Very subjective I know but I've noticed a big difference in quality since the latest VU. Load times for the game are reduced markedly and less lagg and faster ingame load times are noticable
Globalling beacons aren't that random, have had a few now and they mainly come from the 35s I've found, especially the 1111 35s though these are hard to get a hold of
Firstly the higher the tt of the beacon the higher the average loot obtained from the boxes (remembering that the bots are alos higher gen)
There is a standard loot that you receive on beacons
Here's a pretty complete list
http://www.entropiawiki.com/Info.aspx?chart=Mob&name=Beacon_mission...
We had similar issue arise in Global Alliance as we also do a lot of beacons. What we found was that we had to take into account the cost of completing the beacon. i.e.
Loot-cost of beacon- (ammo+decay incurred)= profit.
The profit is then split equally. It's not such a big deal on the smaller...
So here's the story, the rest of my soc mates had a global marathon Saturday just past and did 7 beacons in a row. I had to miss it due to some rl issues. So logged in today and did a 29 ped beacon with Johnny and some others. Afterwards I said I'd try a 35 pedder.
So we gathered a team...
Logged in this morning and was immediately summoned by mylcat to come kills some hogs with himself and Butch. Wonder joined us but hte loot wasn't great at all. Wonder had to log at that stage so we moved on to sumimas for a change
Loot was nonexistant until we got this very nice piece of...