Greedy Players

[Legidias]

With level-dmg cap, no double attack, no criticals, no dual wield, etc. There is 0 reason that a warrior is out damaging you besides you neglecting your weapon skills.

[bum3]

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

With level-dmg cap, no double attack, no criticals, no dual wield, etc. There is 0 reason that a warrior is out damaging you besides you neglecting your weapon skills.

So many semantics being made without anyone addressing the point. Yours make zero sense. Weapon availability for the classes and str of classes alone debunk yours.

[Kapyong]

Indeed [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

My enjoyment of EQ nostalgia was rather dampened by the surprising amount of greed I suffered.

Generous, friendly, community-oriented people were there, but not very many.

[Valion]

Shrug I rarely loot in groups unless told to. If a mage word drops I will ask for it but whatever. If I need plat I just solo.

[Enshadowed]

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

They're the players who don't turn on autosplit when everyone else does.

I've always kept it off for monks. Copper's heavy, yo.

[Sweeper41]

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

Every group seems to have them - one player who loots 50% of the bodies or shamelessly jumps the line in alpha looting ("oops, I forgot the alphabet"). They're the players who don't turn on autosplit when everyone else does.

How do you handle greedy players in your groups?

Only thing autosplit does for a group is weigh everyone down with copper.

[TheRusty]

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

Every group seems to have them - one player who loots 50% of the bodies or shamelessly jumps the line in alpha looting ("oops, I forgot the alphabet"). They're the players who don't turn on autosplit when everyone else does.

How do you handle greedy players in your groups?

Alright so, first a lesson in classic economics. EQ classic economics at least: Autosplit is flaming garbage

• it splits the number of coins, not the value of the coinage
• it does so as strictly fairly as it can
• If it cannot split an amount strictly fairly, that amount goes to the person doing the looting.

So, say you're in a six-man group. You kill a gnoll and the gnoll has 2p, 4g, 12s and 10 CP on its body.

The person who clicks to loot is receiving 2p, 4g, 2s, and 5C as their split
Everyone else is getting 0p, 0g, 2s, and 1c as theirs
"boy these gnolls sure are broke!" they laugh.

Additionally, coin has weight, meaning that you're burdening all the casters (and the monks!) with their body's weight worth of copper, totally a whopping five GP at the bank.

Of your group is dead serious about maximizing coinage gains? turn off autosplit and put all loots on alpha rotation.

If you want fairness, designate a master looter who will harvest all the coin and drops, sell, and then manually split the take six ways with the /split command (which again, will favor him in the case of remainders, but it's far more evenly-distributed than autosplit will produce.)

In the case of people who mix up loot orders? Well, mistakes do happen. However if they happen chronically, they aren't mistakes, they're violations. Call the person out on it, and if they persist? boot 'em. They don't have a right to your group.

[Muggens]

Havent seen any ninjalooting or "greedy" behavior in this "game", OP is a manchild aka crybaby

[lowner411]

This … is a Blue problem. Blue is such a mature server that if a new player could loot all the rusties to sell, because the other players were twinked alts who didn't need rusties for their economy. There was no problem with ninja looting. Now … everyone's poor, and everyone wants rusty weapons, at least at the start. (My character has been looting the meat left on wolves, casts, and bears to sell--he's that poor, and it stacks.)

[Lamil]

Originally Posted by lowner411 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This … is a Blue problem. Blue is such a mature server that if a new player could loot all the rusties to sell, because the other players were twinked alts who didn't need rusties for their economy. There was no problem with ninja looting. Now … everyone's poor, and everyone wants rusty weapons, at least at the start. (My character has been looting the meat left on wolves, casts, and bears to sell--he's that poor, and it stacks.)

Those chunks of meat are free food! I haven't had to buy food just from the stacks of chunks of meat I got while lvling