Ninjalooting has been a nasty thing for decades.
I don’t see this being enforceable unfortunately on passively moderated servers. Actively moderated servers however will be quick and decisive on something like this if they have a culture of this being against their guidelines.
However this is one of those few issues I think could be handled on the developer side of things. Especially with my idea on how to handle purge loot. So forgive the slight thread hijack (I’m giving an abridged version to not steer it too off topic).
The idea was that purge loot is locked behind keys that the champion drops. There isn’t enough keys to open every chest (there would be more chests). But you would use the keys to open the chests of the loot you wish, unopened chests would simply poof with the camp and wouldn’t drop any loot at all.
This would heavily mitigate the ninja looting (though you’d want to loot the champion as soon as you could). So no one could sit on chest spawns and get them before you could. With the added benefit of picking and choosing loot (which was the original reason for the idea).
On PVP, sure.
On PVE, no. Why? Because we can’t get our favorite Cimmerian’s form of justice on PVE. On PVP you can easily split the skulls of any would be thieves. In PVE you can swing all you want, but the thief can simply act like you are not there and walk away with the loot with zero repercussions.
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