1. we all agree I guess usable stackables will go up in MU eventually, my point was that in total, the hunting loot MU will decrease since the MU increase can't cover up for the rest - and other professions (read activity levels) will suffer for the less availability. same as for example tiering costs going up will slow it down.
We need to wait some time to see the long time effects of the new droprates onto markups.
Actually it looks like you are right, point is how much will MU on stackables rise.
And we have to wait and see if droprate of looted items got adjusted (lowered), as this could have an serious impact on MU of items and MU of crafted items aswell. Actually no coment about that, and not that easy to analyse than doing it with stackables.
1.c. I don't think so imho MU was mainly crashed by other planet partners starting to drop these oils in large quantities in their events AND by the activity decrease.
If there is 10+ pages adrenal oil at buyouts all less than 102% in auction, its definately a huge oversupply, it really doesn´t matter what caused that oversupply. At least is removing full oil globals/HoFs from loot (replaced with ammo) an attempt to solve that oversupply problem that could work.
1.d. The whole ecosystem must be healthy for it to work, thinking in silos is a problem - if one of the professions get screwed, the others are impacted.
Correct!
Sidenote: I don´t think crafters got screwed by higher markups, it worked in the past with higher markups, it can still work. Crafter still got option to focus on using mainly mined materials, and less looted once.
Difficult to see how crafting will be affected. Maybe less Simple I whatever crafting, and more other stuff.
3. There was diversity in loots before the change, because the maturities were different. You could chose your mobs and maturities indeed wisely. Now it will be made more brainless activity, all will know the high MU mobs and only those will be hunted until the MU crashes again, rinse repeat. The fact hunters can maybe get more oils from higher maturities doesn't really compare to the number of choices before.
Partly agree, personally I would like to see diversity in maturity (f.e. low mob: youngs-old drop muscle, provider-alpha drop eye, oldalpha-stalker drop thyroid). We would have option just changing maturity to get other oils, instead changing mob.
True only the good markups will be hunted. What impact?
Well good markup will slowly drop (more supply), while low markup will raise (less supply).
Very likely we will see more waves in MU and more ofen need to adjust our hunting to actual market situation (what smart players had to do in the past, and still should have to do)
4. My point was different, to simplify: MA introduced planet partners and did not assure growth, thus we are here. Screwing with just stackables availability won't return the good old times...
Agree. We need growth!
PP have same responsibility as MA has, to promote EU in a way that playerbase could grow.
Its easy to say MA should have done this or that.
PP have responsibility to make their planets attract new players, not screwing players off other planets by offering better eco items at TT and such things that already have happened.
MA did adjusted all TTs in the universe, first step into right direction.
Don´t know if that happens, but all PP should sit at one table from time to time, together with MA and have healthy discussion about future plans and development of single planets aswell as the whole universe.
At such meetings, impacts on economy of PP introduction of items/events/event rewards could be discussed from different angles. Same counts for plattform updates, done by MA.
