I'm baffled by some players posts in this thread. I would like to have a discussion without "whiner", "idiot" and so on thrown around as arguments.
The assertion was made that PEDs in game does not matter, so who is winning them is not the point. I wish that the RX unit would had a 400.000 PED pyrite and seconds later a 200.000 on a pvp mob, and see the reactions then. And I really do not want to take about the RX unit and his role only at the end, but about what influence an influx of PEDs in game not covered by deposits can have.
In ideal circumstances, the number of PED in game would match EXACTLY the difference between player's deposits and withdrawals minus the "vaporized" peds (MA cut - we can treat those as withdrawals too, imagine a large fat purse collecting PED in decay and misses and fees and so on, of course MA does not wait three months to get them).
Now we know the number of PEDs in game is MUCH larger than that, and some justify it by saying that banks don't have them either. Well, I do not trust banks much and also MA is not a bank - it does not make investments (they tried once and lost 1.4 million) or buy bonds or issue loans with interest, also does not have governments behind them to pour money every time they get too greedy and lose. There were times when banks got cleaned up in days if they did not kept enough cash aside and deponents found out, now is just 1-2 day closure until the trucks with printed money arrives.
So from where those extra PEDs are coming from? Observing MA modus operandi by now I cannot accept the explanation that they injected serious PEDs into game from their own pockets - either from sale of LA's, TP naming rights, CLD, planets, moons, shops, motherships and so on. That was their profit, and nobody can convince me (without an official MA document) that they left any sizable portion in game. People deposited huge PED's in game, bought the properties from MA, MA erased most of the PEDs from the game (sane thing to do) and pocketed the real world equivalent. The scope of MA sales is to give them hard cash against a virtual property, not to keep those peds in game. If they did it, they are insane.
My opinion (and is just that, MY OPINION) the extra peds comes from past ATHs and HOFs, event prizes, oil rig and mainly from bugs and exploits of bugs.
I do not know how it was years ago, but when I started in 2011 the loot seemed more loosely tied to the available funds than now, so bigger HOF's and ATH's slowly increased the number of PED's in game above the amounts deposited. Maybe was an unforeseen consequence of an imperfect algorithm. Sure was nice to have 7k HOFs on Argo young. Already the mining exploit was discovered, which by itself generated a huge amount of PEDs in game without the real spending occurring.
No idea how much PEDs were taken out of the game via that exploit, still there are more PEDs around (and bugs) than MA can cover. Many have the sensation that now big HOFs and ATHs cannot happen unless the "purse" is filled, i.e. enough peds are lost by players, hence the displeasure to see MA taking the purse.
I doubt MA poured any significant money into that ava anyway, they only have 1000 ped per month they said but maybe this particular ava has other rules. Maybe it got carried away using amps - doesn't this affect economy by itself, aka increase or maintain MU for amps?
Mining Stats
Favorite Mineral: Pyrite Stone
Highest Loot: 9 158 PED
Total Loot: 19 083 PED
Mining Rank: 780 of 1 304
Is not much overall, is mostly about taking a global to drawn attention and to generate enough PVP decay. Maybe even provoke some soc war - at 29 Jan 2014 17:00:52 MA he can take the first 4000 TT from that tower
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Some say this HOF does not affect other players. I say 900 small or big time players (miners or not) has to lose 100 ped each in game to cover it. Any other variant would means more PED generated in game without cover.
Seeing he's an insider, it will be always the suspicion of reverse Robin Hood (taking from many to give to few).
MA has to take into account this effect too when introducing a role-playing avatar: players are more willing to accept a defeat against a competitor rather against the referee, and this is all is about.
Here, I did it, the long winded post but certainly not the record!
RX UNIT TT's the pyrite.
at the same moment RX unit had to get to TT to unload the pyrite, a REAL PARTICIPANT was mining pvp4 with high amp - since the TT of the pyrite and ofc. its markup the REAL PARTICIPANT would get if he got the claim is missing, the REAL PARTICIPANT has poor return, therefore wanting to or even selling his bit of pyrite at an even higher price, raising the price more! - (common sense). Bottom line:
he was a cool one to defeat but this event will be a fun one of WSSs.
