This is true. But, but, we once had an old Project Entropia which we loved so much and there was only unlimited gear and markups were cool. Does anyone remember why that ever worked? Is growth in numbers the only thing that killed it? I have to admit, I don't fully understand it.
Back that days people gambled with regular BPs.
L2 amp was very comon or some tailoring BPs aswell, like Leaf Beret.
Do you really think those who crafted L2 amps 10hrs a day, did sell their 5k+ amps daily to miners? How naive, they dumped it into TT and start over to hit that damn HOFs.
Do you really think this crafter who clicked Leaf Berets 10hrs a day, sold all this 5k+ Berets to the fashion fans? No, he dumped it into TT and start over to hit that damn HOFs.
All economy back that days was driven by crafting gamble.
Yes, that days MUs was nice and many miners claimed to have
ALWAYS profit after MU.
Many hunters could claim that aswell.
With explo BPs the gamblers moved to this new BPs and now we have a more real picture of the economy, and this economy simply does not work, due to the UL items.
Only a very small fraction of hunters/miners buy L gear on a regular basis, most hunters I know own UL gear (me included).
Many miners go unamped using only UL finders, well those using L amps do their part to keep some MU at least a little up.
Sure there is also hunters that use enhancers, and some may even use L amps.
If you look through threats when it comes to profit and losses, you can hear from the experienced hunters that doing this is noob and they should invest some thousand PED into UL gear to get out of their loss, and surely they should do bigger runs (more turnover) to get to an better return rate (90%+).
The downspiral for MUs is caused by people who listen to this advices and by those giving these advises as they do exactly that.
There was times when MA announced that they want to shift EU more to L items.
They started with it and gave us Breers, Aspis, Rutics and a lot more L gear.
And then they started to let UL counterparts of all that drop like rain, and that exactly was the dead of nice MUs and a working economy in EU.
And they still continue with that shit, handing out more and more UL gear with every damn Mayham.
Removing UL items and shifting to L economy would be the solution.
Now MA should not simply remove UL items, but make some attempts to reduce the amount of existing UL gear and completely stop handing out new UL gear.
The upgrade missions is one way to reduce UL gear, if it needs several UL parts to get one upgraded part.
Maybe someone has other ideas how to get rid of some UL stuff over time.
One way could be to make existing UL gear simply non competitve vs L gear over time.
Speak give us:
L FAPs that can heal 200 HP/pec (crafted)
5 DPP L guns (crafted)
85%+ efficency L guns (crafted)
aso aso
Sadly I cant see any attempt to remove or outdate old UL gear.
What i can see: there is more and more and more UL gear, which is way better than anything crafted handed out with every event.
Economy in EU never will become strong again with that MA politics.
Exactly that is one point why many of my old friends left EU for good, and never came back.
Well there is other points aswell why people left for good, but thats another story.