I realize some (or perhaps most) people would hate having the windows swamp all over the screan, but there could perhaps be a Settings option to stack/unstack loot windows?

Maybe have some way of presenting all the items at once, like it does for the regular lotto? Say two checkboxes by each item, “Need” and “Greed” (or just “Loot”), and the usual “Loot All”, “Loot Selected” and “Decline” buttons. Under NBG hitting “Loot All” would Need all items with that checkbox marked and Greed all others. “Loot Selected” would Need or Greed for any items with a box checked and decline anything with neither box checked. “Decline” would decline everything regardless of checkboxes. With the regular lotto the buttons would loot everything, loot only checked items or decline everything much the way the window works now.

I was partying with a friend that was helping me with the second quest of the Mithaniel Marr quest. Then a big chest dropped from one of the named mobs in the Throne Room of Crushbone keep and the first item that appears is some junk loot or something like that.

So I think “Huh, this is weird. Shouldn`t a chest like this have something better? Or at least more stuff on it?”

Then I click on greed and then next thing that appears is an advanced recipe, then greed again since none of us can use it and finally a Master I book.

At the time I thought those windows would stay there until everybody chose an option but it is good to know that there is a timer for them and that it might increase in the future. If it does I know who to sacrificed a treasured item for.

I’m just finishing off an article on need vs greed (in general, not just EQ2) and why the automated system doesn’t seem to be working as well as it should.

Thing is, even with the extended timer wouldn’t you have had 50/50 chance against the transmuter anyway? Or did your group have specific rules in place to deal with the issue (no one rolls greed except transmuter would work, I guess).

I guess from the time-out, you guys are discussing every drop so the new system isn’t making that much of a difference.

I wonder if making the windows come up staggered (like results when you are tradeskilling) instead of in top of each other would help make a difference.

((Another nice thing I wouldn’t mind would be for it to show you the full contents of the box, in the same way it does when loot is set to leader-only))