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

[IowaHawk]

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

1. Travel/Swift Travel-There should be decided upon for a "capital" of sorts for each region (ie, Michel Delving for the Shire, Rivendell for Trollshaws, 21st Hall for Moria) and swift travel should be made available (rep based) to every capital from every capital. (Yes, implying swift travel MD-->Emyn Lum)

2. LFF tools-if there was some way to globally "register" that you would be willing to group for particular quests/instances, then someone could go to "Instance X and see "Players A, B, and C" need this, too, maybe we can make a group?"

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

A sparring/emote inhibitor for densely populated locales.

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

Easy, crafting and gathering mats. I simply love making items and gear for friends and kinmates. However, if I want to cook up like 200 racks of lamb for kin use, it is a big time sink and I avoid it.

Is there any way we can set our toons to craft like a bazillion of Item X, log on another toon, and then go back when the crafting is done? lol.

[qannadi]

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


1. I'd love to see something that increased the level of strategy/tactics in grouping- more flanking damage/attacks, or CJs that get bonus if members are flanking.. Stealing from the Rift skirmish, mobs that are affected more by specific CJs.. This sort of straddles the line between new and old system, but I think CJs are a great part of grouping, and would love to see even more complexity for groups that can handle it!

2. Kin and Kin Alliance systems. /joinchannel just leaves so much to be desired. It's great to use a site like Guildportal to coordinate between groups, but having something in-game would be extremely helpful. I know this would be a headache, but seeing who's online in the kin and/or alliance, and checking quests the same way we do in a fellowship would be extremely helpful. Hey so and so, I see you're also on 2.4.7, wanna start a group? It's such a headache now that we're all on our 3rd or 4th alt to run through the Moria cluster and the Mirkwood cluster, etc etc to get geared. None of which we USED to have to do.


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

More reward for helping people? A sidekick/mentor system? I'd be against a system that let people move up in levels, but something that would let us scale down would be great. We would need some sort of tangible reward for doing it, I think.. I also think that with the community we have, a lot of people would do it anyway. Relive the old content, help out folks with their alts, etc etc..


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


1. Festivals, to an extent. Hard to find time to balance doing all the stuff I have to do on alts with building up leaves, etc. Happy to do it on my hunter, for instance, but harder on my others. Someone mentioned temporary swift travels, and that would be brilliant.

2. Old fellowship/raid content. It saddens me to an extent that I'll never get to tank the Rift on my warden, because who is doing that now unless it's on a lark? Or the new GA, or Fornost, or even Great Barrows? The world has gotten smaller and smaller as we've expanded, which is a sad thing. If we're the heroes of Eriador, give us a reason to continuing saving it, instead of being trapped in the pit.

[jims]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Pets - Pets do not behave properly. Skirmish pets do not attack when they should, and they constantly get lost traveling from point A to B. This also applies to LM and Captain pets. Pets need to be more well behaved. There is no excuse for this after 3 years. Example: Trouble in Tuckborough. When you travel to the West Farm your skirmish pet will not follow you.
2. Slayer Deeds - Personally I feel that there should be some type of system in place to lower the number of items that you have to kill based on how many of your other character have done the deed. If you are working on your 5th character you should not have to kill 450 worms in Angmar for the deed. Give a guy a break.

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


Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Exploration. There are too many deeds that need to be done, do skirmishes, or instances, to have time to go back to some area that you may have missed and just explore.
2.

[Rawlor]

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

1. LFF - One quest at a time and no instances makes this virtually useless. Have "stickied" quests up. Always looking for SG groups? Leave it up. Wanting to do 2.5.5? Leave it up at all times. Let someone start a group and have it send out a notification that they started up that group (if they wish).
2. Skirmishes - We need different *types* of skirmishes that have more variance. Current skirmishes are fun, but they get old really, really fast.

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

Well, I guess it's only building on something that's already there, but I'd love session play to become a bigger deal. Maybe have an interface, and allow you to play through session plays that you've already unlocked. Do more session play!

