minim
Elite
- Joined
- Dec 15, 2010
- Posts
- 3,991
- Location
- Bergen, Norway
- Society
- Rangers
- Avatar Name
- Mini MiniM Mine
From a player with 300k skillz. Trolling the trolz are we
Not sure if I understand? It was a serious comment from me.
From a player with 300k skillz. Trolling the trolz are we
Not sure if I understand? It was a serious comment from me.
Isn't that happening allready?
It's dying.
MA had a beautiful vision, and created a beautiful world.
But that peaceful world was slowly corrupted.
Along the way, MA made a few mistakes: allowing constant exploits, balancing, unique, rare or ancient items and one-of-a-kind bps, allowing scammers, not creating an item loan system, space with its cheating pirates...the list goes on and on...
Before long, those exploiters that were allowed to continue, those scammers refused to return items, those rare, ancient and unique items and bp's, they became the tools of ped-sucking vultures.
As the vultures lied and tried to cover up their acts to make us all feel it was a fair game, the withdrawals kept coming.
MA tried to make it last, so rare events became common events, new events sprang forth, big HOF's belonged to shared mobs as they tried to please more people at once, but despite all it's efforts, the will of the average player grew weaker.
Deposits became rarer, and withdrawal times were extended.
And the greedy men just kept withdrawing and withdrawing, and there was nothing MA could do to stop them, because if they tried, the game was dead, once the vultures sang unto the forums.
So MA's house crumbled, and it became a mere shell of it's once great glory.
And in it's last gasps, MA fought with everything it had left....CLD's, shrapnel, equus, and finally, explosives.
It will be too late when MA realizes their mistake: They kept feeding the vultures. They ignored the scammers, they were blind to the exploiters, and they tried to survive off the average player, instead of fixing what truly mattered.
Will is destroyed by letting the elite, the vultures, the scammers, and the exploiters, prey upon the general population. And existence is doomed if you destroy the will of the your population.
And so, the story of the the bright star that was will be told years from now, by the players that once lived and loved and played this game, with the occasional fond memory, but more commonly, with endless rivers of heartbreak over the failure of MA to sustain the body by cutting off the snake-bit, poisoned hand.
No, it is not happening.
Several players, which (maybe) sold their assets, means nothing for the whole game.
These assets was succesfully bought by several others strong addicts. So overall balance remain the same.
The thing is - MA doesn't need profitable players. Not because they "danger" or something like that, no. It's just one of the cheapest ways to reduce expenses, and thus make profit bigger for MindArk.
All those "State of the Universe" and other excuses is just bullshit.
Business, nothing personal.
NYSE, CME, FOREX? <-- you know difference between those?
It's better for MA to have players that can legitimately say "I profit, I withdraw" than ones who can legitimately say "No matter what you do or how you do it, prepare your anus."
Customer testimony is better advertising than advertising.
Here on the forum is full of advertising, in the form of pictures with towers, or HoF's, or ATH's. As main advertisement globals/HoF's is spammed in the game constantly. So why here can not to be players, who pissed away all? It has nothing to do with the economy.
It's better for MA to have players that can legitimately say "I profit, I withdraw" than ones who can legitimately say "No matter what you do or how you do it, prepare your anus."
Customer testimony is better advertising than advertising.
You once said that you run some IRL business.
Now I really wondering what kind.
It is for sure some consulting.
Shit, I really puzzled.
Eve vs all.
I like it. Go on Eve, show them you can beat anyone!!!
I would like to see at least a V version of the EP bp next VU
I would like to see at least a V version of the EP bp next VU
I will sell out and eat my own f*cking hand if I see an EP V blueprint..
It will be cool, maybe we will see the real players from real casino in EU?
I will sell out and eat my own f*cking hand if I see an EP V blueprint..
Eve vs all.
I like it. Go on Eve, show them you can beat anyone!!!
Maybe the problem is too big mining amps. In my opinion it would be better if they removed biggest amps from the game, maybe the top third or something like that, and by that way restricting the possible finds/hour.
The biggest problem for the economy is probably the low player increase or even decrease for the last couple of years. A lot of the old players have pretty much everything they need and have low demand on things. I also think that decay on a lot of things are too low and should be increased, and maybe some kind of "time" decay for things like vehicles, cloth and similar items. I know people hate decay, but decay and the need to buy new things is also the thing that drives the economy.
My solution for MA: Have very few unlimited items, increase decay on items, but also increase the loot to players as an compensation. That would make the activity increase when players needs to replace their things more often.
Reducing supply is not the answer. Increasing demand, which it was before the explosive blueprint, is what needs to be done. In the end, the explosive blueprint MUST be changed to complete the cycle between the three professions. The way it is now, left unchecked, will spell disaster for the game.. from what I can see.
I can no longer craft Terra Amps at a break even or profit (TA4, TA6) because mining materials have dropped because people arent gambling with them anymore... so no one amps big. This is just a small part of the larger picture.
I would like to see at least a V version of the EP bp next VU
200 PED/click.
Would be expensive to run 10,000 clicks on that puppy.
I will sell out and eat my own f*cking hand if I see an EP V blueprint..
To be fair a 200 ped/click bp wouldnt make any difference now. Metal residue is as low as it can get.
Hell they could introduce a 2000/click or 20000/click none of which would make a blind bit of difference now.
Apart from one thing, CLD payments would go up
Rgds
Ace
same counts for armor crafting (well a few high end L armors like Lich not counted).
A suggestion: I know some ubers would complain about this (as they did for rocket launcher for combat tokens); but make some (L) weapons that's better than the repairable counterparts. Maybe let them use lots of Resources like sweat and nova. What I'm trying to say is, for players to like (L), it must be better than repairable at same level (eg dmg/sec or dmg/hit at professional level 45).