Most (MOST, not ALL) combat enhancement ideas are turned down because of speed issues. We made the decision early on that we would try to keep combat simple because it is one of the most frequently used portions of code on the game. At any one time, lots of people are in combat. This means that even a seemingly minor addition to the code can cause significant slow downs (lag). That doesn't mean every idea here is a bad one... there are some rare exceptions.

It should always be clear when someone is attacking you. Customizing these kinds of emotes would create ambiguity, increase CPU usage (increase lag), and be difficult to police for profanity and inappropriate content.

In real combat, you take whatever opportunity you can to escape with your life. Being able to choose the exact moment and the direction is not realistic, as it will depend on how your foe is positioned and how the last blow affected you.

The wimpy command is a convenience, not a guarantee. Allowing wimpy to be configured in this way makes a character's actions controlled more by AI than typist interaction. We do not wish to encourage this kind of "botting" approach to playing this game. Wimpy can save your life when you are lagged, but you should not count on it in every instance.

This is an inn room, not an apartment. Since our setting is the same 'day' over and over again, renting a room for more than one day is not particularly realistic!

Drunkenness already adversely affects such things as combat, swimming, and awareness. Since drinking alcoholic beverages is a fairly popular form of healing, making words less intelligible or travel more difficult would seriously hamper playability.

After having been a FSI for many years, in the fall of 2008, based on player survey feedback, the Administration has decided to give the arena idea a try. The entry is left here for the sake of tradition.

Idea reports like this will always be thrown onto the "Idea Pile" and not rewarded. Everyone here already has their hands full with their own projects. All towns and other areas are known to us and are intended to be done, but they all have to wait in line. These kind of reports are just frustrating. As for creating new quests, these take a *really* long time to do, and Ainur prefer making quests that they thought of rather than ones you imagined. So, if you want a quest coded, see "help immorting"!

Don't waste your time with these ones. They are just deleted ;).

This idea has been discussed in the past. If you think of banks in the modern sense of the word, you would be right. But in medieval society, there were not what we today call banks. There were two separate institutions that served the most basic functions of today's banks:

• Moneylenders, who would loan you money and charge you a fee.
• Vaults and strongholds, which would safekeep your money and charge you a fee.

In medieval times, you paid to borrow money, and you paid to have your money kept safe from thieves. There was no concept of reverse-lending (depositing money so the bank can make money off of it and returning a small profit to you for the favor).

So our banks here *charge* you to safekeep your money.

Using a professional skill implies focusing on it. The reason the combat focus is an exception is because it is a defined set of skills that you can prioritize during combat. In short, focusing is already automatic for all other skills. Whenever a skill is checked it is assumed you are using it to the absolute best of your ability.

This could easily lead to sexual harassment.

This is a hard tradeoff between realism and playability. While this would increase roleplaying, it would make the game more annoying to people who do not want to roleplay. Here, roleplay is only encouraged, not required; therefore, this idea would not work.

If we implemented this, we would have to reduce the power of all rings to something negligible because of balance reasons. Also, two rings is a good tradeoff between spam and realism.

This system has several issues that we cannot address given our current resources. We hope to address them down the line, but these are not currently being focused on.

Colour in item or npc or room descriptions is reserved for special cases. If we started adding it to anything that had a colour word in its description, pretty soon we'd end up in an exploding rainbow nightmare. While that might be some people's dream, it is certainly not the case for most.

There are dozens of autoloading items around Arda as it is. Looking at someone has become such a spammy affair, that we have had to take the time to tweak the output when glancing at someone, to even remove autoloading item tags. At this time, we are not looking to add even more autoloading items.

There are few powerful/popular weapons in the game that have the default combat messages, and the coders of those weapons made that choice intentionally. We feel that keeping these weapons as-is is a source of nostalgia for many players, and we are not interested in changing them.

We do not feel that wizards need any more abilities added via spells, and we specifically feel that the current in-game availability of sheaths, baldrics, loops and similar weapon- storage equipment is sufficient for our active playerbase.

We feel that, considering the size of our active playerbase, there are more than enough powerful items in the game, and we will not be considering requests to buff anything already in-game.