Hi, Before explaining the problem I want to explain what Magic Scales are, because a lot of players aren't aware despite wearing this item -> . Magic Scales are a pet equip. that lets your Item Sack loot things that were killed by people outside your party after 15 seconds. Not manually looting, but automatically looting with your pet. Demonstration: There is a niche use for this item for mage farmers (me included, so there really is no bias) that lets you do 1 less looter in certain maps, but that's it. The downsides of this item is that everyone going through your map with this item equipped, will loot your stuff, even if they didn't mean to do so. This was a non-issue in past years because it was a niche item that nobody purchased, but now olaf gives it at a very early stage. I believe this detail was overlooked while choosing the pet equips olaf gives, and it was decided to just reward every player with the whole set. This created a situation where the majority of players who did the early stages of olaf (majority of active players at this point) have this equipped, without even knowing what it does. Removing it from olaf would be a good first step, but I'm afraid the damage is already done and there will be too many unaware players with this item. As I don't think it has any positives for the server, I'd suggest to remove it from the game. You could alternatively repurpose it to do something else, though I have no idea what extra pet function we even need, and I assume this will use unnecessary dev hours as well. Some farmers may dislike this idea (hello pepe farmers), but as one myself I'd rather do the extra looter instead of dealing with the daily people passing by looting my stuff unintentionally.
An alternative function I can think of is to modify Magic Scale to use a whitelist system. Similar to Item Ignore, but instead allowing players to add a list of IGNs that are permitted to loot their drops. The way Magic Scale currently works contradicts the Map Looting game rule and should be addressed at some point. Spoiler I'm so tired of those randos passing by my ulu map with 100% speed and take the long Z route, looting all my drops with 3 pets all equipped with magic scales. Also those who AFKs in popular farm maps with 3 pets out. The map is basically unusable until they're back or their pets despawn.
It's hard not to agree with this even as a pepe farmer, it's become a daily occurence where someone walks through my map unaware of what the scales do and does a clean sweep of my loot Theres also the issue of hardly anyone knowing wtf ~mapowner is but that topic probably deserves its own thread if it doesnt exist already
