer sections seem more lifelike instead of just a bunch of buildings? Who brings in the best treats to the office? How many hours a week do you put in during "crunch" time?

Community Manager Rick "Sapience" Heaton
What stage is the next Paiz letter in? Still in her head? Initial draft? Going through approvals? Being translated? Awaiting the proper bribes delivered to Turbine HQ? When will the forums be fixed so it stops eating my posts due to logout issues? I lose more good posts that way that I have no desire to retype up and you lose that feedback. Or is this never going to change because it's an anti-spamming / -exploit / -hacking measure that we honest community members just have to live with?

1-Why the devs destroyed solo play at moors?
2-Any chance of creep skills, brands (fall imunity, anti silence, trackers, etc) be removed from the store?
3-Why the creeps without rank can use a brand that was made for a rank 15? Any plans to remove them from the lootbox drop?
4-The system of kinship and housing will get some love?
5-Any chance of increasing customization of chars? New faces and hair (the hair of lotro seem paper)
6-Why the hair and the clothes (except cloacks) of the chars do not move?
7-Take a look at the legendary hunter traits, they are scaled at level 50 till today (like ?
8-Any chance of remove long animation from purge poison and let we use while moving?
9-Why a rid of Cry of hunter long animation?
8-Why the guardian to have a low dps (nowhere near the top dps) need to lose 40% of mitigation?
9-Any plans for a new class for creeps or freeps?
10-Why farmers (farming rank) and people who use additional programs to control 3+ freeps and leveling them together are not being banned? It was against the rules before, why arent now?
11-Could you guys divide the actual buff that comes from one outpost for the four OP?
12-Could we freeps see some buble when the spider use Toxic Carapace? And lower this duration or give spiders a dps debuffer while using this?
13-Could you guys please add new skins for creeps and lower the cost to 500-1000 commendantions or made them auto acquired when you rank?
14-When hunters will be able to move before the animation of the arrows reaching their target end, like Black Arrows?
15-Maybe we could have a cosmetic slot for weapons?

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Q2. Is the LI system pretty much how you'd like it to be now, or are there more revisions/tweaks in the works?

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This would be an interesting question to have addressed (and well-worded Isharra). I'd personally be interested in thoughts on the current relic system (is it seen as sustainable in the long term with ever-increasing shard costs?, etc.).

1) Are you going to revisit the freep raid sets in the moors to make them equal to that of pve sets? No reason for the pvp sets to be so statistically inferior to pve sets. Why is audacity simply not a passive skill?

2) Can we please change the OP buffs to something that does not shift the balance of the moors?

3) Can freeps have more items available in the moors? Jewellery? LI accessories? Class LI? Update loot table in the moors chests/npcs to give freeps a chance to farm better gear while pvping (when I say pvping I do not mean from the raids in the delving, placing pve inside a pvp area does not make it pvp)? Maybe update the player loot tables to have a small chance at incomparable/epic drops?

4) PvP players on freep side have to have a subscription, they should at least be rewarded at having a chance to advance their players through pvp with equivalent gear to that of pve if that is what they choose to do.

5) Can we please look at actually making instanced pvp? I would prefer that over a new map. At least it would be different areas.

Q: Are there plans in the future to publish patch notes for updates again in German and French? (because Update 9 patchnotes are still only in english)

hii

i want too know when minstrel will go back fore best healer class. not like you did rk best dps and healer and mini is the worst one now.

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Q: Will Galuhad's Kinship proposal ever be considered?

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This.....for the love of god, THIS.

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Q: Will Galuhad's Kinship proposal ever be considered?

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I realized I was too late to find this topic but... this! Please!

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Q: Will Galuhad's Kinship proposal ever be considered?

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It could be considered, but also be left at just that.. so I guess the question I would like to know the answer to is:

What are Turbine's plans to develop and enhance the kinship system?

1. What are you going to do about the classes which have been neglected for over a year and are still ignored?
2. When will a dev post in the Hunter forums (it has been over a year and has caused a lack of faith in the devs)?
3. When will hunters get good changes/fixes?
4. What is the next expansion?
5. Do you like pie? and if so what type?
6. Are there any game mechanics that are going to be new and dynamic?
7. Why do you love working on LOTRO?
8. On a scale of 1 to 10 how would you rate your communication with the community?

