On my server, it seemed to progress pretty quickly kunark era from mostly NBG to FFA. And I don't think that was really a terrible move: when it comes down to it, a lot of classes get hosed in straight NBG, and this likely makes specific camps a lot harder to actually find the required classes for, etc.
Basically, I just always insisted that the loot 'rules' were set upon joining, and enforced (hopefully by myself, or somebody i trusted, but generally people seem pretty reasonable) I used to put together groups with fairly strange loot rules, but as long as they were fair and set in the beginning, people almost always played nice, and I think that's the most important part of the whole deal: If the entire group agrees on NBG rules, or whatever <i>before the mobs start dying</i>, it takes a ninja-looter to mess things up, not just somebody deciding that they deserve big_ticket_item_01 when it actually drops.
I would bet that it's almost inevitable that sometime in the kunark era, FFA will become the predominant loot model, but until then I think people just need to make sure everything is taken care of beforehand.
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