Angel O2 Mercer
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Nomatter how that is implemented it would kill the use of (L) guns and flatten out the hunting MU even more. It would soon drop below 100% lol
There is no such thing as a “personal lootpool” for individual avatars, and there is no system in place which tracks each avatar’s returns over time, or which provides compensation to individual avatars. ... Overall this is a very positive thing and an important part of the Entropia virtual universe concept, as it allows those participants who spend the time and effort to approach their activities within Entropia Universe in a smart way to improve their chances of becoming successful, just like in the real world.
So it's official, it's gambling.
Thanks for finally clearing that up.
No compensation for losses, no more use playing?
No, you are completely and utterly misinterpreting the whole thing and reading stuff that is not there into it. Just like a lot of others in this thread have.
I knew it! No "personal" loot pools. It would be a horrendous amount of resources used up for that...
People who know how programs and randomness works, do not believe in a personal loot pool (because of several reasons).
Over the past year, several friends and I conducted a series of experiments shooting different amounts of ped into the ground to see if it affected returns. In the course of six or seven of the largest tests (those with 500 or more ped "wasted"), our ped was returned each time in a hof. The best result was my first attempt (not the first overall) where I shot 1k ped in the ground and received an 8.8k Argo the following day. I have kept this information relatively secret until recently, because I no longer believe such experiments would provide the same results.
If you talk with some more experienced players, they will tell you that in the early years of the game, Eco mattered quite a bit, and if you were Eco enough, you would succeed as a hunter. At some point, MA changed the loot system in a very obvious way. People who had been profiting consistently suddenly were not, and the HOFs started getting bigger. Some players adapted to this system, and found ways to take advantage of the fact that no matter how inefficiently they hunted, they still got 80-90% of their tt back, and even used this knowledge to their advantage angling for high markup in the hofs that would inevitably come to balance their returns. Over the past year, several friends and I conducted a series of experiments shooting different amounts of ped into the ground to see if it affected returns. In the course of six or seven of the largest tests (those with 500 or more ped "wasted"), our ped was returned each time in a hof. The best result was my first attempt (not the first overall) where I shot 1k ped in the ground and received an 8.8k Argo the following day. I have kept this information relatively secret until recently, because I no longer believe such experiments would provide the same results.
Somewhere between two and three months ago, MA again adjusted the loot system. Perhaps there is no personal loot pool now, as they say, but I believe myself and my other experimenters proved within reason that they at least did exist until the rebalance. Maybe this new system is simply a return to the original one where Eco was the only thing that mattered, or maybe it's something new entirely. Only diligent testing will uncover what new secrets the loot pool holds.
So it's official, it's gambling.
Thanks for finally clearing that up.
No compensation for losses, no more use playing? Where is your vision? Personal lootpool makes much more sense, keeps players happy, you could even attract a real bank (if MindBank was trashed as a path to follow) to use the deposits to generate profit, making the game a unique advertising front for what is actually a bank account (with the assurance that you have the right to recup deposits minus what you spend on markup) ... I thought you were smarter. Turns out you're just another gambling site.
Developer Notes #3
Legion had it right all along!
My feeling is, that MindArk today tried to set the expectations right, because this results in way more happy and way more satisfied customers.
No, you are completely and utterly misinterpreting the whole thing and reading stuff that is not there into it. Just like a lot of others in this thread have.
So it's official, it's gambling.
Thanks for finally clearing that up.
No compensation for losses, no more use playing? Where is your vision? Personal lootpool makes much more sense, keeps players happy, you could even attract a real bank (if MindBank was trashed as a path to follow) to use the deposits to generate profit, making the game a unique advertising front for what is actually a bank account (with the assurance that you have the right to recup deposits minus what you spend on markup) ... I thought you were smarter. Turns out you're just another gambling site.
But I guess there is a collective loot pool.....
No matter how that is implemented it would kill the use of (L) guns and flatten out the hunting MU even more.
So it's official, it's gambling.
I fully agree. I`ve done very similar tests myself with even more peds and was compensated by hofs soon after. If you check the tracker you`ll see two consecutive 3k drone hofs in 2 days time.
If MA states otherwise they`re either lying or they`ve changed the system recently, thus depriving some people of the amount stashed in their loot pools.
The stupidity of EU players are mind boggling, truly.
.................... smarter ones, have realized that by depositing and shooting mindlessly is not the way to earn money now.
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Well, the LVL 13 amp stats say that it has the best "efficiency" ... sooooo, maybe everyone should just use them instead and lose 100 times more, go figure...And wtf is that efficiency in mining?