You asking for test, this one I did soon.
My daily hunting run on Puny is 400-700 ped. I've usually been in the field for a very long time, if you mean this.
From September until now, I've mostly hunted Puny for skills because I'm not happy with the current market economy. The game forces me to invest more if I want to hunt for a big mob, but at the same time AH takes most of my income... I collect a large stack of items that subsequently make it TT because it's hard to sell by normally. Market trading in the EU gives a much bigger advantage to those who take advantage of the game with a +1or more accounts. That's why my choice is a large amount of Puny for more skills and less losses.
Late September- mid January... 33600 --> 31208.6( + uni in Inventory, im not ingame to check it exactly.. ~500 ped)
In a normal play, there are weapon ranges (DMGs) through which I understand if this mob is good for hunting today. If I use a weapon that is bigger or smaller, I can't find my way around, and my game takes on a gambling look. Thats work for me of 50 to 1k HP mobs.
Overkill can be paid in loot2(not sure), but overpay is not paid(sure). So I'm sure that if you use even top gun on Puny for a week, your result wont be 94%, but 73%.
Optimal loot on Caudashiters, excuse me.
Sorry, but as long as you do not even know how many skills you get at TT value, you can not be really considered a reliable source.
Even a reference of how much you cycle....cycle what ? ammo ? ammo including decay ?
Does the cycle include the MU for the guns ?
What ammo was cycled ? Was shrapnel converted ?
back on topic....
I started looking into a bit higher efficiences about 3 months ago, but can really not say that it did anything to loot composition or return rate. My only hunting weapon has been the LR-80 for the past 4-5 months and I start with 70.2 efficiency.
My looter level is 55ish right now, but I can see also now difference in return rate or composition of loot since the start of loot2.0 .
I have looted two esis since loot 2.0, both during the last mayhem and both within a day, so statistcally this is just a fluke.
And for reference, I cycle around 1k PED TT bought ammo per hour, with a 8%reload buff.
I do that roughly 2-4 hours per day except on weekends or during Merry Mayhem.
...and I stopped tracking my hunts in detail years ago
Hunting s for me to wind down from work and not a second job, it has become more expensive with higher levels.
I am more about skilling up somehow naturally right now (because I still believe the the Codex skills are not for free and I could see massive impacts on Calypso on my PED Card), and I would definately no choose punys, because I do not think the kill bonus still exists (at least not in the way it was before, where you would get some skills on the kill with every type of weapon used and would really not make a difference at my level anyway)