Forum:You're not alone, thank you

Just need to vent off steam, here's what happened yesterday:

I was playing Borderlands with 3 random people. We were just going to Tannis the first time, and I went up to the gun chest. Inside were a crappy shotgun and a high-level sniper rifle. The sniper rifle bore the 'desert' prefix, the highest material grade from Dahl. Seeing my username is usually Desertfighter, I had created a character that collects weapons bearing said prefix. These weapons are pretty rare, so you can imagine I was really happy when I found my first Desert sniper. So, while I was standing there, checking the name on the weapon, one of these guys stood next to me and just picked it up. Now don't get me wrong, I can understand you want to pick up weapons. I can understand you want to pick up good weapons. But when someone in your party, who hadn't picked a SINGLE weapon so far, asks you to give him the weapon, DON'T BE A JERK AND GIVE IT TO HIM. This isn't where it ended though, when I asked for the weapon, the argument to not give it to me was: you're not a hunter, why would you use a sniper? %^&@$*^$$%@ I lost my rare weapon to some idiot who thinks Mordecai should always use a sniper and nobody else.

/rant

So, there's two things I wanted to conclude from what happened:

1: Don't be a jerk. When playing online, share the loot.

2: I was thinking how this could be prevented. Things I could do: Then I got thinking of how this could get fixed. The only thing I could think of was the use of a system that lets you specify guns you're looking for. Anything that doesn't fit the specifications can be picked up by everyone else. The rest of the loot will need something to determine who would get it. This could be a duel, but then the higher level will mostly win, giving them even better weapons. Perhaps it would be better if the game looks at who picked up most loot until that point, and then gives it to the lower. This way, people looking for specific guns will have a better chance of actually getting those guns when they find it.
 * Don't play online, but that gets boring quite fast, and not everyone is a jerk like this.
 * Play online with friends only. Friends are not always online, and they don't always want to play.
 * Grab everything you can and drop everything you don't want afterwards, which pretty much makes you one of them.

Desertfighter777 08:21, February 1, 2010 (UTC)