Looting -- The official thread for discussing the loot system. Updated 18th March, 2013.

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Sickness wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Spoiler

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Vooodu wrote:

Problem is theres no such thing as Ninjas in a FFA style of game. You would basically be punishing people for playing legit.

If putting people who play with the same kind of FFA style with other players who play with a FFA style is punishing them... then yes.

But I don't think it is.

With your rating idea everyone would be forced to play nice to get good rating so that they can get into the groups where no one is ninjaing, because those are sooo much easier and therefor every single player will do it. Right?

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snapple99 wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Spoiler

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snapple99 wrote:

The bottom line for me is that it takes me WAY too long to analyze the drops so I pick up nothing when I am grouped.

You can't be serious. They are color-coded for your convenience; you just click on the orange, yellow, and gold text. It's not rocket science.

It's not rocket science? So you'd leave that white 6L chest piece on the ground in favor of some sparkly unique that probably does nothing useful?

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

]No, it's a matchmaking system. If you don't get a "good" rating, you will be placed with other people whose loot-sniping tendencies are similar to your own.

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Sickness wrote:

If everyone only want to play the easiest way and playing without ninjaing is soooo much easier, then everyone would make sure to get good ratings to make sure that they could get into those kind of groups.
So a rating system would not solve your precieved problem at all.

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snapple99 wrote:

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

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snapple99 wrote:

The bottom line for me is that it takes me WAY too long to analyze the drops so I pick up nothing when I am grouped.

You can't be serious. They are color-coded for your convenience; you just click on the orange, yellow, and gold text. It's not rocket science.

It's not rocket science? So you'd leave that white 6L chest piece on the ground in favor of some sparkly unique that probably does nothing useful? If it was so simple as "scoop up any uniques which are allocated to you" then you'd be correct. Even then, however, I still wouldn't want to participate in what is essentially PvP.

As another poster noted, I don't really like the loot competition mini-game. I get it that the developer's do. So for me it's enough to say "I need to play a different game" and for them it's enough to say, "This is the game we want to create". There is no right or wrong here. There is only "the game they want to create" and "will it put food on the table?" Honestly, I like this dev team. I hope it does. But it won't be my money helping to feed them.

In the end though, my game is crippled not so much by the loot competition minigame as the core mechanic of the game which is barter rather than fighting, farming or crafting.

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iamstryker wrote:

Thanks a lot snapple, for resurrecting this useless troll thread. GG

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iamstryker wrote:

Thanks a lot snapple, for resurrecting this useless troll thread. GG

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EgypZee wrote:

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iamstryker wrote:

Thanks a lot snapple, for resurrecting this useless troll thread. GG

Looting options are a blight on this game.

when I join public SA games and someone says "make it PA loot" they always do. its bullshit.

You guys were all wrong, you said "just let the people who want to avoid loot competition just opt out it won’t hurt you or affect you at all!" but guess what? I end up playing PA 95% if I want to play public games. Your "easy mode" is PoE now and its weak as hell.

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ScrotieMcB wrote:

Karmic retribution is nice and all, but going from telling SA telling PA "suck it up, find your own people" to PA telling SA "suck it up, find your own people" is not an improvement. Loot options are not justice, although perhaps they are revenge.