When are one-handed axes going to be made for Minstrel legendary weapons? Are you prejudice against Dwarfs?

1. can we finally have inductionless PO for hunters?
2. Well moors be updated anytime soon?
3. Well Western Rohan be just another expansion?
4. Well there be a new quest pack this spring?
5. Well you guys go back to giving out some news threw your youtube channels?
6. Well the next festival have the same grinding system (deed) like the yule fest?
7. Well Turbine ever create a Holiday called LoTR day so that we can get a week off just to play lotro? XD

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I think there was a misunderstanding of what was said in the last chat. We aren't doing future class changes in a 'month of' style. They plan is to do them as a whole.

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I think most players would agree that's for a best. A lot of people didn't like the old system because it meant (not entirely true, maybe, but this is how it felt) that their class would get ignored for at least 9 months after it got its month.

But we all definitely want to see a slightly faster rate of changes and tweaks. :)

hi there guys :D

my question is :

Are we going to see any update on the combat animations?



since there are some that repeat themselves over and over especialy on the warden and captain :D
thank you guys thats all keep the good work in offering us the best mmo on the market:D

best regards from Portugal

Last chat the devs talked there were plans for all classes in lotro, make some revision on each one. Can you reveal some of the changes or when they are going to happen? I am sure lots of people are wondering to know a bit more about this "promises"

Will there be a transcript posted afterwards, for those of us who don't tweet?

Many instances are scaled from 3 to 12 players. Is there any chance that you could add solo & duo versions as well?

This one's for Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton, because I'd like to know:

Q: Rainothon: How feasible would it be to fund (part of) a housing and kinship revamp through Store-bought items and features?

Will the Kinship system get a much deserved revamp?

Will housing get a much deserved revamp?

Ever considered of letting Kinships buy their own Homestead?


Will pre-Moria content also be polished like you did with Moria itself in the last few updates? (Not major overhauls, but maybe add some auto quest bestowel stuff, or update Michael Delving like you did with Bree)


Thank you for your time!

I have some questions:

-) Will we see rank scaling moors gear in the near future, or any other non-cosmetic reward for ranking?
-) With the introduction of quite a lot of golden gear, will we see golden gear in the moors too, with rank requirement maybe?
-) What are your plans to reward T2 raiders, with the new raids will T1 and T2 loot be separated again? (T2 should at least have better jewelry drops and either a better armor set, or First Ages exclusivly)
-) Will class updates also bring updates to creep classes?

Good stuff, it already seemed lately you've increased the communication amount a little bit again.. then this comes.. can't say more then keep it coming.. :)

I will hope this question is being answered as there's quite some people who've named it in their question list.. although I'm not sure which of the attendees would be the one responsible for it, I might think it's part of a systems department..

Q: Will we see a kinship system improvement? There's so much to improve.. Ideas can be taken from the most popular suggestions thread.. I believe the community wouldn't even mind if you put in store upgrades there.. I as a kinship leader wouldn't mind paying for new ranks or more MotD space to name a few..
If this is just not possible.. what is keeping you from making it possible..? :)


Thanks for listening!

Greets Thran

First time posting on forums now, but i'll get straight to my point.

1) What area do you plan to release next ingame? There are several on Rhovanion map, that have not been released such as West Rohan, Fangorn, Gladden Fields, Northern Mirkwood etc.

2) ETA for U10?

3) Could we see a little increase in Guardian dps? Soloing on higher levels can take quite a while, especially if deeding.

Thanks for reading! :D

Q: When will Turbine repair Belegaer?

Can we expect the main storyline to continue with Update 10?

Can we expect landscape content with Update 10 or is it just the new instance cluster?

Can we expect any updates to major game systems (like the interrupt changes and worldwide remote looting in U9) with Update 10?

Basically, any Update 10 info you can spare please.

What plans are there to fix the constant 5-60 second "lag" freezes? It's been made pretty clear that users' computers aren't to blame considering the high-end system owners on fast connections experiencing it. Also consider that those same people go on to trying much newer (and thus heavier) games which run smooth as a mithril axe.

