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wizz said:
Lol, I was looking at it from my perspective.
Loot on the mayhem mobs was just ridiculous. Just shrapnel, and returns under 50%. No MU whatsoever.

So compared to normal mobs not worth my time.

I guess I just have a cursed avatar :mad:
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You are doing it wrong. Halloween MU is in boxes, just buy keys, silly.

Game is getting more hilarious every day.

Go hunt and get 100.5% MU loot.
Loot boxes hunting.
Buy keys from webshop, open boxes, loot 3000% MU.

Win :laugh:
 
Too Short..
 
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Kim|MindArk said:
We are directing pretty much all of our resources towards fixing the lag. While improvements have been made many players are still reporting severe lag so there is still work to do.
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Great post!
 
Kim|MindArk said:
We are directing pretty much all of our resources towards fixing the lag. While improvements have been made many players are still reporting severe lag so there is still work to do.
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I think this is the first real admission of the problem from the MA side - took a while but thanks. (would of been better if communication came out earlier)

Any comments on potential root cause?
 
Kim|MindArk said:
We are directing pretty much all of our resources towards fixing the lag. While improvements have been made many players are still reporting severe lag so there is still work to do.
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Can I get clarification on the rules for Bonus Prize for this event. In the past if I remember right, bonus prize were not dependent on time limit. But the way the rules are written this time is confusing.

In addition, all qualifying event participants reaching one of the following point thresholds will receive bonus prizes once the event is completed (only the highest value qualifying prize is awarded to each participant)
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The part I have in bold is the part I am unsure about. Does this mean anyone that stays under 40h but gets atleast 5k points will get bonus prize.. or anyone that gets 5k points is qualified for bonus prize?

Thanks for any clarification you can give on this matter,

SpikE
 
Kim|MindArk said:
We are directing pretty much all of our resources towards fixing the lag. While improvements have been made many players are still reporting severe lag so there is still work to do.
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Thank you Kim. The communication is greatly appreciated.
 
Mega said:

I dont know about anyone else but that Courage reward looks tempting...

:vampire:
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It would of been tempting if the instance was playable. Guess there is always next year. Waiting like many others for the resolution to the critical issues of lag.
 
to be sure: the 40 hours limit is just for the leaderboards, right? not for the skill reward?
 
LMTR14 said:
to be sure: the 40 hours limit is just for the leaderboards, right? not for the skill reward?
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You can claim the skill reward infinite times
 
The only demons I'm seeing is the fucking loot, or lack of it.

How the fuck can every damn run be -300 or so.

Time for another 6 months off, like I did last year after Halloween, because MA have fucked the damn loot up so much, it's pointless doing anything more.

Used to like this event.
 
yes loot suck hard lately, i never loosed that much in a row. been a road of -23k since end of migra and i keep loosing about each runs :scratch2:

Begining of 2.0 however was ok i was able to cycle way more with the same ped, but now it's way worst than pre-2.0. :mad:

Also every people i talk to say me the same. And then MA come with a post with a 98+% return average lololol :eyecrazy:
 
StarGlider said:
The only demons I'm seeing is the fucking loot, or lack of it.

How the fuck can every damn run be -300 or so.

Time for another 6 months off, like I did last year after Halloween, because MA have fucked the damn loot up so much, it's pointless doing anything more.

Used to like this event.
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In the same loot pool if there are losers there are winners.
given the 15 years history you can study mindark will not change the system to advantage your current gamestyle therefore YOU MUST CHANGE.
This is the most competitive game you ever played.Choose your side.
 
Kim|MindArk said:
We are directing pretty much all of our resources towards fixing the lag. While improvements have been made many players are still reporting severe lag so there is still work to do.
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Out of professional curiosity: what's the ratio between managers and developers in MindArk?
 
messi91 said:
In the same loot pool if there are losers there are winners.
given the 15 years history you can study mindark will not change the system to advantage your current gamestyle therefore YOU MUST CHANGE.
This is the most competitive game you ever played.Choose your side.
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It's a closed unregulated system. If they are lacking income, they will change decay/returns.

It's a casino, but the one not playing by the rules set for casinos.

That ~98% return is bullshit btw. Made up number

Only "ubers" I know who TT profit since 2.0 are those who are selling gear in the next thread :laugh:
 
messi91 said:
In the same loot pool if there are losers there are winners.
given the 15 years history you can study mindark will not change the system to advantage your current gamestyle therefore YOU MUST CHANGE.
This is the most competitive game you ever played.Choose your side.
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I don't mind loosing, but being robbed blind is pissing me off.

Every run should not be -200/300 for an hours play time.

And I must not change, the damn loot should change, have used different set-ups, nothing changes, including the abysmal loot, looting same abysmal crap each and every run, which by the way for me was a MF chip, that was fucking 1/3 tt value.
 
