Yeah.. well this discussion miss one important point with skills. The skills make you able to decrease the cost of killing the mobs, they don't increase the loot from the mobs. So even if the low-skilled players get the same or even better loot from the mob than a higher skilled player, the low-skill player could still ending up worse because they have a higher cost for the killings. If you kill a 1 kg chicken, you will get a 1 kg chicken to eat, don't matter how you kill it.
Special loot is also very rare and random, so nothing players should count on getting. The only way to get a good return/cost ratio is if you know some mob that on regular bases drops loot with good markup.
Sounds like a lot of your loss is going to the fapper.
Do you believe that the weapon you're using while killing a mob, affects the loot you get from that mob ?
Just curious what your opinion is, I am aware that nobody will know this for sure (except MA staff).
5) DO live in Sweden. Lag aside, is it possible there is an ingame quota for how much money must be paid to Swedes in order to keep it in their country? I don't know, just asking!?
Ok, no one really knows that what you are saying is true. What we do all "think" is that skills should help decrease the kill cost (as you are saying as well). We can't say 100% that higher skills don't also give more loot right? They are supposed to have some influence, which is the basis for why EU isn't considered a Casino in the USA. Isn't it a bit alarming that one of the top 5 highest players in EU can just get destroyed on loot on a regular basis?
Do you believe that the weapon you're using while killing a mob, affects the loot you get from that mob ?
Just curious what your opinion is, I am aware that nobody will know this for sure (except MA staff).
Didn't Marco suggest this was likely in a post one time?
Buzz looted the BLP version of the Mod Merc at Arkadia
Buzz didn't loot the gun, he bought it. The looter was a Level 10-ish guy who logged in for the first time in 2-3 years. So you can continue with the conspiracy theories, but you're applying the wrong rule in this case
It's a shame you don't back it up with numbers in this thread.
What is the gear you're using, how much armor decay do you have, how many enhancers do you use, what is your fapper bill? How much profit/loss do you have on the eomon?
Have you failed to adapt and did you become a dinosaur, or is there really something going on?
I stand corrected. Forgot about that thanks! 1 less hat to wear.
Whenever I have horrible loot, I start a "hunting experiment thread" and end up getting something decent through a miracle of whatever sort (thanks god!).
Gear I'm using? I think i stated that elsewhere in the thread but I'm adapting as much as you could. Why else would I use the newest stuff and hunt the supposed "migration" mob? What I am NOT using is a fapbot, which would save me 500+ ped per day. It seems that is a big chunk over time; however, it is a lesser chunk that doing it solo with full armor at all times and fapping myself. Profit/loss = -15-25k I'd estimate. I don't really want the depressing news of tracking my loot when it is this horrible. Forgive me but I do not think wasting 1.5 hours worth of hunting time to track is worth it. All that would do is make me never want to hunt again.
I don't think skills/gear are supposed to make any influence on loot. I do think that if you are able to do it very efficiently (with no armor when appropriate) you should likely at least have near the 92% return everyone else seems to say is normal. Marco did hint at this long ago; I don't know how much any of us really believed about that as he hinted at a lot of things that seemed to be false later.
Ther was a typo!Just keep whining*...it will come
Ther was a typo!
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So I ask, at level 161 BLP sniper now, 102.5 evader, with 2% ch scope, 20% laser, arson chip tier 6/8 to use, perfect ares ring, augmented athenic ring, imp doa tier 9 with mod evil, and the ability to do eomon stalkers in liakon+5a or carramone + 8a sga, a bunch of pills for any type....what exactly am I doing "wrong" in this situation?
Why not become a fapper instead and make 500+ peds per day?!
"Star's Survival Service"
Entropia is not meant to be gambling; if it was, it wouldn't be allowed in the USA.
Maybe you should get in contact with [Swedish gambling auditing agency] & ask how they investigated entropia & how long it's been..
I'm 100% sure you'd be suprised of the answer!..
Some read between the lines and know what's up.
I just don't get all the responses, the highest skilled player in the game is trying to make a point, and you just deride him with your retorts, he is saying that there is something wrong with the game and i agree, at the moment i can afford to enjoy losing here - you are supposed to lose otherwise MA cant keep the game running - I am seeing this as MA just being greedy - there will come a point in my game play when i will say f**k it and stop playing - which means i stop depoing - i dont mind losing a bit but when you invest a lot into the game and get bugger all back then you may as well go and do something more interesting instead, i have played 4 years and spent a lot in game - never had a nice item or loot over 1k - at some point i will just say enough and go do something else with my money
Honestly, I'm just saying this: I started with a big enough bank roll to not worry (I thought). I tried to hunt the big shit "eco" when I thought things were bad and use carramone when they were good. Last week starting my hunt on Wednesday, I had exactly 12k PEDS on my card (made from trading). Today I logged in and couldn't really even hunt due to lack of peds. I had just enough for 500 Synthetic ME, 300 universal ammo, 100 Laser Cells and 500 BLP Ammo - which should last me like 25 minutes tops.
I've lost a lot more than that this migration, but that is the only sample I've tracked. I do have angel thighs and 2 x 19 ped esi in auction, along with about 10 guns that I listed for between 50-100 PED there. So about 3.5k PED or so in "stuff" to go with that ammo. 3.5k PED of stuff + about 1500 PED in ammo = 5k PED. That's about 7k loss in 1 week hunting. I know I've had similar weeks since migration started. Actually, I've only had 3 good days of loot during the whole migration. They were quite good, but not good enough to make up for the very next day of hunting loss.
So I ask, at level 161 BLP sniper now, 102.5 evader, with 2% ch scope, 20% laser, arson chip tier 6/8 to use, perfect ares ring, augmented athenic ring, imp doa tier 9 with mod evil, and the ability to do eomon stalkers in liakon+5a or carramone + 8a sga, a bunch of pills for any type....what exactly am I doing "wrong" in this situation?
I have also hunted Eomon Alphas/Prowlers naked, mulmun ascended in Carramone, and Mulmun looter elites naked...so it isn't just the mob choice of Eomon Stalkers.