Please, Don't Roll on Items for Another Class in Your Team

/veto

You still haven't said why your wants should get priority over someone else's wants. Until you do, any system enforcing your wants doesn't really add anything.

This is wrong on several levels, opinion or otherwise. Yes, opinions can indeed be wrong.

First, most of the people here who've disagreed with the idea of going to Roll/Pass have done so because we believe it won't actually change anything. You won't be getting rid of the Need button - you'll be getting rid of the Greed button. I think it's a stretch to characterize any of the disagreement with that position as "fear", but I'd love to see some actual support for that if you think it's the case.

Second, and more importantly, how could you not know by now that I prefer the PINK panties?? Orange TOTALLY clashes with the purple on my boots!

I'd be ok with Roll/Pass if anything that was left over on the ground got autosold to the nearest medical droid and turned into credits (and split evenly)

It will only make things problematic for groups who can reach an agreement on several levels - you won't know if someone is taking it because (s)he needs it or just take it for the sake of the taking and your pass (in order to allow the group to equip itself more efficiently) is needless. You invite randomness for all when there are people who doesn't want random rolling or want to minimize it as far as possible. While the current system can be exploitable or create rifts in some cases it's still better (because it's flexible) than blunt mechanical fairness.

If you want to solve problems of one group by throwing the problem to someone else then it's not a solution at all.

Master Looter? Random doesn't get much more minimized than that...

Is there a way to roll to decide who of two/three players should get it if they all need it?

you mean a vote loot system?

nope

the current loot systems in game are:

NEED BEFORE GREED - everyone in the group gets an equal chance to win the fruits of their labors that they personally decide they need

MASTER LOOTER - everyone in the group agrees to let the leader dish out all fruits of their labors as the leader see's fit or what rules the group agree's on

ROUND ROBIN - everyone in the group gets all of the loot on a mob on their turn

FREE FOR ALL - everyone in the group can pick up any loot they want from any mob if they happen to loot it before anyone else

Then Master Looter wouldn't be a solution really. You need to decide draws sometimes and in NBG system it works well enough to use it as default one. Maybe they should just add another looting system to all that exist now instead of reducing current system to roll/pass for all interested?

Needless, to say, Master Looter is unacceptable in a PUG. It works great if you know and trust the people you're running with (or the leader, at least).

The system open to the least abuse of those above is NBG, as long as you don't start adding personal qualifications onto it. Most fair, most impartial, zero player ability to interfere in the system.

I still maintain that the Roll/Pass system is the only system even more impartial than unfiltered NBG. If everyone passes on something, then no one gets it. To insure it has some value, the system could always "vendor" it and distribute the credits equally, but otherwise, you have to figure if no one rolls on something (and between characters and companions, I don't see that happening much), no one's going to care what happens to it one way or the other.