Petition: Announcing of Gold (Money) Drops

Whenever i quest i get gold drops (money, not gold items), sometimes high amounts, sometimes low. I usually see the drops and pick them up right away. However, there are times when i dont see the drop until later on and i have to go back and pick them up. This really frustrates me when im in a hurry and need to do something quickly. I propose that Anet make it so that gold drops are announced when they are dropped from enemies. They would be unlike regular drops in that they would NOT be reserved for one person to pick up, but still would be able to be picked up by every party member and then shared. This way, gold drops would not be missed and left behind. Please say /signed or /notsigned if you like or dislike this idea. Thank you.


-Dean

Edit by Faer:
FOR FUTURE REFERENCE:

GOLD != RARE
GOLD = MONEY, CASH, MOOLAH

Any posts talking about how rares are already announced and such will be deleted.



P.S: This would be optional so that you can turn it on and off depending on your preference.

I have always wondered why this doesn't happen, it makes good sense to me.

/signed

You hear the sound of money dropping.

Open your eyes a little and look around.

If you are in that much of a hurry why are you even picking up gold?

My advice is to press ;+space after each fight, so that you pick up every item. This way you'll pick everything up. If you are talking about actual gold, I'd have to say that that never has been reserved and always is shared. If you are talking about gold item drops, well, they even added a color for that in the notification. Also, what if your inventory is full? Or what if you don't even want the item? And how could you share a gold item drop?

I'm a little bit confused with what you mean, but if I understood correctly:
/notsigned

Picked up by everyone... uhmmm no thanks. That Ninja Gnome videos from WoW makes me scared that people would be joining groups just to steal drops.

/notsigned as you can take the 1 second it takes to do a 360. If your in a hurry you shouldn't be playing Guild Wars in the first place, we don't want to make you late for your appointment or whatever etc.

i dont have speakers, so i cant hear when gold drops srry if i didnt make that clear... also, i dont get the reason for the edit to my first post, it doesnt make any sense to me, plz explain.


Originally Posted by jimmy_logic:

Picked up by everyone... uhmmmm no thanks.



all gold is picked up by anyone already, i was jsut making it clear that it would not be like other drops where it is assigned to one person.



Also originally posted by jimmy_logic:


If you're in a hurry you shouldnt be playing Guild Wars in the first place. We dont want to make you late for your appointment or whatever, etc.





#1) I play guild wars because its fun and i enjoy it
#2) I play guild wars of my own accord and because i want to
#3) I have a life outside of GW and sometimes things come up when im playing and i have to hurry to finish, thats just how it is with us ppl that actually do things outside of GW.
#4) Think about what you are going to say before you say it. Thanks a lot.

yea, theres no sound fx for drops at all. there is a text menu. i believe when your in a hard battle, those extra fx will just become annoying, i dont want to hear a "chi-ching" every 3 seconds when some nuker decides to meator shower a mob in FoW. if you want drops, hold ALT. it shows every drop, even those not assigned to you.

"yea, theres no sound fx for drops at all. there is a text menu."


If I read the OP correctly, there is not text for "X monster dropped XXX gold pieces"

If I read the OP correctly is say...

/signed for text for gold drops ie cash

I can sympathize with the OP, but I gotta say, sometimes gold drops quite often.. often enough that I would get annoyed with those messages scrolling by. Maybe it's just me. If it's something that could be toggled I'm all for it. But otherwise, I'm not sure I care that much, because I am always looking around with ALT and grabbing things up. It's not a huge problem for me.

ah i am corrected, the big bad scary monsters arnt listed in the text menue when dropping gold.

either way, i still dont want fx sounds for drops. but maybe a toggle option to show all drops/loot only.

For the same reason I just edited the thread title.

Some people around here are too dense to know the difference between gold and rares (rare items have golden text, so people automatically assume things before actually reading anything).

/pokes growing number of deleted posts that nobody but staff can see

It gets annoying to see so much spam and junk because people can't read, or refuse to read.

Well, I am sick about drops and the way you must pick them; Maybe they must add a window with items dropped in the area with a filter, and buttons like pick only golds, purple and money in the area, etc, etc., I am not sure if developers actually play this game a lot? Are not they sick too, like me? :?

Picking items is part of the traditional PvE experience. If I don't have to pick stuff up... why have the stuff drop in the first place? You might as well suggest that quest rewards be made random and we get a random set of items upon quest or mission completion.

As for gold, the sound when gold drops is pretty noticeable. And try getting used to the semicolon button ( to check for things to pick up.

There are ALREADY a system in-game that show you drops in a window when you end a mission, they just could make that window available ALL the time in mission; It's a problem of usability, not if is traditional or not, I suffer sometimes because I don't have eagle eyes (I use glasses)

/signed.
Hydra drops 105 gold coins.
That would make things a lot easier. Sounds wouldnt help, I play with sounds off (i use vent a lot, plus i have a noisy kuunavang).
I don't know why they didn't do this a long time ago.

Not everyone has sound all the time. For example, someone ordered a new computer, and the speakers are arriving in a seperate box than the rest of the computer, but for some reason come a week late, or maybe you just spilled some liquid on the speakers and now they don't work and you have to wait a week for the new ones to come in, or many other reasons.