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

1. Raids. Well... this is more of a personal preference at this time. The preference being not to spend lots of time getting rad gear for all my toons. And to not wait around for two hours while a pug might get filled out. I miss the days where 12 people could just jump into something. And don't say skirmishes, the Tier 1 on those is still quite silly for no real reward.
2. Can't think of a number 2 at this time.

[Maniacc0]

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

1. Definitely the Housing, as many people have mentioned already. One of the main reasons I play this game is because it allows me to become part of Middle Earth, the world that was envisioned by Tolkien and the same one I imagined being part of when I was younger. The Housing system definitely was a fantastic idea and added significantly to this experience, but it has so much more potential than what is being given to us. Like everyone else is saying, the hook issue is one that should be at the foremost of your to-dos. The ability to make our houses look like homes would surely be much appreciated by all.
2. I would also like to see the Hobbies worked on a little more. This is also a part of the game that makes it seem less like a game and more like an experience. The fishing is a great idea, but let's see what else we can do with it! Where are the rare recipes that require a fish that's difficult to catch? Where are the delicious meals that can be cooked up by cooks to provide nice buffs before a battle? And, I'm sure there's got to be more hobbies in Middle Earth than just fishing, lol!

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

This is a harder question, but I'd have to say if I wanted a completely new mechanic in the game, I'd want it to be a social one. Something that makes it fun to get together with a bunch of people who enjoy being part of this game as much as you do. Freeze-Tag is definitely a step in the right direction...


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

1. I definitely want to see more incentive to farm Pipe Weed. I don't care what it is, but it has to be there. Buffs, Debuffs, hallucinations...I don't know what needs to be done, but it has to get done lol. It was a pretty big part of Tolkien's Lore, and thus should have a bigger part in this game. Maybe there could be competitions held, where the best Pipe Weed entered gets rewards. Or maybe some kind of Pipe Weed Faire, where farmers could go to sample their crop and visitors could purchase it, maybe for the buffs it gives them or maybe because they need some for the party they're attending in their neighbourhood.
2. I also think there should be more incentive to go to Inns. They are all so richly detailed, and have an atmosphere just waiting to be developed upon. Inn parties, perhaps. Or what about Inn League Member parties? Every week all characters who are members of the Inn League get a letter in the mail, formally requesting their presence at a different Inn or Tavern each week. Of course, since there are probably hundreds of characters who are members, it could be randomly sent to a certain number of members each day of the week. This could potentially provide a lively atmosphere in any given Inn on any given night. Member or not, if you happen to be at The Bird & Baby on Wednesday night, when 20 out of 40 members of the Inn League who were invited for that night are there, you're going to be at a party!

All in all, anything that immerses me into the game world more than it already does is just fine in my books!

[dontxhide]

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

1. Housing! A reason for kinships and players to spend more times in their neighborhoods. I always thought it would be neat to raise your own pet in your house, like a dog, cat, bunnie, or whatever.

2. Cooking/Farming. Speed up farming times, just a tiny bit. And make cooking viable. It semes a lot of my kinnies who do tailoring, or jewelry, or potion making can play the market and make a decent profit. I have yet to do that as it seems sometimes people just don't care about food. ~shrugs~

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

GM ran events, or events that affect all the world. I remember my first week playing Everquest (one, not two) and either a GM came as a dragon and wiped out everyone till he escaped or died, or someone intrepid enough unleashed the dragon to Norath. I's what made me stay with EQ for a long time. GM ran events happened often, and their prizes were amazing. I thought all mmo's would have this. Guess not?

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

Fishing. I love the way FFXI handled it. You could actually MAKE money doing it in that game as even a low level can catch enough fish to sell to a cook to make money.

Spending time in Inns drinking. Make some incentive for people to come every now and then to these places.

[Galuhad]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Crafting - better craftable weapons/armour. I like the multi-output system, some more of these would be good..
2. Kinship functionality - money bank, customisable ranks + options available to each rank, kin house chests with individual permissions, Officer mail, to name a few.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
- Random events.. When you're levelling alts it get's boring when you know what to do and where to do it. It would also be good to have more 'puzzle' quests, go here kill x loses it's appeal quickly. For example, I like the way that you need to align the mirrors in Mirror Halls to get to the boss, something along these lines but really creative.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Finish Vol 2 on alts, now most people have passed out of Moria to Mirkwood, getting people to do the 6-man quests takes too long.
2. Barad Guldur - takes a long time to prepare (getting enough people with 120 radiance contributes to this), the raid usually results in numerous wipes, mobs respawning, and for what? inferior armour.. Doesn't seem worth it other than to say, 'hey, I did it'.

