LunarArchon wrote:The loot change is good. Dumping the entire inventory of knocked character is absolutely not normal and wanting the ability to do so is malicious.
People will probably say changes like these will make the game boring or ruin PvP but I'll argue it does the opposite. I'm curious about the exact timing as it is probably short anyways so that people complain less lol.
- Noobs will be less discouraged after getting ganked and looted, so more will stick around and learn the game.
- Players will be rewarded for fighting strategically/in groups to protect knocked chars. This is likely a con if the cooldown applies separately for each person looting, meaning more looters equals more looting on one person. As opposed to a cooldown applying to the knocked char.
- Characters/players can participate in more combat since you don't lose everything but the shitty char when knocked.
- The quality of available loot to PvP victors may go up since players will be less likely to leave their palisade stark naked.
- It will encourage player interaction since auto hearthing on unknown players will be less likely to happen while exploring.
This change isn't going to have the affect you're hoping for.
Noobs likely only have 1-2 items with any value anyways, so they'll still lose everything they care about every time even with this change.
This mainly fucks over real pvp players trying to loot other players in pvp. The looting UI is all over the place and it takes a few seconds just to process everything you're looking at to begin with, and this becomes even harder if you're still being hit in the back or something. Belts add a whole nothing layer to what you may want to loot, since they have so many slots. Meta for belts from now on will likely be to drop its contents on the floor in 1 click rather than looting it item by item. I agree with Troll in that you should be able to loot a belt with items inside, because a large chunk of the KO timer can be wasted just scanning the items in the huge belts and reorganizing inventories/game windows on screen.
Looting was already a time sensitive thing