1. Any chance for removal of outpost buffs in Moors, since it showed as a complete failure?

2. Any possibility of making a gap between creep rank and skills to buy? i.e. only one or two ranks higher than the actual rank?

Hello.

When could we buy VIP time with our Steam account ? For who does not have nor Paypal or Visa.



Thank you.

1. Any comments on balance in pvp?

2. Is there any chance that the link between audacity and armour pieces can be revisited so that freeps arent forced into specific armour setups? I would prefer that audacity belonged to the character(as for creeps) rather then being linked to the armour pieces.

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1. Any chance for removal of outpost buffs in Moors, since it showed as a complete failure?

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maybe not a complete remove of this, but the buffs are too high...

can we expect any changes in the moors?

already posted my question but just noticed this when I placed this announcement on our community website..
Sapience, you made a little typo in the title.. ;)
LOTRO Developer Twitter Chat - Thursday Januray 24, 3:00PM Eastern

Hi, my questions/suggestions are all related to pvp and from freep perspective, being the main thing i do lately in game.

1) Considering the ettenmoors is a premium area so all freeps and almost all creeps already pay to fight in there, how do you justify the removal of destiny points and the introduction of store exclusive items like in-combat brands or fall injury immunity that alter significantly the game balance? (the more you pay, the more you win)
1a) Do you plan to introduce the buffs once given by destiny points via commendation bartering?
1b) Do you plan to remove the store items i mentioned above or alternatively make them avaible via commendation?

2) Why there's no benefit or incentive to be a very high rank freep? Being soon a r14, i find myself to be just an easy source of infamy and even a r2 or r3 can deal same or more damage and have same or more resistance, what about making the barter brands all usable in combat so the lower cooldown has a meaning or give some damage/resistance/morale buff according to the rank?

3) Why have been given to the creep side only a potion that removes slow and the r15 Mordirith's Brand as drop and usable by all ranks? In this way you created some real monsters who can kill almost everyone and run away safely even fighting solo against 10 freeps, this just makes no sense to me, such items should be removed or given to both sides.

4) I like to have challenging fights, i don't like to have unfair fights, from level 75 to 85 creeps got more morale, more damage dealt and more resistance while freeps (all freeps from what i see and hunters for sure since it's the class i play) have the same morale or a bit more and deal the same damage, so we now have 20k average morale creeps fighting against 8-9k average morale freeps, my 9k morale full audacity hunter can be killed within 4 (four) hits by both black arrows and wargs, i can understand that some servers may lack of high rank creeps but where there's a good population of creeps the fight is greatly unbalanced and to play a freep is a nightmare.

I got more questions about outpost and keep buffs, use of maps, renown/infamy reward for healers and hunters survivability but the four i posted are in my opinion the most pressing to solve to make etten a better place, as i took time to write my opinions to improve the game i hope there will be someone on devs side who will truly take time to read and consider all these posts.

Regards

Can we expect another large PvMP update this year, if so any sneak preview?
When are the class updates planned to happen?
Will the class updates include creep classes or just freeps?
Will there be a focus on 6-man spaces instead of 3-man spaces in the future?

Addendum: I would urge the devs to please ignore the 'fluff' questions such as 'What kind of pie do you like?'. I do not mean to seem dour, but these dev chats are few and far between with only a handful of questions being answered and I would prefer to see meaningful information conveyed.

1) what are your plans to improve server stability and prevent massive lag-spikes as are commonly experienced since Christmas?

2) The recent etten-moors changed put a higher emphasis on raid versus raid fights. However, the servers obviously can not handle 50+ players fighting at one location. Do you have any plans to remedy this situations, either via game mechanic changes, or via server/code upgrades?

I forgot one:
Will we have our faction rep mounts appearance for use at warsteed cosmetics?

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Will the Kinship system get a much deserved revamp?

Will housing get a much deserved revamp?

Ever considered of letting Kinships buy their own Homestead? !

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This is my question too. I like housing, but the systen need a rewamp. Thx

Question 1:
Could we have an update to Housing and/or Kinship systems between now and the next expansion (or ASAP).