Also, the gold doesn't only drop at the end of the battle, and I don't know about you, but I almost never notice the sound of gold droping when I'm trying to keep my teamates alive (monk) or trying kill everything around me (any class but monk), or anything else that would involve enemies nearby.

It's really anoying when I kill a group, think I got all the drops I can, and move on to the next enemy group, only to realize that I missed a gold drop from the first enemy group and have to walk back there. It's even more anoying in timed missions, because then I can't even go back to get the gold.

/signed to having the gold be displayed like all other drops when it falls.

/signed only if its an option to enable/disable

I dont want a million texts popping up on every mob. There is already enough as it is. I can see when something drops for me I dont need text telling me.

/signed..

i have guild ts/vent on all the time when i play. regardless if im in pve or pvp...so the sound does nothing for me.

to tired to acually quote.. "hydra drops 105 gold peices/coins"

should not be so hard for the very adaquete and talented gw crew..

I see no reason why they didn't add this a long time ago, /signed

/notsigned.

If this bothers you so much I think using the "target nearest object" key-bind is much more efficient. It also allows you to pick up loot much more quickly than by targetting using the mouse.

please keep posting your agreement or disagreement!!!

/not signed.
I hate it to see my chat box spammed with stuff like:
monster drop ____ wich your party reserve to____.
adding gold to the item would only spam more. I would sign if theyre was a way to turn these message off like we do for local, guild, team, trade, alliance and emote.

I really don't want anymore text scrolling by. I use the semicolon/space bar sequence to find and pick up all drops after a battle. What I would like to see added is a way to pick up all available drops with one or two keystrokes.

If they allow you to disable and able gold coin notifaction /sign

If they dont allow you to toggle it then /unsigned

It would be great to see
"Mountain Troll Drops 88 gold coins."
Now if im gold farming I dont want to see tons of that notifaction.

Also I dont play with my speakers on because I have to be aware of whats going around me in my house. Most the time to make sure I get all my gold coin drops I press the show allies button to see what I didnt pick up but being notified it dropped would be wonderful.

/not signed
Whats the difference anyway? so now we have to get anet to support your "Lack of interest" in looking around... next thing will be the "lack of interest" of having to click on the gold drop instead of just instantly appearing in your inventory.

That sarcasm seems harsh but I have already SEEN this suggestion made and its frustrating to say the least.

I just don't know what game you guys seems to want, it certainly is not what your playing; so I don't see why your a "fan" of the game at all.

Its bad enough when people argue over existing drops and get all petty about not getting a gold from a chest you just got a gold from, Or with people complaining you got a green when they didn't. The drops are what they are, nothing more nothing less. I would much prefer the removal of the alerts from the system then adding more. because its YOUR responsibility to pick up YOUR drops. if you do not, well thats your fault.

Part of the problem in the game occurs when game play STOPS in order to argue or threaten to leave when others that have not demand things of people that have got. If You and only You got the alert that would be far better then allowing everyone in the party to see that you got a gold drop or a green drop and then the problems start. You have no idea how many fissure and anguish runs have fallen apart on the 3rd or 4th gold chest for someone and others have gotten only purples start bitching and then rage quit over it... Now your stuck in an area someone has zero chance in with a reduced party, and you have to start all over from scratch. Prime example, the Gem drops in anguish. If your tank does not get it your going to be screwed over unless you give it to them. Period, Exclamation, ... Extortion to the Nth degree!

{edit} revised to "Lack of interest" from a more appropriate word to protect thyn egos.

How would I know something dropped for me if there is nothing to tell me something dropped for me? I personally love going on FOW runs because alot of the times people dont pick up there white drops and I run back and pick them up I I'd it and its worth about 90goldso please keep that up.

/signed

agreeable with WARRIORSMILEY too

Since
rare = gold text
unique = purple text
greens = blod green text

y not make something like this
blue items = blue text
white items n $$$ = white or green text

and able to toggle them on or off like the /emotes

In the case above I was meaning the removal of party drop alert system. make it private to the person its dropped for, if need be; rather then the whole party seeing it... and it causing a problem later.

/signed

Before I knew of the ";" button, I had big problems with this, not anymore, but still, sometimes chests are in the way between a drop and you and if you not reading your drops, you'll just miss them, so it's not a bad idea to have something to tell you when money drops.

all i am saying is that it would be nice if we could be notified when gold drops, since i have TS on when im in the game and i cant hear the gold drop. Also, just because i am making a suggestion to Anet about the announcement of money drops, doesnt mean i should not be a fan of the game, or that i shouldnt play it. I have what seems to me to be a reasonable request for Anet, and i dont want to be criticized because i felt that it should be asked and i didnt know it had been asked before. If someone posts on something that was already posted, big deal, it was a mistake, maybe they couldnt find anything on it in the search, or maybe they just posted it thinking it was something no one had posted before. Again, i dont appreciate being criticized for making a suggestion to Anet that i feel would improve the game.


Oh, and one more thing, this feature would be optional, and could be turned on and off from the options window!!!!!


Ingram, that idea you just posted about the private feature for drops would be a nice addition to the game, reducing spam of drop announcments.

I've wanted to see this for a while, so I'll /sign