Recent content by mac6433

Thanks for the reply, that is good to know. My find rate since the last update has been 24% so I guess i'm right at the 1/4 that you mentioned.

I do 100PED - 130PED runs myself. I must be doing something wrong as I'm only averaging 65% TT. What is your claim find rate if you have that handy? Just seeing if you are finding more claims or your claims are just larger over all.

Here are my runs since the update. Also I have not gotten a global since the last update. The only notable claims (if you can call them that) across all of these runs are 1 Medium and 1 Ample. Date Claims Bombs Find Rate TT Value TT % 11/10/2013 29 141 20.57% 72.96 51.74% 11/11/2013 26 98...

This is exactly what I am experiencing. I did a small run last night and out of 30 claims I had III (1) IV (22) V (7) My TT return was 59.76% (after factoring in around 4 PED in repair costs). Other than hitting a global, the only times I've broken past 80% TT return have been when I've hit...

Yeah I'm not sure why you are either. And I'm not sure why you believe I am only 2 months old (one of many things you've posted that are complete fabrications). I've been playing for over 5 years. I'll leave you with this thought. I went back through my mining spreadsheet and totaled up my...

I think you've forgotten what started this horribly off topic discussion. Just so it is clear, you said: I never said the only way MA profits is from item decay. You keep making a straw man argument, replacing my position (decay is a means of profit for MA) with the straw man (decay is the...

You keep saying this, but it's not making it any more true. Example: Deposit $100 for 1000 PED. To keep things simple I'll be using round numbers and we'll remove mark up and short ups and downs and assume that you get 100% TT return on bombs. Buy 997 bombs and 3 PED on finder/extractor...

It would be bad for MA.

Correct. Correct I never said "only". My original post was refuting the point that the cost of item decay has no impact on whether MA makes money or not. I never said or implied that this is what happens. I'm not sure "out of thin air" is accurate. PED's are a virtual representation of...

If MA doesn't make money off of decay, then when I repair my broken F-105 for 82 PED, where does the money go? That is 82PED (which obviously has a real world $ equivalent) that has been removed from the economy, meaning it is money that someone can't withdraw from the game, meaning MA gets to...

Yeah I'm not sure where he got that unless he has run tests and isn't sharing the data. I'm only using a F-105 and have only found ore down to 736 meters. I need to run some additional tests using a deeper finder, but I don't have one and I'm not sure I'm able to afford running the test...

And yes, I'm doing exactly what I did previously. That is bombing the entire area, over and over again, trying to determine where specific ores are. Maybe I'm being dumb and there is a smarter way. But it seems like MA is just deciding to move all the resources around so everyone has to...

The main issue, and I'm sure it was MA's intention, is that there aren't large areas with specific types of resources. For example, previously in a specific area east and south east of Cape Corinth I would consistently find Narc and Iron ore with the occasional list. If I went north of Cape...

The Corinth area is complete changed. Terrain, monsters, ore types, water/land location . It's a completely different area. It looks really good visually, but isn't as good mining (at least so far, for me).

I'm a casual miner that came back to the came in mid September. I don't have a ton of PED, for reference I have 200-300 liquid and 1000 in assets. Below is data since I returned in mid September. Date Claims Bombs Find Rate TT Value Globals TT Profit 9/16/2013 33 90 36.67% 95.71 0.00...