Ok well after last nights fiasco at Nea's I decided to make this post about splitting the value of an looted item between the team members.
This is why I see it as being unfair towards the looter.
The way I see this is that
MA tracks everything you spend and loot as a player and not as a team. They do how ever track damage and split the stackables according to that. That amount also gets reflected on your record of loot. So if one player for argues sake loots an item to the value of 100 ped and then some stackables in a ten man team it will show in the records that that player got 100 PED + the TT of the stackables from the loot pool and the rest got the stackables TT from the loot pool. Not show everyone got 10 ped + their stackables from the loot pool. There is no way of also saying that that person would not have looted something to the same value if he went and hunted alone and the chanses is good that that person would have.
Now the problem I see in this is that its a potential 100 PED less loot your likely to get as you have already been marked as looting it so in splitting the value of that item your in fact being cheated out of your own loot.
Some may argue that some noobs score it lucky soon off and gain a nice big loot perhaps even with a extremely rare item but I believe that that noob will also experience worse returns then the rest till his record is rebalanced so in asking that person to split it just depletes his PEDs and does not change the fact that he’s going to lose more in hunting for some time. That’s why I would nether ask anyone to split the value of the items they looted in my team even if that person is a complete noob. Ill be a bit upset if a noob looted like an ML-35 and I got a few 100 PEDs worth of loot purely because I wanted that item but that still does not change my view on the splitting of the value of that item or TT of that item.
I don’t usually hunt in teams or do Swunt so if I was informed that items must be split I would not have joined the team. If someone from
MA can however confirm that the entire teams loot value gets evenly distributed in the records even though they looted different amounts I will split the TT value of the item between the team but I highly doubt that
MA will do it that way as its highly unfair towards those that got like 1 animal oil res but gets marked as taking 50 animal oil res from the loot pool. The reason why I say its on a per player basis and not on a team basis is because of the add system. Its unlikely that
MA will penalize everyone in the team if someone in the team has their adds turned off and does not gain access to the higher loot as there is no way of knowing who has adds turned on or off so the team can not choose to not allow that person. Then there is also the fact that some could have spent more then the others on killing the mob and thus deserves more loot.
I see a player’s record as being similar to a bank account. You deposit into it (spent ammo / decay / resources used) and you withdraw from it (loot). So if your bank account goes into the red you first have to deposit to get it back in the green before you can withdraw again. Sometimes you get credit and can withdraw more then your limit but you always have to pay that amount back in the end. You dont have the freedom to withdraw the amount you please when it suits you as
MA is a wery uptight bank.
This thread is intended on hearing everyone’s views on how loot is distributed on player and team basses and if it is fair to split the value of a looted item between the team members or not. So I ask if anyone ells still thinks I stole from them last night by not wanting to split the TT of the item this is not the place to complain about it and to please take it up with
MA. As I said if
MA confirms that everyone in the team gets recorded as taking the same amount from the loot pool or if it does not make a difference towards future loots I will split the value of the item with the team but pure speculation is not enoth of a reason.
If you vote please also provide a reason for your vote.