[L33tElfPwnsJoo]

1. a) I've been playing since beta and I have done almost all the content of this game except the really involved instances and some of the EPIC STORYLINE! The reason is that signing on to play with a group for 3+ hours at a stretch to finish Carn Dum is just not feasible for my lifestyle. It bothers me that much of the STORYLINE of this game is lost on me when that's what I like most. You have made some things scaleable but you need to do it to the entire Epic Storyline at least. At this rate, I'll NEVER get into Helegrod. Even my 65 SuperGuardian gets wasted when I try to solo it.
b) Random drops at high levels are now worthless, unless it comes out of an instance all items dropped are pure vendor trash. I'd like to see the occasional (very rarely) drop that can match some of the better crafted items. Armor would be obvious place for this...and occasional crafting items like dye-making components.

2. Horses need to be VASTLY expanded in a number of ways.
a) First there should be Mounted combat. We all know Rohan is just south of us and we all want to visit there. At some point you are going to HAVE TO make horses more than just transportation....as someone mentioned earlier, if I'm forced to be Infantry in Rohan, it just might be enough to make me give this game up.
b) Variation in horse speed and damage-before-dismount...this ties into mounted combat but there is a BIG difference between a trained warhorse and a draft-horse or a quarter-horse in both speed, attitude (toward combat) and hardiness.
c) Variations in equipment or cosmetic items for mounts...more than just Racial/Reputation horse appearance.

3. There is little to no reason for anyone to ever enter some of the more well-designed areas of this game...namely the Inns and Pubs of the Shire and Bree. I'd like to have a reason to visit these places for something other than a trip to re-do my traits.

[TsarithArcher]

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

1. Hobbies - We need more Hobbies to bide our time.

2. Barter Rewards - We have Tokens from this Faction and different Tokens from another Faction, and Marks for one level set, and Medallions for another, and Coins for a different level set. Why not make a Universal Barter System, where the higher level a Reward the more it Barter Tokens it costs? That way, Old Content like Helegrod, Annuminas, CD/URU/BG, Rift and soon to be Moria + Mirkwood won't be forgotten about and abandoned when the next Expansion comes out. If people want Level Relevant Rewards and won't bother going to Old Content because there aren't Level Relevant Rewards, then give them a way they can play the Old Content *AND* get Level Relevant Rewards!

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

1. It would be a toss-up between making all Raids Scalable so that today's End-Game doesn't become obsolete tomorrow...or an Inheritance System that allows old Bound equipment to be passed on to a Child or Adopted Child on another Account, or an Alt on the same Account.

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

1. As the festivals keep growing, and my stable of Alts keeps growing, it seems I never have enough time to do everything at the festivals for all of my characters. This is not a bad thing as it keeps me longing for that Festival to return the very next year.

2. I would like to spend more time in Middle-Earth exploring new lands, new places, and uncovering yet more Easter Eggs. Alas, I explore far faster than Turbine can provide new Regions to explore!

[Sulpher]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.Some of the best reward items are always bound. How about losing that part of the reward system. If folks want to buy the item instead of grinding for it, then they should be able to have that choice.
2.There are 4 bounty quests in Evendim and they are fun challanging and a bit unique to lotro. Isn't it right to think that other towns might have similar posters for vermin, mobs, and really nasty bad guys. You could even add a new faction, or give faction points to the guild the bounty was placed from in the first place. If you could randomize the bounties it would even be better as you wouldn't be doing the same old thing all the time as a lower level. I really liked the bounty quests and would like to see more of them.


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

Mounted combat, and henchmen for solo quests, or that enhancement for fellowship quests that people want to solo, like you gave in the epics.


