Posted by Macheath on February 9, 2000 at 08:18:29:
In Reply to: Eq distribution and game play. posted by Graatch(VIP) on February 9, 2000 at 07:50:32:
> While I too hate having people loot my kills, I would not institute your idea and here's why. > Looting by lowbies -- or by heros of lowbie corpses, which happens, trust me -- is one of the key ways that equ is distributed and eventually returned to the mob. > Obviously a 20th level assassin is not going to be able to kill thorgrimr and get that nice ruby collar. But he can kill someone who has it, or loot a higher person's corpse. The game is better -- in a general sense -- when equ is in some way available to all players. When a lowbie loots a higher ranked person's corpse, they get the nice gear. They generally don't keep it since at low levels fights are quick and you can't really escape if you're in trouble nearly as well as you can when you are older. So the equ is then distributed among two or three others. And so on. And eventually, it crumbles in the hands of someone too young to use it, or "poofs, and is replaced on the mob that owns it. Or when that lowbie dies, his corpse is looted by some 38th level players. > If you could only loot player's corpses within your pk range, that would vastly limit the real distribution of equ, and in the end result in greater hoarding, I believe. > I hate it when I dont get to loot someone I've pk'd, but I'd rather that than a large reduction in equ distribution and a large reduction in the equ available even by luck/chance to lowbie players. > Everyone is a lowbie at some point. All of us have to get through those ranks. > > Just a Idead, how about set corpse looting to only those whom are in that persons (the corpse) pk range, this would prevent all those annoying ankle biting looters that are about. Also then perhaps people wont be so greedy about eq, and like in the second age people wont have to full loot.