What's the rule/etiquette regarding looting the kills of others?

[Troxx]

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

for the most part, we all now the so-many-times it is super okay to loot some rotting FS and nobody cares or quite the opposite and they'd probably be happy someone enjoys the 5pp instead of the item rotting if someone would ask them. These situations are easy to spot; random corpse alone, dude is killing far away and clearly not looting anything, above level for the zone, etc. many hints lead us to understand it's okay.

I think that's absolutely the case and most here understand that the majority of the time the person doing the killing doesn't care. Having said that, the very first time somebody does care, having looted a thing you didn't kill you'll find yourself squarely in the wrong and at the mercy of the GMs - warning/suspension/ban.

The rule is easy: If you didn't kill it you don't get to loot it.

The etiquette: Assume nothing and just ask the person who killed it if it's ok. It's the nice thing to do.

[Frudrura]

I been looting shit for generations, never been suspended.

[Larethan]

There's a reason why corpses unlocked before rotting on live. If the developers had wanted to perma-lock to the owner, or give the owner the ability to unlock with a click, they could have easily written that code but they did not.

The truth of this thread is that unlocked corpses were intended to be FFA, but because the GM's here don't wanna deal with griefers and dickheads they simplify their lives by creating a rule that overrides a classic mechanic.

So the rule is not classic, like many things on the server, but it's not necessarily a bad thing either. This server has it's own unique identity and I'm not going to bitch about little quality of life rules being implemented.

[port9001]

Context matters.

Killer left a corpse with a valuable item on it? Better ask just in case.

Killer leaving fine steel behind as they mow down high keep guards? Probably fine, might wanna ask if you're gonna do it a lot.

[aaezil]

I like how people keep posting their irrelevant opinions in here as if a GM didnt already come and post the ruling in here.

[port9001]

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

I like how people keep posting their irrelevant opinions in here as if a GM didnt already come and post the ruling in here.

True. That said, I'd like to think people aren't dickish enough to petition cause a newbie loots a rotting fine steel long sword off a dead guard they were too lazy to loot in time. That's probably giving some people too much credit though.

[Neno]

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

The truth of this thread is that unlocked corpses were intended to be FFA, but because the GM's here don't wanna deal with griefers and dickheads they simplify their lives by creating a rule that overrides a classic mechanic.

I don't think you could follow a raid around and wait for the timer to expire while slamming your /loot hotkey to snag some items during any point on live.

[azeth]

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

This. From kill time, to 5 min, only the group/player can loot. That is their window. After that, it is indeed FFA. Like it was told to me, if you wanted it that bad, you had 3 minutes to take it.

absolutely blown away anyone could actually think this is correct. there's no way this isn't a troll post right?

[Loadsamoney]

So we just had a Rogue in High Keep whining that he was unfairly kicked from his group because he was pickpocketing the goblins, denying the rest of his party their loot, including ears. Is this against the rules and the PnP as well, or just scummy, frowned upon behavior but not in violation of anything?

[YendorLootmonkey]

I like this guy... he keeps properly bringing cases here to Elf Court for the rules lawyers to make their arguments. Move to RnF for advanced lawyering.