That's the problem of this game, new and unexperienced players are forming a good part of their knowledge base reading your, Rick's and others false assumptions, statements with no data, not even asking someone that has some data on the subject. In the case of imk2, you should put money on that statement. Spoiler - you'd loose the bet quickly
When people start the game with false information, they loose their PED fast and leave. That's not helping anyone
The game will probably need a few years until everyone learns how efficiency impacts loot and stuff... few more years and Rick hears about it and disproves it based on his 2007 full hunting day with 1k ped turnover.
Also, guess who has the most disciples in the game. Those that don't do much and also don't know much, because lack of experience. And this is the kind of game where the developer cannot come to you and tell you: "RICK & CO, USE ECO GEAR, IT MATTERS!!!!"
LE / PS Rick, stop pretending you understand hunting, it's getting ridiculous =))
It's not me with my head in 2007 though. The game is completely different.
Items come from boxes now, not hunting. Even if you was hunting, where's all the epic item loots?
Why is a new player going to pay thousands of dollars for a weapon when they cant loot anything of value?
Lets face it most of that high end gear got traded during the era of quality item drops, it had a purpose to own the gun to find more cool stuff
Sure I was never prepared to invest to buy an MM or Imk2, I have no regrets (becasue the era when those items had value is well and truly gone). i did though buy an adjusted kat sword for 750 ped and an adj bolga whip for 800 ish. Both performed quite well for the reasonable purchase price and entertainment value.
Most players do run a few K ped or less, it was MA that decided to ramp up the game with prots etc trying to create a high end market. Where's the 100's of thousands of ultra rich high end players?
Just becasue some want to suggest the game is a big money game, doesn't mean it attracts that market. It obviously doesn't, or hasn't. So belittleing the majoirty of players with the usual.... "you don't have the wallet" for this game, has failed massively. MA now even trying to back pedal to keep the cash cow alive, and aim it at the affordable market.
Why is it, that the old school big names in the game get less and less as the years pass. Becasue they're bored of it? No..... becasue there's nothing left for them to gain from it. Why is it that there's so many threads for selling high end gear with little interest?
The game ticks over with a few chasing the dream, that never happened. With a ton of noobies trying to run with $10 not even $200
Even if you think I'm talking utter crap, you only need to look at the auction values on high end items to prove everything turns to dust.
The game has a place, but it's seriously lost much of its purpose for a dream chasing game. Throw in looter skill, that bascially means any history you put into your ava is now pretty worthless, and you ask yourself.....what is MA's next plan to devalue us or the things we bought?
Rick