LOTRO Lottery Feedback

[ticzerka71]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.

1. Lottery for lvl 30-40 specific with a regular mount to win; higher level characters probably already have at least one, someone boasted of having several spring horses from lottery- what's the point?
2. Level dependent (or independent) lotteries with crafting mats, like bronze ingots, or khazad copper, something rare
3. Housing and cosmetic items, never enough of them, but NOT BoA for God's sake

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

All of them, though I value mostly useful items, skirmish marks, cakes, not stacks of fireworks.

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

Apart from the existing seasonal , hmm, I think mostly lore ones as there are different people playing from different countries, so real ones might be hard to choose to satisfy everyone.

[Glisse]

I enjoy all the Lotteries and I think they are very creative. The only thing I would like to see is more high level items drop from the high level boxes. Lotteries don't come that often and the good items such as symbols could be more plentiful. Also, when the reward is food or tokens it would be nice if they were in an amount more than one.

[Anthronole]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.

1) Platinum Coin of Spirit
2) Platinum Coin of Heart
3) any Dar Nargabund Elf Stone

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

Spring Fest (because I won a festival horse)
Gift of Celebrimbor (because I've never won it but like the idea)

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?[/QUOTE]

Tolkien's birthday should be a LOTRO Lottery day

[vocah123]

The lottery rules good job guys

I would like to see:

Moria Class items - Platinum Coin of Spirit & Platinum Coin of Heart (the harder ones to get)

Moors specific items, like tokens of valour, tyrants lash & other moors enhancing gear

Housing deco, I'm a huge fan of housing deco and any of the rarer deco or some new ones would be great

Fireworks - Not the normal plain fireworks, those fancy tree ones and others like that if they exists, fireworks are always great

Thank You

[Bob]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.
Sexy IXP runes would be really nice. I dunno, stuff that's usable is good. symbols, pots, scrolls of empowerment etc.
Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?
Symbol/scroll of empowerment lotteries. They last for too long though.

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?
I dont care.

[P_G_Mac]

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.
1) More scrolls of empowerment
2) More Symbols of Celebrimbor
3) Unique Cosmetic Items/ Housing Items that are only available through the lottery. Uniqueness if king!

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

-Whichever gives the most/ best loot (IE ones with scrolls of empowerment or symbols of celebrimbor)

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

Xmas, Bilbo's birthday, the 4 solstace festivals, halloween, thanksgiving, new years.

[aquachimera]

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.
1) Unique items only available through lotteries (eg housing items, unique scrolls exc.)
2) Crafting items based on character's profession
3) Tokens for unique skills based on character class (such as travel to the festival grounds for hunters or unique instrument proficiencies for minnies)
4) (yes I know I can't follow instructions) Rep items for factions under character's level in order to reduce rep grind for those of us who like high rep with every faction

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

-One time high odds lotteries such as the april fools lottery, something that's unexpected but fun

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

Anniversaries of major battles in middle earth, giving rewards from allied races/factions (eg loth items on the anniversary of the battle of lothlorien or rohan items for helms deep (once rohan is released of course))

[Coyote1965]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.

1. Crafting materials and Tools are always good.

2. The rare clothing would be nice.

3. The hard to aquire mounts would be nice.

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

The one where I won my Sorrel Steed. I really liked that one.

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

The more the better I say. As many as you can possibly have.

[silverrage]

Ok not sure if it was mentioned other than legendary weapons class specific. I recieved a scholar bag (the highest lvl one) on my armorer it was of no use to me. All items that are for a specific class or crafting class should be specific to the class.

[Group1]

Think of this thread as a kind of Tell The Community Team for Lotteries. We're trying to gain a little insight into what you like, don't like, want to see added and want to see more of in the lotteries.

Please try to be concise with your answers, and don't forget to answer the poll question!


Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items. more clothes, and some high armour capes and some really neat recipes for all sorts of items, like the map table for example,the symbol of
Celebrimbor would be nice too.

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?
all of them
Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

I love the fests...I can't wait for the next one to start!

[Aethniniel]

I just thought of some other items that would be great to have in the lottery:


For under level 50 characters (I think there was a level requirement unless it was removed) - the rewards from doing the Forochel quests for each class npc. (Ex: the feign dead item, the summon item, etc...)

Drownholt Compasses - I love these tracking devices, but they seem to be a one-time reward.

The special mitigation potions that were only available with the Moria pre-order tokens (I think there was fire, lightning, etc...)

Farming crit dye/paint materials (ie: iris roots, juicy strawberries, etc.)

Weekly class specific lottery: Add a lottery for items useful to one class each week and cycle through them all

Weekly crafting profession specific lottery: Assuming you can sort players by crafting profession like you can class, it would be nice to have assortments of materials as a prize.

Rep items: probably already mentioned, but rewards for level appropriate characters would be nice, especially the bound ones like gold leaves, arnorian armour fragments, etc.

[PlayTyme]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.

1) A port potion that ports you to: a) your birth town (like Bree, etc). b) the nearest location with a stable master. c) a selection of near and/or far areas.

2) Some people have really bad lottery luck. To help better their chances, send in game mails to ONLY those accounts who have never won any lottery to help them get involved with the system - if they choose that is.

3) Run speed potions.


Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?

1) The ones that give items we can use in the game, but may not be expected - like shards and some others like that that are not expected.


Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

1) Something that boosts the interest of the holidays within the game.

2) Be nice to celebrate St. Patrick's Day in a fun way with brews that do a variety of things: a) turn players into Lepercons. b) port players, and/or their fellowship, to a selection of options, and/or the nearest stable master, and/or the nearest safe circle of stones. c) call a horse (or a unicorn) to one's side which will take the player to the nearest stable master, and/or a variety of already mentioned other options. d) turn the player's armour (or individual armour items) a variety of shades of green, and/or with green shamrocks (4 leaf clovers). e) turns player's face green. f) enlarges player's eyes and turns them green.


Thank you for asking and for all the work you do to make LoTRO a fun game that is safe from spammers and players who really do not appreciate or respect the game.

[Madduck]

Question 1

If you could add any item to the lotteries, what would you add? List 3 items.

- Unique Cosmetic Items (Not Stuff that people have worked hard to achieve , like the Singed Cloak )
- Unique Cosmetic Mounts ( Tokens for Unique Mounts, like the festival token, but not to get Rep / PVP mounts )
- Unique Housing Items

Question 2

Which lottery did you enjoy the most?
My Symbol of Celebrimbor ( but please, keep these rare lotteries )

Question 3

What Holidays (real or lore based) do you think should have their own lotteries?

Halloween, Spring festival , Chinese New Year, Summer Festival, Yule Festival , Pirate Day , Oktoberfest - basically love the themed festivals that GW ran/run and I'll an OCD collector :P

[kingmcgrain]

Question 1

-Rare cosmetic items
-First age weapons
-Rare emotes, similar to the ones you obtian doing the festival dances (though i have
too many dancing emotes already)

Question 2

- The Highday Lotto (mainly because of the free Dol Guldur tokens)

Question 3

-Thanksgiving (A good chance to give out some Native American/Pilgrim cosmetic outfits)
-Halloween (Some spooky emote items, and some Sauron/orc masks

[brennancm]

Some constructive feedback (I hope). This is about the Winning Entries box. it does not display correctly in every browser I've tried (Firefox 1.x, 2.x, IE7, IE8, Opera, Chrome and Safari). It's reached a point where I have so many 'Winning Entries' that I've reached HTML's limitation for a scroll box. My last viewable winning entry was last month, I know I've won at least once more since then and I can see part of another winning entry below that one. I have no idea who it is as I can't scroll that far. So I propose this:

http://my.lotro.com/<username>:

• Only show winnings for last 3 lotteries. This would reduce this box to a manageable load.
• Provide a link to a seperate page to view all winning entries across all toons attached to account.

http://my.lotro.com/characters/<world>/<Character Name>/lottery

• Continue showing winning entries, available entries and entered entries.
• Put a limit on the winning entry box to kick over and provide a link when the box becomes too full to view all entries.

Or a different idea, offer a tree-style view to break down the winning entries

• +/- Date
  
  • +/- World
    
    • +/- Character
      
      • +/- Winning dates, reverse chronological order

I'm not sure if the above idea's have been discussed as I didn't read all 15 pages of posts but I am fairly sure this idea has been discussed, just list the entries in reverse chronological order for X entries and push the rest out of that box but preserve some kind of history management.

[ENTomologist]

"any and every US and Canadia non-religious holiday. Everything from the Super Bowl, Hot Dog Eating World Championship, St Patty's Day, National School Nurse Day (that's today)... from sillier holidays like that to more traditional holidays like Thanksgiving Day and Canadia Thanksgiving Day."
No no no!
This game is already massively US centric. Keep it the holidays to lore holidays. As it is if you live outside of North America you feel like a dirty little cheat for even being part of the community. BTW St Patrick's day is Irish and is certainly religious not American and secular.

Also i'm puzzled... why not make lotto entry autromatic? That will pick up the players who don't enter/ don't know how to. having it as an opt in model is yet another way to make the game less newb friendly.

[Mizzan]

I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS! I want my symbol of celebrimbor as mylotro had told me I won it and i logged in to Mizzan to recieve it and still nothing....Please FIX IT!

[brennancm]

I DONT CARE ABOUT THIS! I want my symbol of celebrimbor as mylotro had told me I won it and i logged in to Mizzan to recieve it and still nothing....Please FIX IT!

Did you file a in-game ticket?

[the.vission]

I am unable to enter any lotteries on any of my characters. I receive a message that I have no eligible characters when in fact I DO. I submitted a ticket and received this response:

The Lottery system is still in a beta phase, and errors may occur. As a result, we are unable to provide any support at this time. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please visit the Lottery Feedback & Information section of the official forums for more information. - +Tiarnach+

This lottery system has been in beta phase for about a year or so now? Why continue to offer something this long if it still doesn't work properly? Even more irritating is that I cannot get any support. I have entered lotteries several times in the past with no issue, so I'm curious as to why it does not work for me now or is that to be filed under "beta phase"

Thank you.

[Sapience]

The Lottery FAQ and Known Issues are stickied at the top of the page.

In almost every case when you see no lottery you are eligible to enter it is one of three reasons (all listed in the aforementioned FAQ).

• There are no lotteries running at that moment, but there may be some starting shortly.
• Any lotteries currently running have requirements your characters do not meet (Level, race, class, etc).
• You fall under one of the Known issues.