2023 Summary
Last year I said that it's interesting that the IFN Missions had not ended yet - nor did it in 2023 lol. I'm still doing quite good as a non-despositor, even though my net worth keeps on dwindling with each passing hunt.
I started the year on Calypso and stayed there till April when I got to Monria. I got back to Calypso again before April was over though.
It was only in mid September that I got off Calypso again. This time the destination were the Korwils of Arkadia. In about 4 weeks I was back on Calypsian soil once more, only to get back to Arkadia in November. But that didn't last long, because then I flew to Calypso first for a ~48 hours stop before the next destination of Monria. There I stayed for about a month, finding the second Chapter. And now I'm back at where I started - but with more skills and some progress in my personal goals.
A few of the highlights are:
- I got 2nd in a HSL Tiarak event on Arkadia.
- I found the second of Monria's Lost Chapters.
- A HOF on Cultist - it has been over 2 years since the previous HOF!
- I closing in on 230 HP.
I've cycled through 74.770,91 PED the past year, wich is roughly half of that of 2022 (wich was lower by a long shot of 2021 already). Of those PEDs 91.839,07 (96.08%) was the decay from weapons, ammo, enhancers and amplifiers. My defense bill for armour and faps was 2.867,66 PED (3,84%), wich is an increase of about 0,5% from 2021. Only 64,18 PED (0,09%) was the cost of everything else, from pills to the use of TP-chips to the decay of my scanner.
I got back 69.250,47 PED, or a return of
92.62% TT-in vs. TT-out. This is up from what I had in 2022 by ~1.3%. All in all it's a loss of 5.520,44 PED done in 253 hunts, wich is just shy of 75 less more then the number of hunts done in 2022.
The smallest hunt I did in 2023 was 8,40 PED on Corinthian Kanin with whips for Animal Essence with a loss of over 3 PED!
Yogs were the victims of my biggest hunt with a cost of 2.794,71 PED. They gave me 6 globals, lots of items and a very nice
98.23% return.
On Arkadia I got to the following Codex ranks (in steps of 5, in order of getting there for each rank):
Rank 5: Carabok
Rank 15: Tiarak ; Korwil
Repeat: IFN Bots (I)
And on Calypso the Codex ranks are:
Rank 5: Combibo ; RipperSnapper ; Vanguard ; Merp ; Longu ; Allophyl ; Tripudion ; Pupugi ; Miner Bot ; Exarosaur ; Attacker
Rank 10: Caudatergus ; Drone ; Kerberos ; Chirpy ; Gibnib
Rank 15: Snablesnot ; Caudatergus
Rank 20: Daikiba
On Monria it's one or the other:
Rank 5: Cultist
Rank 10: Cultist
Rank 15: Cultist
Repeat: Yog (II, III, IV)
I did not had any Codex Ranks on the other planets.
I made one graph to visualize how the bumpy road downhill went..
This graph shows the accumulated hunting costs on the
x-axis versus the accumulated return on the
y-axis. There were quite a few good moments in the start, and I made a profit in 2023 as late as 11 March. At that time the profit was down to 120 PEC, but still I can call it that lol.
We all love a top this-or-that-list, so here's my top 5 best and top 5 worst mobs of the year. I hunted all mobs in this list at least 4 times in 2023.
Five good mobs | Return % | Five bad mobs | Return % |
Carabok | 102,7 | IFN Defense Bot | 81,3 |
Cultist | 100,4 | Traeskeron | 82,5 |
Calypso Puny | 099,0 | Korwil | 82,6 |
Yog | 090,2 | | |
There simply were no other mobs that I hunted more then 4 times last year.
Fun fact: 43,5% of all hunts were on Calypso Puny
Calypso Puny is good because of a fat >100 PED Global on a Caudatergus, of course. I knew that the IFN Bots were bad, but I am disappointed by the Korwils though.
This year too I've looked at wich months are good and wich are bad, and to compare it with the year before, and the year before that.
I'm still not seeing any trend of wich month is better or worse without a doubt.
Month | Return 2021 | Return 2022 | Return 2023 |
January | 92,0% | 83,7% | 100,2% |
February | 95,0% | 93,2% | 100,5% |
March | 93,5% | 91,2% | 89,9% |
April | 89,6% | 90,6% | 91,6% |
May | 97,7% | 93,1% | 125,1% |
June | 97,4% | 92,5% | 146,3% |
July | 88,6% | 94,5% | 96,9% |
Augustus | 93,5% | 89,4% | 91,2% |
September | 105,4% | 88,1% | 87,7% |
October | 92,4% | 95,2% | 80,0% |
November | 93,1% | 89,6% | 86,8% |
December | 89,6% | 93,9% | 97,9% |
2024 will be an exciting year!
I want to go to Arkadia soon and see what's up with the IFN missions. I still have some good once to aim for, if I recall correct.
Best wishes to you all for 2024!