Rolling for loot!

[Shaily]

then I re-read some posts..
Farming parties with people changing the loot every couple of minutes. There are RMT posting and requesting features on this board? In years of playing FFXI, I have never heard of such parties besides done by RMT.

Really? Two people, who focus on different crafts, go out to fight mobs that drop a particular item for something one of them wants to make. Naturally, they will not just get only that one item. They will doubtless pick up other things. Likely, things they don't want or need, but the other person helping them wants, and vice versa. You telling me you've never heard of people helping each other out, and splitting the rest of the loot based on who will actually use it? Just for fun, you might want to think about things like this before you go throwing RMT accusations around.

If more that just one item, there's always the TRADE system. Once the party is done, trade to the person who wanted the items and make a new friend if that person wasn't already a friend before.


Gezz.

You mean the trade system that is unbearably slow and only allows you to trade four items at a time? The trade system that actually takes LONGER to use then passing items from loot when you actually get them? Maybe, if the trading issues were fixed, this could possibly be an option. But right now? No chance. If I'm fighting a mob with somebody else that's dropping feathers and sinews left and right that I don't want, I certainly don't want to spend a good chunk of time later playing the time-consuming trade game if I don't have to.

[PandaTaru]

Really? Two people, who focus on different crafts, go out to fight mobs that drop a particular item for something one of them wants to make. Naturally, they will not just get only that one item. They will doubtless pick up other things. Likely, things they don't want or need, but the other person helping them wants, and vice versa. You telling me you've never heard of people helping each other out, and splitting the rest of the loot based on who will actually use it? Just for fun, you might want to think about things like this before you go throwing RMT accusations around.
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Don't feel offended and please don't twist what I wrote to try to make me pass for a douche. lol.

Wrong person to play this kind of game with. Really. I could go on for days twisting the way you got offended and thought that I was accusing you of being RMT when I didn't accuse anyone. I won't, so stop that crap it wasn't meant for you or anyone on the board. I just mentioned that this is the kind of thing RMT did in XI in a very sarcastic way.

I was talking about the guy in that thread who said he made reg parties and changed the master loot option that was in XI randomly to people in the party every couple of minute. I too did party, big word, duo/trio rather, to farm items in XI. big party like it has been mentioned and how he said was done, only RMT did this. Farming isn't lottery.


Auto pass option? Yeah, sure. I missed that or didn't understand what you meant. Other than that if it's to get the same stupid loot option we had in XI, no way. The current is much better in many ways for simple parties, why regress. Not even mentioning that, if it's to get the same loot option as XI, you'll lose more time passing the items every time one drop in the loot box than if you got all the drop in auto-loot and traded. 10sec x Xnumber of item vs a 30 second trade? Do the math. So auto-pass sure why not if it's only a by item feature.

[Shaily]

Don't feel offended and please don't twist what I wrote to try to make me pass for a douche. lol.

Wrong person to play this kind of game with. Really. I could go on for days twisting the way you got offended and thought that I was accusing you of being RMT when I didn't accuse anyone. I won't, so stop that crap it wasn't meant for you or anyone on the board. I just mentioned that this is the kind of thing RMT did in XI in a very sarcastic way.

Please don't patronise me, I'm not a child. You did in fact say people posting in this thread were RMT, and in your original post saying it, you were not at all clear on who exactly you meant. "Farming parties" could mean big or small parties, and is not very specific. Saying that you were being sarcastic obviously was not clear, or I probably would not have reacted as strongly.

I am not trying to twist anything, nor am I trying to make you look bad. I am simply reacting to the words you wrote. I'm sure you can understand it's often difficult to understand the intent behind the words when all you can see is the words as they are written.

I was talking about the guy in that thread who said he made reg parties and changed the master loot option that was in XI randomly to people in the party every couple of minute. I too did party, big word, duo/trio rather, to farm items in XI. big party like it has been mentioned and how he said was done, only RMT did this. Farming isn't lottery.

I must have missed this post, I'll have to go look again. In truth I did not play XI, so can't say with any experience I know what you mean on this particular issue. I can't help but look at it as something real players may try, too, not just RMT. In another game I used to play, guild members would go out to fight mobs and get drops purely to get in-game money from the items, either for the guild or for themselves. They used it as a lottery system like that, but weren't RMT.

Auto pass option? Yeah, sure. I missed that or didn't understand what you meant. Other than that if it's to get the same stupid loot option we had in XI, no way. The current is much better in many ways for simple parties, why regress. Not even mentioning that, if it's to get the same loot option as XI, you'll lose more time passing the items every time one drop in the loot box than if you got all the drop in auto-loot and traded. 10sec x Xnumber of item vs a 30 second trade? Do the math. So auto-pass sure why not if it's only a by item feature.

The math there is based on a normal trade taking only 30 seconds. As I mentioned before, the trade system as it is now is incredibly slow and frustrating. I avoid using the trade system wherever I can because it's so clunky. Have a small pop up window in the corner that lets you roll or pass with one click is a quick and easy solution in parties, provided it runs with a faster speed than menu/trade window currently runs at.