Another happy hour - bugs or intentional?

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I try to back everything with logic and reasoning but yes there is no excuse for how MA is this incompetent 😆
...that moment when you realize it's the same MA that's in charge of making the Unreal update.

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...I'm sure it'll be fine.
 
This is so foolish in too many ways to describe it, should never happen.
It breaks players trust, something not easy to get back. I would think that keeping player trust high in a RCE game would be a wise strategy for a game's survival. But the response we get from this thread so far tells at least from that particular person that hasn't played this game since 2013 that we should just shut up and take it. One would think they would remember that support does not answer loot related questions. This "new" whole "release" of items in this manner should be changed.
It should also not go for a single player. There should be caps involved for each player how much they can get for rare drop at one time. In order to keep the game fair.
What's the point of grinding for millions of peds if the loot rare drops table can be manually "opened" at any time they choose and go to the lucky player who happened to be there at the time?
It's really scary that they can do this for bonus loot as well in real time (high hofs) like they did on a specific location for robots a couple of weeks ago.
 
Loot is "dynamic" meaning no one knows how it works, not even the devs or people making changes and putting them into production. Some great QA going on (if any QA even exists).

Mindark Knows how loot works currently, They also have control over loot directly, this has not only been long speculated but clearly shown, twice now just what kind of control they do seem to have.


Mindark also has a plan B, and a plan C, and a plan D in the event of players somehow realizing exactly how loot works, this way they can more or less swap it in a few hours to ensure that the market does not go absolutely tits up if it becomes common tongue how it works.

The reason they have a plan B, C, D etc is purely logic as they so direly do not want to be transparant with how it works.


Think about that for a moment while knowing that most other games involving real money, try to be transparant as possible, even casinos. If they are legit is one thing but at least they dont try to defend it tooth and nail.
 
This is so foolish in too many ways to describe it, should never happen.
It breaks players trust, something not easy to get back. I would think that keeping player trust high in a RCE game would be a wise strategy for a game's survival. But the response we get from this thread so far tells at least from that particular person that hasn't played this game since 2013 that we should just shut up and take it. One would think they would remember that support does not answer loot related questions. This "new" whole "release" of items in this manner should be changed.
It should also not go for a single player. There should be caps involved for each player how much they can get for rare drop at one time. In order to keep the game fair.
What's the point of grinding for millions of peds if the loot rare drops table can be manually "opened" at any time they choose and go to the lucky player who happened to be there at the time?
It's really scary that they can do this for bonus loot as well in real time (high hofs) like they did on a specific location for robots a couple of weeks ago.
Unlucky that there is no "superlike"-option :(
 
Nice TWEN celebration, in EVERY online games I played the past 20 years, PC, console or even mobile, every year we had REAL celebrations, events, goodies etc FOR EVERYONE, what do we have in Entropia ? 95% payers, 5% players, controlled loot distribution, bugged events, more & more fishy stuff. Come on, 20 years for an online game, very few reached that, the more bullshit you do, the less you'll earn, gotta get your head out of your arses Mindark.

And Entropia is supposed to reach the Epic Game Store ? ;D
Where Steam does not give a sh.t about games and accept anything as long as they make money out of it, Epic Games carefully watch the games they allow on their store, EG will never ever ever ever ever (*100) accept and be associated to Mindark with these kind of behaviours.

Oh wait, there are no bugs, no lags, only features.
 
Nice TWEN celebration, in EVERY online games I played the past 20 years, PC, console or even mobile, every year we had REAL celebrations, events, goodies etc FOR EVERYONE, what do we have in Entropia ? 95% payers, 5% players, controlled loot distribution, bugged events, more & more fishy stuff. Come on, 20 years for an online game, very few reached that, the more bullshit you do, the less you'll earn, gotta get your head out of your arses Mindark.

I had high hopes and wanted to give some time to see where TWEN was heading, but if we don't see anything by migration that's more than just a lottery then this is pretty lame event... I wouldn't even consider myself a low cycler - I'm usually top 250 or so at all times on EL, maybe top 50-100 during higher activity and even then I feel like I can't possibly cycle enough to have a chance at looting a twen item throughout the year.

and yeah I know people are going to say blah blah you looted two camo arms you have no right to complain, but ignore that the comments are coming from me and think about how this is for most of the playerbase. In fact, think about how this is for anyone who doesn't have the bankroll or efficiency to cycle 24/7.

There's so many options to make this feel more global! Twen tokens, twen strongboxes, pills that drop universe wide, special blueprints, special (L) items that only drop this year.... holy moly there's so many things that could be done! Where are all the resources going that were "taken away" from UE5 development?!
 
and yeah I know people are going to say blah blah you looted two camo arms you have no right to complain, but ignore that the comments are coming from me and think about how this is for most of the playerbase. In fact, think about how this is for anyone who doesn't have the bankroll or efficiency to cycle 24/7.
You got more mu in those 2 loots than legitimately 99% of the player base have since they started playing.
 
I have forwarded the feedback from the OP and other from throughout the thread to the team self-employed trainee who comes every tuesday.

Kind regards
 
You got more mu in those 2 loots than legitimately 99% of the player base have since they started playing.
But what does that have to do with my point? Just because I got really lucky and hit a jackpot I can't complain about how poorly something is managed?
 
Pm me ingame, i buy everything you sell today at discount to get rid of your troubles with this game.
I pay pure peds perfect for you to withdraw.
Sure I will. I don't have any troubles with this game though, but the game has plenty of them. Too much for me to trust it.

