You forgot,
- Licking your finger, putting it in the air and seeing which way the wind is blowing IRL.
- Facing true north which is 5 degrees off north when playing Entropia.
- The "Feng Shui" of the room your playing in, making sure the natural earth energies are flowing correctly and keeping your mind, body and spirit aligned for financial gain.
- Psionic devices placed in the appropriate place day/night
LOL sorry could not resist - But seriously it all contributes to your wellbeing IRL so it should contribute to your prolonged activity online and higher chance to statistically hit a loot above 50 ped if your PED card can handle it.
In my personal experience, ECO only contributes to a small fraction of prolonging your gameplay, proportionately decreasing your expense while interacting with a system "that seems to for the most part" to be statistically driven in allocating out loot.
In my personal experience, playing eco does not ensure globals, hofs or better loot returns. The same loot is derived, just you lower your expense to play;
And if you have not invested thousands upon thousands of USD into appropriate gear for your level (
or on a much smaller scale play with marked up (L)imited gear of relative eco) then your pretty much killing the whole FUN FACTOR of a GAME!
Games usually = Fun without too much hard work and other morally diminishing factors that impact a games fun factor and the players' retention and continued interest in that game
Result of diminished fun/moral = Boring, diminished activity, tiring, lacking attention span - Ultimately people leave, and don't return again.
Ofc, discussing eco is starting to take this topic a little off track, it is not the solution to achieving the goals outlined earlier in the thread.