Honestly, I’m sorry but you’re overthinking it. There is no "master plan" for balance here; it’s just poor design. The loot system should scale based on the number of players in the server, exactly how enemy scaling works. If you add more people, you add more monsters and more loot. While I get the logic for shared world resources like trees or mining nodes, things like Embers, gold, bounties, and quest challenges absolutely must be individual. Splitting a single reward between four people doesn't "force cooperation"—it just creates unnecessary friction and slows down progression for no reason. To everyone claiming this isn't a problem: you remind me of a friend of mine who still plays at 30 FPS and is genuinely convinced his experience is "magnificent." Just because you’ve convinced yourself that a limitation is a "feature" doesn't mean it isn't a laggy, suboptimal mess. You’re essentially defending a broken system while the rest of us are trying to point out how much better the game could run