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Question: Luck Factor?

How important is Luck Factor in EU?

  • 25% (ingame about 6 weeks)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 50% (~ 6 weeks)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 75% (~ 6 weeks)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 100% (~ 6 weeks)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 25% (ingame about 6 months)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 50% (~ 6 months)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 75% (~ 6 months)

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 100% (~ 6 months)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 25% (ingame about 2 years)

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 25% (~ 2 years)

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • 50% (~ 2 years)

    Votes: 2 3.2%

  • 75% (~ 2 years)

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 100% (~ 2 years)

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 25% (ingame about 4 years)

    Votes: 10 15.9%

  • 50% (~ 4 years)

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 75% (~ 4 years)

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • 100% (~ 4 years)

    Votes: 3 4.8%

  • 25% (ingame about 8 years)

    Votes: 19 30.2%

  • 50% (~ 8 years)

    Votes: 12 19.0%

  • 75% (~ 8 years)

    Votes: 10 15.9%
  • Total voters
    63
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Where on this line is EU? (25% 50% 75% 100%, choose the closest available option)
I also want to know how long have you played EU (choose the closest available option)

Mind you, the question is not what is your playstyle, but What is EU "by itself"
The goal is to figure out in which direction our perception changes as we get to know the game better.

Here's a snapshot from the data as a chart @ 7:45 Calypso Time:
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42 votes total, still not enough data to make any fundamental conclusions,
except that there seems to be extreme difference between the ingame (vocal) majority, (#Rookie channel, etc) - and the majority here on the forum.

Ingame most ppl seem to believe it's One Big Casino, on the forum we got only one 100% Luck vote so far (against 25 votes for 25%). Many ppl here think even 25% is too high a number and they would rather choose 0% if it was available.

Interesting result. Is it because ppl are easily swayed and tend to speak and vote like majority does?
Then again, we don't see much newcomers here, most voters have played like 2 years or more.

It's almost like having 2 separate playerbases in one game... ;)




The line starts at arbitrary 25%. Some ppl might perceive there's less randomness (pure luck factor) involved in life, some prolly that there's more. It's OK, in a sense your answer will reflect your viewpoint on both anyway.
One choice appears twice in the poll. No biggie i guess. Too late to fix it now anyways.
 
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25/8, though I'd rather voted 0%. I believed in almost pure luck in my earlier days but that value did decrease steadily the longer I stayed around :)
 
99% luck for 1% of the players
1% luck for 99% of the players
 
Just my opinion only.

I think the luck factor is only in deciding whether you'll "hit" something nice early on in your "EU" career or not.

But over time, if done long enough, everything evens out.

The rest is just how well you can control yourself and the decisions you've made. And this my friend is the important factor in deciding whether you can survive this game or not.

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The nature of the design and legalities suggest it cannot be luck at all, and must be derived.

So I choose the option that is not there ..since 2007
 
"Luck is merely an illusion, trusted by the ignorant and chased by the foolish." Said Timothy Zahn and bought 1000 CLD.
 
The nature of the design and legalities suggest it cannot be luck at all, and must be derived.

So I choose the option that is not there 0% ..since 2007
 
May I have my lucky door prize given I identified, in experience , 8 Years @ 50% chance.
Still waiting MA... .. ... .. ... .. ...
 
Luck is relative term here. It depends on million other factors. Like the time and point of reference you are looking at. Yes, If you cycle 100k ped a month for a few years, but never had a hof over few k ped you might call yourself unlucky compared to someone who has played a lot loss and hit a nice mining tower or 10-20k hof in hunting/crafting.

Although in longerterm it seems to even out more.
 
Futurama said:
Luck is relative term here. It depends on million other factors. Like the time and point of reference you are looking at. Yes, If you cycle 100k ped a month for a few years, but never had a hof over few k ped you might call yourself unlucky compared to someone who has played a lot loss and hit a nice mining tower or 10-20k hof in hunting/crafting.

Although in longerterm it seems to even out more.
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So I should start spending, again, alas ....mmmmm.

Until MA get there platform right after a significant period of exclusion (the 6 minute bug) I have been inclined to forgo.
nb they have been interested but wont admit to this experience for many.
Yes I am angry with the time to resolve this past issue that I gave up on many times.
 
