Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26172435-20170326214907

Basic Notion & Motive
As I witnessed quite a few cases of players getting easy loot from the barrows in the Barrow-downs, and it has even become a (despicable!) habit on some servers to set up grinders for Barrow-wights, I figured it was rather odd that the method to protect treasure as implemented elsewhere in the mod hasn't been put to practise on these and similar structures. I assume the mod team wishes to make looting barrows and similar structures as challengeing as looting a Tauredain Pyramid.

Proposal
Add world-generated protection banners to protect Barrow-Downs Barrows, Rohan Barrows, Gondor Ruins, Harad Pyramids and Ruined Wood-elven Towers.

Feature mechanics and related proposals
The mechanic would simply be the same as used for the Tauredain Pyramids, with only the size of the protected area being different. For most other structures a golden banner protection block is not required and in some cases a bronze banner protection block may already be sufficient to effectively prevent the looter from by-passing the structures defender(s) while trying to get to the loot.

Note that this may possibly have been suggested before, but I couldn't find any similar suggestion in my endorsed suggestion thread administration, nor with a google search on this wiki and the subject.

Urgency for gameplay balance
As the mod team has indicated improving gameplay balance and prevention of exploits is a priority, I figure it may be important to implement this rather straightforward improvement on relatively short notice. I realize this will not be effective for structures that have already generated, but that shouldn't withhold the mod team from implementing this, preferrably in the next update. 