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Just to be clear, this is one of those "I bet I could do it one day" things. It's not on a roadmap or plan.

Each player has 2 things they set up:

1. Priority loot filter rules. This would be as simple as clicking a star beside the rules in the filter list.

2. You can add rules to your own filters that say "recolour party member priority items blurple".

Then if an item drops for you that a party member has prioritized, it shows up blurple and you know to pick it up and tell a party member.

Could get even crazier with it and have an auto whisper the person who it was for.

Tons of painful things to set up in here but I think it would smooth out the experience so much.

This is something that we have considered and run into problems with but I'm still convinced that it is possible to actually set up loot filters to have a priority rule. One that you could flag as something you really really need. Then everyone could have an option to show party priority filter rules and you could set your own colors for party items. So you would know that an item was only being shown for a party member and they wanted you to pick it up. This way you wouldn't even have to discuss what you are looking for. And if someone's priority rule was showing too many items, you just turn it off.

We will be looking closely to the feedback we get from players playing 0.9 and consider all our options after that.

We will not be changing the system for 0.9.

The network implications of this request are not insignificant and I suspect significantly greater than you would expect unless you have implemented a system like that before.

It's not a dealbreaker but it is not something we could implement and test in time for 0.9. We will not be adding this, or any other, suggestions or requests regarding trade or drops to 0.9.

In fully cooperative parties, yes this would be very similar. However, since you may play with people who are not as generous, you could find yourself getting nothing at all while they vacuum up all the good loot.

It might have a bug that is causing it to not work right but as the person who set it up, yes I'm sure that's the intent.

It highlights the elements that are currently active and greys out the ones that are possible to get but you don't have selected at the moment.

Haha very glad to hear you think Epoch is FAF ;)

We have a lot of performance updates coming in our March 9 multiplayer patch that I hope resolve some of the issues you're having there. Also, Monolith variety and end game updates in general will be a huge focus after getting this multiplayer patch out the door.

Oh, and as someone who absolutely loves playing Meteor as a main skill... MP makes this way better when you can sit behind your tanky friends. Cheers!

We appreciate the kind words and I'm very glad to hear that you're enjoying the game so much. We'll continue to push hard for you guys. Cheers!

Server authority will allow many opportunities and conveniences that we wouldn't be able to have otherwise. Fair and reliable leaderboards, community events including races and first X to completion with awards and rewards, intrinsic remote characater saving that's not prone to corruption, remote server-hosted co-op that is not reliant on your own or your friend's internet connection, and for those that do care it will mean that when you find cool things and see others with cool things you'll know that they are legitimate and not spawned by client-side hacks.

We plan to continue to introduce new ways to target farm certain items and to tune the potency of existing methods all the way up to 1.0 and afterwards. There are definitely build enabling items that are too difficult to reliably find right now. There are several Idol affixes such as the Smite Chance on Hit affix that are prime examples of that. This is something we aim to fix in future updates.

A leniency timer to solve this issue is something we're actively considering.

This is true, but as developers, we'd either have to balance around an open trade system or not balance around it.

If we balance around it, then the players who don't use it are at a disadvantage and the items that they find themselves won't necessarily be sufficient to keep up with a game balanced around a higher standard of items.

If we don't balance around it, then players who do use it will find the game very easy and feel like further upgrades to their gear, skills, etc. don't matter.