[Smedy]

I think item loot is a terrible idea, i've been active on eqemulator.org since 2004 and ran 3-4 servers my self and played every single vztz box since 2007. Whenever ive personally imbplemented item loot or played on a server where it was implemented, the server has always collapsed within 2-3 months.

Here's a few reasons item loot doesn't work in todays everquest.

1. Everquest is far from balanced. With people knowing every single mechanic of the game having item loot is even worse, many things worked on live cause the audience was new to game.

2. Building a macro to swap out all gear and put it into a bag/bags isn't hard with todays software and cannot really be called a cheat as many mouse drivers for gaming devices has support for doing this in the driver. Do you really want to ban people from installing their keyboard/mouse software and call it third party hax? Within 2 weeks of release of server with item loot you'd see each side having a working macro that's rendering the item loot we know useless. Ofcourse there's ways to costumize this but from what i've experienced on P99 anything that isn't classic is bad.

3. One of the reasons Red99 has plummeted was because it was way to harsh, the XP was to slow and having xp loss on pvp death was a terrible idea (yes i supported this 2011, but i've played with it so i've seen how bad of an idea it really was). I think red99 would have thrived if all the fixes we have gotten over the past year was in at launch. On teams we will have those fixes, but adding item loot to that i think it evens out and puts the server back at square one. People simply won't play if there's item loot, it's gonna be a wasteland and finding pvp is going to be incredible hard, people will hug zonelines and gate the instant you show up in the zone, again everyone knows the game way to well to fall into any situation where you die. In EQ you don't have to die, unless you're really retarded and/or bad.

4. Once a team has won the server, there's no one around to fight, cause item loot will easily keep them from winning anything and losing will have such a huge impact on the small bros trying to do it big that it will demoralize them and make them quit.

TL DR version:

From my experience item loot would kill the server within 3 months.