In an effort to simplify and make more clear. I suggest the following changes:

1. FreeRange%, MinasTirith%, and PieRunner be set as sub-categories of a "Chicken%" or "Passive%" parent category. They are all the same type of run around avoiding mobs type runs and I think we can merge them and make room for more types without cluttering the top level categories. (Some of the seasonal things can go in here as well)
2. EredLuin%, Bree%, and Shire% be set as sub-categories of a "Starter%" parent category. Similar to #1, I think we can de-clutter the top parent categories a bit. Additionally, a "Swanfleet%" category can be added since we have the new starter zone and it is available for FTP and VIP.

Once this decluttering has happened, we can look at discussing/adding some small fellowship, fellowship, and raid categories. Maybe even adding class subfilters to Levels 1 - 10 and Intro% as well.

Let me know if anyone disagrees or has comments to add on to this. My hope is with more people running stuff and the 64 bit servers revitalizing things a bit we might get a bit more interest and they old layouts were not really updated over time as things have evolved.

There has been a bit of confusion around the following rule:

"You can pause the timer if the game is loading or if you disconnect (character won't move)"

Generally from what I've seen over the past few months is most players interpret this as being able to pause "anytime character control is lost", but more recently some players have brought up some issues with pausing during cinematics. From my perspective I think this comes down to some imprecise English being used for this phrase. As such I'd like to propose a few different options and see what you guys think before making a change. (Feel free to suggest alternatives, but to me these seem like the easiest/fairest options as far as work on the site goes).

1. Update the rule language across the game to be "You can pause the timer if the game is loading, if you disconnect from the server (lag or crash to desktop), or if the game removes character control (minimap shows the eye of sauron)."

2. Update the rule language across the game to be "You can pause the timer if the game is loading or if you disconnect from the server (lag or crash to desktop)."

3. Update only the Intro% category to have a more specific rule of "You can pause the timer if the game is loading, if you disconnect from the server (lag or crash to desktop), or if the game removes character control (minimap shows the eye of sauron)." [Intro% tends to be the category most affected]

I'll check back in a week or two and see if we have any feedback before making any adjustments. If there are complaints on the wording for other rules that we could improve clarity on, please make a separate forum post.

Can we get the River Hobbits race added to the race options for Intro%? They were added last year in the expansion.