Hunting loot needs to be adjusted everywhere, especially on the underground mobs. Once the hides come (next week possibly) they may be more interesting. I can't wait to see Togolossi hide for one...
Hmmm....but doesn't the general populace have enough of hides and textures already? I doubt the coming of it would kick up a storm nor aid as a reason to hunting the stuff down there...apart from some novelty texturers/fashion designers interested in those.
The future of AUDs would still be upon how the instances gets implemented down there....and how it links back to the Ark Underground terrain, I believe...
What the entire populace of EU fails to see here is:
** $1,000,000 USD = 5% share LA revenue split across all the 200,000 deed holders.
** Which means Arkadia owns 95% of those revenues - without holding a single deed.
This values the Arkadia PERCEIVED value of that LA to be:
If $1m = 5%, therefore 100% would be worth....?
That's right, the 100% value of that LA is $20,000,000 USD! Or 200,000,000 PEDs!
Which means, Arkadia is holding a 95% share (with ZERO investment) valued at $19,000,000.
Just ask any business/legal person what is wrong with this picture.
Hmmm....I believe there's some premise that's wrong with your calculations here.
Well, since we all don't know how exactly stuff works, we can only guess...but I do believe that the source of income for the "owners" of AUDs and the PP/MA is derived differently.
Let's say Player A goes out hunting with 1000 PEDs and comes back with 900 PEDs of loot.
Then in this instance, there is reason to believe that the 5% tax that AUD owners get is about 47.36 PEDs. (Since the 5% tax is taken out of the possible loot that Player A would have gotten were there to be 0% tax on the land area.)
Taking it a bit further, then the PP/MA's portion of the income, might possibly be (1000 - 900 - 47.36) PEDs...the missing peds from the equation...which is roughly 52.64 PEDs. But since we don't know how much of this 52.64 PEDs gets filtered back into the coffers and how much would be kept as earnings for PP/MA, we can only guess that it would be less than 52.64 PEDs, hopefully. And whatever that is....it will be split 50%/50% between PP and MA.
That is my understanding of how the game might be functioning. At least from what I have gathered by reading posts on the forums.
So I'm pretty sure your calculations are a tad off the mark, Shard-Angel.
But anyway, I think its much more reasonable to keep things simple and just think of it as an oversized LA/Foma/Hell/whatever...of which the owners have no control over it.
And with that, the logical questions to be asking would be....what charm does AU have that the other LAs, FOMA, Hell, Monria, don't? So much so that it will be competitive enough to warrant that "high" a selling price...
Not to mention that there's already so much of the same things being around....and the possibility of even more coming, pending on just how the devs are thinking. So is it such a wise thing to do to buy into it, just solely on an unforeseen, not yet known future?
More importantly, should people really even be thinking of it as an "investment" comparable to real life stuff? (Its a joke right? A joke?)
Are they fully aware of the risks involved in their so called "investments"? Are they prepared and willing to accept that...some wrong move from the devs might render their "investments", null and gone? Or to a lesser extent, devalued...much like the recent spate of "MU" debates that we're having.
Worse come to worse, the payouts that we're seeing at the moment, may possibly only be us getting our peds back, for the time being. The MU that certain players are counting on, may rise...and...may fall. So don't you think that you might be counting your chickens too soon (before the eggs are even hatched...)?
Have people thought about it this far? Before putting their precious peds in...
If they have, then I'm certain that there would be less grumblings heard in the forum.
You know...on hindsight...I sometimes wonder if the devs have attracted too much of the wrong peeps into EU (too many people with the "investors" mentality and too few with the "gamers" mentality). It used to be a much friendlier place than compared to now.
Maybe they (MA) should start having another look at their company objectives/motto/direction. Are they steering the player base in the right direction?
Just thinking aloud here... (Think I've digressed too much...hehehe.)
