Feedback:User/Tennessee Ernie Ford/Auto looting vs auto distribution

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Proposal: add truly automatic looting to the game[edit]

I propose that ANet expand the looting options to three choices:

  • Manual looting: same as current default — player must find corpse, press the action key, and decide which items to keep.
    (I predict players will use this only after they become very, very rich.)
  • Automatic distribution: same as current auto-looting — player must find the corpse and press the action key, but all items are moved into inventory.
  • Automatic looting: whenever the character is near a lootable corpse, all items are automatically distributed into inventory.
    (I predict nearly everyone uses this for the first few months.)

Background: Auto looting vs automatic distribution[edit]

Currently, the game option called Auto looting is limited: it doesn't loot automatically, it merely automatically distributes loot into inventory. It has three issues:

  • You must seek out the vaguely-sparkly corpses.
  • You must be careful to avoid being close to other interactive objects (NPCs, environmental weapons, downed players, ...).
  • You must be quick or risk losing the loot (the timing is much better now than after BWE/1).

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