Hi, while i cant log on i decided to write some stuff that is a fun read, but maybe a tltr for most. I still try to be, at least entertaining, for all kinds of players. Maybe you find yourself anywhere in the story i want to tell. Its the story of player A, B and C. ...yeah and player D.
as i understand it, every
NEW player avatar has equal chances. But those may change as soon as you do something. Hunters, who maxed their equipment, are not so much playing against MA or the game setup in general, i am deeply conviced that we play against each other, all players vs all players, in this we are still equal.
now two factors come into play dps and dpp. Dps defines your killspeed, so mobs killed per hour. Needless to say that player A who loots 100 mob A per hour has a bigger chance of hitting big, than player B who only loots 39 mob A in the same time. He pulls 61 more "tickets" per hour. He can also expect loots to be 3 times higher than player B. But we all know that loot often comes in waves, so if player A misses the loot wave, he is done after his first hour, while player B...
On the dpp side of the game, player A might have 3 times more expenses to kill 100 mob A per hour than player B who just kills 39. Yet player B can be more economic. Therefore player B can hunt 3 hours for the same money spent and therefore can kill a total of ~118mob. (player B has to repair his Gremlin Armor, player A his Supremacy, and the difference means player B can kill 18 mob more) Yes it takes 3 times longer, but bottom line he can pull 18 "tickets" more than player A for the same money. His chance to hit a loot wave are 3 times higher, even though his average global size might be only one third of the size of globals of player A.
in this aspect of the game we are all equal!
DPS/DPP are determined by items and that doesnt stop at the weapon you use. Player A might have full Supremacy so he doesnt have to use his mod fap often and can click click click his Mod Merc for the full duration of 1 hour without losing time on faping, this is why he pulls 100 tickets per hour. Player B doesnt have those luxuries of items, he uses a midlevel fap, a midlevel armor and midlevel gun, thus he has more dmg to heal, faping takes longer itself, shooting takes longer itself also because of the smaller gun, which explains that he only shoots 39 mob per hour. We see it all quite depends on the items you use.
Lets talk about items. Some items combine high performance and eco provided you can come up with the skills to handle them and the money to buy them.
There are some lucky dudes who looted a Mod Merc, a Mod Fap or Supremacy parts, but come on. Theres a handful of players in the game only who completely aquired their ubah items ingame without depositing.
Player A uses items worth 400k Peds. Most certainly because he deposited 40k USD.
Player B uses items worth 10k Peds. Most certainly because he deposited 1k USD.
In this we are all equal! Just one guy is filthy rich in RL and the other one is not.
Lets talk about extended periods of bad loots for player A and player B.
If player A hunts intensely for one month and the whole month turns out to be a really bad loot month, he might lose 30-300k(!) peds in the process. You see him Hof and global, but its far from enough to break even.
If player B does the same with his setup he probably loses 3-10k peds in the process.
Fair or not? We are all equal still...
Lets talk about a 10k Ped Hof. So player A and player B both loot a 10k ped hof. 1k USD. Player A needs 40 of those to meet his ROI, player B has already met his ROI with that single hit. Who is in the profit here?
We are all equal...
Player A plans to click Explosives IV in a 300k ped run. During the run he HoFs 27 times around 5k ped. Countless globals, but well not enough, he ends the run with a 40k ped loss. Player B complains about the 27 HoFs of player A and those seemingly endless line of globals. This guy must be sooo lucky, he just HoFed 13 times my total investment in less than 24 hours. But he doesnt see that player A just lost 4 times the total investments of player B.
no really we are all equal
Lets talk about a 100k+ped ATH. This is extremely rare for both player A and B. Total newbies can hit it, we have seen it several times. For player A it is at best a serious step in the direction to meet his ROI. For player B an ATH of that size exceeds his ROI by 10 times.
