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Hello everyone!
I quite often see a confusion around references made to players while using the Entropia Life Tracker, so I thought I’d take a moment and try to explain what it is and what it does.
Entropia Life, originally called Entropia Tracker, was created by Starfinder in 2008. Back then there was no downloadable client side software. All “tracking” was made by a single logged in avatar which took “screenshots” of the globals using OCR technology. And well… We all know how often the EU client crashes or gets logged out, so tracking wasn’t really reliable.
It was not until about a year later that Starfinder released the downloadable tracker software, which made tracking globals slightly more accurate. However, it took a while for this to catch on, so global tracking was still a shot from the hip. In my opinion the tracker really got going early 2010 when the client got pretty much solid and somewhat widely used.
Now if we keep this in mind, we can easily say that the tracker we know today, is missing about a good 7 years of data. This means we have old time big game hunters, miners and crafters that does not have this data recorded on their profiles.
We still today have issues with globals not being tracked on less populated planets, because it heavily relies on people actually running the tracker software AND have it properly setup, which very often they don’t. According to Entropia Life’s own “call home” feature, I can often see planets like Cyrene and Toulan go by several days and sometimes weeks without having any tracker software user online. Also seen is that sometimes logging of globals to the tracker can be interrupted for several hours regardless of planet. Most likely due to communication errors and such.
Anyhow, what I really want to talk about is what does the tracker actually show? Well, the answer is very simple, it shows (almost all) globals produced from hunting, mining and crafting.
The reason I bring this up is because I see a confusion around how to read the data from the tracker. I’ve seen references like “Look at this guy, he has 500,000 PED in globals, he must be doing really well”
The truth is, he/she might be doing very poorly, as the tracker does NOT track a player’s success in profit. It doesn’t track a player’s deposits and withdrawals in the game. Don’t be blinded by these high ranked tracker numbers. You have to keep in mind that some of these players can easily rotate 2,000-3,000 PED per hour as a hunter, or to 60,000+ PED per hour as a crafter or miner. While playing these 3 professions at this level definitely generates a higher number of globals, as the cost per kill/drop/attempt is higher, doesn’t necessarily mean that they profit. In general they have the same 90% average return as a low level hunter/miner/crafter has. The only “reward” these players have for their courage to gamble higher, is the chance to get these insane high ATH’s.
Okay, moving on to what else the tracker doesn’t tell you. The tracker doesn’t track Business. What I mean by that it doesn’t show the “globals” that a 100 CLD shareholder does every week. It doesn’t show the status of Land Area owner, or service providers, healers, traders, shop owners, low level grinders and so on.
Understand that someone with 500,000 PED Explosive Projectiles IV on the tracker may be a stereotypic gambler. He may be depositing hundreds of dollars or even thousands every month and never in his EU career done a single withdrawal from EU. This while someone who is a businessman, investor, service provider or low level grinder with almost nothing on his tracker, may be frequently withdrawing money from EU as he or she is quite successful, but his or hers successfulness does not generate any data for the tracker.
So what does the tracker tell us? It tells us who since 2010 has rotated most PED into high level hunting, mining and crafting and who’s willing to gamble the highest in the chase of that ATH. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. But if you’re somewhat new to EU, don’t fall in love with the high tracker numbers! Playing at your level and playing smart might generate you more profit if you just ignore the ranking on the tracker.
I quite often see a confusion around references made to players while using the Entropia Life Tracker, so I thought I’d take a moment and try to explain what it is and what it does.
Entropia Life, originally called Entropia Tracker, was created by Starfinder in 2008. Back then there was no downloadable client side software. All “tracking” was made by a single logged in avatar which took “screenshots” of the globals using OCR technology. And well… We all know how often the EU client crashes or gets logged out, so tracking wasn’t really reliable.
It was not until about a year later that Starfinder released the downloadable tracker software, which made tracking globals slightly more accurate. However, it took a while for this to catch on, so global tracking was still a shot from the hip. In my opinion the tracker really got going early 2010 when the client got pretty much solid and somewhat widely used.
Now if we keep this in mind, we can easily say that the tracker we know today, is missing about a good 7 years of data. This means we have old time big game hunters, miners and crafters that does not have this data recorded on their profiles.
We still today have issues with globals not being tracked on less populated planets, because it heavily relies on people actually running the tracker software AND have it properly setup, which very often they don’t. According to Entropia Life’s own “call home” feature, I can often see planets like Cyrene and Toulan go by several days and sometimes weeks without having any tracker software user online. Also seen is that sometimes logging of globals to the tracker can be interrupted for several hours regardless of planet. Most likely due to communication errors and such.
Anyhow, what I really want to talk about is what does the tracker actually show? Well, the answer is very simple, it shows (almost all) globals produced from hunting, mining and crafting.
The reason I bring this up is because I see a confusion around how to read the data from the tracker. I’ve seen references like “Look at this guy, he has 500,000 PED in globals, he must be doing really well”
The truth is, he/she might be doing very poorly, as the tracker does NOT track a player’s success in profit. It doesn’t track a player’s deposits and withdrawals in the game. Don’t be blinded by these high ranked tracker numbers. You have to keep in mind that some of these players can easily rotate 2,000-3,000 PED per hour as a hunter, or to 60,000+ PED per hour as a crafter or miner. While playing these 3 professions at this level definitely generates a higher number of globals, as the cost per kill/drop/attempt is higher, doesn’t necessarily mean that they profit. In general they have the same 90% average return as a low level hunter/miner/crafter has. The only “reward” these players have for their courage to gamble higher, is the chance to get these insane high ATH’s.
Okay, moving on to what else the tracker doesn’t tell you. The tracker doesn’t track Business. What I mean by that it doesn’t show the “globals” that a 100 CLD shareholder does every week. It doesn’t show the status of Land Area owner, or service providers, healers, traders, shop owners, low level grinders and so on.
Understand that someone with 500,000 PED Explosive Projectiles IV on the tracker may be a stereotypic gambler. He may be depositing hundreds of dollars or even thousands every month and never in his EU career done a single withdrawal from EU. This while someone who is a businessman, investor, service provider or low level grinder with almost nothing on his tracker, may be frequently withdrawing money from EU as he or she is quite successful, but his or hers successfulness does not generate any data for the tracker.
So what does the tracker tell us? It tells us who since 2010 has rotated most PED into high level hunting, mining and crafting and who’s willing to gamble the highest in the chase of that ATH. Nothing wrong with that in my opinion. But if you’re somewhat new to EU, don’t fall in love with the high tracker numbers! Playing at your level and playing smart might generate you more profit if you just ignore the ranking on the tracker.
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