When rolling Need on an item

[Izsha]

Seems reasonable to me. It's rather frustrating at the end of a dungeon to have a need lot on the final boss drop and someone who can't need is afk, or 'hoping' you leave to get it.

If I'm on war and tank drops at the last boss, it's pretty stupid to have to sit there next to the chest when the drg is afk or trolling me for 5 min. He can't out lot me once I click need, so once I click need just mercy kill it already so I can go do other stuff. If there's 2 tanks, then it acts as it currently does until we both lot or pass. QoL change signed.

[DragonFlyy]

It's probably made so the client is determining if you can click need or not. So the server has no idea who can or can't need on it. It just handles the rolls and the distribution. Would make it easier on the server.

To elaborate, anywhere that you can trim communication on a server, you do. So if the server doesn't have to transmit to the client to grey out the need button, then it won't have that information. As far as the server knows, it waits for X amount of rolls to be completed then rewards the highest roll the item. So in this case they would trade some server bandwidth for a slight inconvenience on someone not rolling for an item. While I would agree that it is a miniscule amount of data to transmit from our point of view, imagine for all the loot rolls. That's a lot of rolls a minute (probably in the neighborhood of several thousand or hundred thousand a minute.) Tons of data that is saved.

[Giantbane]

It's probably made so the client is determining if you can click need or not. So the server has no idea who can or can't need on it. It just handles the rolls and the distribution. Would make it easier on the server.

To elaborate, anywhere that you can trim communication on a server, you do. So if the server doesn't have to transmit to the client to grey out the need button, then it won't have that information. As far as the server knows, it waits for X amount of rolls to be completed then rewards the highest roll the item. So in this case they would trade some server bandwidth for a slight inconvenience on someone not rolling for an item. While I would agree that it is a miniscule amount of data to transmit from our point of view, imagine for all the loot rolls. That's a lot of rolls a minute (probably in the neighborhood of several thousand or hundred thousand a minute.) Tons of data that is saved.

I doubt it, it's an MMO, you should trust the client with as little as possible (because the client can be hacked). I doubt either the decision to need/greed or the roll is client authoritative for this reason.

[LineageRazor]

I doubt it, it's an MMO, you should trust the client with as little as possible (because the client can be hacked). I doubt either the decision to need/greed or the roll is client authoritative for this reason.

I thought about this at first, as well - but truthfully, it wouldn't take awfully long to figure out that a hack is being applied in this case, and you'd be banned in pretty short order and with pretty clear evidence. Walking underground? Moving more quickly than you should? These things can be hacked client-side and can be hard to detect and report. That Bard just rolled Need on the Dreadwyrm Cane? It is NOT going to take the other players long to notice.

I don't actually believe that Need/Greed determination is handled client-side, but if it was it'd be one thing that would be REALLY HARD to abuse safely.

[Giantbane]

I thought about this at first, as well - but truthfully, it wouldn't take awfully long to figure out that a hack is being applied in this case, and you'd be banned in pretty short order and with pretty clear evidence. Walking underground? Moving more quickly than you should? These things can be hacked client-side and can be hard to detect and report. That Bard just rolled Need on the Dreadwyrm Cane? It is NOT going to take the other players long to notice.

I don't actually believe that Need/Greed determination is handled client-side, but if it was it'd be one thing that would be REALLY HARD to abuse safely.

You're absolutely right, but like you said, I'd still be surprised if it was up to the client. It's not like a few random rolls and an item vs. job check is terribly processor intensive in the grand scheme of things.

[DrOstler]

This is a horrible idea for people who play with friends and are considerate.
If I'm doing something like shiva and the pld sword drops and I roll need for my retainer, then someone asks for it, I'd then be able to leave and give it to them

You'd still be considered an ass for rolling in the the first place. Regardless of whether the system is how it is now or how i suggest you should always discuss rolls on loot for raids with your friends/team beforehand anyway.

But that's a social issue

[Firepower]

It does seem like a simple idea and should definitely help and I can't personally think of a way this could be abused. The lotting system doesn't change it would simply just need editing since the system already knows if you can need or greed (since it greys out need if you cant) so it should be able to use that information based on the party setup eg: 1/8 can need, has player with /need lotted need if yes make drop timer to 0 and then it would drop to the person who needed. Then it should work pretty simply whether there is 1 or the entire party can need. eg: 5/8 can need has all players eligible lotted / reset timer to 0.

Though that could also potentially be a nightmare to code in and come up with all sorts of bugs like the loot timer ending when its not supposed to etc... Only the dev's would know the amount of work and how simple it really is to implement.

[Nutz]

I would support this change except it flies in the face of another "needed" QoL change -- the ability to pass after you roll need (or greed). Similarly this is not something that needs to be implemented, but it would have its uses. Many people automatically roll need on things when they can, often before another member could pipe up and say, 'Hey could you guys pass on that? It would be really helpful for my X class [that I'm not playing right now]'. Many people would gladly pass the item, but can't because they already rolled. Automatically passing out the loot after all possible need rolls would only compound that issue.

Basically I'm for one or the other. Save time and/ or frustration.