Kerham
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- Kerawan Kerham Maddahy
So I am hunting spiders like a lunatic for, what, 2 weeks now. 3100 spiders later, what do I have to show for it? One piece of L DOA Slugstorm, one esi 12.7 tt, 54 platinum and gold I didn't tracked, maybe 1 for each 150 peds spent or so. And I am ready to bet there is somebody out there with even worse record.
I hunt at 81.6 efficiency and 3.03 dpp, not counting the imp ares. Bags of shrapnel globals, with that tt wood and tt oil. I don't see what I could humanly do at my level to dramatically improve my eco, such as to trigger "optimal loot". +crit chance and +crit damage gear for tens of thousands of peds, why should I bother with that? To loot what, maybe another 12tt esi?
If that's what a mob lvl52 has to offer, why should we bother? Why should we evolve, skill up, use bigger dps, spend a shitload of money on upgrading gear, for what? To loot shrapnel and tt oils from even more difficult mobs? Where is the joy, the excitement, the accomplishment in this?
So I feel scammed about MA's implementation of efficiency and optimal loot. I believe is a carrot which doesn't even exist, save for Charlie's quotes.
Which brings me to the next point. Normally I wouldn't hunt at this cost/kill, I don't feel comfortable at 5 ped/kill, is too much for me for a game. But hey, that is where MindArk locked FEN event.
"Fifteen years since game went gold". And how MindArk chose to celebrate it? Offering some people the occasion to bet their IRL money against future availability of ul high efficiency guns. Period, that is all to it. "PLEASE DEPOSIT MOAR". "BUY MOAR PLATINUM, WE WILL HAVE A HAPPY XMAS. WE, NOT YOU". That's what MA did with FEN.
Why don't we have so many items which could have marked this so very special moment, because IT DAMN IS SPECIAL. 15 years for some anonyms from Sweden to resist in this highly competitive market, it is an achievement. Maybe MA should celebrate it otherwise than being greedy assholes?
Why don't we have in loot, accesible through game mechanics:
- ul FEN weapons
- L FEN weapons
- L blueprints for FEN items
- armours with a special mark (like Viceroy Skullcandy edition) which to give some modest bonus (say, 1% acceleration, 1% evade, 5% skillgain etc)
- vechicles with different colours and a FEN symbol
- attachements which to give some bonuses (they WERE able to design this for gambling with strongboxes, so the design resources exist)
- FEN mining tools, L and UL
- personal crafting terminals branded with FEN
- FEN weapons for all damn professions and levels, MindArk. What do you have to offer to, say, knife users lvl60, your middle finger?
- Mindforce, hello MindARK, do you remember there exist this damn profession
- dedicated instances with special content (ok this isn't a lootable item, but you get the point)
And so on.
Where is the joy of this damn FEN event, the excitement, the mini competitions both announced and ad-hoc which to gather people like flies to honey, for, dunno, a burst in platinum drops or items or skill bonuses?
SOMETHING
You had one job to do with this damn FEN event, MindArk. You put so much dedication to strongboxes and encouraging gambling that is f'n disgusting, but for the core game you did nothing good in years. Ever since the buff introduction, you only strive to limit profit occasions, to destroy markup as soon as it appears somewhere and you do your best to gather people at gambling on EP4 and strongboxes while making the core game a bland experience.
Fifteen years since game went gold, come and deposit for the chance to appear on Hof list when you open a strongbox, hiphip hurray for the most exciting virtual universe
I hunt at 81.6 efficiency and 3.03 dpp, not counting the imp ares. Bags of shrapnel globals, with that tt wood and tt oil. I don't see what I could humanly do at my level to dramatically improve my eco, such as to trigger "optimal loot". +crit chance and +crit damage gear for tens of thousands of peds, why should I bother with that? To loot what, maybe another 12tt esi?
If that's what a mob lvl52 has to offer, why should we bother? Why should we evolve, skill up, use bigger dps, spend a shitload of money on upgrading gear, for what? To loot shrapnel and tt oils from even more difficult mobs? Where is the joy, the excitement, the accomplishment in this?
So I feel scammed about MA's implementation of efficiency and optimal loot. I believe is a carrot which doesn't even exist, save for Charlie's quotes.
Which brings me to the next point. Normally I wouldn't hunt at this cost/kill, I don't feel comfortable at 5 ped/kill, is too much for me for a game. But hey, that is where MindArk locked FEN event.
"Fifteen years since game went gold". And how MindArk chose to celebrate it? Offering some people the occasion to bet their IRL money against future availability of ul high efficiency guns. Period, that is all to it. "PLEASE DEPOSIT MOAR". "BUY MOAR PLATINUM, WE WILL HAVE A HAPPY XMAS. WE, NOT YOU". That's what MA did with FEN.
Why don't we have so many items which could have marked this so very special moment, because IT DAMN IS SPECIAL. 15 years for some anonyms from Sweden to resist in this highly competitive market, it is an achievement. Maybe MA should celebrate it otherwise than being greedy assholes?
Why don't we have in loot, accesible through game mechanics:
- ul FEN weapons
- L FEN weapons
- L blueprints for FEN items
- armours with a special mark (like Viceroy Skullcandy edition) which to give some modest bonus (say, 1% acceleration, 1% evade, 5% skillgain etc)
- vechicles with different colours and a FEN symbol
- attachements which to give some bonuses (they WERE able to design this for gambling with strongboxes, so the design resources exist)
- FEN mining tools, L and UL
- personal crafting terminals branded with FEN
- FEN weapons for all damn professions and levels, MindArk. What do you have to offer to, say, knife users lvl60, your middle finger?
- Mindforce, hello MindARK, do you remember there exist this damn profession
- dedicated instances with special content (ok this isn't a lootable item, but you get the point)
And so on.
Where is the joy of this damn FEN event, the excitement, the mini competitions both announced and ad-hoc which to gather people like flies to honey, for, dunno, a burst in platinum drops or items or skill bonuses?
SOMETHING
You had one job to do with this damn FEN event, MindArk. You put so much dedication to strongboxes and encouraging gambling that is f'n disgusting, but for the core game you did nothing good in years. Ever since the buff introduction, you only strive to limit profit occasions, to destroy markup as soon as it appears somewhere and you do your best to gather people at gambling on EP4 and strongboxes while making the core game a bland experience.
Fifteen years since game went gold, come and deposit for the chance to appear on Hof list when you open a strongbox, hiphip hurray for the most exciting virtual universe
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