Looting Rules

[maskedmelon]

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

Sure go-ahead and loot

best advice. good luck OP. thank you for consulting us first! ^^

[loramin]

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

No, It wasn't.

Originally Posted by bum3 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I was a guide on Tunare. Maybe I'm remembering wrong.

Let us not forget that live had many servers, and the rules were definitely not uniform between them.

So maybe one of you is wrong, but maybe neither of you are.

[Jimjam]

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

I wonder if this is relevant. Can we make the abstraction that a corpse is a vendor who sells his items for free?

No, a corpse is more like a communal bank for the force that created it, that destroys itself and any items in it after 7-30 mins.

[Whirled]

Where would be the threshold of "what is ok to loot" and "what is not"?
Orc pawn picks = ok to loot?
Drolvarg teeth = not?
Would anyone actually petition over such common drop loot though?
inb4, How dare you take my bone chips!
Dude, I saw you loot my a goblin warrior corpse. Give me back that 9 gold & onyx!!!!

[jolanar]

If you loot a corpse in an empty forest, does it make a sound?

[Nilstoniakrath]

So if some dumb @$$ bard drops a corpse on top of a mob I am killing, and runs to the other side of the zone, and I loot his mob by accident, that is ban-able? Nice

[bum3]

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

Let us not forget that live had many servers, and the rules were definitely not uniform between them.

So maybe one of you is wrong, but maybe neither of you are.

I asked a friend who worked for SOE up until Daybreak let his team go. He said for me to stfu and apologize. That it doesn't matter and GM/guides are never wrong. =) So I apologize. I, clearly, forgot my place as a pixel civilian.

[myriverse]

A wise quote from the EQ USENET group, circa Feb 2000:

"If you value your reputation, ask before looting someone else's kill, no matter how long they have left it there."

(emphasis mine)

But people who get pissy about loot they leave to rot are just bringing bad karma on themselves.

[Lagaidh]

I've played here off and on for a while and I've never been above looking in on a corpse that's been left behind.

I have yet to receive a single tell...

/shrug ymmv

If somebody did make a stink over a fine steel 2-hander and the jade shard, I'd give it back, apologize, and make a mental note of whether or not this person's a dick. Just hasn't happened in six years+ of play.

[fadetree]

I remember people doing loot locks where they would park a character in loot on a mob past the unlock time waiting for the intended looter to arrive.