As a former landarea owner, I couldn't disagree with this more. A landarea is expensive enough to maintain. A lot of landarea owners do care.. but it's pretty damn expensive. DNA going back to auction? That's just not right. A lot of lands don't actually need to be fertilised. In the case of the phasm, I believe deathifier only has one, so yes, he has to add fertiliser for density now and then, which he doesn't at the moment.
if you have plenty of DNA, that works too, provided that the mob has enough maturity to global at young.
Before I sold my landarea, I had 5 neconu DNA on the land and one mourner, there were plenty of mobs to hunt.
An a neconu young is level 21.
This is the cost to setup a cheap event:
25 ped event creation
50 ped 1 hour rent
75 ped first prize
25 ped second prize
10 ped third prize
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185 ped cost
A normal hunting landarea has around 4% tax. That means every 1200 ped turnover pays 50 ped (the smallest amount payable) . Meaning you need 4440 ped turnover to break even.
Note that a landarea owner has to rent his own land if he wants to organise an event.
Now with 30 ish signups, normally around 8-14 actually showup. At 14 hunters with 75 dps you profit slightly, less hunters and it's not profitable at all. In my case I would get 190 ped the next day.. so a whopping 5 ped profit!
This is all without fertiliser cost. I had 5 neconu dna.. If I wanted maxed density it costs 600 ped per DNA to get it to max. and then 1 ped per DNA per day to keep it maxed. So In my case it was 3000 ped initially+ 5 ped per day.
And you need to add density if you want to organise events, because you want the hunters to be happy.
It's easy to shout at landarea owners, but the reality is, farming ain't easy.
It would help a lot if Mindark would stop making landarea owners renting their own land, and reduce the cost of fertiliser points. That would help a lot, because the way it's setup now is simply too expensive. That's why a lot of la owners run their events through the forum.
I agree that if a landarea event creation is set to public, other people could set events and add fertilizer for the duration of the event. But Mindark should rethink the rent cost/improvement point cost, because that is the bottleneck at the moment.