Development Cycle Archive
Thread: Group Looting Changes
Tiggs wrote:
Based upon the feedback provided in this thread we are going to hold off on Group Lootinggoing to Test Center. We would like to dosome more work on this to ensure thatwill suit the needs of our player base.Once Group Looting is ready for review we will post it again to this forum.
Thank you all forthe valuable feedback you provided.
nonononononono!!!
You can put it on TC... I just read the last severalt pages.. all anyone seems to have a problem with is the 20 meter thing for lottery.. surely that isn't hard to change!?
These loot changes are a very very Good Thing! From theposts here it seems fairly obvcious that increasing the range to about 100 or so meters would be more appropriate than 20. If you have to have an internal meeting or something to discuss this please hurry, as I'm sure 99.9999% of us love the changes we see here and would like them put in ASAP.
Tiggs wrote:
Based upon the feedback provided in this thread we are going to hold off on Group Lootinggoing to Test Center. We would like to dosome more work on this to ensure thatwill suit the needs of our player base.Once Group Looting is ready for review we will post it again to this forum.
Thank you all forthe valuable feedback you provided.
LgEnder wrote:
Totally agree. System is perfect as far as I am concered. Are people concerned about Leader setting themselves as master looter or something? It tells people when changes are made and has a symbol showing who is looter! Seems like yet another time the whining voices of few have drowned out the humble voices of us many.
I agree that this new system would be 100% better than what we currently have, but there are a few factors they need to consider first from what I can tell...
1.) Damage needs to be calculated per entire group, not per person.
2.) The range needs to be more than 20m for the loot lottery.
3.) It seems to me that almost everybody would want to opt in or bid on every item every time. Solo groups showed us how greedy enterprising 
most of the playerbase can be.
4.) People would be bothered by the lottery window popping up every time something is looted. People may want an option to automatically bid on all items. (making the window kind of pointless)
5.) A 'round robin' or turn based option might be better than totally random lottery looting. Person 1 gets the first loot, person 2 gets the second, and so on.
Those are just a few off the top of my head. But, before you get me wrong... I am not against them implementing what they have so far or at least fixing the loot message to tell the person looting what they looted or at least tell the group who looted what like it used to.
RagNoRock5x wrote:
I to am puzzled over this decision, 80-90% of the people where in love with this new system. Which is alot better than the 40% that are infavor with the current one (Estimate)
Those that did not like it where complaining about the 20m loot range which i agree should be raised to 64 (the max fighting range) Or they were ignorat rumblings about the group leader and loot stealing.
Only thing that needs to be done to make this loot change perfict if so adjust how loot rights are determuned for groups and the lottery range to 64. Which ever GROUP deals the most damage not which ever group has the most jedi would be an exelent way for it to work.
It's not that the current version is broken, it's about taking the time to make it better.
Message Edited by dashbarron on 02-04-2005 06:30 PM
GrinInc wrote:
Something needs to be done to prevent camping...it's ruining the increased spawns and drops for a lot of players.What gets you looting rights needs to be addressed to make it so that it isn't worth an AFKers time.
As has been said by many people throughout this thread - perhaps one of the reasons they have delayed the implementation of this new system. If so, I for one can't think of a better reason and I think most people would be happy to see the looting rights system amended.
That is one of the things we want to address
weaponmaster88 wrote:
PLZ make the max loot range 64m, or even better, make it relevent to your weapons range. i just don't see why as a carbineer i have to have a battle disadvantage if i want to loot.