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

2.Make the crafting more interesting. I like crafting but the silly crafting quests are a pain. Maybe being able to enhance objects like adding armour or damage or stats. finding stuff for doing that would be better use of the silly crafting quests.

[L33tElfPwnsJoo]

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


That's an AWESOME idea and a killer hobby possibility!!
It would tie well into the Mathom House and could even have reputation effects with the hobbits. I'd love this much more than fishing!

[Patrickwg]

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

1. Kinship: Add a kin bank for money, In-game kinship calendar, Ability to make kinship alliances, More options available for assigning permissions to kinship members, Customizable kinship ranks for officers, Add a kinship vault for items,

2. Instances: Have all current and upcoming instances be scalable by level

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

1. Add Raid Maneuvers (7 man - 12 man conjunction maneuvers)



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

1. Fishing

2. Chicken session play

[bigsaltypopcorn]

Question 1
1. This is kind of a convenience thing, but i think it be cool if you could save certain trait styles... For example, on my LM, I like to go mainly red when soloing, however when grouping, i trait for more support and not damage. I find it annoying having to go back and slot/unslot/click/drag all of my traits. So if there were way we could make our own presets like: Preset 1 - could call it "Damage".... Preset 2 - Support etc etc (name it what you wish)... That way, I can just hit the presets when going to a bard instead of taking the time to click and drag my traits one at a time. Make sense? Convenient?

Question 2
Fighting on horses (or at least ranged attacks) would be wild...

[OWLWIFE]

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

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

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

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A. Since you took away my first choice(pvmp), let's say combat? Is that a system? More speciliazing abilities? the ability to set up particular combat styles with player selected traits. ie Deorwyn selects champion moors play. All i have to do is select the box Moors Play. I've already selected which traits I prefer for that style of play and set up a preference (I know there's a word for this, it's just not coming to me now)
B. I don't know if this would be considered pvmp, but I mean it as a kinship modification. A Freeps Pvmp only kin which is secondary to our main kin? Inn League Kins? Crafting Kins? Hobby Kins? (btw booze making and smoke making ought to be hobbies!!!!)

2.This is so easy. MOUNTED COMBAT!!!!!!!!

3.
a. Again, easy. I love exploring! More exploration deeds and traits or other rewards for exploring.
b.I love cooking. How about beermaking as a hobby???

[Doronlas]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Housing. Please remove hooks and let us put items where we want. Also, 1 house per character, not account. My hobbits want a hobbit hole, my dwarf wants a cave and my elves want what they have now. . Some new items would also be appreciated.
2. Virtues - please raise the cap and also add in some new ones.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
edited to: cosmetic weapons/shields

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

[shoreless]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Dynamic content! There have been instances of this smattered across the game: the injured Ranger in Rhunenlad who tells you "stay away" until you're too close and then you are ambushed by three Earth-kin bandits. I would also include in this the "battlegrounds" we've seen in Forochel. I feel expanding these into existing areas and upcoming areas would add a new dynamic and a slight sense of realism to the game where players are slightly effecting the landscape. Dynamic exploration stuff would be cool too.

2. Housing! There is so much that could be done to improve and make communities more interactive. More social and practical aspects please (crafting?).

3. Cosmetic weapons. (please don't ban me for adding #3!)

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
It might not be entirely new but we need new hobbies like gardening, painting, smoking, exploring, anything non-combat related and preferably productive.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)[/QUOTE]
1. Endgame raids/instances and subsequent gear acquisition
2. Building reputation with various factions

[cynik6]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1.To add my voice, HOUSING!!! Hooks is the biggest problem. I agree with all the other forum members opinions on this.
2.

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
I think a system to alow us to keep hard earned armour on display in our houses would be awesome. I'm using space in my bbank to hold my rift gear that I worked so hard earn. Maybe an equipable manequin that can be purchased and placed in your house. Or maybe a weapons rack to hold 6 or so weapons.

More hobbies! Fishing isn't enough.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1.Fishing. If I had more of a reason to do it other than catching a few useable fish, I'd spend more time doing it.
2.Music. If we had awards to work towards, maybe songs to earn and play to give us an achievement, I'd spend more time doing it.