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Personally I do not think the amount of loot is affected buy the lucky factor but to get items (Talking about good items) which is lucky factor very important ( if your avatar dont work for MA ).
 
I've been in game 3-4 years now and I believe there is a strong luck factor... however, it's not permanent for any given avatar, but comes and goes over time. So everyone has "luck" but not everyone makes use of it.
 
Voted 8 years 25% but to me there is no luck factor in the game.
 
I think the results so far show that the card counters frequent the forums here more often than the pure(flip a coin) gamblers.
 
Luck can be manually added before each VU!

The system check you avatar every year or so, if you have lost a lot of peds (total of depo x TT of your account) then they put you on top of the table. Or If system notice a abrupt change in your game habits and/or deposit habits then you go to top places in the table.

Of course it still depends of what you chose to do and how is the pool of that certain activity or mob or bp but when you are in such top places of the table almost every thing you touch becomes gold. This can last up to one full month. I know because it happened to me for two times already.


Loot completely random means that you could spend billions of PED and play for 24/7 and still you don't hit anything good. Because random is exactly that. So those list that they upgrade time to time is exactly to prevent that.


You decisions count but lucky is every thing here! If MA want they can dry you out in hours and there is nothing you can do, you can stop playing and do some trade or still playing and try to loot mu items to compensate but you only loot what MA wants.

Add to the pool please: 100% (~ 8 years)


PS: If you play against the house, luck is every thing. After all this is a Real Cash Economy game!

If you decide to go play against other players (trader, pvp, space) then the luck factor is close to zero.
 
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Well I tried to understand what to vote but I can't seem to find any option as to what my belief is.

No I would not call it luck, but for sure I would not ever call it anything someone with "luck" has done himself to vote for "real life" if that makes sense.

Since 2006.
 
Fanan said:
lucky is every thing here!
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Fanan said:
you only loot what MA wants.
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Just wanted to point out that you are contradicting yourself, after re-reading it a couple times I'm still not sure if you think luck is everything, or if MA can control everything.
 
narfi said:
Just wanted to point out that you are contradicting yourself, after re-reading it a couple times I'm still not sure if you think luck is everything, or if MA can control everything.
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If you play against the house, luck is every thing! And the house also control our luck. So....
 
Depending on how long you play, and how many ped you're cycling, I firmly believe after ~4,000,000 ped cycled in test trials, you will receive back 90% of tt value. The key is to hunt Markup :wise:

p.s- I've played for over 10 years.
 
Luckycharm said:
Well I tried to understand what to vote but I can't seem to find any option as to what my belief is.

No I would not call it luck, but for sure I would not ever call it anything someone with "luck" has done himself to vote for "real life" if that makes sense.

Since 2006.
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I ignored the "Real Life / Casino" thing completely and just voted for %, where 0% is no luck involved aka strictly controlled environment, and 100% is totall randomness; because I consider RL such a complex chaotic system that you may as well call it 100% random, at least compared to any virtual environment or a casino. On OP's chart I'd place RL on the right, way beyond the right edge of the screen :D
 
I believe in Depo luck. :D

If you deposit too often though then MA just keeps the money and turns your luck off.:hammer::broke:
 
Talania said:
I believe in Depo luck. :D

If you deposit too often though then MA just keeps the money and turns your luck off.:hammer::broke:
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Exactly what happened to me!

Went on a 2 years bad loot cycle until I suddenly change my deposit habits and five months later my luck started to change. Right after a new VU...


I believe if I continued to deposit every month I would never hit those mining towers and uber loots. We even had a term for that: Milk Cow!
 
Black Widow iK said:
Depending on how long you play, and how many ped you're cycling, I firmly believe after ~4,000,000 ped cycled in test trials, you will receive back 90% of tt value. The key is to hunt Markup :wise:

p.s- I've played for over 10 years.
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Let me rephrase that for you..
The key is to GET mu, not to hunt it.
Since they made the improved loot myth, you can get mu on any mob, you just need to get it...
BIGGEST MISTAKE EVER.. now, you don't have to test & do research.. you just need to gamble, welcome to the Entropia Casino where there aren't even drinks!
 
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