I have you all beat. I have been playing solely on Calypso for 6 years now. You can check me out on Entropedia, entropialife, and Little big mining log.
My largest hunting loot is pathetic. I have found 791 in mining, but that was right after I first started, and have never found anything close since. This was also right after my first deposit as well.
My largest craft is 505. Measly hits since.
If it is NOT true that some avatars are cursed, MA is lying.
My largest hunting global is 155. So... MA can eat me. Now I have gotten a rare drop... a foul suctioncup, but its still sitting in my inventory as no one wants to buy it. Supposedly its the only one in game, and therefore almost priceless as you can make a Foul DNA chip with it, but value is in the eye of the purchaser, especially something that hasn't dropped for years.
I would say that my 4 digit is imminent, but I have been saying that for years now... I have pretty much given up, and play what I can with what I have watching others participating in these tycoon style events while I sweat and scrape and curse on lower end mobs. (the same mobs that others 4 digit hof on, and 3 digit hof all the time)
To give you an idea of what my character can do, I can dodge a warrior gen 4 so much that I do not need armor to fight them. I can use a regen 3 chip, which isn't much, but I never fail. (of course I think they took that out at some point on the regen chips.) I can use all forms of weapons, ranged and melee. I am almost a lvl 5 star captain, for never leaving the planet but once, that is pretty good.
I can manufacture all types of bp... all low end mind you. The best I can do is a IV BP in metal manufacturing component.
The rate at which I global seemed to increase when I started playing again just recently, but now I am back to crap again.
The only thing that seems to be consistent is that I will global in relation to my deposit, usually 2 per deposit.
So I dunno. I have a really well rounded character, but can't hit smack for HoF's.
Also, please note, the 6 years of playing have been off and on.
The only skills that are not natural are Computer, Engineering, and Perception, I bought those off of a buddy that was quitting for an unbelievable price.
I have even go so far as to acquire cheap rifles both limited and unlimited and fire on a mob to simply skill up.
Here is some additional something for you to chew on...
My laser weaponry tech skill is over 4K and I am about to rank up beyond professional. This is used in construction of laser weapons and plays a part. Combine that with engineering and computer and skills that I have, and I should be hitting a global or at least a good combine pretty frequently. I do make lots of LbpL's that are rare and sell for 50-300 ped, which is the only thing keeping me going.
But it doesn't matter... I get 2 globals per deposit, and they are both small.
I have soc mates that make 2K ped a week doing routine stuff, where I scrape and curse just to get 2 ped back from the things I do. I have hunted big mobs in a team as well with them where they normally hit back to back hof's. When I am in the team... we get nothing. I left once and 20 minutes later they hit a 5K hof. I hunted with a soc mate on some mobs for weeks on end everyday in a duo team. The day I can't make it due to time contraints, he hits a 5 digit ATH.
I have no idea what, if anything, I am doing wrong, but anyone who has ever looked at my stats says I should have had at least 1 4-digit by now in any category.
So if MA says their aren't negatively flagged characters, they are lying. I have seen avatars with skills that are a quarter of mine hit 4 digits. Everything around me seems to be a ped sink, and it's getting pretty old.
~Darkshine