[jhwort]

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

*this is taken from someone else but I feel needed to be reiterated

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

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

I would add that quest rewards should be useful again instead of so generic and uninspired. What ever happened to the really epic rewards for doing books?

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

If I have to give one, I would say that making old instances scale to level would be a good way to make older content relevant again. Otherwise, no new mechanics - fix and improve on what you already have instead of leaving things unfinished or broken altogether.

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

1. I would like more unique 3, 6, and 12-man instances to spend time in, with rewards that are worth the time spent in them.
2. I would like more unique 3, 6, and 12-man instances to spend time in, with rewards that are worth the time spent in them.

[StreetDoc67]

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

1. HOUSING!!!! In addition to everything already mentioned above I would add that Housing Upkeep should be eliminated. Did I buy the house or didn't I? If I did, why am I paying rent each month. The problem with the ever running upkeep tab is that folks who can't play all the time due to such bothersome things as work, school, family, etc. find themselves unable to maintain their upkeep and return to find the cost to pull the house they supposedly already purchased out of hock too cost prohibative. Either do away with the upkeep entirely or significantly knock it down to a reasonable property tax. If you want to raise the initial cost of buying a house that's fine but it's simply not working the way it is now, neighborhoods are locked up ghost towns.

2. Hobbies. Fishing is a bore and the much promised addition of more hobbies has never materialized. Either fix it or get rid of it.

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

Customability. Whether that is with cosmetic additions to your character's appearance or their skills & trait sets, the current mechanic is too cookie-cutterish.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Festivals. Why not have each seasonal fest last the entire season? That way people would have more of a chance to enjoy them and you guys would have more time to fix each of the fests inevitable bugs.

2. Skirmishes. When I do get a chance to play I find myself too caught up in the Leveling/Quest Arc hamster wheels to waste time in the skirmishes.

[floundericiousWA]

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


1. Housing - right now, aside from the discounted repairs and as a cheap way to get a little extra storage, there's little reason to worry about getting a house... if you could add crafting facilities to housing, that would be cool.

2. Crafting "mentoring" - If you fellow up with other players and all do some crafting, there should be a buff that adds extra craftXP and/or increases chances of critical successes... you could make that buff only available when you have someone who has gained mastery in a higher level (say, you've got three people in a fellowship with foresting: two at journeyman expert and one master artisan - the two lower level foresters would get a buff for extra crafting xp whenever they're doing the crafting within 10ft of the master)

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

PvMP skirmishes is a great suggestion!

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



1. hobby
2. raids

[Einarr]

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

1. Housing: *edit* visit Fionnuala's recent my.lotro post about housing reform. She spells it out and makes a good case: http://my.lotro.com/fionnuala/2010/0...#comment-380**

The hook system is so frustrating. I've got a gajillion small furn trophies...but no where to put them. Same for lg furn trophies. But thin furniture? I've got EMPTY hooks in my house for those, mainly because I don't want to put a candalabra or flower vase in every corner. There are many trophies that I feel are miscatagorized. A lot of sm furn pieces look SO small and thin that they would fit in the thin furn hook.

I'd also like to see crafting put into the housing instances. As a home-owner, we get discounts in the neighborhood, and as a lot of those items purchased are used for crafting, it makes sense to have the discount vendor near the crafting utilities.

Housing storage needs to accept bound items, just as the shared bank does.

Let us purchase more housing storage chests, or let us purchase an upgrade to our current ones to have more slots.

2. Inventory items:

There are way too many things we have to keep in our packs. You did a great job by taking the horses out of there and making them a skill...but we added on Skirmish marks and all their little friends. My bags are stuffed to the brim! At the least, let us purchase more bags, or purchase an upgrade to our bags to increase their slots.


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

1. Questing in the Shire:

I LOVE questing in the Shire...but the content is all such a low level that you don't get to stay there for long. You level up so quickly as a low level, that in no time at all your heading off to Bree for higher level content. I'd like hobbits to be able to level up further in the Shire alone, it's such a wonderful place.

