Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-28142742-20170310105923

Dear all,

while adding the Snowmen of Forochel and all the other Forodwaith additions (that were previously requested) may still take some time, how about a very simple modification that would already help to make the Forodwaith a lot more interesting?

Well, we already have Bears in the game.

If there was an alternative skin colour (white, obviously), we would get a new mob called "polar bear", which may only spawn (rarely) in Forodwaith.

Considering that this vast land is practically devoid of any life at the moment, this would already improve gameplay quite a lot, and it should really not be a big trouble to create.

Extra: bonus points for also tweaking the "white bears’" behaviour a bit: In RL, polar bears are in fact very aggressive animals - the reason being that food is scarce where they live and they just have to take whatever they can get. From a polar-bear point of view, a human is really just another potential source of proteins. So I would think that LotR polar bears should attack any player (and NPC) without warning, maybe similar to crocodiles at night...

BTW: for simplicity, white bears should still only drop the "regular", brown fur when killed. Maybe in the future there could also be white fur and white fur clothing, but I explicitly don't add this to this request, as it would defy the idea of proposing a "quick shot" change.

I know that Forodwaith is still not a priority at the moment but this would be a very tiny change in relation to how much more gameplay features it would add, so I guess it might well worth it.

~A~ 