...equal
lets talk about chaos. Theres not only player A and B so the whole calculation will never look that easy as shown above. There could be a hundred hunters in your spawn. All doing the same thing but on their personal level. Lets say those 100 hunters each represent 1 level from 1 to 100. So the level 1 player, player C, can only kill 1 mob per hour, while the level 100 player, our player A, can kill a hundred in the same time. And player B representing level 39, kills 39mob per hour. Player C spends 10ped in the process, player B spends 390ped in the process and player A 1k peds in one hour. Now lets say every first mob out of 10 globals. Needless to say player C is the most lucky of them, because for his 10ped investment he gets at least a 50ped return. (you wont believe it, but its a common patern to hook you) Player B has not so much luck, he gets 3 globals and might be content with it, but he misses the 4th global by 1 mob, he doesnt know though. Player A is on a roll he globals 10 times. Player C comes back with 50ped of loot, player B comes back with 780ped of loot and player A comes back with 2.5k ped of loot. Who is the winner here? Its player C.
...equal
other things playing a role: Player B buys a Svempa X1 with high tier numbers, a Dante, and a bunch of dmg enhancers tier 1-6 because he heard that drone wars will start tonight. He wants to play a role with his 93dps, that is fairly above his level. For him its something special, way out of his ligue, still a halfway eco option, workable. Player A has 20dps more than player B, + he has a even better eco. But for him thats normal. For him shooting those event mob is almost boring. Player A and B meet somewhere in a remote part of the battlefield and they both shoot the same kind of mob at nearly the same speed. For player B its challenging but yet he gets global after global. bam bam bam And player A??? ...he doesnt get a single global and player B actually make player A ragequit. Player B cant believe whats happening, the joy of success. He misses to see that the danger level of the mob corresponds just nicely with his own hunting skills, for player B its a lucky shot, that he come up with the perfect beautiful performance the mob demands for. But we both know who is getting more red bananas in the end, when player A finds out, theres event mob out there that is more appropriate for his level.
...equal...
... now player C comes into play, he cannot participate in the games of player A and B, still he is hooked. He decides to buy 3 OA103 and try his luck on FOMA, and he hits his welcome present while he has an amp attached. BOOOMM. 102k Ped of Zinc for player C.
...equal...
(for all those who think this is just a made up story, no its compressed version of a decade ingame)
...player A and B have one week of bad loot because player C did the impossible. Do dreams come true? You bet! The robot war leaves player B broke, player A cashes in his event bananas. Who won?
...equal...
... well player C decided to start to click Explo IV. A sure loss... he is losing like mad, even though he hofs 5k 5 times a day. Player A sells the won event item. Player A wins and has a wonderful RL weekend spending all the money on b*** c*** & c********. Who won? Its player B who is even out in skills after the event,... at least.
...equal...
i know your stories come on...
... a year later everybody is playing at his pace. Player C has skyrocket in skills and equipment, he is equal to player B now, suddenly he loots an L4 (unL) Oo on an average mob. World stands still for a second, a minute, world goes finally on... for player B at least. He is in shock. Player A notices what is happening, he just can do one thing, move on.
...equal...
... a year later. Lootwise your virtual world was like a dessert in the past 12 month.
the dreams of the past became bleak for player A and B. Other players rule the scene now, to be exact player A2, player B2 (formerly known as player C) and player D (nobody can believe his luck on young argonauts, this guy is just off the scale! why???) ...
... A2 is a generic, a firm, a conglomerate of players playing one avatar, able to grind hardcore 24/7. No single player can cope with that. Well unless you count the EP IV clickers
. Player A is losing ped bigtime doing his events, while player A2 is complaining his loot is not meeting his expectarions of the last year. Still he is in the plus. Player B is doing player C stuff but he is doing it more eco than any of the C-class players so he goes even out. Player C is doing player C stuff as well, well but he is losing, progressing slower than player B. Who is the winner?
... we are all equal...
.. the winner is this dedicated guy recently known in Swamp Camp for his crazy loots. Crazy loots in swampo campo? Well he is gone now and does Argonauts. You wont belive this guys returns! Player D is a true goldboy. He is dominating the newbie levels in every spawn, progressing at a blinding speed. Two months later he does his first HoF on Scipulor. uhm wait Scipulor? 100 ped Esis and Hermes Footguards on a daily basis. and suddenly Supremacy unL. His sale rate of items is slowing him down! Whatever he does, his loot explodes. (you think i make this guy up huh?) BOOOMMM 84k ped ATH on Leviathan Provider! and he is gone with the peds! bye George!
...we are all equal... are we!?
...yes we are all equal but not equally lucky i guess....