And yeah I can read between lines how you nicely refer to how MA could not care a smelly shit if I'm not pleased with their game and sell out. Because Im so tiny factor. That just pretty much add up to my and many others point.

Edit. I know my post was not very great and was written overwhelmed by emotions. But atleast it makes clear how me and maybe some other players also feel and think about this case. Point is it was not ok and combined with many other big problems I personally have had enough. Peace.
 
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Loot is, and always has been, dynamic.



Check your privilege.
MindArk representatives are under no obligation to respond to any posts here on PCF. If they choose to do so, great, but members demanding responses to particular issues is inappropriate.

PCF is not an official support forum. If you want a response from MindArk regarding an issue, open a support case.
check your privilege? What an awful way to talk to people. There is no caste system here.

Yes, mindark has a lot of explaining to do. They have obligation to their players. There is a lot of things that have and are eroding trust. Period.
 
Based on Shawna's response (cyrene dev), they had no idea what's going on either. Considering tomorrow is the start of the cyrene event it makes sense to me that perhaps MA decided to tweak some values before that event and this is the result. IF this is the case then its less so a happy hour and more of a result of the loot system being weird when changes are made to drops. Either way, not so great but at least I can stomach this more than if it was intended.
Tweaked some values such that it all drops instantly... that's a pretty bad system.
 
Imagine if all players opened a support case because of this instead of posting on these forums. Probably nothing different.
 
Imagine if all players opened a support case because of this instead of posting on these forums. Probably nothing different.
They'd forward it to another department for review as normal... probably a big backlog of that forwarded stuff in Ludvig's in box.
 
Tweaked some values such that it all drops instantly... that's a pretty bad system.
The good news here is all this happened soon after 7 a.m. Gothenburg time, so MA must be getting up pretty early. :D
 
Was expecting a bit more from you....
You were? I might look at these forums once every 6 months, and it usually isn't more than 5 minutes before I see the abuse flowing out of the ivory shit-tower. Not sure why anyone pays that non-factor any consideration anyway. 100 like him have come and gone, except they were nicer for the most part. He is his avatar now, and has lost all humanity.
 
So let's clear this out, one player that hunts the golems for their pristine drops complains to the Cyrene devs that the drops are too low, they make a request to the incompetent MA team to "adjust" the drop rate, they do that. The complaining player gets 8 pristines in a couple of minutes as a result of the modification. Being incompetent the MA team not just fks up the golem drops but also the acidic and wiles ones.
What's the result total loss of trust in the MA capabilities, not to mention the direct proof that drops are not random, that at any time some of the most lame programmers MA has can pull the levers to direct loot to a certain player or another on request.
This is amazing to me to find this out, after playing this game since 2003.
Just want to call back to a comment in a different thread - if they can inflate the TT gain for an hour as a bonus, they can do just about anything, including, but not limited to dropping items to players by the flick of a switch.

This isn't dynamic. Saying "loot is dynamic" is being lazy and is akin to calling everything a conspiracy to dismiss an idea so as not to shatter their perfect view of reality - some things are just not right and people know bullshit when they see it.

People don't remember - I had to beg for 6 months, including an email directly to the MA CEO, at the time, to get the Otorugi brain to drop (Yes, this was a thing and IS REAL) with obscene help from Arkadia devs because it wouldn't drop - as Arkadia sold a bunch of land areas but Mindark wasn't releasing DNA to be discovered. It is being artificially withheld (still is) much in the same way as these elements and items are tinkered with.

You were? I might look at these forums once every 6 months, and it usually isn't more than 5 minutes before I see the abuse flowing out of the ivory shit-tower. Not sure why anyone pays that non-factor any consideration anyway. 100 like him have come and gone, except they were nicer for the most part. He is his avatar now, and has lost all humanity.
Someone would say, even electric-fying.
 
Went to a fun dev spawn event on Cyrene, but the chat began to ramp up with negative sentiment towards MA because of this topic.
Even when trying to have fun - and thanks of course for the time spent spawning a wide variety of bosses - people are actually pretty annoyed right now, and comments of dynamic, ask support, or what people should check, are NOT helping. There are things we would like not only checked, but acted upon, checking that is not of a personal nature I might add, but the loot system and decision-making etc.. However, when it becomes personal, ............ mike drop!

edit: suggested on popular video site the moment I left here - are these our drivers?: Rally Disasters! Just When You Think It Couldn't Get Any Worse!
I am so tempted to check inside the helmets - never seen a compilation as crass as this. Which driver should be nominated as the doggie replacement?
 
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Just want to call back to a comment in a different thread - if they can inflate the TT gain for an hour as a bonus, they can do just about anything, including, but not limited to dropping items to players by the flick of a switch.

This isn't dynamic. Saying "loot is dynamic" is being lazy and is akin to calling everything a conspiracy to dismiss an idea so as not to shatter their perfect view of reality - some things are just not right and people know bullshit when they see it.

People don't remember - I had to beg for 6 months, including an email directly to the MA CEO, at the time, to get the Otorugi brain to drop (Yes, this was a thing and IS REAL) with obscene help from Arkadia devs because it wouldn't drop - as Arkadia sold a bunch of land areas but Mindark wasn't releasing DNA to be discovered. It is being artificially withheld (still is) much in the same way as these elements and items are tinkered with.


Someone would say, even electric-fying.
I guess the same is for halix brain as well.
 
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