Fridgecritter 2X Diablo 2 random loot

[Cvinion]

First thanks for a the fun server man, Im having tons of fun playing here, but secondly I was just curiois as to if you have an idea of how long it will be before the custom loot tables are implimented, any updates on this would be really appreciated. I jsut like staying on top of things to know what the next big thing is going to be.

[Fridgecritter]

This afternoon I will be running all the queries on the tables, this should take about an hour or so, then I will implement them if I have time. If not, then it will be tomorrow morning before they are implemented. I want to make sure I get it right this time.

Also, I don't want to flood this forum with issues like this. The website is up at http://www.fridgecritter.com and the forums will be up this morning. You can post there. Thanks.

[Fridgecritter]

Here are the statistics for random drops:

100% of mobs in the game with loot tables associated with them have a 35% chance to drop added items randomly along with the regular loot that was already in the loot table.

Levels 1-10 mobs have chance to drop added items up to level 15 and or items with a recommended level of 20.

Levels 11-20 mobs have a chance to drop items up to level 25 and or items with a recommended level of 30.

Levels 21-30 mobs have a chance to drop items up to level 35 and or items with a recommended level of 40.

Are you seeing the pattern? You may get items that are a few levels higher than the mob's level, but not much over that.

At level 60+, Mobs will not drop items (other than items that are from the original drop table) that are level 49 or lower. This makes it so higher level mobs won't drop junk (if they didn't originally drop junk).

[Cvinion]

Great addition Fridge, Let's see how it works out. Very excited about getting my druid up some levlels and seeing how things go.

[Fridgecritter]

It seems to be working very well... I also added a little "extra" to bosses so they will drop some pretty good stuff along with their normal drops. After I'm done figuring out a few more bugs that people have submitted, I think it will be finished.

Having said that, does anyone have any interesting ideas for the server, keeping in mind that I don't want to stray too much from semi-custom?

All I have done so far is add some level appropriate drops, and up the exp rate, so I don't want to change the gameplay aspect very drastically in a way that makes the game totally different than live.

Maybe some added quests, or something... I don't know. PVP doesn't seem to be a viable choice since there are too many bugs that need to be worked out of the PVP system. Am I wrong about that? I read a few posts about PVP being broken, so I didn't even venture into that realm. Also, with a sparsely populated server, All it would be is PVE with the occasional naked kill because the player bagged their gear.

[Cvinion]

The drops and XP increase are amazing, I think the best route to go for a small population server is adding in Hot zones which i believe you may impliment, or have at least tried. Along with these hotzones i think another great idea would be smaller group related GM events, even running one per few days wouldn't be that hard, and with a helpful guide it would be easy as cake.

I'm not talking about throwing in epic quests, but just a small event here and there appropriatly scaled for level would be wonderful. Even adding small things such as an event where a small group of level ~50's would have to run into the Luggald caves in Dulak, Kill Captian Varns and receive small rewards that are slightly above the average of what is dropped.

Just some suggestions, I think the server is nearing an actual plateau where players can come, level and enjoy the game the way it was meant to be

[Cvinion]

Also as of 2:50pm EST the server is currently down, just a small FYI if you are reading this thread still.