Help: How to play EU (and how not to)

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I'm here to help those of you know how to hunt. This guide is intended for those of you who plan on one day being near the very top of the skill ladder. Careful what you wish for. Anyone reading this will think I'm upset about it. Not exactly, I'm just pointing out that god seems to favor some people over others. I think maybe they pray more than I do. It really must be that. How else could you explain such things? :)

It is important to know a few important DO's and DON'TS of hunting:

1) DO NOT be the top hunter in the past 30 days by 400 globals. Well, this would point to killing a lot of mobs. The reward? Apparently, the reward is 40k less in normal loot than people who kill the same shit only less of it. Items? Yea! You'll get a few 2.5k PED items to shut you up after hunting for a thousand hours at 1-2k PED/hour spent. Items for them on the exact same mobs? Oh a few 15k items and a 50-120k item. Why not!? It all makes sense right?

2) DO NOT have the highest skills in the area you are hunting. Everyone thinks that being the highest skilled gives all the loot. Is this true? No. It has nothing to do with it. You are likely to get LESS loot if you are the highest skilled.

3) DO NOT use a real person fapping you. Paying a person 60 PED/hour instead of using a fapbot means you are probably coming out way behind on your hunts. (Does this point to using a fapbot? It would appear a lot of people think so)

4) DO somehow loot all the items killing the same mobs but just less of them. This is undoubtedly due to the achieved knowledge of how to play EU by playing so much smarter (shooting the exact same shit using the same or less dps).

5) DO live in Sweden. Lag aside, is it possible there is an ingame quota for how much money must be paid to Swedes in order to keep it in their country? I don't know, just asking!?

6) DO deposit heavily. If you deposit a lot, you are probably more loved by MindArk. I don't disagree with this method tbh, but it takes away from the spirit of Real Cash Economy.


This is how to play. If someone can teach me how to do and do not do the things listed, I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks!
 
#5 would seem the easiest to fix. So how long till you move?
 
...and here I was thinking this might actually be helpful :dunce:
 
Oh I forgot another DO NOT:

DO NOT withdraw regularly. Your loot will be fucked.
 
Think you missed a couple things.. BUT I'll leave that to other folks.

Really hope this is intended to be satire and not a whine thread.
 
Think you missed a couple things.. BUT I'll leave that to other folks.

Really hope this is intended to be satire and not a whine thread.

A little of both. I think in the shoes of the guy shooting the biggest shit in game at all times, you'd feel the same. It is all a nice little joke.
 
How to play EU (and how not to)...

IF U NOT HAVE ENOUGH money/Peds DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!!!

ITS NOT A GAME ...IS VIRTUAL SLAVERY...OR PAY TO BE FREE!!!

IF U LIKE TO WORK LIKE SLAVE PLAY AND LOVE IT ...NEVER GET NOTHING AND NEVER GO ANYWHERE...

IF U THINK HERE U CAN INVEST...JUST ASK INVESTORS!!!:wise:

IF U R A GAMBLER BETTER GO TO ANY CASINO ...IS MORE FUN THERE!!!:yay:

Anyway ...for newcomers try the game and if u have enough money u love it or if u can find something u like ...just play it...

Im very sorry guys ...but thats im my feelings right now for this game...its not a game ...is like a cancer... always pain and always want to quiting the life...

Maybe when i forgot the pain to see u again...:(
Faceof...:cool:
 
ive noticed the global ranking total loots differ ALOT sometimes. Every time i push myself to top50 i can see that 10 ranks above me and 10 ranks below me all have higher total loots and sometimes even 10s of Ks differences even tho they havent hit anything significant.
 
There is no incentive that I can see for being high skilled. Noons get the same or more markup as the level 150 guy with the best gear in the game.
 
I got the first 3 covered,not the fapbot I do my own fapping.

The other 3 though...hmm not so much.

I've done my version of number 6 but its not made a difference in the last 8-9yrs.


So in the end......:dunno:
 
OK #6 makes me worried.
Depositors have been raging for years, demanding a special bonus for their deposits. Maybe MA has finally given up and made it happen?
Duh, sure hope it's not true. I've always believed NO connection between loots and depo is the cornerstone of RCE.
 
So you Do Not deposit, but withdraw regulary. And complain about bad loot? :scratch2:

You forget, the only way I stay alive most times is trading. Perhaps their is also a "DO NOT trade".
 
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ive noticed the global ranking total loots differ ALOT sometimes. Every time i push myself to top50 i can see that 10 ranks above me and 10 ranks below me all have higher total loots and sometimes even 10s of Ks differences even tho they havent hit anything significant.