It something a lot of people have been asking for, and areas that LOTRO is getting really dated in compared to it's peers.

Question 2:
With the DG & ITA clusters both getting scaled, are you planning to regularly scale more old content in future updates?

Or are we just lucky to be getting not one but two clusters scaled these two latest updates. Emphasis on the regular. Can we expect to see a couple instances get scaled every update (or every other update) from now on?

Why in 99% of the cases doesn't someone from turbine respond to serious questions or popular proposals on these forums?
Why does turbine tend to respond with "silence" to serious game-breaking issues, instead of at least letting us know your gonna either fix or not fix it(or attempt to fix something)

I do have a feeling this question will be treated like most, but hey worth a shot

Ex

I'd love some word from the Dev's on Kinship revamp instead of liking chili or playing games. Some serious questions being answered would be great.

Where can i see the answers?

Question for sapience for the Pats super bowl game which way should I go:

Option 1: pizza and beer

Option 2: Crock pot of chilli

Option 3: Chinese take out


Edit: noticed the date of the twiter chat, lol.

Can we please have some compeations for the community to design cosmetics for our charaters and warsteeds? we design it your art team refines it and modelers create it?

Can we have a client defragment tool again?

Can we have war steed speeds as click able skills? (the insert doesn't work for me but being able to click eg: canterm, trot would be nice.

Is west rohan the next landmass update or an expansion?

Will we get north mirkwood and dale one day?

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This one's for Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton, because I'd like to know:

Q: Rainothon: How feasible would it be to fund (part of) a housing and kinship revamp through Store-bought items and features?

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May i invite you to a little discussion/suggestion i opend back in december?
http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...aising-content

My question is:

Will it be possible to fund rais content via ingame store? (see link above)

What is the companies vision for the future of mounted combat?

What happened to "convenience not advantage" and "nothing will change for vips?" Store-only pots, scrolls, removal of dp buffs and the ability to get our relics back on decon, etc....

The instance finder seems pretty quiet, people still search via chat. Are you happy with that outcome compared to your investment?

Q1) Are there any plans to introduce proper skill queueing?

The main issue I have is that even "instant" skills have to wait for their animations to act out. Popped skills (like pocket items) can sometimes take an age to go off, or get overwritten by another normal skill due to only having the ability to queue one skill.

Q2) Any plans for other discoverable instances (perhaps protected?) or other high level content in some older areas of LOTRO?

I find it quite sad sometimes going through some of the areas (like North Downs or Evendim) to find them devoid of any players. The ability to automatically join an instance, whilst convenient, means that unless levelling an alt or deed grinding, there's no need to visit these areas. It's part of the game developing end game content, but alot of effort goes into these areas that see little use.

Q3) Any plans to "randomise" any loot stats?

I like the fact that RK stones have random stats on them (although annoying sometimes for something you can put alot of effort into!). We currently have Purple/Teal/Gold levels, however having a little randomness adds that element of surprise and means no character can ever truly be "complete".

Q) Will the Client developed further to use more RAM and less HDD access?

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or any other sort of improvement for kinships for that matter?

I'm with the others on this. I feel in the dark and maybe a little of what to expect from 2013 would be nice.

1) Housing revamp. Atm, we all see it as just 2 more chests....nothing more. We need a x/y/z axis system period for housing. We've asked for a revamp since it was created.

2) Will you ever move past r15 in pvp? I know this seems kinda a minimal % question of players, but some of us (myself included) are pragmatists and see no logical reason to play a creep after r15 if the game no longer tracks infamy. Im 14 and change atm, and am in no hurry to get to r15 since I gain nothing, and then brickwall on rank. Be nice for the limited r15s....to either a) continue to track inf/reknown or b) add r16!! (1.8 mill).

3) Power issues in the moors. Rks sitting at 9000 power are not rare, nor or Minnies. I burn thru power like candy on my Defilier (3000 power). Yes I have flies, but you have to admit a 9k to 3k power issue for a spam healer is QUITE a disparity.

4) Bored, bored bored in PVE land. Give us golf as a hobby so I have something to do...

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or any other sort of improvement for kinships for that matter?