[avarin]

Question 1
Excluding, PvMP, Legendary Items and Radiance gear, what systems do you feel could be expanded or revised? Please list two and give a brief description of how you would revise/expand them.
1. Itemization. Better rewards in instances and raids (particularly BG). Improved, logical stats on purple items so they're not just vendor trash. Pretty much what Southpa said here:

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

2. Kinships. I'd like some more in-game tools to manage my kin, like an event calendar, customizable ranks (and more of them).

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
Mounted combat, I guess, though honestly I'd rather see the current mechanics improved first.

Question 3
Name two activities in game that you never seem to have enough time to enjoy or would like to spend more time participating in. (Note: Things currently in game, not new activities or events.)
1. Raids, especially if they're going to have much better rewards than BG;
2. Instances, especially if there are more like SG, which is fun, can be challenging and gives decent rewards.

[bucklemaker]

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

1. The LFF tool is terrible. The tool should help people find other people who want to do the same thing so they can work together. The tool should let you specify quests or instances, which classes are required, and so on. A tank should be able to /lff and specify that he is looking for a healer and 4 others to do 2.6.8, not post a general LFF. The system should automatically match him up with other people who have the same goals.
2. The auction house is inferior. It is modeled after WoW's AH. EQ2's broker is superior because it encourages people to trade useful items, fostering a vibrant economy and social interaction, rather than punishing people for offering items for sale by charging them whether an item sells or not and forcing them to continually re-list items.


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


So many choices. But to choose one... hm...

I guess I'd suggest relay quests, just because they're something different. Currently the game has two types of quests, solo and fellowship. The problem with fellowship quests is that they require a lot uninterrupted real-time interaction. People with children, for example, may have time to play each day, but not uninterrupted time. The problem with solo quests is that you miss out on half of the fun of an MMO if you play it alone. (Some people don't like fellowship quests at all, and this wouldn't be for them.)

A relay quest would involve multiple players who would each perform a step of a quest, not in real time. Each step would be performed independently and passed on to someone else to complete. If the whole quest line were completed, all players would receive a quest reward.

This would foster teamwork and social interaction between people who cannot remain glued to their computer screens for two hours at a time.

The levels of the participants might not be equal. Perhaps a level 15 burglar could get information from his class trainer that a meeting is being held in Esteldin. Even if he could get there, he wouldn't have the rep needed to get into the meeting, so he'd pass the quest to a level 31 hunter. The hunter might find out that a ranger is being held prisoner in the Dungeons of Dol Guldur, so he'd pass that information to a level 65 warden. If the warden completed the quest, all three of them would receive level-appropriate rewards. The warden could do all 3 parts alone, but it would be a waste of his time to go running all over the world for this quest.

All parts of the quest might not be able to be completed by all classes. A quest might need to be started by a burglar and finished by a healer, for example.

This would let people enjoy the interaction with other people that a fellowship quest gives without feeling guilty when they have to go AFK for ten minutes because hey, is that smoke coming from the kitchen, and just how long ago did I put those cookies in the oven, anyway?


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


This isn't a big deal to me. I don't have a shortage of things to do. I have a shortage of new and interesting things to do.

[floundericiousWA]

1.
b.I love cooking. How about beermaking as a hobby???

I love this suggestion so much I want to cheat on my spouse with it...

[NuclearTonic]

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

Been asking for this stuff for YEARS! Yay, I hope a few of them occur!
1. Kinship Revamp... we have not gotten Kinship love in a very long time. Since Kins are the Cornerstone of the community, I think it's time for new love.
2. Travel. Would love to see improvements to the Travel system. A map that I can select which destinations I can travel to. Swift travel changes from instant to "speedy". You are given the fastest horse, not instant travel!

Question 2
If you could add an entirely new gameplay mechanic to LOTRO what would it be?
1. I would add flying mounts... but I am not a real LORE person... but if I had to stay within the lore... Mounted Combat / Armoured Mounts!

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

1. I wish housing had real benefits to give them a real meaning. I want to enjoy it, I want to spend time there, but right now, to me, it's pointless even to visit my house.
2. I Enjoy crafting, but a lot of my characters are capped. There is no real reason (other than money, and I have 75G so don't need that) to craft. I wish there was a way to integrate that into the game more.