----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 4:06
AM
Subject: RE: [EverQuest] About loot
order
"We allow people to trade up, when better items
drop." How does this work?
We do the same thing on my server with
what you call "king" looter, but we
call it Commie (common) loot. But
how would you do the trade up? We hold
all items until the end
(except those that are Obvious equipment upgrades
for someone then we roll
right then) and lets say 5 good items dropped
everyone would roll one time
100 to 1000 or 1 to 100 whatever different
every time and everyone picks in
that order. The bulk of the good gems and
PP would go to the cleric
for symbols and maybe some to the enchanter if
he/she was using Rune a
lot. How does the trade up work?
Mu
-----Original
Message-----
From: Tom Moore [mailto:machesta@...]
Sent: Tuesday,
May 01, 2001 6:12 PM
To: EverQuest@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re:
[EverQuest] About loot order
Su,
In most groups that I hunt
with now, we use the king looter system, where
one
person loots
everything and then it is divided out when someone leaves the
group.
If a major item drops, we normally have it go to whomever will
use
it
first. If no one will use it as a primary item, then it is
rolled on by the
group. We allow people to trade up, when better
items drop. Some days we
might
only see one or two major items
drop. Then other days, we have seen
multiples
of items drop and
everyone in the party get something good. It is always
that
luck
element that decides the quality and quantity. Nowadays, I am
more
experienced oriented and fun oriented than loot oriented. Most
of the
places I
camp do not drop items that are useable by my class or
drop items that are
better than the items I might already have. I do
not like loot hogs or
ninja
looters, but I am not really concern about
loot as long as the system is
fair
and everyone understands and agrees
to it ahead of the time. :)
It has been ages since I been in a
group that use alpha loot or loot to X
plat
or whatever. Normally,
I really like the king looter system, since it
allows me
to concentrate
on supporting the party and getting mana back up. ;)
On a side
bar, what does FFA stand for. I know I should know it, but I
am
not
very good with abbreviations.
Tom aka Waylorn Dragonsbane,
Druid of 58 seasons
Su wrote:
> Recently in some of the
groups I've been in, we've had a few problems with
> loot order. Often,
the tanks will insist on FFA. But since I play the main
> healer and am
expected to sit and med (only getting up to heal) I get
> totally
screwed. I never get loot. But then when we try to establish alpha
>
loot some people complain. They don't care about the casters. All
they
care
> about is getting loot for themselves. These people
partake in
> "ninja-looting". They loot everything really fast so nobody
else gets a
> chance. And even when we establish a regular loot order
some people will
> still loot out of turn.
> And then we have
times when people say we roll for certain types of loot.
> When I first
joined a group, this one guy told me it was ffa (and he was a
>
ninja-looter) but that "bronze" and ore were rolled for. I saw that he
>
picked up an FS morning star and wanted to roll for it (bc it's
an
expensive
> item). He said no, it was only for bronze, not FS. So
later he picked up a
> bronze weapon. I said, "ok, let's roll for it".
He said, "no, that's only
> for bronze armor"...
> Has anyone else
had this problem?
> What do you think is the best and fairest loot
order?
> Just wondering.
> luv,
> -Su
> ps. alpha loot
with 3 loots per turn (per person) works pretty well when
> people
cooperate.
>
> Visit the EverQuest homepage at http://www.everquest.com
>
>
>
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