MoBs' corpses decay time has been shortened : STOP THEM looting players' characters !!
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See the message, double-click the BoS and target the item. Takes no more than a few seconds. Unless it´s a ring or such tiny item, then it might take a few more seconds to find it in the backpack.
As for the rest of the items such as petals and other consumables. Carry multiple stacks of each. Figure out some decoy items that the mobs will loot first and carry those as well.
The devs have provided us with plenty of tools already to combat losing stuff.
On Siege we can lose half our suit to monsters. We res up, go back half naked (*gasp* You can do that?), find a way to defeat the monster and take back our items.
I understand the shorter decay timer on certain monsters makes taking back your stuff a bit harder but that´s where things like insurance and BoSs come into play.
If there´s no risk in the game then what´s the point of playing it?
What for ?
Players are there for these drops.
Players spend their time to get these drops.
Players want/need to get these drops.
What is the point, purpose, reason for, therefore, having MoBs loot these drops from players' corpses ?
There is no reason whatsoever that MoBs are coded to loot them, and, to my opinion, they should not loot them, period.
It is all about time.....
That is, to save up time, not to increase the expenditure of time....
EASY.
It's a legacy system from back when the game wasn't quite so item-intensive. We can only assume back when they initially included this system it was supposed to create a little bit of relationship between you and the mob that killed and looted you. "That Orc took my bandages, he's going to pay!"
But, a single dropped item in this event does equal a lot of play time invested. And since there isn't a timer or function where if you are looted by a mob once you can't get looted again for X amount of minutes (allowing you to re-gear and insure the rest of your items) you might find yourself in a downward spiral against your looter. It's killed you again and again and taken all of your things again and again. This is where an added bit of (minor) difficulty and a cute way the game tries to engage with your actions becomes bad game design. A system designed to engage becomes punishing.
As others have suggested in this thread, there are plenty of ways to circumvent this. But those ways being viable doesn't change the fact that eventually gameplay systems go bad. In our nearly quarter-century old game I think we're too quick to suggest an in-game band aid over a meaningful system update.
What's not working for me, as in, what bums me out A LOT, is when you get the message you can't receive a gift if you're dead (I'm paraphrasing). When rez'd nothing drops into pack. When I get back to kill what killed me I don't find it as loot. And the clock seems to reset on getting another drop.
So, I was due for a drop but didn't receive it because I died? Well, that sucks.
But yeah, drops are too few and far between to lose them. I don't mind insuring them or using a bag of sending or recalling and stashing it then flying back to the dungeon. But I'm not liking the not getting the intended drop because I'm being handed a death robe instead.
Edited because of a poorly structured sentence.
Powder is like 5K a charge on VS. I have tons of powder esp when I do sea chests for sending all the gold to bank.
Make a Char that can survive more than 1 sec.
I use area peace than invis both are on a macro and I play the CC also have a pet that destroyes them a Chiv/AI Cu works wonders, oh wait you don't even want to take the time to get a good trained pet alls you want to do is WHINE WHINE WHINE
Your argument is that "you don't want to waste time" but when you die (and you seem like you die a lot) and losing drops that's a double waste of time. So pick your poison of what you waste time on. You are also wasting time coming here to complain about something that is clearly only something YOU have an issue with.
As someone else also mentioned - another option is to carry some recall runes on you as sacrifice to the balron gods.
Or just keep doing what you are doing and complaining about it here.... what's the definition of insanity again?
Losing one's own earned Demonic Forces Artifact drops has nothing to do with "risk", it only makes the entire endeavour annoying and frustrating.
A player spends like 15 minutes to get a drop only to see it go "poof" because the Developers decided to turn the decay timer of MoBs way too low to permit to players to recover it after they get ressed, resupplied and all that ?
And this, mind you, in a Dungeon where, when crowded, MoBs drop left and right a go-go....
The chances that a player can get back to whatever MoB looted them in time before the corpse decay, with the decay timer having been set so short, are close to non-existant...
I say it again, with this timer set as so short, the ability for MoBs to loot Treasures of Artifact drops from killed players' characters should be turned off althogether.
Oh, and it should be a Macro which would not need the player to actually need to target the actual Artifact drop.... it should be a Macro that does it all, automatically, only needing from the player the pressing of a key, nothing else....
So much, that I posted about it here https://forum.uo.com/discussion/9549/kyronix-this-is-not-funny-re-you-cant-receive-a-gift-when-you-are-dead-message
Why do players need to use WORK AROUNDS like bags of sending or insuring drops when the right way to go would be simply TURNING OFF in the code the ability for MoBs to loot Treasure of Artifact drops ?
I mean, why use "patched up" solutions when there would be a "main" way to fix and solve the issue once and for all ??
Just turn off for good already, the damn ability of MoBs to loot Treasures of Artifact drops !!!
They rarely loot items from me. I told you carry the paragon chest you find, they love to loot those.
I opened one yesterday that had 3 items in it. I lost no petals. Also they like runes and gems.
Would be perhaps to simply bless all drops
That way there would be zero risk of losing and seeing as how people have invested time and real life money that is only fair
To go even further to correct this grave injustice I'd suggest and this is just an idea of course which may or may not work
Just give each player 1000 blessed drops to make up for the unspeakable horror we had to endure wondering if the mean balron had in fact looted our body as we gently tried to kill it
If said monsters would just hand over loot the might in fact be no need for killing at all
So to clarify let's make love not war and 1000 blessed drops for all
At least that's how I see it..
Do you know of any other game that has MOBS that fucking loot your drops? I think that's cool as hell that they can do that and you have to go try n get em back. It's not unfair, u know it happens and that it's a mechanic since day 1.
The drops are worth like 5m each. You can't take 5 seconds to click the context menu to insure it?
Seriously bags of sending are a thing. Insurance is a thing. Oh no you have to buy powder? Well if you bothered to insure just 1 drop instead of getting it looted that would be 5-freaking-mil you can spend on powder. So @ 100k a charge that's 50 powder for every single time u don't insure a drop and lose it.
BTW your drops aren't decaying. The guy who kills that enemy gets them. Dead enemies can't loot you and since you died, the enemy must still be alive, so apparently your drops aren't being wasted, they are being redistributed to players who avenge your death.
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