Standard answer is: you can only request it if it's there, and usually its on some other goodie. Who you can't kill because you're also a goodie.

w

It seems like a lot of goodies get away with abusing request though.

It's (very) not uncommon to see goodie heroes requesting stuff simply because it's in, not because they died and need to regear.

It would be nice to see more goodies use request sparingly instead of every time they notice a requestable "upgrade" to their suit or simply because they can.

From an IC standpoint, it's kind of lame to see goodies request the nice sword from a mob then, noticing better sword is in an hour later, request it and toss just plain nice sword in the pit instead of back on it's owner.

This feels like a Pro/Java rant. Ah well.

~

I know when I've played goodies almost no one adheres to the "Don't request stuff for other players" rule.

I'm not saying it doesn't get abused, but I've never personally seen much of that. I don't ask people to request stuff, and they don't ask me to request stuff for them.

But more often I just get given stuff that must have been requested.

I would occasionally give people stuff that I had requested, but it was always because I'd found something better to wear.

...when I requested it.

I don't know, I feel like I abused request with my first goodie, my arial invoker. I had never played a goodie, never identified half the gear, so a lot of times I would request something, ID it, then hand it back to the mob.

I do that a lot. Request, identify, give back to the mob. FWIW I don't think that's abuse. I view it as no different than asking a good-aligned PC to see a piece of gear so I can identify it, then giving it back to them.

I did that often with my first hero, but I'm pretty sure that dropping it and sacrificing it, while ####ty rp, is far better for mechanics consideration, since the way I understand it if you GIVE the item back to the mob, they're not going to re-wear it, and it's going to still be "out" and counting toward the item's limit, so that someone else coming to get that item has to either request 1. or kill the mob. Which... sort of sucks both ways.

Could an imm enlighten us/me on how that works? Giving requested items back to the mob doesn't really *do* anything, right?

But I believe it does now.

.

Excuse my ignorance, but you can give an item back to the mob from which you requested it, and they will exclaim 'Ah!' and reequip said item or some such?