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yes...this

Instead of another expansion with level-increase, why not an expansion with housing-, kinship-revamp and cosmetic weapons?

Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton

1) (this question is only relevant if MTX actually stands for micro-transactions as stated above) Do you feel that the store is moving away from its primary intended purpose of 'convenience not necessity'? (This feels particularly relevant because of the items which can be bought from the store to use in the Ettenmoors (such as tracking items and fall immunity) are quickly becoming necessary if you want to fight on an even level with those who do use the store for such things.)

2) While I hate to ask this question to a dev who works on the store (because I believe that if we have earned them through deeds that we should be granted the warsteed skins in the same way as the normal horses), when are we going to see the reputation mounts available as warsteed skins? And if this is in the pipeline, can you assure us that we will be able to acquire these skins in the same way as we would a normal steed?


Designer (World) Travis "TheAngryKoala" Healy

3) Is it possible to divulge any hints regarding which areas you are currently working on? (long shot, admittedly)

4) If you are unable to give specifics, a few teasers regarding the spring content update (if there is to be one) would be nice...
(This is the dev I want to ask the most questions of, but I guess most of what he's currently working on is shrouded in secrecy...)


Associate designer (Systems) Jon "'Space' Rockx" Steady

5) Can you confirm that the Warg Pens loot system isn't working as intended, due to the cruelly spiked bracelet not dropping for guardians?

6) Can you give us more details upon how you intend to fix the issues that you have acknowledged regarding u9 looting?

7) T9 relics are currently very difficult to get, considering that the only relics we can currently grind for with any success (so still putting in the time) are t5. Are higher level relics going to be made more frequently accessible?


Senior Designer (Content) Jesse Smith

8) I'm not sure how widely the brief of 'content' extends, but this seemed the appropriate place to ask about the housing revamp - when is Scarycrow going to be tasked with this much-desired change (as we can see that the community already trusts him in this area)?

9) Is the lightning in certain locations in Bree going to be fixed for DirectX9 users? (its rather irritating currently)

10) Could you explain further how the class reforms are going to work when they arrive (presumably with the expansion), especially considering that there are so many different opinions on the forums, in addition to a desire to retain balance, and the certainty that however you change a class, someone is going to hate it?


Community Manager Rick "Sapience" Heaton

11) While I understand that there are more pressing matters, mylotro and the forums are very slow and often do not work properly - when are the forums and the mylotro site finally going to come out of beta?

12) Considering the pattern for the last two years has been to release information (or at least the title and a promo vid) on the expansion in the last week of January, will that be the case in the coming days? (or is this dev chat the way of announcing it - though this is doubtful?)

Of these questions, 3/4, 5, 7 and 8 are the most pressing for me personally, but I'd be please if any of these questions were answered :)

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Will we have our faction rep mounts appearance for use at warsteed cosmetics?

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Also my question. I also like the kinship/housing/character customization revamp questions.

Another question:

We're limited to four user-created chat channels and have since 2007. Can this limit be increased, please?

Another:

Will we ever have more dye colors? We've not had a new one for years.

- What was the thinking behind the loot tables in this update? Why is it that from every T2C I have completed I have just won a bounty (couple of occasions a t4 relic also) but yet on t1 I won blue loot? Everyone now farms t1 because it is quicker and easier to get the loot. Why is there no reward to players running the tier 2 challenges? I think for challenge there should be an assured rare item for at least one member of the group.

- Some of the landscape changes to the Ettens were a nice idea and would create more opportunities for great fights all over the map ... except the fact that due to the change in mechanics (namely outposts buffs and keep/DOF renown buffs) means that (at least for our server) our action is either gy/gv farming, people pveing for keeps/outposts or creeps farming loot boxes en masse without any freeps to stop them. The outposts give too much imbalance and instead of creating small group play have just encouraged large groups to go nuke all of them and a game of taking outposts, running away to get another and the other side flipping it back. Would you consider taking this mechanism away again? It does more harm than good. The only way to have a fair fight is 2 red 2 blue and in the event one side is outnumbered and could do with more outposts they have no way to get them as the dominating side kills anybody who tries or just takes back. Really quite pointless.

