POE= Ninja looting game?

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f3rret wrote:

I'm starting to get bored with these threads.

So I just added my standard reply to my signature. Read it for my opinion.

I'm tired of these threads too, and yet I keep posting in them. I didn't know I felt so strongly about it until recently. By the way, your sig is just trying to tell people how to play. That doesn't work, because we don't all play the same way.

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dashgalaxy86 wrote:

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f3rret wrote:

I'm starting to get bored with these threads.

So I just added my standard reply to my signature. Read it for my opinion.

I'm tired of these threads too, and yet I keep posting in them. I didn't know I felt so strongly about it until recently. By the way, your sig is just trying to tell people how to play. That doesn't work, because we don't all play the same way.

So find a different way to do it.

The important bit is the last sentence anyway.

Well, ok I could live with an increased loot timer, but if the loot is invisible for other players or just not accessible, this could also lead to odd situations if some people just don't take their loot.

If the loot should be really invisible I would like it to be a party option, which can be turned on. So the default value would be how it currently works.

They should just remove loot all together, it polarizes the community.

You get your little 3 socket item from Twilight Strand lvl1 and gotta make do with that.

I hate people that say oh if its off timer its not yours, or just play solo.



First its ninja looting for a reason. I tried to pick up the item before the timer went off but some guy seeing the said good item runs to it before when it drops. Now even if I click it the second it drops that guy is closer to it than me since i'm mainly a caster and play it safe, so by the time I walk to the item he is already there which in turn blocks me from looting the item before the timer goes off ie NINJA LOOTING. Second this game is awesome that's why I payed money in cb because this game has gotten a lot of things right, but right now i'm forced to play solo. Playing in a group in this kind of game is extremely fun like in D2. In D2 I was forced to play offline because of FFA loot. The idea of FFA is just plain silly I see no reward for having it in a game unless you are just a useless noob that cant farm alone so you join a group to carry you, and then you NINJA their loot. In turn only the honest people suffer if I get a drop that my class cant use I ask my party if they need it instead of selling it for profit. They where there with me working to get the loot so why not pass an upgrade to them if they need it. I cant do this if one guy in the party ninja's all the good loot because he is bad at the game.


Bubbas
~Play On~

I'd just like to say this to people defending the current system:

Would increasing the timer, even by a second, really hurt the game that much?

The timer is practically non-existent if you're playing from an area with high ping.
You run up to grab your item, click on it 5 times, still doesn't pick it up (inventory space not an issue) then the timer expires and somebody else grabs it instantly.

How's that fair? Lag prevented me from getting the item like I was supposed to.

I think they should look at increasing the timer a bit, AT LEAST until they sort out all of their server issues.

They should raise the timer, but they should also exclude the player from ffa-picking the item, if he don't pick it up in time.

Win-win-situation.

Why? Because everyone has time to pick it up and everyone understands, it's only your item, until the timer runs out.

I would really like to have the option to party with public players, but with the current system it is not even an option.

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f3rret wrote:

I'm starting to get bored with these threads.

So I just added my standard reply to my signature. Read it for my opinion.

lol, only perfect things dont need to change(meaning only I dont need to change) and this game is very good, and very fun to play when its working, but is no where near perfect
why would an option for disabling ffa bother you and other ninja looters? if the reason is fear of most people using that option than that is proof that something is wrong in the game and either MUST be changed or GGG loses customers, i doubt that they can survive on maybe ~100 players that prefer ninja looting
this is not cutthroat it is just bad, if you want cutthroat looting go play wizardry
and ir is not realistic because if you steal from me in real life i can kill...errr...sue you, here unfortunatelly i can do nothing

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Wittgenstein wrote:

GGG wants the game to be competitive, even when it comes to picking up loot. no one can take loot allocated to you while the timer is active, so they aren't ninja-looting.

if you have poor encounters with a team, leave the team or party with friends.

How can you make friends in game when every group experience is miserable? Someone will ninja loot, then everyone starts. Then everyone has a bad time.