I would have to say that the looting thing becomes less and less of a hassle
the further you progress in levels. Above 20, most people are in guilds and
are fairly likely to be with at least one other guild member in a party
which tends to make people a little less greedy with loots - or so I've seen
so far. I have a very small guild (14 people - all levels 20-35) and yet
somehow we always end up having at least 3 of us in a party (most of the
time its 5 or 6). We tend to do the master loot and split method. We have
one person, usually a warrior type loot all the corpses. If people are
looking to keep items like FS and the like, we do that alphabetically. The
coin however, we split whenever a party member is leaving or right before a
new member joins so that nobody misses out on what they've earned. If
something rare comes up we find out who wants it and do the random roll
thing. Almost everyone outside of the guild that we've ever grouped with
has agreed that this is a much more efficient way of looting, as it keeps
away from the hard feelings of FFA, the bugs that incur during auto split
(i.e. looter gets 2pp, member 2 gets 2gp, member 3 gets 2sp, etc.), and the
added burden to weak party members (like myself).
Anyway, just my little bit of input
Weiland <Disciples of Truth>
Erollisi Marr
P.S. I finally got to meet Elwyn the other day, oddly enough I have run into
him several times since then. Funny how that works. Thanks for letting me
tag along for a bit on Halloween Elwyn!
> I've noticed all of the issues people have complained about so far.
The
> problem (like most grouping problems) are usually the worst in "pick-up
> groups" and nonexistent in regular and guild groups. Otherwise most
systems
> work pretty well. When doing FFA's I tell people to count five corpses
then
> loot the sixth one (assuming a six-member party). With "honorable" people
> it works pretty well.
>
> What galls me the most are the rash of characters named "Aaaba" and
> "Aaada" (the three a's is NOT a typo here). Obviously these character
names
> were decided purely to go first in alpha loot. With a character name
> starting with "S" I'm usually one of the last to loot. Even in
"honorable"
> groups - when we do the 5pp or item loot - I often don't get my turn.
> However - I usually am with my guildmates who will split their share with
me
> in those cases - often even when I don't ask!
>
> Slyde
>