I met JJ during one of the first WoF events and we ended both up in Project -X-.
He was always a great person to have around.
He will be missed a lot.
RIP Frank JJ The Greatest
I can see where you come from.
I crash every time I am shooting and someone is close with a vehicle.
Now I am hunting as much as possible in desolate area's where hardly any one comes.
I made a support case and I got the default stupid answer try changing your connection speed.
Let me just say Star would have stopped streaming ages ago if the loot was even 1% lower then he expected. And he didn't. And his data set is just a little bit bigger then yours (by a factor 10000 or so).
Cheers
Siam
The payout is pretty much inline with the fact that people save peds to use in the new VU.
They expect new items / blueprints to drop in the first few days.
Long term the payout is pretty much the same as last year.
So just quit worrying and play and have fun instead.
If you are in game you get the warning.
Which gives you the time you need to get to the location and then just wait for the restart.
And it is starting to get ridiculous that MA does not do anything about this. This is starting to look like a clear abuse of a loot system bug.
It all comes down to the value for money experience.
If people have a great value for money experience they keep on playing and depositing. If not they start to look elsewhere and go elsewhere.
Now only MA needs to have a look why they think having people loose lots of peds in a short time...
It seems to me that they are purposely using a bug in the system and that this is completely comparable with trapping a mob. In both cases MA leaves a bug due to not properly testing but in one case they look away and in the other they start making a fuss about it.
Then they should not give most of those UL items such insane TT.
I repair most of my stuff always back to full TT except for instance my UL LR48. That stays on min TT and then gets repaired for the run size i want to make. 99% of the UL SIB owners do the same.
I like the 3% idea and also the 1...
One of the main reasons why i avoid events like this is that even if you get in on a big loot most likely your returns will still be bad.
First of the UL items can drop with lower TT value filled on them.
The rest should be big stacks of low TT stuff like oils, residue, etc that can be divided...
We are all still Alpha testers since there seems to be no test environment and quality control.
Also version management on source code seems to be non existent causing fixed bugs to get reintroduced when a branch previous to the bug fix is reintegrated into the main branch.
I looked at the internet connection and realized i could not play entropia and there are no RL mobs on Mars to substitute that so that decided it for me. No Mars trip.
Hmmm i hope they remember what happened the last time they did a big shuffle around of mobs and ores/enmatters. They pissed of a lot of people by destroying great spawns and actually some people quit playing because of that. It cost them a lot of money for sure.
So please do an impact analysis...
I personally think a lot of people will not mind if it was postponed to 2014.
With WoF ending just before a long mayhem and the TEN event just started i think people would like a break.
Cheers
Siam
This issue more or less happened. There was a VU where people started mining and scored big HoF after HoF. We did not get the usual 5 minute server shutdown message we were all thrown out instantly a few minutes after the VU became active and had to wait for a fix.
Serica beat me to point to the post i made back then about it.
It is important to notice that MA only guarantees the money you deposited in the last 6 months. Everything else is not guaranteed.
So MA is not really interested in automated wills, they want you to put effort into it because a lot...
It would make sense if with growth in skills and equipment you could grow from an average return of 90% to 95%. It will however cause the meager MU on hunting loot to drop even more.
I think the biggest issue is that there are still problems with getting a running working economy. I would say...
I agree that it is not nice that there is a 3rd delay.
On the order side i do not think many people are surprised by the delays.
With the big change how Mayhem works a lot of details of potential problems were overlooked.
The instability of the servers caused a lot of people to loose time...