Small Rant on Seal Rolls in Hamlet parties

[Molly_Millions]

Right, but if someone who needs the drop gets it in their loot list, that's the same as them having won an 8-way roll, so why do you need to bother re-doing it as, say, a manual 4-way roll. By getting it in their loot list they've already won the internal roll, which means they already beat everyone else who wanted it.

You're right, but it's just how we choose to do things. As to your question, you have better odds with 1/4 than 1/8. Besides, the /random at the end is fun. In my groups, we're usually all on mumble and cheering at the results of the /random. Nobody complains.

[Wynn]

You're right, but it's just how we choose to do things. As to your question, you have better odds with 1/4 than 1/8. Besides, the /random at the end is fun.

Question: How can you say this and practically in the same breath tell me it was fair for someone to roll at 1/2 in my party while the other two roll at 1/4 for the same item? If 1/4 is better than 1/8, surely 1/2 is better than 1/4. Is it truly your position that it is fair for someone else to have better odds on the same roll? If so, do you do this in your LS parties by allowing other members to give their rolls to others as they see fit when loot drops? After all, all 8 people worked just as hard for that drop even if they don't need or want it, right?

I'm willing to bet you don't and those people don't roll at all. Why? Because it would be unfair for people to lot on something they don't need over people who do even if that lot would be used to give it to their chosen needing individual. Isn't that what the whole need/greed thing that MMO players have been using for well over a decade developed out of?

[Raikki]

How can you say this and practically in the same breath tell me it was fair for someone to roll at 1/2 in my party while the other two roll at 1/4 for the same item?

He didn't roll at 1/2. Four people each rolled at 1/4 and the winner donated it to one of the others. You continue to ignore the fact that the winner contributed to the hamlet just as much and is just as entitled to his reward of choice as anyone else in the party.