All Greed on Alliance loot

[kikix12]

Why does there need to be a 'compromise'?

Instead of getting irked at the word "compromise", I suggest actually reading the post to the end and thinking about what's being suggested.

I'm not talking about a compromise between players and developers where both sides lose. I'm talking about a compromise between the players that want everything they can get their hands on and the players that want to get the items they actually need.

The players that genuinely need something, will be able to get it without having to compete against everyone and their mother. The players that do not need it but want will be able to get stuff they wouldn't have a chance of ever getting due to someone else having need privilege despite not needing it. Though it works at that time in both sides.

But you already can't turn lighthouse gear in for seals or desynth, so that isn't an issue. Why would someone be needing it multiple times?

You can't...yet. There are people that don't care about the gear there at all cause they have better gear anyway. They run it for whatever other reason (like the minion). But since they're there, they may just greed on everything else anyway.

The problem with this solution is that it requires a bunch of server resources to track if you've already gotten it or not, to solve a problem that doesn't really exist.

The resources you are talking about are actually miniscule. It's a simple flag. A few bits of information (bits as in binary unit) for piece of gear. Whenever you type a full phrase in chat you are using more resources than doing that for an entire raids drop list.

The easy fix is to put it back to how it was before. That's worked pretty well for two decades in MMOs.

That's not a fix. That's returning to a state that was broken for different reason. And there are many things that worked "pretty well" for all sorts of thing. Bikes worked pretty well for few centuries. Were our ancestors supposed to stay with bikes? Pretty sure you're glad they didn't, and invented cars, trains and the like.