Looting Rules

[Tenet]

Would that work though? If you apply a loot lock to a corpse, you cannot extend the corpse poofing timer, can you?
Or if you can, what happens when the intended looter arrives and the locking person stops looting? Would the corpse not poof immediately so that the intended looter cannot loot it anymore?

[Dreenk317]

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

Would that work though? If you apply a loot lock to a corpse, you cannot extend the corpse poofing timer, can you?
Or if you can, what happens when the intended looter arrives and the locking person stops looting? Would the corpse not poof immediately so that the intended looter cannot loot it anymore?

You CAN NOT extend the timer. If you are "looting" and the timer ends, you will get kicked out of the loot window and the corpse will then poof. Tested it.

[Sebastionleo]

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

I remember people doing loot locks where they would park a character in loot on a mob past the unlock time waiting for the intended looter to arrive.

We did this just the other night waiting for our buddy's SK alt to show up and loot an Ashenbone Shield off of General in Kith.

[RiffDaemon]

"Locking" a corpse was to prevent people from swooping in while your authorized looter was on his way. This didn't extend the poof timer (if memory serves).

[Whirled]

This is what you tell them when they try to loot your stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f6l1QljpMo

[Swish]

There's spiteful bards out there, if there's a chance of social aggro they might see what happened and decide they're zoning out.

Incoming to you in 3...2...1...

[Teako]

ITT: OP tries to "prove it" to a long standing rule. Insists it's not an actual rule. Guide shuts him down. Rule is somehow unfair that he didn't know of because he can't steal loot.

[Kittens]

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

ITT: OP tries to "prove it" to a long standing rule. Insists it's not an actual rule. Guide shuts him down. Rule is somehow unfair that he didn't know of because he can't steal loot.

Wow, I sense the passive aggressiveness in this. I think this might be the salty bard who put me on the no loot list which was probably a result of him getting his feelings hurt.

I was querying whether or not an esoteric server rule, which is contradictory to pure game code, exists. This isn't ninja-looting, this is looting negligible-value-corpses left to rot unlooted as a free action ungoverned by another player (which can be very subjective and therefore bad).

Please quote me saying that the rule is unfair, otherwise you're fabricating things. If you want something to quote, here, quote this: I think that in the context in which I framed it earlier, the rule is ridiculous as provides an arbitrary basis for discrimination and enables unwieldy subjectivity to be applied to particular persons. This rule conflicts with the loot possession timer (pure game code) which extends looting rights of a corpse to the entire population of the server after a given period time. To say that you own a corpse and can dictate who or who does not loot it as a subjective choice is to negate the loot possession timer, which is hard game code. This isn't me saying it's unfair, this is me saying that it conflicts with pure game code.

Also, guide didn't "shut me down" as you claim, he verified whether or not the rule existed, which was the point of this post and I in fact thanked him for verifying the existence of this rule. The other point of this post was to show how ridiculous this rule is in some contexts.

[Axlrose]

Now I feel bad looting all those wasting away chunks of meat and ruined bear pelt littering East Commonlands with seconds left on the corpse... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Mags]

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

Now I feel bad looting all those wasting away chunks of meat and ruined bear pelt littering East Commonlands with seconds left on the corpse... [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Me tooo [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.] I'm Lawful good IRL and this is freakin' me out! D: