Monthly Archives: December 2008

Overview of Loot Systems

Zomgepics! The joy, the sor­row. The absolute headache for any­one run­ning a guild. This is a fol­lowup arti­cle to The Most Suc­cess­ful Loot Sys­tems. Any sys­tem that involves large teams and lim­ited loot (for exam­ple, PvE raid­ing in World of War­craft) requires a sys­tem to sort that loot out. If your 25-person group takes down […]

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Happy New Year and a New Design

The new year is a good time for change, and I fig­ured that a new coat of paint on the site would be nice (thanks to Regis Themes for the sweet new look). Not coin­ci­den­tally, I got tired of updat­ing the pre­vi­ous theme to work with ever more futur­is­tic ver­sions of Word­Press. Some stuff got […]

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I Jump On My Fallen Enemies

How to Pal­adin, how I miss you.

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Child’s Play can make you awesome

I’m not a fan of using images when words would do, but in this case I feel it’s war­ranted: Child’s Play, if you’re not aware of it, is a char­ity that gives video games, books, and toys to children’s hos­pi­tals. Any child unfor­tu­nate enough to be stuck in a hos­pi­tal over the hol­i­day sea­son is […]

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The Most Successful Loot Systems

A friend recently asked me an off­hand ques­tion about zero-sum dkp sys­tems with a 25% monthly degen­er­a­tion with a weird main/alt pol­icy… and I could imme­di­ately rat­tle off the strengths and weak­nesses of such a sys­tem, includ­ing where it could be sub­verted and where the likely prob­lems would be down the road. Ok, so it […]

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