I agree with you whole heartedly John. To those who dismiss effects like
the JBoots and SOW, I prize them greatly when I am corpse retrieving for
my party in Mistmoore. Without SOW, I would be left at the standard run
speed which isn't useful when I am try to avoid the nasty trains started
there.
It is unfortunate that at this juncture, no major changes to the
looting system will be made. The best suggestion that I have heard is to
simply flag items with a serial number that incorporates the item number
and user id number. For instance the Shiny Brass Shield is item number
0200 and you are user 00000001 then the serial number for the shield would
be 020000000001. If you ever try to loot another you will not be able to
pick it up and it will be left on the corpse. This is by far the best
solution I have heard, no need for lore items, no need to worry about
farming and the ability to sell such items remains. The only drawback is
what happens when someone tricks you in a trade. BTW if there are
destroyed the item serial number is removed from the database.
Treilanin Loreweaver
Honour Guard, Karana
On Thu, 9 Sep 1999 kim@... wrote:
> From: kim@...
>
<snip>
> When the player-to-player trade (or twink) aspect of an RPG
> starts to interfere with the adventuring aspect, something is
> wrong. After playing this game, I've decided a "shows up only
> a few times a day" system is really stupid when a mob that's a
> challenge to you is a pushover for someone else, and there's
> no system to enforce taking turns. I think a better system
> would be to allow each character to loot each special mob once
> in a lifetime, and put lower level looting limits on the mobs
> (to prevent the use of mules). No more kill stealing for nice
> items, no more harvesting to trade/sell on EBay/twink, no more
> camping the same place for a week (and blocking out others) so
> your entire guild can be outfitted with the rare item, and no
> more having to wait 3 days for a rare mob to show up. The
> "rare" mob could always be there, and rarity of an item could
> be determined by how frequently he drops the booby prize.
>
> Believe me, as you get some of the nice continuous effect
> songs like invisibility or levitation, you will wish you had a
> pair of jboots. My friends have started poking fun at me
> because I've been asking for SoW a lot lately.
>