Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20170426191637/@comment-26172435-20170430194123

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: -To address comments added later in this thread. While it makes sense that dwarves should be the only ones to craft mithril gear, that would cause MASSIVE balance issues, and Mevans has said in the past that mithril will not be restricted to any faction or group of faction.

Glad to know I did not propose anything that conflicts with that main starting point.

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: -While a Moria biome being the only place mithril can be found is lore-accurate, it's not a good idea at all. Players trying to build Moria on servers would have no rest from massive groups of players making large, ugly mineshafts all over the place in an attempt to get mithril. This already happens across the Misty Mountains on nearly all servers - as a player who currently builds Moria, I can rarely expand my city sections for even a few chunks without hitting this ridiculous mess of mineshafts that I need to find the outlets of and block off. On many servers, even travelling on the surface is often problematic, as people decide it's a good idea to dig straight down to Level 11 from the surface and hunt for mithril. If mithril was restricted to Moria, it would be hell to actually build the city.

I figured, hence the 'opening' regarding addition of other biomes, but the deliberate lower ore generation rate. I could imagine the arguments you point out to be key for the mod team to decide to not distinguihs between ore generation in Mountains of Moria and any other Mithril containing Mountains ranges though. Let's trust in the mod teams judgement to make a properly argumented decision on that. Sometimes we cannot just propose one thing while we know there may be considerations to prefer an alternative option.

Gen. Grievous1138 wrote: -Other than that, I think these are all generally great ideas. Making mithril armor and gear far rarer could generally benefit most servers.

Thank you. That is exactly what these proposals are meant to achieve.