(The Halfling Problem)

[Free The Hobbits 859]

Many, many, many of you seem to have the same problem as everyone else with Halflings. We're never on and when we are we're hidden somewhere. Why are we so unknown though? Surely we must have brought in SOME attention with our spammy updates and join the Halfling topics.

The problem lies within both myself and the other elders.

Mat011011 also known as the Shroom Druid is an elder. What does he do you ask? He's no Bili he does not post much on the forums nor does he do festivals or events. He's simply there to build burrows and buildings and that's it.

TMdeath also known as Aris is another Elder. Much more active you'll find him attending most festivals and doing some sort of work/forum post. He too is not very active during the week and is on for a few select hours. He is not a problem and he makes an attempt to be active and help the community.

Myself also known as Bolo am the one who constantly spams/creates events and forum topics in the Halfling rp section. Although most of these contribute they're nothing but that. Although I create events to keep those that stick around active I am not on Bolo as much as I'd like to be due to irl stuff.

The bottom line is we need to become more active and we need an actual reason to bring people in. Let's face it I can't hold a festival every week by myself and neither can anyone else. In order to get more people we need to provide shady but safe rp and this starts not only with me being more active but all of us being active. I suggest you brush up on lore mostly because some people simply skip over it. I swear Petyr has the most up to date stuff on Halflings and it's pinned right in our rp forums. I do believe we have one more spot as Elder and I will attempt to find out if everyone agrees we need another one or we need to fix the current ones.

Bolo out (Also don't come to lenfarthing to steal guys, just ruins our rp)

[Dukester 120]

I'll be honest throughout my entire Lord of the Craft experience since around mid 2011, I've only ever encountered a Halfling once, and to be totally honest until I saw this thread pop up I forgot they even existed on LotC. Glad your tring to revive them, perhaps i'll even make my own Halfling :3

[_pok_ 1768]

Move closer to spawn, like we did with the Trog. It works wonders. 

[Free The Hobbits 859]

I'll be honest throughout my entire Lord of the Craft experience since around mid 2011, I've only ever encountered a Halfling once, and to be totally honest until I saw this thread pop up I forgot they even existed on LotC. Glad your tring to revive them, perhaps i'll even make my own Halfling :3

They're not gone, we just need a playerbase that consists of people other than this clique we have

[Free The Hobbits 859]

Move closer to spawn, like we did with the Trog. It works wonders. 

You can come with a friend to scare us a bit too. Seems like a win win for both of us, rp for rp.

[Lark 2227]

Halflings are awesome, when I run into them I just want to hug them. I think the main problem is that their awesome place is TOO concealed..either halflings have to move closer or do something that generates rp there. Be it a hidden treasure trove of golden fruits...or fountains of mushroom soup...that'd be cool...

[monkeypoacher 8055]

It's a shame.

 

Halflings aren't played because their area is obscure, it's because they're not combat characters and all anyone wants to RP is combat characters.

[Crayfishchris 751]

This may seem like a rather... erm... silly idea... but maybe you dissolve Lenfarthing and move the halflings to either the human or elven or dwarven or orcish lands? Whenever I visit Lenfarthing, I hardly ever see a halfling, apart from one time where I encountered... two, I believe. This leads me to believe you either have a reallllly tiny playerbase or you're just all going to foreign nations anyway. This is just a suggestion, for I do not play a halfling character and I don't know what kind of effect that would have on them.

[Rig 17581]

Mythras: Wanted in Lenfarthing, fire hazard.

Otherwise, I enjoy halfling rp when I see it. :3

[gam 386]

#GamleIrongut4Elder2013

Let dwarves get burrows, and I guarentee I could get some dwarven population going on.

[Jistuma 1996]

You have the same problem Malinor, the orcs, the dwarves and the humans had.. You're town is too damn big and worse than that, there is no center place for the players to meet at. Your houses are like 20 blocks appart from eachother, and finding any building that isn't hidden in a hill is very hard. I actually had fly and flew around the town, and took me 3 minutes to find out where the halflings were, after they asked me for an event. you guys built too big...

 

I say you return to the style of houses in Aegis, the village in the middle of the lake/ocean/river. And don't forget the easily found town center.

[Mining 129]

It's a shame.

 

Halflings aren't played because their area is obscure, it's because they're not combat characters and all anyone wants to RP is combat characters.

Sadly, I do believe this is true. Halflings simply aren't appealing to players because they just sit around, farm, drink ale and socialise. Sadly, this isn't what most players want. They want to be the daring adventurer or the courageous soldier or the filthy rich business man or the scheming villain. Sadly, few people are interested in playing a character that sits around drinking and talking all day

[Booklight12 481]

This may seem like a rather... erm... silly idea... but maybe you dissolve Lenfarthing and move the halflings to either the human or elven or dwarven or orcish lands? Whenever I visit Lenfarthing, I hardly ever see a halfling, apart from one time where I encountered... two, I believe. This leads me to believe you either have a reallllly tiny playerbase or you're just all going to foreign nations anyway. This is just a suggestion, for I do not play a halfling character and I don't know what kind of effect that would have on them.

^I say this. I think you guys should move to Malinor possibly. Have like a district just for you where you can do your halfling shenanigans. I know more people would want to rp them if they were in a place were there was more rp. That's why you never see anyone in Lenfarthing, it's because noone thinks there's going to be rp there so they simply say hey theres no point in going there. So I would simply move the halfling playerbase to another capitol and have your own seperate district made for you guys. I know I would rp as one if they were all in one single place where you would see a lot more of them. 

[Ventusyr 233]

^I say this. I think you guys should move to Malinor possibly. Have like a district just for you where you can do your halfling shenanigans. I know more people would want to rp them if they were in a place were there was more rp. That's why you never see anyone in Lenfarthing, it's because noone thinks there's going to be rp there so they simply say hey theres no point in going there. So I would simply move the halfling playerbase to another capitol and have your own seperate district made for you guys. I know I would rp as one if they were all in one single place where you would see a lot more of them. 

 

They're already in Malinor... At least, they are easily accessible via Malinor and they are on the Malinor border surrounded by Malinor.

 

I dunno. I personally like their faraway location. They're supposed to be peaceful and isolated. Maybe a bit closer, but they shouldn't be forced into a capital where they would probably all end up being Bilboburglars. Maybe a small path off of the Emperor's Road.

 

I'm actually planning on making a hobbit character, just every time I walk through Lenfarthing nobody is there... D:

[TheRoyalOnion(Aris) 101]

    I think most people who have active or semi active halfling characters try to be on as much as they can. However people still have other hobbies or video games they would rather play or do (Playing Lotc 24/7 would burn a lot of people out pretty quickly). Not to mention real life duties or responsibilities. 

 

    It takes a special kind of person to want to play a halfling. It's already been said but a lot of people would much rather have war rp or own a shop. More small activities might be nice (for example, going out into the world to find and item in a location where lots of people rp) instead of just festivals. Also, spamming the forums telling people to join the halflings might not promote the image we want. Almost all races are having trouble getting a larger player base (though some problems might not be as bad as others) letting people know where the halflings are and what they're about every once in a while along with having fun little events might help but that's really all we can do. It's up to others to decide if they'd like to play a halfling or not.