After Mines of Moria, I noticed that peo­ple in my Fel­low­ship were not always show­ing up on my map and radar. I assumed this was a bug and appar­ently I wasn’t the only one.

Thanks to Scott and Politician’s com­ments, I found out that the issue was actu­ally a change in fil­ters. Tur­bine has added a new Fel­low­ship Leader fil­ter to the world map and radar. To change your Radar fil­ters, sim­ply right click the Radar and then go to the Fil­ters selec­tion. A big list of fil­ters will pop up and you can check or un-check any­thing you like. I noticed the Item Mas­ter is dis­abled by default as well.

The process for the world map is sim­i­lar. There’s a fil­ters drop down menu at the top left when you’re in the map. Just check and un-check what­ever you need.

In my case, the odd thing seemed to be that this would some­times be enabled and some­times be dis­abled. Scott also men­tions that not all of the new fil­ters seem to show up on every map.

I’m not sure what’s going on there, but in the mean­time I can at least adjust it eas­ily. I can’t imag­ine a sit­u­a­tion where you wouldn’t want to see the Fel­low­ship Leader, so it’s an odd over­sight. Hope­fully Tur­bine will make dis­play­ing this the default once Patch 1 hits the live servers.

I thought this was impor­tant to post just in case you haven’t come across this fix or you don’t read the com­ments here. It was really dri­ving me nuts. I guess the sim­plest expla­na­tion is the last one you think of sometimes.

P.S., Sorry for the lack of activ­ity here the last few days. My hard drive died out and I had to scram­ble to replace it, install my pro­grams (and LotRO) and restore my files. Long few days, but it’ll pick up again. Thanks!