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Old 03-10-2015, 02:07 PM
kaev kaev is offline
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Originally Posted by Mirana [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]
Any reason for this? From a statistical perspective, it makes no sense.
IIRC (memory gets hazy in 15 years) there was a brief issue with people faking /ran on live using copypasta macros. A lot of people started varying the /ran range in response, and even after Verant fixed the /ran emote to be non-fakeable lots of players preferred non-default ranges. On Tunare it was the groupleader's responsibility to specify the /ran range and a lot of them continued to vary every roll long after. Not that it matterred very much, most people who played to cheat didn't group much anyway, preferring to use ShowEQ to snipe loot droppers (I never saw a Forest Loop or Sarnak Earring of Station or Bracer of the Hidden drop in all my time on live) thereby avoiding any risk of having to share their precious pixels.