Looting is boring in itself because it is the same over and over again. No matter if you loot the same POI twice or two different POIs. There is nothing creative about looting. You just kill all zombies and then search all the loot containers you find.
Exactly. Since double dipping is only a perceived advantage the only question is whether the game should be changed so the typical player feels it is balanced, even though it actually is balanced already.
Yes, I want to kill Alduin twice, if you don't mind. Oh, and let me reset all the Whiterun inhabitants for that cabbage fetch quest, just in case someone killed the non-essencial ones that I fancied. I have the restraint for not killing them both times though. I'm a grown man.Or the answer is, if people feel an advantage even if there is no one and they don't get it even if someone explains it, let them do so. And people that are anoyed of it and aware that it has no advantage, simply skip it.
If it is changed in whatever way, there for sure dozens of people will stand up and complain that that "exploit" was removed.
Quests getting repetitive and eliminating double clearing are two completely independent things.
That's not a problem in my opinion. Let's say you start a new map and do some looting to get supplies and equipment. A while later you are doing some quests for the trader and you get a house you have already looted previously. Do you not do a quest at that POI or not loot anything due to the principle of hating double looting so much? What happens if you get a quest for a POI that you have already done a quest at? Do you not loot anything and just finish the quest and leave? Or is it just looting the same building twice in a row and not looting it over and over while doing quests that you hate so much? Just trying to figure out where you draw the line at multiple lootings.
I do that. That's why i prefer fetch quests. Rush to your supplies, rush to the main loot, return.
I'm the kind of guy that takes everything apart for parts, breaks every door for the knobs, and generally takes way too long to clear every building lol.I do that. That's why i prefer fetch quests. Rush to your supplies, rush to the main loot, return.
Me too. Then later game I rarely even need to loot and I can concentrate on building. When you have several thousand mech parts etc more really isn't worth the time.
With that said, you shouldn't even take the word repetitive into your mouth. For some people pure grind is the best game just for the sake of heaving even more stuff of what they won't need ever anyway. I have no problem if you da that, but i still won't.
And that's the point where you realize (or not) that you never ever will need thousands of mech parts. If i had 5000 mech parts and after building whatever i want to build still 4000 mechparts are left, i'd ask myself for what reason i ever looted them anyway
Ahh but the first 10,000 or so parts I sold to get all my crafting stations/vehicles etc. I only spec Intel in late late game when I want solar. Early on it's better for my points elsewhere and my wrench takes care of anything from intel that I need.With that said, you shouldn't even take the word repetitive into your mouth. For some people pure grind is the best game just for the sake of heaving even more stuff of what they won't need ever anyway. I have no problem if you da that, but i still won't.
And that's the point where you realize (or not) that you never ever will need thousands of mech parts. If i had 5000 mech parts and after building whatever i want to build still 4000 mechparts are left, i'd ask myself for what reason i ever looted them anyway
Just like people that go explicitly for hunting animals just to fill the third chest with meat, already having a full chest of best-value food...
Scrapping the hell out of anything and selling it for dukes just to buy stations and vehicles is also a valid way to play.
Clearing it before by pure chance is natural and ok by me. But not by intelligent design. What you said is the only case scenario that can't be avoided in my suggestion and I'm ok with it, as long as there is variety in the future (first time clearing it there are bandits, next time zds, etc). But changing the quest to resetting on acceptance like I stated on the OP would reduce that and improve quest design, in my opinion.
Of course spending time on that would mean less time spent working on new features. At this stage in development, I'd rather have new features than a redesigned quest system where the main benefit is protecting players who lack self-control from ruining their own experience. However, even if Lathan had nothing else to do but polish questing, there are other aspects that I'd rather have polished first (better POI selection, less repeating selections, etc.) but that's just my personal preference.
For us it's AC units and brass light fixtures, if the house has them. Mailboxes too, though that even brushes up against my very narrow definition of "cheese". Dem books, tho.
