User blog comment:LOTRMod/Ask Boyd Anything 2: Electric Boydaloo/@comment-26890432-20170111222919/@comment-25101089-20170111233846

That seems like a question for Mevans rather than Boyd, so I'll answer it. Bree, and the Northmen (including Woodmen and Beornings) are planned for the mid-term future. In terms of faction priorities I would say they're before or about equal to the Wainriders, Avari, and Red Dwarves.

However, in all honesty, I have become quite fed up of adding factions. Adding factions is really repetitive and tedious, perhaps more so than you might expect, since when it really comes down to it the code for all factions and faction-related content is very very similar, whereas novel things like mini-quests and the map generator are incredibly more enjoyable to work on. Also, I am of the opinion that 'depth' is much better than 'width' in something like this, for various reasons. S o, after the Easterlings, for my own enjoyment (and the benefit of the mod) I'm going to take some time off factions and instead spend the next couple of updates focusing on interesting fun content and exciting new gameplay mechanics.