Global item rarity needs to be looked at

[falkun]

Originally Posted by Spitty [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Your math - it isn't math. For one, four times the population means four times the manpower to camp items.

No. The important camps are already camped. If fungi is camped 100% of the time, it doesn't matter if there are two people on the server camping those fungis or 10000 people on the server and 6 are camping the fungi. If its camped and kept clear, that camp is already producing its maximum amount of loot, regardless of server population.

Since everyone here knows where all the camps are, we don't bother camping non-loot places. Therefore the lower amount of manpower is more effectively utilized to exploit the environment than it was on Live, negating most advantages to increased manpower through optimization.