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Originally Posted by Sirken
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item loot is in. so stop crying about a system that wont exist here on p99, and start brain storming a way to make it fun.
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The only way to achieve that in a game like EQ is to discard the concept of zero-sum item loot.
One item per kill, selectable only from the set of droppable items equipped by the victim at the time of death and wearable by the killer's race/class/deity. Upon looting, generate a NODROP, NORENT copy of the chosen item for the killer, with the additional condition that it disappears on death (preventing players from circumventing the NORENT property by saving the item on a corpse).
The original item must also be flagged in some fashion so that it can't be "looted" more than once, in order to make it impossible to farm several copies of desirable items by repeatedly killing the owner of the originals.
Of course these mechanics would require special case code and DB modification that might not be feasible, or even possible, given how rigid EQEmu is.