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Any thoughts on removing Need / Greed / Pass in STO? What if the default (and unchangeable) loot distribution method was always Round Robin.
Any thoughts on removing Need / Greed / Pass in STO? What if the default (and unchangeable) loot distribution method was always Round Robin.
Loot drop poll 54 votes
Yes I like this idea
37%
20 votes
No keep the system as it stands
38%
21 votes
Not bothered either way
24%
13 votes
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"What id the default (and unchangeable) loot distribution method was always Round Robin."
But this question does not pertain to me because I just take anything that drops.
“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” -- Benjamin Franklin
Round robin .... a tournament in which each competitor plays in turn against every other.
I believe the original intent of such a system is to allow for those who can acutally use them to hit Need, while those that can't but want to sell it would hit Greed.
My fleet's generally just accepted that we hit need on everything because honestly the Need/Greed system in STO is somewhat unnecessary as there is really no class specific gear to warrent the Need/Greed as much as say in Neverwinter or some of the other games out there. Now if we started getting more class specific gear that could change. But as it stands now its not exactly optimal for a game where you can use just about everything on any character.
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Not like anyone is going to get rich through the loot drops in this game like you used to be able to.
At the end of the day it's one less pop-up on my screen and less load for the server to post them up and handle the responses so that can only be a good thing.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'
And how will someone get ECs besides Endeavors alone? Because you kinda don't have access to that until endgame.
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The downside is the autolooting radius is totally backasswards with space requiring you to get up close and impersonal to the item while ground will happily give you the junk in the next room over.
KDF: Dahar Master Kan (Borg Klingon Tactical)::Dahar Master Torc (Alien Science)::Dahar Master Sisteric (Gorn Engineer)
RR-Fed: Citizen Sirroc (Romulan Science)::Fleet Admiral Grell (Alien Engineer)
RR-KDF: Fleet Admiral Zemo (Reman Tactical)::Fleet Admiral Xinatek (Reman Science)::Fleet Admiral Bel (Alien Engineer)
TOS-Fed: Fleet Admiral Katem (Andorian Tactical)::Lieutenant Commander Straad (Vulcan Engineer)
Dom-Fed: Dan'Tar (Jem'Hadar Science)
Dom-KDF: Kamtana'Solan (Jem'Hadar Science)
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There will ALWAYS be new bugs. Such is the nature of the MMO. Every time they fix or add something, something somewhere else may break.
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Replace the loot with both EC and salvage. Unless they add some unique and desirable loot to the game it's all pointless anyway
Good idea. Well, mostly.
Some stuff like beverages, food and hypo sprays - basically anything that can be replicated - should definitely be removed as loot drops and just automatically get turned into EC.
Now that that's made clear... on to the next issue: when are playable Voth coming, and where's are my T7 Vesta and C-store purchasable real life shuttle?
The gear too, all of the gear drops in this game are generic garbage that aren't worth using. You're much better off using gear from crafting, reputations, fleet holdings, or loot boxes.
They're not just useless as drops, they basically serve no purpose at all.
Ok, there's still some EC value there - but that indeed means that they might as well simply change the system so that we get simple EC drops more often in place of what used to be white and green stuff.
It would certainly make the game more enjoyable if you don't have to clean up your inventory after spending 10 minutes in a battlezone. Keep the rarer stuff as drops, turn the lower rarities that won't ever be used into EC drops.
Now that that's made clear... on to the next issue: when are playable Voth coming, and where's are my T7 Vesta and C-store purchasable real life shuttle?
Of course, but for casual players such gear might be less interesting than the stuff they can easily pick up. Even for those kind of players, white and green is probably useless though.
Oh and to be fair, I sometimes put some blue and purple stuff on Boffs if I can't be bothered to get some good stuff for them.
Now that that's made clear... on to the next issue: when are playable Voth coming, and where's are my T7 Vesta and C-store purchasable real life shuttle?
Edit: If I was confident of the programmers, I would also set a default:
- Convert to EC
- Salvage
- Retain items
Two simple pairs of defaults that would pretty much resolve loot drop/inventory issues for most people, I'd guess.
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Garbage white stuff is RR, and the rest is N/G.
But:
1.) nobody cares about white vendor trash
2.) everybody needs everything anyway
So just set everything to auto-need? Streamlines things and makes fewer boxes pop up on screen to distract people and block view of things. Or maybe set it to round robin everything? I guess you'd have to do some tests to see what is more 'fair' distribution.
Say 1 VR thing drops in a TFO.
If auto-need everyone technically has a chance at it.
If RR, 4 people have no chance at it cause it dropped off that end boss and it just happened to be Player 4s turn for loot.
With RR you are 'guaranteed' to get stuff. It may be garbage, but you get stuff.
With auto-need RNG, you could run a TFO and get absolutely nothing or absolutely everything.
Or get rid of all loot drops in TFOs and just give all players a random loot box at the end along with their marks? Could even be a 'here's X things, pick one' type of box. We already have that mechanic in game already.
There are plenty of different ways to drop loot. All have pros/cons.
Round-Robin already exists as a loot option, if you team up manually.
But Queues always set to Need/Greed, and it is just completely superflous.
Wrong. It is objectively bad, because your screen is cluttered with additional UI elements al lthe time that you don't actually need, because there is no meaningful choice to be made.