On Sun, 12 Sep 1999, Mikaela wrote:

> And the first come first serve rule doesn't stop lower levels from getting
> items or exp at all, as you also seem to suggest. The point being, you want
> a rare item, then get in line to get it. How does that rule keep lower
> levels from getting items? If they get there first, then it's their camp
> spot. Has nothing to do with your level at all.

Hi, Mikaela:

From my personal experience, your theory of first come, first serve is
wonderful, but as it stands right now it's not feasible in
implementation.

Case in point:

Last Saturday, some friends were doing a dungeon crawl in Crushbone -
the simple goal, to kill everyone once from the lowest pawn to DVinn.
So the group got all the way to the Tower, and killed Crush, killed The
Prophet, killed the Guard, and ... got interrupted by some druid between
24 and 28th level (he was blue to me, but I was just tagging along, not
actually killing). And the duid said "I own the Tower. Get out." And
then proceeded to take every spawn in the Tower. *shrug*

Now, granted, this is obviously personal anecdote ... and I HATE arguing
using personal anecdote because for every personal experience one has,
someone else has a counter one. =) But, the point is, the theory of
first come first serve is excellent right up to the point where someone
decides that they are above manners or have been wronged by others and
thus have earned the right to be rude. The druid in the above example
actually said something inane about "survival of the fittest, har har."
*shrug*

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"I would not mind you in my head," Lews Therin said, sounding almost
sane, "if you were not so clearly mad."