Depends on what you hunt.

If you hunt a mob that costs 40 ped to kill, all globals will be above 120 ped, while someone grinding their way in would have plenty of smaller ones.
 
I'm here to help those of you know how to hunt.

If someone can teach me how to do and do not do the things listed, I'd be greatly appreciative. Thanks!

Red or Blue pill?
 
How to play EU (and how not to)...

IF U NOT HAVE ENOUGH money/Peds DO NOT PLAY THIS GAME!!!

ITS NOT A GAME ...IS VIRTUAL SLAVERY...OR PAY TO BE FREE!!!

IF U LIKE TO WORK LIKE SLAVE PLAY AND LOVE IT ...NEVER GET NOTHING AND NEVER GO ANYWHERE...

IF U THINK HERE U CAN INVEST...JUST ASK INVESTORS!!!:wise:

IF U R A GAMBLER BETTER GO TO ANY CASINO ...IS MORE FUN THERE!!!:yay:

Anyway ...for newcomers try the game and if u have enough money u love it or if u can find something u like ...just play it...

Im very sorry guys ...but thats im my feelings right now for this game...its not a game ...is like a cancer... always pain and always want to quiting the life...

Maybe when i forgot the pain to see u again...:(
Faceof...:cool:

Said the guy from Greece...
 
Damn, and I thought this thread would have some useful tips for us regular hunters from a well-known uber player. Maybe next time :dunno::dunno::dunno::dunno:
 
2) DO NOT have the highest skills in the area you are hunting. Everyone thinks that being the highest skilled gives all the loot. Is this true? No. It has nothing to do with it. You are likely to get LESS loot if you are the highest skilled.

This is something I have noticed many times recently and its really starting to piss me off.

I have given up on gameplay recently, so while playing other games I have been swunting carabok puny on arkadia.

Many times now, a complete noob will enter my radar, suddenly my loot will completely stop, no loot most mobs, until I move or they go.

Im no uber, level 43 laser, level 26 evader, why the fuck would a noob take my loot?

Clearly skills mean shit these days!!
 
I've always believed NO connection between loots and depo is the cornerstone of RCE.

I never believed in any connection between depo and loot in EU, and now even less than ever, after busting a year-worth budget in 2 weeks on strongboxes without noticing a slightest change in returns or getting a smallest hof in the month since then.
 
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Lol...the truth IS SO DIFFICULT for u Americana?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAM3rIBG5k

Cheers:lolup:
Faceof...:cool:

I don't take my political or financial cues from shitty music. It's a simple math problem... just like the woes of the OP in this thread.

For you, I will direct you to Dave Ramsey and the concept of austerity.

For the OP, I will direct him to the concept of risk for ruin and sustainable markup. Not any sustainable markup you say? Maybe we shouldn't hunt... I think most people these days know that it is tough and calypso's half assed loot pools don't make that problem any easier. I gave up hunting the day after having 3 ped mu on 12k of longtooth. The math doesn't fit. People who are excited about mu from eomon will go through a phase of depression after migration ends. Markup in the biggest profession in the game is not sustainable when the use of the materials they are accumulating with markup are limited (point: galactic mission consumables). Explosives print limits any ability for the oils to spike up in mu.

I will tell the op and everyone else what I have told all others who say they hunt for high mu ul items instead of sustainable mu like wools and oils. You are trying to run a marathon with one leg chained with a ball weight in hopes that the prevailing winds will carry you to the finish line (getting lucky). You might get lucky.. but the price for not being lucky will ruin you.
 
I never believed in any connection between depo and loot in EU, and now even less than ever, after busting a year-worth budget in 2 weeks on strongboxes without noticing a slightest change in returns or getting a smallest hof in the month since then.

People who believe deposits and loot have a connection have perception bias. Swedish gaming authority wouldn't let them do such a thing. It is just that when people depo, their hunts are longer, they cycle more, and every once in a while hit a jackpot because they had to depo because they were in a down cycle.
 
I love how people start to 'play' EU and say: 'oh, i soooo know how this All works', then an 'uber' comes on and says: 'you know sh*t.... hell, i don't even know! :('

LMFAO


side note: 'depoing', the act of depositing money from outside the platform, ..... is not loot, does not have to do with anything bout loot nor does it mean you will loot to profit anymore then your deposited amount;... it just helps one advance faster by allowing more options

2nd side note: MA is truly not watching you... nor I
 
Tip number 7) Whine on forum and u will get uber hof
 
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