On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, Abraham Hardjana wrote:
>
> After spending the day there with my group consisting of a level 19
> cleric, level 17 cleric, level 21 wiz and 19 ranger, I can honestly say
> that the jig definitely helps with mana regeneration. However the one
> thing we applied yesterday was the wonderful notion of who gets the kill.
> I honestly believe that there is a major flaw with the way loot/exp
> is awarded to groups. While I was camped in the tower it never failed to
> amaze how the looting rights were assigned. Many times the party I was in
> was able to ensure that we got the kill by strictly planning for our wiz
> to nuke only twice. It did not matter what anyone else did, only that the
> wiz nuked twice. That way he was about to do more damage than anyone
> person who attacked it.
That's the way it's designed. I've been giving it a lot of
thought and think it'd be better if it were changed to some
combination of damage done plus damage received. The way it
is now, nearly all the kills are going to spellcaster types,
while all the downtime is going to the melee types. One would
think that experience should be somewhat proportional to the
difficulty of the fight, and not awarded when you wait a bit
for someone else to take all the risk, stand up, fire a couple
spells, loot, then sit down to med again.
I've got some ideas on how to do this without making it too
hard on the spellcasters, but need to run them by some friends
first to check for holes.
> This point was driven home when we had a level 24
> druid camping steal killing from my group (after I asked her to share the
> spawns). She would only cast three spells to steal kill. Now my group in
> total would have been ablet to do 600 damage in total(she did about 300
> damage in total), yet she still got the kill from standing on the window
> sill. Does this seem wrong to anyone?
A lot of people are asking that group damage be counted
together, but I'm not sure that's really a good idea. The way
it is now, sure an individual can kill steal from a group; but
at least anyone has a shot (in theory) at getting the kill.
No one group can exclude others from a site. If it were
changed to group damage, a group *could* exclude others from a
site, at least until an equivalent group started to compete
with them.
--
John H. Kim
kim@...