so if i follow you ... the pool is a unique big one for all universe? not either splitted in planets pool?
Yes. But pools are separate for hunting, mining, crafting. This is what Mindark told us.
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that the MA employees on this forum generally don't know for certain things like this. There's also various ways to interpret what was said.
While I agree, I can't think of any logical reason for planet specific loot pools. So I don't see a purpose in speculating about things that no one can provide any reasoning or evidence towards.
And about the loot pools being separate for professions, they were extremely clear about that IMO.
Think again & lookup the popdragon hof spam on RT a few years ago.
Try to explain that with your theory.
Wait... do u really need planet-specific lootpools to explain that? Simplest explanation seems to be a mob-specific lootpool and lot of ppl spamming HoFs and thsn even more ppl flocking and spamming more HoFs... Most ppl who saw what happened were certain the system went haywire somehow, at least with the 1st wave of HoF's - it was just too bizarre. Later u could prolly explain it with a natural chain reaction, overheated lootpool and whatnot.Think again & lookup the popdragon hof spam on RT a few years ago.
Try to explain that with your theory.
The returns of last days seem lower than ever.
If you hof that will still be the same as your loss on the end of the day. That 90% rate is a global average return to entire playerbase, not individuals as then no noob could ATH possibly. Fact, think about it... no more arguments needed.
Some longer time ago, if i depo $100, i could play about 1 month or longer with this. If i depo 100 now, it may last for one week, if i exactly do the same as ever. This is the point, making me lost the interest to play EU. I don't play to make profit, i play this game fur having fun. But with such a low loot, it is no fun anymore. IT FEELS LIKE BEEN A BIG LOOSER.
I more and more have the problem to start a hunt run or mining, or both together, if i know of 98% sure it will end with 60% return, inclouding the poor MU it have. So i most only start to chat with my few friends i have here. Yes only a few friends, about most of my large friendlist is no longer playing EU.
Again, thanks for the post here, I think it is helpfully to know, what others think about this.
Some longer time ago, if i depo $100, i could play about 1 month or longer with this. If i depo 100 now, it may last for one week, if i exactly do the same as ever. This is the point, making me lost the interest to play EU. I don't play to make profit, i play this game fur having fun. But with such a low loot, it is no fun anymore. IT FEELS LIKE BEEN A BIG LOOSER.
I more and more have the problem to start a hunt run or mining, or both together, if i know of 98% sure it will end with 60% return, inclouding the poor MU it have. So i most only start to chat with my few friends i have here. Yes only a few friends, about most of my large friendlist is no longer playing EU.
Again, thanks for the post here, I think it is helpfully to know, what others think about this.
Well, a think I love to say is that you should not play at the level of your skills, but at the level of your budget.
Atomicstorm said that you need a minimum of 500 mobs to have, and since he's a guy that pretty much knows what he's talking, I'll start from here... $100 is (roughly) 1,000 PEDs; since you'll aim to hunt 500-1000 mobs, to minimize the effect of (bad) luck, that means that you should aim for mobs that cost 1-2 PED to be killed so that means something like 280-600 hp mobs. Do so and you should reduce the statistic anomalies and get reasonably small deviations, so something in the 80-95% return rates (not counting MU). Selling the loot and recycling, you should be able to cycle a total of about 10,000 PEDs from your initial $100 deposit, before all money run out.
hm, this maybe call for hunt. But how you explain this for mining I'm not only a hunter. And why i get much less play time for the same money deposited, if i do exactly the same as ever. I don't kill big hp creatures, in most cases. I hunt the same creatures as ever. most between lev5 to lev 20 creatures. I also dont focus at bigger creatures if my ped card get low, then i may only hunt lev 5 .
Ok, but for mining i cant do some thing like hunt small mobs. Also in mining i get bad as never before, since ca 2 years now.
hunting without pills+buffs its useless now not much markup left in the loot compared to 2010-2011, as u see peoples are using buffs to lower the cost per kill a lot , you see some avatars with 5% crit from items and using EST to get like 70-90 crit dmg so Trance try to adapt u dont have a choice
I disagree. The markup is still there. It's nothing like the old days. but as long as you're not grinding Kerberos and Atrox and the other mobs that are insanely overhunted by all the robots grinding iron missions, you can do okay.
Well, a think I love to say is that you should not play at the level of your skills, but at the level of your budget.
Atomicstorm said that you need a minimum of 500 mobs to have, and since he's a guy that pretty much knows what he's talking, I'll start from here... $100 is (roughly) 1,000 PEDs; since you'll aim to hunt 500-1000 mobs, to minimize the effect of (bad) luck, that means that you should aim for mobs that cost 1-2 PED to be killed so that means something like 280-600 hp mobs. Do so and you should reduce the statistic anomalies and get reasonably small deviations, so something in the 80-95% return rates (not counting MU). Selling the loot and recycling, you should be able to cycle a total of about 10,000 PEDs from your initial $100 deposit, before all money run out.
i agree on atrox thing also expected u to have 10 globals back in the days and guess what... checked a tracker and im right lol
ppl just keep on whining about short term returns and its gettin fkin boring. THey wanted less volatility, they got it. They wanted big hofs bck, they got it. Now they want less volatility again.
FYI one of my friend has 97.5% return with low dps wep and modares as buff only... and he tends to go on big shitz if feels like it. Can check quite a few longer term hunt logs, im pretty sure all shows 95%+ (if wep is maxed).
As far as im concerned, 90% was never true, i think system takes 5% from all spenditures related to a profession. Whether u make 85% from it on personal lvl or 110% is up to u
I see the day comming, where only a few rich ppl playing EU.