Item Allocation Specifics

I like this!

Good job GGG!

do items are still unallocated if you try to pick them while your inventory is full?
well, i think it should so that people need to do a minimum of inventory management.

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terrorist wrote:

Awful changes.

How, exactly, do you find these changes awful? You have the option to play with any of these types of modes, though most players are going to go with FFA or Perm, I'm guessing. Do you just prefer the Short Allocation that much that you're upset that parties are going to go in either of the other two directions? Do you like having unallocated 4L, 5L, and 6L FFA that much? Do you hate "Map2Maker" rules?

To GGG: Great job; keep up the good work.

M2M. Yaay.

Going with You, Chris, on the free Loot Tension, but still like the Fact of giving more Options to choose for the Players out there. Great!

This so so damn freaking amazing. Okay, I'll get my credit card ready in a minute.

Hooray true FFA loot is back! No more waiting around to pick things up while playing with friends where we pretty much share everything anyway.

Great change, although it won't affect me a lot since I play solo 90% of the time.

Could we have it back (as option?) to see to which player the loot is allocated? We make a fair use of the actual situation where (mostly) the 'right' char gets the item - and in a party >2 its always a nasty asking around "there dropped xxx for somebody, come all and check..." especially annoying if the one its assigned is out of sight.

I knew these loot changes were coming yet I'm rather saddened by them.

I chose to accept the mantle of exile and to challenge myself in learning the game, its currency and loot system, with the ultimate aim of being equal to the best in deciphering the loot shower. It took a while, it was fun, I learnt not to get annoyed at others -- in fact I love the competition now -- and I came to understand what a great, cutthroat game GGG was crafting.

The endless crying and threats of boycott have obviously had resonance resulting in Permanent Allocation. Bah! At least as a counter there is a more extreme option of true Free for All. Looking forward to trying that out. Please GGG don't change your core philosophies too much it is what makes your game special.

There have been some interesting points about the M2M feature including Chris' comment about others never getting a chance in acquiring maps themselves. I recently started mapping in the Season 2 Monthly Party race and was reliant on good people who freely offered their farmed maps and managed to ding lvl80 yesterday. A problem was never being able to build my own map pool and not having the necessary IIQ/R to do so individually. It might be nice to see some options here. Primarily that blues, rares and uniques could go to the maker. Also that white maps lvl66 or lower than the map that is being run could be randomly distributed or FFA enabling others to collect them. I sense that the majority will prefer a pure M2M for all map drops.