"Need before greed"

[Axlrose]

For those groups that have a roll on everything:

- Do you roll on vendor trash items? As Secrets mentions, "Plat has value", so every bone chip, rusty weapon, and spider silk has value!

- Once you "win" a roll, do you let everybody else eventually win an item too, or are you rolling on each and every item, because again, everything has value?

It appears Project 1999 is pushing players to be loot whores over friendly game play. I disagree that "plat has value" in a monetary sense since a game like Eve Online does place value upon ISK (game currency) since it can translate into subscription time. Since this game does not have a subscription, basically it comes down to platinum becomes an element of time spent (or wasted, depending upon your view). Thus every item has value on potentially less time spent camping for platinum which can buy improvements to camp for bigger ticket platinum items to transfer into greater improvements to ... etc., etc., etc.

Before I used to be very against real money transfers since i viewed games like this as "fun, with a bit of luck to win something nice". But since everything should be rolled upon since everything has value that eventually translates into time, then if I have the (illegal) means to advance without spending the time and have the real life resources to spend, why not? Let someone else perform the grind and roll for everything while I can reward them and get rewarded simultaneously.

Good thing I solo in a group atmosphere game. Some group members would annoy me to no end...