Thanks dan I will check and make sure I was viewing all in rule_values. I have begun to change all +stat items to no drop! I chopped my item database down to 30k entries from 90k by getting rid of every item added to the db after 2004. Hopefully I'm not missing any old school items that way.
gravy you are really good at thinking these sorts of things through, I'm really inpressed. I'm not a big fan of laying out rules personally. I think that unless you can enforce it consistently there shouldn't be a rule. In general whatever a player CAN do they should have a right to do that. Make things that I don't want people to do very difficult but not "against the rules". For example I set it so my server only allows a person to log one instance of the game per ip address. If they can find a way around that by using mobile internet so they can get 2 boxes up, that is their perogative. There really wouldn't be a way for me to enforce consistently "hey it looks like you are boxing but I can't be sure" you know what I mean? Also I HATE when devs punish people for their own mistakes by making "bug exploitation" against the rules! That is shittyest thing I can imagine to be banned for doing something that was the devs fault for allowing in the code, and that has happened to me before. I am very libertarian
when it comes to these sorts of things lol.
But ya it looks like most drops go ffa after 2.5 mins anyway. But I think that should be shortened to 30 seconds to prevent like you said people trying to sell drops on the ground. Yeh you would miss out if you died but things aren't going to be perfect you have to choose the lesser of two evils when making a game. I think that downside is outweighed by the upside. Mabye I could make it to 1 min before it goes ffa so someone could be rezzed a little more comfortably and still beat the ffa timer. Mabye if someone is afraid of dying they will get a cleric to stand around ready to rez just in case so they don't miss the loot window.
But ya of course I will tell everyone the settings my server has so people are well aware beforehand which is what I'm thinking you are meaning now by saying you are a big proponent of laying out the rules. My server will be open source too so people can even look in the database and see exactly what all the settings are.
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