Items And Loot Archive

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There is unrest in the desert there is trouble with the hunt
For the hunters want more pearls and Krayts ignore their pleas

The trouble with the hunters and they’re quite convinced they’re right
They say the Krayts are just too lofty and destroy all their might

But the Krayts can’t help their feelings if they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the hunters can’t be happy with their segments

There is trouble in the desert and the creatures all have fled
As the hunters scream “Oppression” and the Krayts just shake their heads

Neil Pert

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ObiQuixote wrote:

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There is unrest in the desert there is trouble with the hunt
For the hunters want more pearls and Krayts ignore their pleas

The trouble with the hunters and they’re quite convinced they’re right
They say the Krayts are just too lofty and destroy all their might

But the Krayts can’t help their feelings if they like the way they’re made
And they wonder why the hunters can’t be happy with their segments

There is trouble in the desert and the creatures all have fled
As the hunters scream “Oppression” and the Krayts just shake their heads

Neil Pert

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RuudvanNistelrooy wrote:

CSR-TimV in the General Lobby has just told me that Krayt loots are NOT BUGGED.

They are working the way that they are intended..

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lol..my guild and i killed about 2 ancients and a few canyons, a lot of ppl have killed way more and not got any pearls at all...and the csr issaying they are not bugged....right

Even if this clamp-down on pearls (and decent loot in general) was all a mistake, one thing is clear - the Devs were messing with the loot tables and neglected to tell us. That ticks me off because: 1) it harms the people who aren't loot hunters who occasionally like to try and score a little 'sum'n sum'n' for themselves occasionally; 2) it makes me feel as a subscriber that I'm not respected enough to be told the truth; and 3) it plays right into the loot hunters hands - if you don't think there are characters sitting with entire factories full of premium/flawless pearls who were just WAITING for the Devs to clamp down on loot drops, you're going to be very surprised when the price for them shoots back up to five mill-plus apiece.

I highly doubt when they were making changes to the TEF system and factional bases, a stray hex value somewhere turned the loot flow to a trickle. So even if the SEVERITY of the nerf wasn't intended, there was a stealth nerf planned/implemented nonetheless.

I'm sure there are Devs that are thinking "if we make the loot much rarer, the problem will eventually fix itself!" This form of "ignore the problem and the whiners until it/they go(es) away" might work when you're a government, but when this economy is so lauded for being player-driven, any change to the climate is noticed within an hour of serverup on the day of a new Pub.

I don't even know why we all post here thinking it'll make any difference other than inform players on other servers that the problem isn't localized to just them or their server. TH's introductory post is likely the LAST Dev posting you'll ever see on this forum, just like the shocking lack of Dev postings on the JTL-related boards.

Message Edited by KaylBreinhar on 02-24-2005 11:27 PM

just killed 6 ancient krayts.

looted:
2 - nothing at all
1 - set of dmg 30 tissue
2 - sets of armor segs (deleted)
1 - set of scales (deleted)

wasted:
good buffs for 3
a suit of composite
2 ahrissa
3 brandy
2 hours

maybe it is part of the loot phases?