I think your confused a bit here about eco and loot returns. Being eco doesn't increase the mobs loot drops all it does is decrease your decay to kill the mob to get that loot drop. Nothing you do by gun selection, armor used etc will make that mob drop more loot, that mob will drop that same amount of loot if you use an Opallo or a LR41 on that Daikiba for example, you just spend way more ammo consumption using one vs the other to kill that mob so the loot value return diffenence is less.
Balance guns and armors to mob's correctly you have better chance of coming out ahead in the long haul. Grinding for 30 min won't show much but grind for 10 hours using eco equipment means many many many peds more profit vs using un-eco equipment. Some people say don't use armor at all but I say bunk with that BS, fap decay is spendy vs decay on armor if you use the correct armors. I have tracked this many many times and will not deter from my bonified speadsheet results just because someone else says it is otherwise, I know myself it to be true.
Track your own results, only use others suggestions as a guidlines but always compile your own data for the truth.
Well, I'm not confused about eco, but I do see that post was a bit unclear.
The first comment about people using the most eco is a bit sarcastic, even
thou' that doesn't show.
Some do think that being eco is same as having good loot.
Here is the problem with EU imo. You have probably, just as I have, done tons of tests
with a LOT of different setups, and you came to the conclusion that loot is same.
I haven't seen that at all, when I've done tests. Might be good to do some again,
since it's been a while since my last serious test with mkV. As a example thou', I did see a
difference in loot between two setups, that are close to each other, other than the decay.
I didn't get same drop with mkV+eamp13 as I did with mkV+a203. They have same amount
of max damage, but a difference in total cost. I usualy got worse ROI with eamp13, but
way better things in drop. I did get enhancers with eamp I never got with a203.
I did my first more serious test around 2004, and even thou' the system is updated,
basics is still the same imo. It has just been polished.
Today, I only use eamps, if I use a amp. ROI today is better then what it used to be.
Way better. I also try to finetuning with different enhancers. It often works, even
thou' it might take a while to find that "right comb" out.
But on some mobs, no matter what setup I have on mkV, loot just isn't good.
Other type of weapons work thou'. I use any kind of weapon, such as rifle, handgun,
shortblade, longblade and so on. I don't look at them as different types thou',
I look at them all as same thing, they just have different settings.
A test I do have done just recently (apr-dec2011), is with certain shortblades. I do have
better ROI when I have damage-enhancer on t1, t2 and t3, then when I use none.
I agree, look at others suggestions and info, but we should all do our own tests.
No avatar is the same. All do different things, so everyones experience is different.
When it comes to decay, people should stop see it as a total loss. It's only a part
of it, that is revenue stream.
Using armor or not, well, I guess that depends on the mob. Against most mobs I do use
armor, but on some there is no need for either armor or heal.
So,if u get many MISS, it indicate the area and mob is not good? then change area or mob?
A MISS is a part of the cycle. Somedays I get more of those, somedays they are less.
Average ROI is often the same, even thou' some runs with a LOT of MISS has been realy good.
(My last +1k loot were in one of those runs.)
Something makes them pop up more frequently at certain occasions.
The queston is, why do they pop up at those occasions?
