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Tell the Developers...; Please take part to make the game better.
Topic Started: Apr 8 2010, 07:29 PM (326 Views)
Macalaure
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From time to time the LOTRO developers ask the players questions on their forums in a thread they read with our answers. They want short, concise answers. Please take part to make LOTRO better. They want you to tell them: What comes to mind; what you think; how you feel; etc, as it relates to the question(s) at hand.

Here are the most recent questions. Think about them and when you have come up with something, post it here and also on the LOTRO Site HERE

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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.
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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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Macalaure
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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.

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The Music System - I would add 2 more instruments - Violin (fiddle) and Concertina. I would give another octave range to all instruments. I would fix the discrepancy in octaves for Theorbo and Flute. I would fix the horn beetle and clarinet hiss. I would fix the stances of the players and add movement so a band could march or ride horses as they played their instruments. I would create some means to more easily play the songs in our music folders, such as with drop down menus or a stand alongside program that runs with the game for musicians. I would give some incentive for players to learn to use the music system such as titles, virtues and marks.

2. Housing - A tavern in every housing instance that the players who own homes there can furnish with kegs and roleplay items. Homes and Kinship Halls with no need for hooks but where items, furniture, pictures, and other things can be placed to make a house a home and not a big assembly hall with a table in the middle. Many other people in this thread have been much more descriptive about housing.

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

Mounted combat!


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

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I usually make time for what I enjoy, thus I spend lots of time on music and on creating abc files to play in game.

2. I don't spend much time at all in my house or in the housing instance but would like to have a reason to spend time there.
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Issel
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Impressive!Especially for the music systems. I want mounted combat, too. I love your idea for housing instance pubs for rp. I'm racking my brain for ideas. :D
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Dinkum Tanglepike
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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. Fishing! Add a few quirky things like the occasional treasure map in a bottle or item someones lost or thrown away, ring, sword item of clothing etc etc, something that can be used or cosmetic (hats), have a skill at higher levels to use a portable row boat for deep water angling or have a leisurly row up the brandywine. Also cooking your catch incorporated into the fishing skill instead of relying on someone with cooking skill to send all your fish to to be cooked.

2. Another hobby would be nice. something for round the home, gardening or domestic animal skill so we can have pets at home eg. a cat, dog, fish, rabbits which would have to be fed and looked after. Another hobby could be games either board games like chess, draughs (checkers) or team games like bowls, football, rounders


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


Mounted combat definatly!!



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.)


Apart from the obvious moving all the yanks to a better timezone so i actually see my friends...hmmmmm let me think....definatly more time in the housing area I never see anyone in my neighborhood and pop into my house just to decorate or pay the rent, need something to draw people to their communitys to mingle and hang out at our friends houses...a pub would be good...

Fishing! more fishing!!
Edited by Dinkum Tanglepike, Apr 13 2010, 01:19 PM.
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kio
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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. Housing. Remove hooks and their restrictions but still maintain a limit on item #s within a house. Allow significantly more creative freedom in house decorating. Remove all "Supplier" crafting component items and create house/guild/yard craft stations for them that cost the same to operate as it did to purchase the components- BUT THESE CRAFT STATIONS ARE NOT FOR MAIN CRAFT RECIPE ITEMS! Gardens for spices, chicken coups for eggs, butcher blocks for meat, small forge plates for wire, etc. This moves crafters to homes/guild halls to make the basic component items, keeps the money sink they represent and still brings them to city's craft stations to make the final products just as they do now.

2. Mounts / movement. Add combat while mounted. Add pack mules. Add the ability to walk with your horse following beside you in wilderness areas. More mount choices including breeding purchased horses at house "stables" to raise new foals. Add levels to riding ability (outside of fighting level) to increase animations and rider options. Add carts, wagons , canoes and rafts. Make them difficult to build and maintain so everyone does not have a dozen in the bank.

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

Historical Skirmishes. Random spawn temporary Elf camps, such as Frodo encounters in the books, where the NPC elves recite famous songs & poems from the books the players can simply listen to, but with NPCs that also allow players to undertake legendary skirmishes from the past, such as the siege of Barad-dur, fighting alongside Gil-galad or defending at the fall of Gondolin. As the players earn "historical skirmish rankings" they can undertake bigger, more legendary skirmishes out of the history if Middle Earth, but always returning at the end to the elf camp as if it were only a dreamy elf song within the real game.


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

1. Reading books found in various places. Would particularly like to be able to take them and read them later at your leisure.
2. Craft guild activities / quests / tasks
Edited by kio, Apr 13 2010, 04:21 PM.
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