Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-32765490-20190321181807/@comment-32765490-20190522193353

Sorry for raising this post from it's grave, didn't see this because I had a busy last month :/

The problem for me is not so much boredom as lack of interest in the updates. I personally don't give two hobbit bones if another faction I've never heard of is added. Rhun was one thing, because that's a pretty major faction, but adding new factions based on little known lore or obscure references does not peak my interest.

For a while, I've stopped playing the mod, since a lot of the new stuff just isn't interesting to me. If Mevans were to announce Major Structures, however, I would jump back the instant the mod gets updated. Nothing would renew my interest like Helm's Deep being added to the mod.

I can play survival all I want, but looting and fighting loses its fun after a while. What you're suggesting with the Four Realms certainly sounds interesting, but it's not really anything new. I've mined nether quartz; that's easy. Getting diamonds can be done in a matter of hours. Getting the Dragon Egg or the Nether Star would certainly be cool, but if I want to do that I can head to 1.14 vanilla Minecraft. Mithril just requires mining a bunch, then travelling thousands of blocks to get to the dwarves.

Again, it's not so much a problem of me playing the mod so much that I am getting bored, it's just losing interest in the mod and finding other avenues of games more interesting.

Like, decimal points in the alignment system is not the kind of thing that I burst with excitement to see added to the mod. New factions are, as I said, sometimes quite interesting, but it takes me maybe an hour in creative to spawn all the mobs and structures, and see all the faction has to offer. On the contrary, when Mevans added such things as Mount Doom, the Lonely Mountain, and the wall around Orthanc, I immediately launched into a new world to travel to the waypoint and see the massive structure. I even spent the time building my own version of the gate into Mount Doom, since it seemed somewhat empty without it.

There are also the roleplay opportunities. Being able to recreate the battle of Helm's Deep with a scaled castle, in its proper spot, would not only be amazing, but would likely grant me hours of entertainment. Simulated battles are something I really like.

You could argue that I could go build my own Helm's Deep, but I've tried multiple times, and usually give up halfway through.

Anyway, that's my reasoning.