Multiple Stackable Items in Loot

[Roh]

Several people have disputed monster loot mechanics in the past, including myself, but this isn't monster loot. It's the loot in paragon chests. And the problem likely reccurs in treasure chests.

You LP the container and open it. Explosion, etc. etc. But then you see 5 piles of nightshade. Each has 50 or so in it.
So you've not only got to get your spellcaster keys but you've got to grab all 5 piles.
Or you trash all 5 piles. Whatever.

The point is that there's 5 piles of the same thing. If the loot generator makes more than one pile of the same thing, it should have a code to check the generated loot and combine piles if multiple piles exist.

[begin pseudocode]
If nightshade items = >1,
Sum count, delete nightshade, add new nightshade with sum count?[end pseudocode]
Does that make sense?

[Lynn]

yeah, and too bad it doesnt work that way...

another example (though this is back to monster loot): gems on dragons, etc
(yes i collect them for a rainy day, been doing that since i started MU, another things that would be cool if could go into a book)

*weighed down by bag of jewels*

[Roh]

Lynn, you can get a jeweler's box to store your gems. It's a voucher reward.
Yknow, !vouchers.
Mine has like 200-500 of each.

[Lynn]

thanks for passing that on... i have about 1300 or so of each.. prob is my lag makes the quest thing kind of hard so i've not done too much of that lately to get vouchers..

*writes down new goal for days on relative's dsl*