Seems obvious, but I could be wrong. Since during this time you can still damage mobs, it means that the servers that you connect to are handling the bulk of the events (object translation, anim triggers, damage RNG, etc). When you loot, those servers query a backend server or cluster which is obviously getting overloaded at times or perhaps has a poor network connection.
I find the timing and current return during those moments of loot lag a coincidence, it's almost as if there's a limiter on return values. Say the system automatically allows 25 ped loots, but anything bigger needs a server confirmation.
Not only that it's the number of times it would occur. Now take last night; When I logged in I see the claws were already found (soon after the servers came up I guess). So I thought sod it, MM is just a few days away, I'll go easy and do some Kerb elites (since they gave 26 mission points a kill, and was new mission counter MA introduced).
I killed over 16K points of kerbs, and had that loot lag twice over 4 hours of killing roughly. That means I killed over 600 shared elite kerbs solo, and had a global opportunity twice (and in my view both of those were declined). I did some agro hunters after that, until I said to myself your taking the p*ss now and stopped.
ok...there could be other variables. Maybe location pool, maybe even low skill value obtained to enable a trigger. But even if there was a low value of skill gain to trigger a global, this kind of makes a farce of the whole issue of not bing penalised for going lower mobs or lower weapons. So what message are we supposed to take from that?
I actually think MA were cleaning me out pushing for a new desopit before MM starts. It's interesting from a perceptive point of view of the game and money required, as I was only chatting to a guy that hunts big mobs all the time recently in chat.
I said the problem with £100 depo, around 1200 peds is that it's not enough ped to turn on average mobs. His view was it was loads of ped turnover....then of course the penny drops. His managed view of what ped is required is a very different view of what is "allowed" on other avatars.
Interesting stuff anyhow.
Rick