How to fix PvE

There is rampant inflation in PvE currently. Much of this inflation is due to solo farmers, who receive 8 times the drop rate of normal players in full groups. The best way to fix this would be to finally fix the drop rate. To do this, all that would need to occur is for items to drop in proportion to the number of people in the group. If there are 8 people, monsters drop an item/gold 100% of the time. If there are only 4 people, monsters drop items/gold 50% of the time, the other 50% nothing drops. If there's only one person, 7 out of 8 kills will result in no drop.

The benefits of this are clear-groups are encouraged, you can kill through monsters more quickly, and soloing is discouraged. With this change 8 players going in a mission together would finally be able to be as efficient as 8 players going in individually.

I play a lot of PvE and quite honestly, I couldn't give a flying toss about drops.

I enjoy the fact that the only worry PvE'ers have has only to do with farming and gold prices.

So uh what about the people who don't WANT to go in a group?

First off; this has nothing to do with fixing pve; it's about stabalizing the economy. Second; there's nothing wrong with the state of the economy and Anet doesn't have a grudge against solo farmers so this would never be implimented. Third, this belongs in the Sardelic suggestion section. Also, under this system a person could potentially get better drops than current solo farmers with a team of 7 hench causing something to drop from every kill.

why should solo farming be discouraged? explain this in full detail otherwise i see this as just another rant.

/notsigned. Sith beat me to it, but also wouldnt prices go down, not inflate, if there was an abundance in the market?

If it aint broke dont fix it.

How exactly is that a problem.... unless you're solo farming or chest running.

Also you might have considered to think of a thread that actually had anything to do with the subject.

What exactly is broken?

Wouldn't reducing the number of drops actually make things even more rare and more expensive?

If anyone doesn't wish to spend money on expensive items there is absolutely no reason to do so, what with perfect collector and crafter items available.

Yeah that would make 'solo' farming a lot easier - bring 7 henches and get more/better drops, LOL!

Whats inflated? Prices on everything are getting lower and lower...

You misunderstood-you get the same drops as before with a hench group-the henchies still absorb 7 out of the 8 drops, just like they do now. Soloing under the new system would give you the exact same drop rate as going in with 7 hench-you'd be awarded a drop 1 out of 8 kills.

When playing with a full team of hench presently; you get drops a lot more frequently than 1/8 of the time.

I still don't get it, why should soloing be discouraged?

How is it broken?

How do fewer drops = lower prices?

If everyone uses teams and thus gets the same drops as now, how does that make lower prices?

You see higher prices, but that's because people have more money , and pay it on high-end items.

you know this seems to be another thread about how "I don't know how to solo farm so its not fair and no one should be allowed to"

for real guy these people have no impact on your play time other than actually lowering the prices of goods so you can possibly afford them... the game promotes plenty of group play not all areas are farmable and not 100% they do a fine enough job of mixing up the mobs in areas so that the entire area cannot be farmed and solod...

I think this guy is angry because he died one too many times trying to solo FoW and then can't find any groups, so he wants to lay the blame on solo farmers who dare to farm alone instead of forming groups for him to join...

/notsigned /slapyouintheface

yeah i do alot of pve, and i honestly dont think it needs fixed. if anything the drop rates make the exictement of getting a maxed gold weapon, or off hand even better. now for an off topic ramble because i am happy. my college started today and all the teachers are just going over the syllabis and stuff. i only have 2 classes a day. my mondays and wednesdays are the same and my tuesdays and thursdays are the same. i am in my english class right now. each desk has its own desktop cpu. happy hunting everyone

As others have said, inflation isn't a problem at all, and if it were, reducing the drops would make it worse.

I'm guessing what the OP is really trying to say is that he doesn't like that solo farmers can get rich so much faster than team players. This bothers me too, but I don't think the change is worth making - it'd piss off too many people who are really into farming.

Anet did a nice job of improving the quest and mission rewards in Factions so non-farmers could keep up. Back when amber was worth 2K each, doing quests for 750 faction a pop was really sweet. I hope the trend continues in Nightfall.