On Tue, 2 Nov 1999 jhenders@... wrote:

> > From: "Kimes, Dean W." <Dean_Kimes@...>
> >
> > I beginning to think there should be a level check on a critter when he dies
> > that his corpse disappears immediately if your level is more than a certain
> > amount greater than the mob. I was vehemently against this idea when it was
> > initially proposed by Verant. Its better than making everything 'no drop'
>
> I don't know about this. There's a ton of problems with this and it
> would require changes Verant won't want to make. For one, they'd have to
> rethink their current "everything about L18 attacks" setup. If I'm going
> to have to fight green mobs 32 levels below mine, I better at least get
> loot from them, no matter how pitiful. As well, what about necros
> hunting for bone chips or druids hunting for bat wings?

The "everything above level 18 attacks" setup was supposedly
put in to stop high level people from "safely" camping a low
level named mob without worrying about clearing the area. I
don't really see it working. The two tactics I've seen to get
around it are lulling/mesmerizing to break up the spawn. And
the really lame tactic of just killing the named mob while
everything else beats on you, looting it, then zoning to get
rid of the rest. I saw countless L20-30 people die in Cazic
due to two L45-50 idiots doing this for a couple hours with
the throne room Taes.

They should've just changed the AI so if you attack a named
mob, all the green stuff around it will attack you regardless
of level.

> Personally I also hate letting items go to waste, but it at least fits
> in with Verant's appearant philosophy of keeping items rare by any means
> possible. If they didn't have the items no drop, they'd probably cut the
> spawn of items even more to assure that everyone didn't have one.

I still like my idea of loot-once-per-lifetime. It lets you
keep items rare while keeping the mobs common. It also stops
harvesting dead in its tracks. The only really bad part is
that you can't continuously camp a mob until you get the item
you want, but then, that's really the root of all these
problems isn't it?

--
John H. Kim
kim@...