I have posted this on the General Boards, but this is the only way I can get the attention of the administators and the topic has not been noticed. I'm also compiling some posts that were made throughout the past week/months and they really need heavy attention.
Is there any way we could have a better chances of getting the red fragments? I understand that they are supposed to be rare, but this idea is ridiculous. I have been fighting M.O.B.s for two hours and I only got ONE fragment. On a related note, a friend of mine has been playing for THREE hours and found NOTHING.
Made by me on September 1
My words have truth to it and a few people agree . Here's the problem: Some of us are looking for the red fragments, and we *KNOW* which M.O.B.s carry it, but the main problem is that even though the loot is randomized, it's more of a curse than a blessing if we get stuck with useless clothing more often the red fragments. It is just not productive to spend two+ hours just to find one simple red fragment period. Details, next "paragraph." (It's on my feedback after paraphrasing Gothique)
Gothique has posted this in the Character Development topic and I honestly agree:
Please I beg of you grant us the powers to choose what items we want to loot from a body.
I can't believe after almost a year it hasn't been addressed.
"Also we would like to save our unused items in the loading area to save some inventory space.
They are codes too!
Thank you very much"
I can't believe after almost a year it hasn't been addressed.
"Also we would like to save our unused items in the loading area to save some inventory space.
They are codes too!
Thank you very much"
The problem is that there are those of us that want to get said Red Fragments from the correct M.O.B.s but we normally keep getting stuck with useless items that we don't want. It's not even productive if we have to spend two+ hours just to get a red fragment. Not everyone has a luxury of time to do red-frag farming all day long especially for those that have school/college/work not to mention that the Downtown lag is barely fixed.
As for the un-used items, I agree to some extent. It's a bit of a hassle to just go back to a hard-line, switch to coder, create said items, then revert back to whatever combat tree you want. I'm hoarding some SMGs just because I don't know if I'm going to use them or not.
Me paraphrasing Gothique's intended message and what my responses were. I know there are people working on the Downtown lag, but this is related since there are some players that actually want to fill up their code archive with uploaded skills, but the lag has made red-fragment farming down-right impossible to do period since the majority of high-lvl players (me included) can't tolerate being in said problem area for more than five seconds due to latency problems.
Considering that they are needed for high level coding so much, I fail to see why these frags are as rare as they are. It just doesn't seem very reasonable to me. If anything their drop ratio should either be raised considerably or a vendor created that sells them. Not only does this cut down on player frustration, but it would help give the economy a kick start with people finally being able to code decent amounts of gear to sell.
Posted by Chuui as of yesterday
This is the only solution that I can personally propose and I agree with her. Just inncrease the drop ratio for the red fragments. It's more productive to get ten fragments per hour rather than wasting five+ hours just to get one fragment.