Curious about opinions re: large cash drop while afk

[bulbousaur]

This past weekend my group worked its way to crypt camp in Seb. The Heiro wasn't up so we sat in his room and half the group went afk (we didn't know when he would spawn). He spawned a minute or so later and of course dropped the cloak.

We rolled and one player won the roll. A few minutes later another who was afk came back and asked if he should be able to roll seeing as he was afk when the mob spawned.

The general consensus was that he should - we didn't know the Heiro would spawn so quickly, and it's not like he'd been afk 20 minutes.

Well, he rolled and beat the previous winner's roll by 1.

The previous winner handed it over, but wasn't happy. Later he asked that the sale price of the cloak be split between himself and the last winner, although the second winner said that he would actually wear the robe.

I'm curious as to what the general community thinks about this situation?

[Enderenter]

In that situation, I think it was right to let everyone roll. If the group has been together for a while killing mobs and someone goes afk for a short period of time (somewhat subjective) they shouldn't be penalized.

[Bboboo]

Minus 10 or 100 from his roll.

[Jontheripper]

The winner should have given the previous winner whatever cloak he was using before.

[Faron]

Agree to rules upfront and then there's no question.

How many posts until "if this were on red. . . "?

[Kreylyn]

Originally Posted by Faron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agree to rules upfront and then there's no question.

How many posts until "if this were on red. . . "?

I'm gonna guess on the 5th one.

As for the OP question...

If all members helped get you to that point so that you could make the kill, does it matter that they were afk a moment for the kill?

Wouldn't to me.

If they didn't help at all, then that might be an issue.

Krey

[portbitch69]

since you were gonna let the afk'ers roll anyway, yall should have waited to roll untill everyone was back from afk

[Cecily]

The person AFK was a contributing part of the group. They deserved a roll and nothing forced you guys to sit in the room that had a spawn pending, knowing that all of your group might not be there.

The person who won deserves the cloak and has no further responsibility.

[fastboy21]

Originally Posted by Faron [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Agree to rules upfront and then there's no question.

^^^

There is no "right" or "wrong"---its all about adhering to what was agreed upon. If you agreed to NBG the cloak great. Random great. FFA great. All of them equally as "good", especially in a pick-up group.

Just agree on it before hand and don't break the rules. Don't cry if you don't like the rules after you don't get whatever loot drops. If you don't like the rules, don't stay in the group.

[Cecily]

This is a special case that you couldn't agree to beforehand.