Guild Loot Distribution

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That's a very strong assumption in a game that had a ton of reasons to argue about. I picked up a ton of people along the way with a ton of different opinions. Quite often they'd argue on the basis of that difference. In each case I'd personally talk with all sides of the argument and try to reach an agreement of sorts. And this is the exact reason why I won't assume that their arguments were over gear, because, as I said, I don't recall any such arguments ever leading to someone leaving the guild. You're free to trust or mistrust my memory or judgement of those arguments.

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That is true, but considering that I kept picking up new friends over the years and that I didn't always pick only the very strong players on the server to invite to my guild, I'd imagine all of them either liked me enough to stick with me and my system or I did in fact treat everyone as equally as possible. I'd have to ask all of them for their reasoning to sticking with me, but I haven't really talked to a ton of them, because I left the mmo genre a long time ago and haven't kept in touch with most people from those times. Not because I couldn't, but mainly because I didn't want to at the time.

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I think that a simple "trust and share" system will be the best for the first several months. You farm stuff together and you let it pass through any and all who want it in order to figure out what's best for whom. And once that's figured out, those who ended up with better items can help the remaining people with their gear.

Obviously some guilds will have dudes who try to fuck over the guild or smth like that, but the first months won't produce the absolute BiS in the game, so it'll be the perfect time to get fucked over.