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I don't seem to get punished at all for hunting with my unmaxed non-sib weapon. Maybe I'm just in a lucky streak... another thing to test, for sure
Now be careful tho, this is a wild theory. I have no data, and don't make logs anymore. Maybe someone with more free time and expertise could do the test.
A change was necessary, but we have to be careful and test things properly.
While I understand us all going off and testing things as we think best, also with some more and some less accurate tracking / gut feeling ratio, maybe we can agree on some kind of standard for a 'relative loot test'.
I'm thinking about the following ideas for those who do not use loot tracker software (or who do, but whose data could fit in easily with those without):
1: take 3 containers (boxes, luggage, vehicles) with you into which you can put loots
2: select a mob which gives low weight loot, i.e mostly shrapnel or so
3: if you want to compare armour decay with naked and fap, choose a high aggro mob you can still deal with (merp? - any on untaxed land? - what are foul like on aggro?)
4: if you can activate a mission with kill count, this can make counting easier
5: depending on hunt size, kill 10/20/50 with one setup, move the loot into its box and change to the other hunting style
6: if you get a multi (have loot box off so the value shows on screen), move the value into the 3rd container right away or note the value down)
7: when returning to base, compare the base loots of the two styles and note the decay from the one half
8: it might be advisable to add a fourth container to separate the multis, or clearly put multi-values in the left and right side of the containers (without merging them), so you can get an idea if the multi-frequency appears to be different with the styles (=possible payback of armour decay via increased low multis - my 'observation')
Is this a good idea? Would people like to give it a go? Suggestions?
One main aim is to split off the multis, as base loot will be much easier to compare on lowish numbers of mobs if the multis are extracted (or at least separated).