Loot Crate System

[TerrorBite]

It is possible to make drops fairer (not sure if the Warband scripting actually allows for it though).

There are some problems with random looting:
1) it can feel biased even if it's not (human nature)
2) when you go a round and a few people got several drops but others got nothing, it doesn't feel great
3) RNG on computers aren't actually that random, even on linux -- the whole /dev/random issue with loss of entropy
4) RNG on shared/cloud/virtual servers are even worse because of the shared nature and heavier loads.

#3 and #4 can make it so the random isn't actually random at all.

The way to fix it would be to make it less actually random. Keep a list of drop-receiving players in a server (you could keep a list of everyone and use flags to determine if they are drop eligible or not). On a new drop, look for the next eligible player and give it to them. When you get to the end of the list, start back at the front (or make it a ring). The individual loot item would still be random, but the distribution would be even (among alive players). You might always end up getting twisted string instead of hardened metal, but at least you get something, instead of 3 players getting multiple drops and 7 not getting any (or whatever).

I want to point out that you suggest that the system should stray from true randomness, right after saying it's currently not true random anyway. 
Anyway the good thing about randomness based drops is the lack of anticipation, imo it's important to keep anticipation low.