Starting A Low/Mid Rate Server

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Well, you try to pick up all that stuff with 100ms lag. You spend twice as much time picking stuff than actually killing.

[P4rD0nM3]

Any other suggestions

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Stop pestering me in-game :P

[Skotlex]

Well, you try to pick up all that stuff with 100ms lag. You spend twice as much time picking stuff than actually killing.

What "all that stuff"? That almost sounds as if you had 100x drops or higher for there to be "all that stuff" after killing a bunch of mobs. I even like it that way because there's compromise when it comes to mobbing: if you mob too much, you may not be able to pick up the loot. And then there's priority: just pick the loot that will pay off the most, no need to pick every scell.

But then again, players have grown used to having the pie and eating it too, as the saying goes. -.-

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Mob? When you're mobbing, you're at the level where you only pick up the rare stuff anyways.

With a lag the more actions you do the more frustrated you are, picking up items is a LOT of actions. And there's a lot of "stuff" to pick up at any rate but 1x.

[Skotlex]

And there's a lot of "stuff" to pick up at any rate but 1x.

Uh... we are on a thread about a 1x rates server, aren't we? Didn't you just supported my notion that @autoloot shouldn't be available on this PGN server? :B

In general I do not like @autoloot, but I understand how annoying it can be to try to pick all items when you are playing anything with higher drop rates, which is why my solution is a different @autoloot that is not as exploitable as eA's.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

Oh? What is it?

[Loki]

Basically picks up all the loots that are close to you, automatically. You click on one loot, and your character will pick most of the loot nearest it.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

So it's like that Whitesmith quest skill?

That's a nice way to do it.

[P4rD0nM3]

Where can I get that or read up on that one?

[bulbasteve]

So it's like that Whitesmith quest skill?

That's a nice way to do it.

Well it's like it but it actually will pick them up one at a time so that Whitesmiths are still very useful in making sure you can loot really fast. So it really just takes away the annoying clicking part with all the lag problems you talked about while keeping it so that you don't just get everything in your inventory automatically and still have to wait a bit while picking stuff up.

[Skotlex]

I should probably merge that into eA's codebase when I get back into eA development. I haven't done so in the past because it is a bit of a larger change, so it'd be quite a bit of code for a custom feature. But thinking about how terrible the love/hate relationship is regarding @autoloot, I should add it even if just to give people out there a chance to use something else.

The technique is quite simple. If you turn on autoloot, when you click on a drop, your char will try to pick up all loot around him (5x5 area, which is the normal area that the server allows you to pick stuff from) one item at a time, with a 300ms delay (which is the right interval to let the pick-up animation display without chopping up). It lasts until you try to walk or there's no more loot you can pick.

[Anti-Static Foam Cleaner]

But does it calculate most optimum route from loot to loot?

I must admit to being wrong though - P4rD0nM3 actually turned off the autoloot(At least I hope he did, if not something blew up) and it's not nearly as bad as I thought, I can lag-ride it just like everything else.

It really IS most customless server in existence now.

[Lin]

Besides finding that infiltrator in that giant pile of mess is so much better then it magically appearing in your inventory. 

[P4rD0nM3]

But does it calculate most optimum route from loot to loot?

I must admit to being wrong though - P4rD0nM3 actually turned off the autoloot(At least I hope he did, if not something blew up) and it's not nearly as bad as I thought, I can lag-ride it just like everything else.

It really IS most customless server in existence now.

I turned it off @autoloot, @autoexp and @commands off. I promised to bring the closest thing to an official server.