Day 1, 5 mins in, I want my loot to be random like a18 is, where you can find anything on any day, just with chances of the better stuff rising as gamestage rising. I've pretty much quit 7dtd over the A19 loot changes as its made the game boring, going out and looting stuff to see what I find was one of the main draws the game had for me, and the linear loot/schematic setup it uses now completly destroyed that.
The linear loot would work if this was a linear rpg, however its not, its a fully destructable sandbox pretty much, and having loot linear like this just ruins it. TFP has done many dumb things over the years but this loot change has to be by and far the biggest, even bigger than removing learn by doing. Even them removing LBD didn't stop me from enjoying the game. But this loot change? Has killed pretty much all the fun and enjoyment I had in the game. I am also not the only one who feels like this.
I also sometimes play dead is dead on higher difficulties, which means when I die I delete the save, sometimes the world and start over, a18's loot was perfect for this because it turned every single game into a unique experience as I never knew what I was going to find. A19's loot? its the same thing every time, no randomness, no variation, just the same static loot over and over, after the 3rd game I started I just lost all interest in a19 unless this is fixed in a a19.1 patch, and by fixed I mean reverting to a18's loot as it was perfect and did not need to be touched, other than adding the new items into it that a19 brought of course. Though they could make it a tiny bit harder to find the good stuff in a18's loot by modifying the values in loot.xml a tad.
I also dislike how a19 linear loot also has guarnteed quality 5-6 items in every single container, this was yet another thing a18 handled better, quality 1-3 was common but 4-6 were rare even at higher gamestages, so it made crafting more important if you wanted quality 4-5 items early. Compared to a19, where there is little point to crafting, wait a bit and you'll be handed quality 6 of everything, you do not need certain things early game.
All in all the a19 loot change has pretty much ruined the game for a lot of players, and needs to be revereted back to a18 loot, even with their endgame plan, a18 loot is still the better version, as you could apply the gamestage boosts for poi tier and biome to the a18 loot system just as easly as the a19 one.
I really hope they change it, as 7dtd went from a game I used to play a ton in a18, to a game I've not played much at all since a19 experimental due to the loot being so poorly done, and so boring comapred to a18.
I think once they get the game stage modifiers in place for POIs and biomes we will see a lot better loot system. As it is now, I don't usually care too much about what I find because I usually try to build everything I can so I spread out my points to gain access to as much crafting as I can and build up from there.
So I guess my answer is I don't really think about how soon anything gets looted because most loot becomes resources for me. I even sell my bullets in the beginning to make additional money. I value knowledge over loot in just about every way so I would buy a book from a trader before I'd buy a gun or other weapon.
Naw, it'll still be the same linear garbage even with those put in, the main problem is at any GS you know exactly what loot and what quality your going to find in every container of that type. Havng biomes and poi tier boost your gamestage temporarly is not going to fix the problem. Especially when you could apply the same system to a18. as Gamestages effected chances to find steel tools or guns etc even on day 1, as well as what tier, you could find a steel tool early even on day 1 in a18 (I've had it happen) but it was quality 1, still much better than iron or primitive though. Its was rng early game, as gamestage rises you have higher and higher chance to find the higher tech items in loot at higher qualities, though again quality 4-6 was rare in a18, and even at high gamestage it was not super easy to find.
The fact Roland even had to make a poll on it kinda shows there is a big problem with the playerbase with the change, and the general reaction is that people don't like the a19 loot system at all. Dispite what the poll might say, these forums aren't super populated so a poll is kinda pointless.
