Why 50 meters??

Blackwidow

Shared Chests – Each player in the group whose character is within 50 meters of the chest when it is unlocked will get an individual roll on the chest.

Why not share the chest if they are in the dungeon anywhere?

What, the rest of the group stole his stuff if he was 51 meters away? Oh wait, no it just will not be there.....

Why?

Are you just trying to find ways to *** off your customers?

When you design something, think to yourself "USER FRIENDLY"

Smk

You're complaining about this issue when there are far greater problems on the chalk board? Personally the concept before where only one person could get the loot was better, you should be happy you can attempt to receive it now.

ZOS has got to be swamped as I'm sure your already aware of, lets give them constructive feedback to help with this broken game before it gets any worse.

Liquid_Time

50 meters is fine. Run the dungeon a second time and stay a bit closer to your group.

Swordguy

I doubt any of the devs are in the mood to risk giving bot farmers anything to 'sploit.

UrQuan

My gut says that 50m is pretty far, so it should be absolutely fine. Probably the only way you won't be inside that 50m is if you died and you're running back to your group while one of them opens the shared chest. This seems far preferable to me than "whoever sees the chest first gets it".

Of course, I'll wait until I've played a few dungeons with this in place before making a final judgment on it.

Blackwidow

I promise you there will be people coming to the forums posting complaints about this when it happens to them.

There was no reason to set it to 50 meters.

I know you guys just want to defend ZOS, but if you actually stopped to think about it, it was a bad call.

Galen_the_Black

Having a group gather around a chest as it's opened is normal for a proper group. You can tell who the trolls are when they run away to something shiny thus missing out on the loot and then complaining.

Also, players who simply open the chest without calling attention first gets to go onto my ignore list so I'll know to never group up with them again.

Most groups I've been in have been kind enough to yell out when they see a chest and then checking to see who have not opened one yet. Now yelling that there's a chest will get the rest of the group to gather to that person's location. That's proper etiquette and fair mindedness.

The only people who I see complaining that 50 m is too short are those who lack those qualities as a person.

Just my 2 Septims. Go ahead and ignore it as is your right.

Blackwidow

@Galen_the_Black why let it happen at all is my point?

Why the arbitrary 50 meters?

Munku

Oh dear god....

First people complain that the sharing radius was 0 meters and now you complain about 50?

Jebus! Wake up and think for a moment...

Blackwidow

Munku wrote: »

Jebus! Wake up and think for a moment...

Clearly I'm the one not thinking clearly here. You all come to say it was worse, so be happy.

LOL!

Okay, you win. All hail ZOS!

Galen_the_Black

Blackwidow wrote: »

@Galen_the_Black why let it happen at all is my point?

Why the arbitrary 50 meters?

I suspect that the way they implemented the chest sharing is via an AOE spell effect. It's the only thing I can think of for the 50m limit.

If they implemented the share effect via the group function then there would not be any issues as to range as you can see your group mates caret even if you are in another zone halfway across the world.

It's a guess, but an informed guess.

Edit:
Now that I think more about it, implementing the chest sharing via the group function is a terrible idea. It would allow a very high level player to solo the dungeons with a group of alts and farm the chests by having alts wait outside the dungeon in the city resulting in the players getting 4 times the loot for each chest.

Although having to limit the group sharing to everyone in the dungeon only is a viable alternative. Not sure if the group function has that functionality built in or if they have to code it in first.

A ranged effect is a better idea as it adds to the suspension of disbelief. In real life people will want to crowd around the treasure chest anyways, or at least stand close to it.

My 2 Septims

Blackwidow

Galen_the_Black wrote: »

Edit:
Now that I think more about it, implementing the chest sharing via the group function is a terrible idea. It would allow a very high level player to solo the dungeons with a group of alts and farm the chests by having alts wait outside the dungeon in the city resulting in the players getting 4 times the loot for each chest.

Before the patch there were at least 15 chests to a dungeon. If a high level wanted all 15 chests he could get them. Now there are only two chests per dungeon.

Now, the best he can do is loot two chests with 4 people = 8 chests.

It is an improvement, at least by the math.