Looting rules for pickup groups ?Follow

Up until reciently I didn't care to much about loot The pp you got in pick up groups was not worth the hassel of dealing with it. When I needed money I would go farm. But now that I am get into areas with better loot I find that now I care. Problem is tanks/puller never loots and it seems in all most every situation I am in, The ML most often the cleric or chanter either leave the group before I do or I have to leave for real life issue and I never get any loot from these groups. I am looking for advise as to how it is best to handel. What I have been doing is stoping to loot mobs in proportion to the number of people in group. what do you think


Edited, Mon Dec 19 11:43:04 2005 by Trablin

Edited, Mon Dec 19 11:48:20 2005 by Trablin

It is easier if the pickup group is for a specific purpose, say an LDoN or DoN. Then you should insist one person be the ML and they should be required to split at some designated spot after the adventure. If anyone does not care for split, they can say so and leave whenever they want. If you make your intentions known from the outset, most people will try to accomodate you. If they loot and leave after that, well they just bought a spot on your ignore for future group list.

For more fluid groups like PoV where people can come and go, the looter should link the drops so people can say whether they want in or not. It is tough for plat in these situations. I would have everyone loot and have split turned on.

Autosplit on for pickup groups. Everyone has a right to call a roll on anything looted if they are interested. Then generally I will just balance my looting based on what everyone else is doing. If corpses are rotting I'll loot more, if I see people running up to corpses I just looted I'll back off some.

Yeah we all know this, but if split is on (yes off if there is a monk who asks you to turn it off) you have more chance of getting a fairer split when everyone is looting. But in that case, you must take your turn and not rely on everyone else to loot. Yes, the absolute fairest way is to have a ML who loots all and SELLS all then splits at the end.

Trouble is, some tradeskills stuff or other drops are worth more NOT sold to NPCs and most people do not care who gets these odds and ends. If it is something rare or valuable and you do not want to get hosed selling it to a PC then you roll.

I never like ML is a pick-up group unless its like a LDON or DON mission where people generally stay till your done. But in a normal pick up group 9 times out of 10 people will come and go throughout the day. In those situtations it seems like the ML ends up keeping all the loot. As a perosn who isn't sitting on 10000k of PP in my bank I want my share. I think it should be FFA without people being greedy. Far as gear and such that drops it should all be randomed.