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Auto looting vs auto distribution
User	Tennessee Ernie Ford
Categories	Mechanics

Proposal: add truly automatic looting to the game

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

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).

See also

• Gold, Loot, Karma (Rewards) — an alternative suggestion that also results in less work for the player.

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