Autoloot on Low-Rates

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I think autoloot is a really good quality of life feature. However, it is far more than just a convenience feature and changes the gameplay a lot. Everyone has their own opinions for and against each and every feature and autoloot is no exception.

One perspective to look at is that RO wasn't designed with the idea of players being able to automatically receive all the loots. So when you implement something for the convenience of players then you need to modify the design in a manner that would still retain a close proximity to the original design.

Autoloot saves a lot of time and once you're used to it, even the thought of going back to picking items is repulsive. It's so good that people are less likely to concern themselves with inflation or how this puts ranged classes as well as hard hitters mad teleporting in an otherwise difficult map to solo, at a serious advantage. It's much easier to adapt to such change and ask everyone to do the same as well. But the biggest drawback of all is the exploitable factor. In pservers, people run bots mostly just to farm items rather than leveling. The ability to auto-loot makes AFK farming possible even without the need to use programs like opencore that is easily caught due to the fact that it is completely AI controlled. While being able to bot with simple macros and being able to monitor your progress at the same time, you can easily take control and avoid the possibly of being caught in the likely event a staff comes to check on you.

Now many people might propose ways to counter it or minimize the impact with a lot of security options that will eventually prove an inconvenience to those who play fairly as well. Don't get me wrong here, I like the feature of auto-looting as well. Question is, how far will you go to provide players a convenience feature? Will you ignore the cons and go about punishing players who exploited a feature you decided to keep or will you go the distance and cause other forms of inconvenience for the sake of convenience?