I agree in one sense Galtin (welcome back by the way ;-) because I hate the
fact that quest items are no drop, it is irritating. Actually, I hate the
whole NO DROP thing altogether and wish there was a better way to handle the
issues it was stuck in against, but that is neither here nor there I
suppose.
My point is this:
Player creates a Warrior, raises him to level 3, Kills as many koalindl fish
as he can before he is killed (by Mr. Paladin), comes back, loots
corpse...runs out into a remote area somewhere (how about a rooftop in
Freeport) drops the items, logs out, logs back in immediately with his main
character who was logged out in the same secret place, picks up the
items...ta da!
Hence the absurd need for NO DROP. Also NO TRADE can be circumvented
without NO DROP in place by just dropping an item at the feet of another
player rather than using the trade window - requires more trust for a big
transaction, but makes NO TRADE useless without NO DROP. Some items are
currently NO DROP but tradable, like some of the keys you pick up...try to
drop one on the ground...no dice...but you can put it in the bank, sell it
to a merchant or give it to another player. I am thinking in specific of
keys I have picked up in Unrest although I am sure there are others as well.
I wandered around with a weight 2 bloody ogre head in my backpack for 3
weeks hoping to catch Zarchoomi and finally gave up and destroyed the head.
I feel the NO DROP policy hurts players who play the game fairly just to
force the people who do not play fairly to play by the "rules". Sigh, I
feel I'm getting closer and closer to a KABONG so I'd better shut up.
-Faras
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 1999 3:27 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: [eqbards] Nerfing quest components (OT) (was
> alt.games.everquest)
>
>
> From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>
>
> I think changing quest items to NO DROP is a step in the
> right direction.
> Case in point is the Exotic Drinks/Glowing Stein quest. When
> the quest was
> finally fixed a couple months back, people were creating 1st
> level mule
> characters to kill the koalindl fish at the Temple of Life in
> Qeynos. This
> allowed them to avoid the major faction hit with their main
> character. The
> mule character then gave the fish to the main character ( I
> admit I did this
> but only because my faction got screwed earlier by trying to
> complete the
> quest legitimately before it got fixed). To complete the
> quest now, the
> same person has to acquire all the quest components.
>
> I think the best way Verant could handle this is to make
> quest components NO
> TRADE and keep magic items NO DROP. That way, you could put quest
> components in the bank until you got them all and eliminates
> using mule
> characters to collect the items. This would also allow
> Verant to start
> giving better rewards for quests because it ensures that the player
> completes all the necessary steps and earn the reward.
>
> Galtin of E'ci
>
> > Another thing, although not specifically bard related
> except in that bards
> > probably do more quests than anyone else simply because
> they can, is the
> > constant changing of items to no drop 'willy nilly'. I
> went to the bank
> > last nite and literally could not remove 7 of my 8
> containers from the
> > bank
> > because if I did I would not be able to put them back. I
> would have to
> > carry around over 1 backpack of stuff if I did. Why does
> Verant think the
> > solution to everything is to make an item no drop.
> Bizzarely the Bozemite
> > Pestle, which to my knowledge no one has figured out the
> use for is now No
> > Drop. Honey Jum on the other hand, while it now requires
> considerable
> > faction and 30gp instead of 5gp to obtain, is not. Go
> figure. Why should
> > I
> > have to carry this stupid emerald shard halfway across
> Norrath to get the
> > other piece, when it would be so much more sensible to put
> it in the bank
> > while searching for the other piece. Sigh, thank goodness
> it doesn't
> > weigh
> > 10 lbs.
> >
> > Kitasi the questly nerfed
> >
> >
>
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