As someone who SPENT money on this game - to PLAY this game - I would like YOU to read this thread and DO something about it.
Thanks!

http://forums.lotro.com/showthread.p...an-Territories

Q: Please describe your Quality-management, do you have any plans to improve use of the feedback from bullroarer instead of using beta-images with all the errors nearly 1:1 ?

1) Is there a working for revamping/updating the player's character outlooks? And/or same for the combat animations? Most of them so out-dated and repeating theyselves.

2) Are we going to see new 6-12, even maybe 24 person instances again? Not just those short and boring 3-persons, but like the old Moria days, more than one "6 person" instances? Real adventures, like the extremely-old-days?

3) Revisions for the Epic book cutscenes? Most of them are looking so cheap, so old and cheasy. With new content and reworked books, these videos gives the new player a wrong decisions. Different voice-overs, different modellings (tower of orthanc,etc)?

4) Ablolutly no hope but are ever going to heard new voice over in epic book quests, not just floating texts! Specially the old epics deserves thats!

Everyone asks about the housing and is there goint to be a revamp even if it is not what we would like to hear please tell us if it is possible or even if it will be looked at.

One more I completely forgot, and I am sure many players would like:

• Will there ever be an auto-combine all option for relic melding, rune use and reputation item use?

1. Will we see Galuhad's Kinship Proposal implemented of at least used as a template?

2. Will we see revamps of old broken down content that ranges from stat changes breaking instances (Dargnakh & Dungeons), old regions that need revamping to lvling curves and new player tutorials and reorganisation of the 40-50 quest regions, some as old as 2007, ( i.e. Angmar, Forochel and Misty Mountains)?

3. Reorganisation of Customer Service vs Ingame Support and Guides both player and official, where most of these guides/help/info have been scattered among broken links, forums and the official website.

4. Will we see some form of Advertisement to help put LOTRO out in the market for newcomers and help expand Turbine's business and profits? Signs from both the community and the market show that Turbine is losing its foothold in the market of MMO's. It's time to "capitalise" on the Hobbit hype and help bring new players in (and keep them) as well as market the LOTRO Store and Steam with deals and offers.

Thankyou for taking the time read this (if you do so) ....

May future Q&A's help bring the community back in touch with the devs.

1) Any information at stuff coming down the pipeline for the captain?

2) Are we getting another zone before Western Rohan?

3) What can we expect to do at Helm's Deep?

4) Is anything going to be done to encourage players to complete instances as the designers intended?

5) Given how easy it is for creeps to get up to 6 audacity (about 1-1.5kish Comms), would it be possible to allow the freeps to use silver to buy lower quality, vanilla armor with partial audacity (like .5 or .75)? (The creeps can grind out maps and get enough commendations that way to have enough skills/traits to be somewhat competitive and/or spend money to buy most everything they need from the Store while putting the comms towards audacity and consumables).

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2) Are we getting another zone before Western Rohan?

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There will be another zone north of the Eastemnet and south of the Great River (As seen from the bridge in construction south of the Limlight Gorge) which will follow similarly to previous zones such as Enedwaith and Great River. There is always a smaller zone to fill the gap between expansions. As to when it is due, I am guessing Update 11 sometime in the middle of the year or late April.

Hello, my first post here^^
(sorry for mistakes, i'm a french player)

- Question: Will you make all those exellent Moria instances updated to be a challenge again for endgamers?

I ask that because we talk about this idea very often in my kinship, and it's something we would be very pleased with^^!
Like "The Watcher" in T1/T2 for 85 level players etc etc...(Fil gashan, sombremine...).

- Question: Can I expect in a near future a remodeling of hairstyles and a bit more of different faces?

With time, i've come to overcome the to simple models of avatar ( specialy with the fantastic possiblities that the dressing offers), but...while questing in Rohan, I saw all these beautifull simple, long haired hairstyles on mobs, and make up on the dun people too etc...and I sighted loud enough to deceide to ask you about it, here^^.

