Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-25333020-20170703025026

We all know and love our furry friends, but something is just not right... throughout all middle earth we only seem to be able to find some wolf-like dogs. And to go on that, nobody but a player seems to own any. Why is the player the only one who can have pets? What about those people who used dogs as hunting hounds? There are so many npcs and people who want these furry animals in their lives. And if there were hunting hounds, why stop there? We could even have war dogs! My suggestion is as follows:


 * Different variations of dogs are available to be found around middle earth. This would include Rhunic dogs, dunlending dogs, hobbit dogs, Bree dogs, ranger dogs, roherim dogs, and umbarian dogs. If you notice, I seem to be leaving out dwarves, elves, and orcs from the list of people who own dogs. There are a few simple explanations for this. For the dwarves, they live underground, and due to this, a dog would probably not want to live there. For orcs, the dogs would probably have all been eaten, as harsh as it may sound. And for the elves, it's a small matter of the fact that elves live forever, and the feeling of having to loose dog after dog to a silly thing as aging would make the elves less willing to adopt.

Rhunic dogs would look like Asian dogs for obvious reasons, dunlendings, roherim, and Bree dogs would all be the same. They would be muts due to the fact that most of the dogs would be "gutter dogs". Hobbits would probably have some smaller dogs such as beagles or chawawas, as much as those yips would hurt the poor players ears. Chawawas would probably also discourage evil factions from entering the shire XD. Rangers would have retrievers or hunting dogs. And last but not least, umbarians would have Great Danes for no real reason other than those two together just makes sense.

Once a dog has been tamed they should be able to be equipped armour, which would bring some dog armour she into play. You could probably get ranger, leather, dwarven, Rhunic, and iron dog armour, dwarves only due to people hiring them. Most factions with non faction specific dog armour would have leather or no armour.

Some sort of fetch game would be a lot of fun to implement, as well as some bird hunting game.

Dogs should be able to be gotten from any player no matter the faction, and they should have the friendly fire feature added with them.

The umbarian dog off would not appear yet due to the lack of umbarians, but I was just thinking ahead. If there is anything else you guys think could be added to this suggestion, please comment. Thanks, Copn. 