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When Is Loot generated before or after kill?

relaxed83
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What I mean is when I loot a boss or monster is the loot predetermined when I engage the mob or when I loot the corpse?
  • s7732425ub17_ESO
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    Does it matter?
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  • Kammakazi
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    I'm 100% sure that loot is already generated whenever the zone is first loaded.

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  • Psyonico
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    I'm going with when the kill happens

    Edit: to expand on that, the reason I think that is because then the server does not need to store information on loot that may never be claimed.
    Edited by Psyonico on June 28, 2016 11:30PM
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  • Lord_Wrath
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    I think of it as a slot machine that stops when killed.
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  • Johngo0036
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    I would think that it is generated per enemy and on killing them,
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  • KhajitFurTrader
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    Psyonico wrote: »
    I'm going with when the kill happens

    Edit: to expand on that, the reason I think that is because then the server does not need to store information on loot that may never be claimed.
    It's called "lazy evaluation": don't burn CPU cycles or use up memory for storing values on calculations that aren't needed yet, if at all.

    There is a loot table attached to every type of mob. On the death of a particular mob of any kind, one or more random values are determined, which are then used as an indices on the mob type's loot table. The items that correspond to that roll(s) are then instanced ("created") and put into the dead mob's loot "container". Any items that are not looted by the player are destroyed when the dead mob is despawend.

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  • Stannum
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    As loot alters for each group member I gues it's not pregenerated.
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  • Dimski
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    Schroedinger's cat plays TESO?
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  • Stannum
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    Schroedinger's cat plays TESO?

    Yep, Kena has her helmet and has no one at the same time until killed.
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