First of all, I'm sorry about my previous post - just having been scammed I was not in a good mood to put it mildly. I went off-topic, even that the statements were to the best of my knowledge all 100% correct.
Now on to current issues instead:
CLDs were designed to do three things:
-Provide players with a share of Caly profits
-Provide players with a voting system that allows shareholder to get involved in Caly decisions
-Provide players with a small home to reside in.
I guess I have to disagree again, as this seems like an attempt to rewrite history.
CLD's were sold to make up for the book loss of 6 million USD SEE were to pay MA, 2 mil/year IIRC.
I suspect it went something like this:
"Crap! We're gonna go bankrupt unless we get these money we have already accounted for! This arbitration can take forever, and chances are we'll lose!" (I believe they did - see annual statement).
"We need these money FAST, and no one sane would loan us the money. I know! We can fleece our customers again! Let
them carry it. But, we need to provide them with an incentive to give us this much money, with this little time. We can't just create another area-server and sell it, that has proven to fail. Just look at the sale of the Medusa's Island - that didn't exactly go to plan, did it!" (it sold for probably a tenth of what MA/Kim had expected, and rightfully so since that was what "the market" was willing to pay for it!
So they came up with the plan to sell half of Calypso's perpetual revenue (a rather...
unique approach), to get 6 million USD. This is "interesting"; MA needed the money, but Calypso brought it in. Can anyone honestly say there even is a PP relationship/barrier between Calypso (Kim) and MA (his dad, JWT)?
But they felt they needed to provide greater deception, a "background story", to sell the CLD's, so they dreamed up this fantastic (and 100% unrealistic) story about "Buy nine, and get the potential option of sometimes in the future, maybe, build a house there!".
Only after you got a (potential) house could you "get a chance to vote on Calypso-important issues" (my guess is it'd be something like 'should we reduce loot on argo, or should we make them ignore Evade?' or anything else forcing you to chose between the plague or cholera).
Really, does anyone still believe in the bullshit MA & Co spews? It was all just a deception to get the required 6 mil USD. Required, else they would be in... difficulties (I'd spell it "liquidated", but I might be wrong) - they had already accounted for and used up that (future, promised) money!
When you look at their balance sheets, keep in mind that those sheets include sales of a moon (recently) and other expensive areas (earlier), or a bank, or a <whatever> bullshit thing, not to mention the 6 million USD that never emerged.
To get the
actual revenue (not
profit, just revenue) of MA you have to subtract such "flash sales", such as a moon sold for 2 mil USD. Only after doing that do you truly see how Entropia is able to survivie. It's not because it's sustainable (it is not - even with 10% tax pressure), it is only due to those sales (and the addition of occasional "events" when big-spenders log in and spend a ton of money in hope of looting an item with high MU).
Knowing this, how sustainable is really Entropia (with current direction and leadership)?
This is why i usually Don't care about little things like this. But, for the sake of the fact that I don't care: You're right and you win. I will be more careful in the future. 
) in Neverdie and the Arkadia group.
