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Well, even games that include skill and knowledge against other players and not just 'the bank' are considered gambling in many places, so it's a tricky field, but purely random games such as normal roulette are certainly under the gambling flag. (There is a version of roulette where both...

Thanks for the event. I didn't stick with it, although I had been considering doing more. Devs will hopefully have good data to ask MA for certain modifications, and we'll get our meta codex updated at some point as well... :)

Yup :p! Although a win:win and growth all round is possible outside our niche, it might be best interest to just go for short-term gain and withdrawing before a collapse, considering that the chance of MA leveraging all of us 'current stakeholders' to a better place as non-noobs in a highly...

I strongly disagree that anyone posting on this matter (=everyone posting on this matter) has their own best interest in mind. Some people are altruistic enough to go for less than best for them in the interests of others. Ultimately this may also be of benefit to them long term, but not...

One of the problem areas could be responsibility for answers given by a third party, even if it is an openly available AI. MA should not shy away, though, in my opinion, but embrace something along the lines of: please answer player input x in the style of y, where y is what MA chooses as an...

Well, time zone advantages have more to do with when fewer people are playing: competing for the goodies in the waves. If MA were to try and improve the loot wave properties somehow for zimezones, this strikes me as being tricky to say the least. It could be that loot waves can be tweaked to...

Sounds like a pretty informed group, or have I read that wrong? But yeah, it's not ideal when people who have little idea think they know loads. Isn't that the Krunning-Duger thingie? :p Oh, it's not the players' fault to not know a lot of what the devs know, which is why such poor results are...

I put a like a few posts up, but it got me thinking too. There are boss mobs in instances that are safe from other avatars, so MA can make you work a set amount for a chance of a higher reward. There are missions that have specific rewards when a player completes them, some of which are based...

To address the OP topic, if there is a cap we know about, or firmly believe is in place, there is indeed not much motivation to play if the ultimate loot is what drives you. I'm sure it stops people from turning over peds also at sub hour timeframes, a bit like missing a bus then standing around...

I can't tell if there should be /irony tags along with that Katie. How is Australia on the irony front these days?

Wow, straight in there at number one. Someone has created a bit of a meme I think. I'm so happy to see an expression like that get the attention it deserves. We had the gangnam style dance added really quickly in EU, so maybe a dance of checking your privileges, wop wop, when you pop the pill...

My run with juices every 5 mins or so was before today's vu. Today I haven't looted any juices at all. My guess is that there IS a brake to try and slow down the drops a bit away from the start of each wave, but that the juices are being depleted too fast due to high participation, so that, yes...

Not so in this event. On the one session where I was getting them nicely, it was every 5 mins or so over the course of an hour. So not only a small window for me, although the actual influx in the system may be as per waves we expect... Others will know better than me, i.e. those on the damned...

I didn't get any in 20 mins or so following the update. Standing at the entrance waiting for my icons to load afresh (after each vu!! :( ), the number of people entering the instance was staggering, though. Yes, what is normal please, and on what level?

Also got more juices on the last run, but most non-multis were still on the low side, so if that is representative and not an outlier (again?), you'll need to global better to balance it out. I feel it's worth continuing based on that last run, but who knows what the vu might change... Thanks...

Yes, sure, players are rightly frustrated, but surely the definition of loot waves, at least as far as the actual system is concerned, is largely this 'let's say hourly' repeating function. Generally, this is about the timeframe for 'waiting for a new wave' when one has just come and gone. The...

For me, the problem here is not the 'code' as such, it is about the operatives understanding how to behave in relation to it ... OR to change the code (settings) slightly, VERY slightly, to make it even easier for them. People don't go around pulling the handbrake all the time when they want to...

^^ That's why I wrote #34 above, as I appreciate the sentiment, but not the actual content of the wishes/desires expressed. Maybe people could have a little rethink? My response years ago may also have been 'eliminate these damned waves!', but at some point I must have begun to think about what...

My issue is not what CAN be done regarding low-spec machines (potatoes), it's what I think WILL be done, namely not very much. Although there are very innovative and efficient elements such as lumen that have the ability to downscale meshes for lower machines, there are still going to be basic...

I think that is possibly happening, yes, and could tie in with there being no max or RND settings on those rares once they are added. As mentioned, I see plenty of loots that appear to be on a wave, but with a maximum number dropping per mob, AND not every mob that probably qualifies drops one...

There's not much love lost here; it's mostly peds. Not sure why the listing should be any kind of signal to anybody. The shareholders will stay overwhelmingly the same, I think, and it's not like shareholders would be surprised much (I'm guessing), except for maybe the new lows in use of...

Just on the technical definition of a wave, I understand it to be when various stuff is added to the loot pool in one go: an update to the loot server database of availability according to certain criteria. No waves thus equals no loot, unless every single unit of everything is injected...

This has been on my radar with regard to planet partners for donkey's years. Absolutely stuffed in virtually an abusive one-sided relationship. It's one of the reasons I have sympathy for rather sly stuff regularly 'smuggled' through MA vetting and into active release by especially one pp over...

A problem with that is people who craft using rare mats at unusual and rare times, then run out quickly to harvest the increased loot before too many people notice. This has been done on various capped stuff, so I'd be wary of that as a solution, as it is already present in game... I believe...

Ok, I'll try and approach this from different mentalities in this post. If wave loot makes enough of a difference to adapt playstyles towards it, what will happen in different circumstances? If waves come in not less than 45 mins of each other, players might decide to move to an alternative mob...