Anyway, thanks for everything, keep on doing: you are the best!
Sonia (alias Minuyt, Sirannon, France)

Is the problem with /follow going to be fixed so that you don't run off in a random direction when your follow target zones/disappears?

ok since i won't be able to be there i'll guess i will post my questions here

1. Is there a possible chance there will be a housing system rewamp in the future? how soon if so
2. The calendar is pretty empty right now so my next question will be when will we get a hint on what kind of ingame events/festivals is planned this year :)
3. Will there be a fair chance there will be more wardrobe space in the future ? 140 slots is not much :)


Thank you that's all for now

1) Any plans for new classes?

I. Will burglars be able to get even more overpowered equip like they already have? (moor-set with basically adds 20%
devestating chance + the new golden shoes that add extra 5% damage to this class)

II. is there a date when bullroarer will go live with erebor?

III. Will the endgame in future expansions again have no new raid-content at launch and
continue to consist of scaling old content and doing solo-quests, or has the quitting of many raid-gamers in favour of other
MMOs alarmed you to change this way of designing an proper endgame?

heyo folks at turbine

first of all, i have came back to the game after a long time. Because of PvMP but for some reason lotro keeps bringing you back. Its like we never forget about the mmo and all the memories we have had in it. With Isengard and Rohan following fast after eachother iwas wondering the following: Will you be keeping the lvl cap at 85? but make future expansion based on that cap? or we will get more time to spend on a expansion then what we had with isengard ? as i felt rohan came to quikly as a lvl cap, even i don't mind the expansion i would have just bought it without lvl cap increase.

regards
me ^^

When this is this is done will we be getting a transcript of this posted here?

Because i don't and won't ever use twitter, just the same as i won't ever use facebook and any other social media apart from official forums for games i play.

1. Many of the Tier 2 3-mans no longer allow for dynamic group make-ups due to the massive damage certain mobs or bosses inflict (T2 Halls of Night serves as a perfect example). Is necessitating a tank and healer for every T2 3-man instance the plan from here forward?

2. Will you re-design the stable master to display a map of middle-earth and allow a player to choose their actual desired destination and base the cost on distance, rather than forcing them to hop from area-to-area?

3. Would you consider creating a relic-slot for armor pieces that would allow players to create their own set-bonuses? Something along the lines of deconstructing certain armor pieces to extract their set-bonus and re-apply them to the current armor?

1. When will players be able to have new hairstyle options? It is disheartening for heroes to look shabbier than townsfolk in a back-water like Bree.

2. Please re-vamp the housing system; at least let those of us who are willing to pay upkeep have more than one house!

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Q: Will Galuhad's Kinship proposal ever be considered?

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When this is this is done will we be getting a transcript of this posted here?

Because i don't and won't ever use twitter, just the same as i won't ever use facebook and any other social media apart from official forums for games i play.

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It's pretty much assured that someone will compile the whole thing into a thread once it's done.

Ahh sounds good, I won't be able to ask a question in that chat at that time. Still housing, any update on the housing system would be nice or a comment of you're going to look into it.

Can you comment on fight clubbing in the moors including possibly resetting peoples ranks who have offended?

MC COMBAT lag, rubberbanding, slingshotting.
seems many EU players are still experiening these issues, even with top end machines and fiber connections and they dont experience these issues in other area of the game.
Are the devs / network people looking into this? If so have they acnowledged it as a problem? Are there any solutions in the works?

I don't think I'll be able to participate in the live chat, but here are a few questions I've been wondering about.

Associate Designer (MTX) Mara "Aubergine" Patton

Which existing game system are you working on monetizing next through microtransactions in the LOTRO Store?

Designer (World) Travis "TheAngryKoala" Healy

Which is more fun: designing spaces completely from your own imagination, or building from Tolkien's descriptions?

Associate designer (Systems) Jon "'Space' Rockx" Steady

Most gear mixes both primary and secondary stats. This makes comparing gear difficult. Why not have only secondary stats?

Senior Designer (Content) Jesse Smith

Is there pressure to create content that encourages spending more TPs? Or is there a wall between content design and marketing?

Community Manager Rick "Sapience" Heaton

How often do you meet with department managers to bring them concerns from the community? Do the managers provide frank responses?

Just one question.

What is being done about the lag (especially Bel is suffering quite badly atm)?