I greatly respect Messi, but when I hear adapt or die type talk, I can't stand it.
I've tried and doesn't seem to matter. I don't believe there is some magic play style that will
allow me to come out with 95% of what I put in at the end of the month unless someone is just lucky.
You can tell me what is BEST Practice, but I still can get a crap result.

All I hear is Lag and loot sucks, i'm thinking twice about my annual birthday run - rather buy something I'll use and enjoy the rest of the year, not 2 days of disappointment and regrets.
 
StarGlider said:
The only demons I'm seeing is the fucking loot, or lack of it.

How the fuck can every damn run be -300 or so.

Time for another 6 months off, like I did last year after Halloween, because MA have fucked the damn loot up so much, it's pointless doing anything more.

Used to like this event.
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Hunting is broken, at least for certain avatars or maybe only those with the lag issues. When hunting for 8hrs straight produces not a single global, and then receiving poor returns on top of it, what's the point anymore? Switch mobs and weapons and try for another 10 or 12hrs with 75% TT returns if I'm lucky. Maybe the loot server isn't communicating and properly generating returns to my avatar because of all the lag? :laugh: Before all the lag started I was doing just fine. It's no wonder that my friends list only shows about 20% of people on it to be active at any given time these days (most of which are dedicated traders). People are fed up with depositing just to see all the PED mysteriously vanish while hunting the same day. The fun has been taken away with the bad joke that is Loot 2.0.

After migration finished, loot went to complete shit and never got better for myself or many people that I know in game. I'd be happy if I could even get 85% TT returns after cycling the amounts stated by MindArk. Is a fat HOF coming to get me close to break even for the poor returns since September 11th? I seriously doubt it.

I am a business owner and expect MindArk to take a profit and attempt do well financially. They are not a charity, but if these returns are normal and what the average player should expect, don't tell us this...

Bertha Bot said:
[h=3]Developer Notes #14 - Loot 2.0 Update[/h]
One of MindArk’s primary long-term goals is to make Entropia Universe as affordable and entertaining as possible for all participants. Toward that end, MindArk is continually experimenting with various adjustments to in-game systems, with an eye toward lowering cost to play while maintaining a reasonable level of revenue that enables continued development and marketing of Entropia Universe.

Reductions in Cost to Play
On September 11th, we initiated a temporary test in which the MindArk fee for hunting was lowered significantly. In the long term, we hope that a lower MindArk fee will result in increased overall activity and new participant retention, and thereby compensate for the lower short-term revenue. We plan to continue experimenting with these revenue settings in the near future to gather more data.

Early data show positive results from those experiments:
  • Hunters with turnover of more than 50000 PED since Sept. 11 have enjoyed returns of 98.6% on average.
  • Hunters with turnover between 10000 and 50000 PED since Sept. 11 have enjoyed returns of 97.05% on average.
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Let's see some updated numbers MindArk, because many people aren't even getting close what you guys are stating...
 
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messi91 said:
In the same loot pool if there are losers there are winners.
given the 15 years history you can study mindark will not change the system to advantage your current gamestyle therefore YOU MUST CHANGE.
This is the most competitive game you ever played.Choose your side.
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I’m starting to understand this (I think) so I agree
 
Sorry for the swearing last night. (It really takes a lot to make me curse like that)

I know Mindark are a business, and need to make money, and loosing I don't mind, provided it's a reasonable loss.
The loss in Mayhem is extortionate however, and I myself, am done with it, after 9 hours. Nearly 1.5k ped in 9 hours is, for someone in my financial position right now, way to much. The only profitable run, was tt +17 ped.

Possibly the lag contributed to most of those, as every 20 seconds, it would lag, miss a few shots while mobs merrily continued attacking, I don't know.

Regardless, am done with it all for the time being.
 
StarGlider said:
Sorry for the swearing last night. (It really takes a lot to make me curse like that)

I know Mindark are a business, and need to make money, and loosing I don't mind, provided it's a reasonable loss.
The loss in Mayhem is extortionate however, and I myself, am done with it, after 9 hours. Nearly 1.5k ped in 9 hours is, for someone in my financial position right now, way to much. The only profitable run, was tt +17 ped.

Possibly the lag contributed to most of those, as every 20 seconds, it would lag, miss a few shots while mobs merrily continued attacking, I don't know.

Regardless, am done with it all for the time being.
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I think possibly lag could effect returns, but I myself had my 2nd best run this HM when lag was the worst!
 
messi91 said:
In the same loot pool if there are losers there are winners.
given the 15 years history you can study mindark will not change the system to advantage your current gamestyle therefore YOU MUST CHANGE.
This is the most competitive game you ever played.Choose your side.
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Easy there with the truth bombs man... you might upset someone :wtg:
 
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