Greetings everyone!
Today's QOTW is short and sweet, and about looting! We've talked about looting before, but read carefully, you may find something new...

This topic was taken from this post, courtesy of community member babylon, who wants to know:

While we are still testing final looting mechanics and some of design is open for tweaking, we aim to create a uniform and easy to learn looting system that will provide players with the sense of challenge but also of reward when they defeat their opponents. Looting for PvE and PvP will be somewhat similar as a result, and if you recall some of our previous discussions and commentary on insurance, you'll be pleased to know players will have a second chance at preserving their property via automatic item recovery after death. However comforting this may be, keep in mind this item recovery will be within a very limited time period and at a high price. We are striving to ensure that the mechanics that irritate us and our players the most like "corpse runs" can be minimized and actually avoided. For those of you who actually want to go that route, though, you can run back to your corpse and grab the loot yourself. If you really want to make that corpse run, we certainly aren't going to stop you, but in terms of saving money, you might find you don't have loot to grab once you get back, depending on the circumstances involved. Dying is a risk!

As currently designed, players can look forward to getting a piece of the loot pie, which will be determined based on their contribution in combat and on the party looting options (if they are in a party). We look forward to sharing full details regarding our current implementation regarding loot rights, but we've got a few tiny details we want to work out and finish testing first. It should be worth the wait, and we look forward to your input on that.

That's all we've got for this week, stay tuned next week as we're working on another lore preview (which may or may not happen, that's just the plan).
~ m.

Have you considered making looting concessions for a healer's contribution to a group during combat?  Or will combat healing not be time consuming enough to warrant him not dishing out damage as well?

Eagerly awaiting info on the full loot system. I'm most curious about the possibility of friendly players, or your squad mates, being able to pick up your loot when you die. IE being close to your friends in a fight lets them snag your stuff and hand it back when you get back.

Also from what that sounds like the return time to get back into combat won't be all that long making it risky but plausible to make it back to your corpse. That would mean that you don't have to have a 5 minute downtime with every death.

EDIT: I wonder what happens to your robot assistants when you die. Do they crash and burn as well or do they just hang around waiting for you to get back? Will the inventory in them be lootable and can you buy back anything in the assistant?

Can you make it so they have to pay to get the timer? or so they can save money on their insurance by dismissing the timer?

This was sort of answered here:


Not too definitive I know, but it shows the direction they are going with.

There's also this:

Source:  Earthrise-Portal.de: Interview with Atanas Atanasov

This.

But, I would like to see a "random" system like in WoW. If you give us the basic options like, FFA, dice rolling and "master looter" (from WoW, where the group leader will be the person to devide the loot) then everything will be allright I guess.


But I have to agree abit that I find this a rather.. slim question of the week.. But it is okay. I know you are busy trying to invite me for beta 

So yeah? This means that if you die by a mob, you can infact still be looted?At least you can do a corpse run, so if you know where you died you can get it, but how long will the body stay up? Or am I missing something completely?

I must admit I'm a bit disapointed that there is no free-for-fall looting, and that its a squad based looting system.