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[Tensorflow]

Alora has a great feature that I've never personally seen on other servers, being the npc drop table lookup. It's an excellent interface, and I use it at least once a day.

 

However, I and many others could possibly benefit greatly from a similar interface that accepts an item lookup key (item name) and fetches the NPCs that drop the queried item. Implementing this is not as trivial as simply displaying a single NPC's drop table, and has a few more roadblocks in development. One limitation I see to implementing this in game would be if there are a large number of monsters that drop a particular item. The length of the full list of NPCs might exceed the number interface slots. Furthermore, how do you handle trivial item cases (bones, ashes, etc)?

 

This is of course only a minor QoL update that doesn't take priority over important bug fixes and large-scale content pushes. Furthermore, the effort it would take to A) find a new interface to support the full list of NPCs or B ) design a new interface might outweigh the added value to the game.

 

All of that being said, this feature can certainly be developed successfully and elegantly if some time is put into it.  If an in-game admin+ has access to a drop table file, I'd be happy to develop an out-of-game application that accomplishes this suggestion and make it accessible to the community, awaiting its eventual integration (or non-integration) into the game. I of course understand if there is hesitance to distribute the file to 'unknown' sources, althought I don't believe an NPC drop table file is anything too proprietary. If this suggestion interests anyone, and if an admin/developer sees this, I would of course be open to a discussion/vetting procedure.

 

The tool I envision is a simple lookup interface that takes an item key (item name), and returns the list of NPCs that drop the item, along with the corresponding drop rate.

 

Cheers,

Dave (Tensorflow)

 

PS My apologies if this is already an open suggestion - I quickly thought of it in passing and decided to just make a post before bed.

[MT]

Hello there,

I have made a similar suggestion regarding an item look-up interface, but I was told by @Moe that it has already been suggested. So, I scratched out my suggestion lol. It is a great one, for sure! :)

[Lord Aizen]

I looked at the https://www.alora.io...ggested-topics/ thread and it looks like an update to Boss Logs, Fraction Displays, and more have been approved on the accepted list. 

 

Have you checked that out yet? 

 

As this has already been suggestion in many different ways I am going to go ahead and decline this as it has already been approved/suggested.

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