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Originally Posted by fishingme
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Funny enough logic says that it is a bug because the last item that you receive is no drop. Along with most of the other items also being no drop.
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how is MQing a bug? just think for two second about how any reasonable programmer would code an NPC turn in. EQ makes it especially easy, because NPC turn ins can't be stacked. the easy way: player clicks trade, game checks if the items in the trade window match the items required for the quest reward. if yes, player gets reward, if no, return or eat items accordingly. but in order to MQ, the script not only has to remember what was turned in recently, but allow someone else to complete that set of turn ins for a reward.
you know no drop items can be looted by any level toon, right? why isn't that a bug/exploit? with a 7+ minute corpse timer you can easily kill a mob, log over, and be at the corpse b4 the 5 min free loot limit happens. i've done it a ton. would you rather all loot be no drop and you can't loot something unless you or your party god the exp kill? so no more farming green con mobs, if you ran from CB to kelethin to sell rusty weapons and that brass earring finally drops, too bad for you for being out of zone when it happened, etc. EQ eventually put in level suggestions and requirements for items along these lines, but that was when they already messed things up, as you describe it.
and it was said, but yeah, the "twice your level" rule is so silly. most mobs in the game are under level 50, especially the ones people exp off of, even when they are level 59, so that means a level 25+ can get PL'd no problem. Unrest mobs go up to level 35, so that means its still an amazing zone to PL 15-20, and you could easily push that into 21-25. if not unrest for 21-25, then guk/MM/etc still work. below 15 you could just do unrest yard trash/first floor, or if you really want to ruin someone's day go pull ALL of crushbone. CB is good exp for a legit group even into level 15, so it'll be great for a druid to PL a lvl 4-15 toon in no time while literally keeping the entire zone dead.
but enough hate, heres a real solution to the PLing problem that comes up here and there. if gms wanted to take a hard stance to it, make threats of suspensions, and then follow through suspending people who pull PL trains through exp groups and otherwise shit up a zone, then that might help. I haven't PL'd for a long time, but I did do it a bunch, almost always in unrest. I was very careful to usually do it in the morning. if i group was already there, i asked what they were pulling and left those floors up. if a group walked in, i asked what area they wanted to camp, and i left those mobs for them. its not hard to be nice to one another and still have a good PL session.
twinking, recharging, and MQing dont directly effect other players, so dont do it if you dont like it