Legacy items on Green99 - pros and cons

[loramin]

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

And this system would certainly require the server to give some sort of looting message.

Not at all; it absolutely could be done with /randoms. The custom code would just simplify things a bit. But we do rolls all the time on this server, both for loot and for stuff like Scout, with no problem.

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

This sounds much more complicated than i suspected. imagine the first group of players making their way to the eye and suddenly they have to start obeying all these weird rules. Also the EE is going to be quite a difficult solo kill so having questionable "support" from other players(who probabaly don't even want the plaer to survive) is probably going to lead to deaths and confusion. And how to deal with potential trains if people aren't even in a group working as team? More confusion, deaths, frustrated players.

Like I said (and repeated), this was just a quick thought, and the "no groups" part was especially quick.

In retrospect, it isn't even needed: you can still allow groups as long as one person is the known camp holder, because (as I even noted) if anyone is waiting for the camp they can easily see if someone other than the camp holder loots the corpse.

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

It almost sounds like in your head you are imagining level 60 players camping the EE or something. Not a couple poorly geared level 30s.

Let's be honest: on day 3 or 4 these camps might be done by poorly geared level 30s, but this is P99: very quickly these camps will be dominated by solo 60s.

But nothing about these rule in any way gives the solo 60 any advantage. If anything the group has the advantage (kind of).

Let's say a group of four (to make my math easy) and a single soloer both show up just as someone else finishes the camp. The group has an 80% chance that one of their members will get the camp. If they do, the soloer has to sit and wait doing nothing while the group has fun clearing the camp.

Then as soon as the first group member gets their item, there's another random, and again odds are the group will win it, and will go back to getting XP, killing mobs, having fun, and also getting that one group member an item.

Of course the soloer still has a chance, just a lower one .. which I would argue is as it should be.