Well from where I sit there's a method to MA's madness, and a lot of Calypsans who are uber really played into it.
So really the madness lies with the people going after the queens and not the players who aren't.
Whar is the method? Easy.. To frustrate the ubers off the planet literally.
With such paltry drops for uber players these players will in turn see the unlimited Drops on Arkadia as a godsend.. So some of the ubers will leave Calypso for Arkadia, to go after the UL Loots (Most notably the smuggler weapons..
This will in turn have two aspects...
1. With ubers coming over to Arkadia, Calypso's lag actually drops.. (Less people on the server. After all a lot of players who stay on Calypso, are actually causing their own lag. (Because they are olverloading the Calypso servers thus preventing other players from being able to enjoy the fun. Now with these paltry loots, ubers who want a better return will travel elsewhere (and at a risk as there are PK'ers out in space) and that elsewhere is of ocurse Arkadia..
(See where that's going? If not, then let me continue.)
2. With the load off the Calypso servers and the lag reduced, the coming update (Due out on the 26th, will further help optimize the Calypso servers.. thus improving gameplay and thus reduing lage.. (Granted there's what I call The 5 am (MA Time) lag in game, but I'm guessing that this is due to usual server optimization, (Things like automatic computer maineanence.) But with so many people on Caly atm, the issue is that it's taking longer and longer for folks toget loot returns back.. due to the lag...
3. By pulling people off of Calypso, and showing them over to the more optiminzed Arkadia, lag doegoes down, after all Caly is right now poorly optimized.. After 26 September with the new items in plafce (including new servers for Amathera, which will enlarge the Caly map significantly, the lag should drop to something more managable.
So in a way, that's their REAL plan.. to let folks leave Caly on their own accord in order to get things ready for the update.. The loot? it's just a byproduct of the preparations.. In order to get people who believe "Caly is the center of the EU' to realize. it's not.. there are other worlds out there, other mobs, other ideas..
It's really all up to a lot of players to choose. but a lot of self centered know it alls stay on Calypso.. why? In order to make the game lag.. and thus think that they'll get better loot.. The realizty is.. they wont..
Sinple straight to the point.
Benjamin Ben Coyote a.k.a. "The Blind Sniper"