Raid guild loot systems other than DKP?

[thufir]

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

Just tell me that you wouldn't be salty that you've lost your 40th /rand roll in a row on an item and it went to a first timer. I know there is a whole fluffy love feeling behind the /rand, but eventually it leads to people getting upset and leaving. People in Clue have actually griped to me about this.

Our guild did this on live, and I was new and won an Indicolite BP in hate over a guy that was basically an officer in our guild and built it from the ground up. He eventually left and we adopted a loot council / linking system until the guild disbanded. I should have been the bigger man and passed that item to him, but overcoming greed is tough in a digital pixel world.

To boil it down, /Rand systems are the welfare of EQ, Loot Council is run by Democrats, DKP by Republicans.

sure, sometimes it can suck. and occasionally even clue will just say "this BP goes to person X" because they're part of their core team or whatever. so there's always some bones thrown to the people who line up to attend every day.

that having been said, it's not like DKP with RA doesn't get people upset and leaving either. they're just people who aren't hard core people, definitionally, and raiders generally lean towards keeping hard core people happy. /random doesn't keep hard core people happy, so a lot of guilds don't use it.

that's all it is, not some weird welfare/democrat/republican dichotomy like how you set it out.