Simple poll, would you be able to give up ability to ATH if it mean better spread of globals and hofs and general return in general?
Warning - Highly opinionated post and personal stance on the service today.
As much as I am with-holding posting opinions on the forum from here on in.
I feel it is important to reply to your poll with how I feel.
> It is a delicate balance, the *majority* of ATHs are actually earned from the participants own money that has been buffered, invested and returned.
It is also a part of the intricate ruleset cost of participation balancing engine which maintains a balance for everyone (over the long haul) for the period they are involved with Entropia vs everyone else.
Granted it is one of the not so nice elements due to its perceived outcomes & judged upon repercussions by participants - viewed by many as gambling when it is returned in lump sums, also viewed (opinionated) unethically for the with-holding of a large portion of funds owned by the participant
procured slowly (in most cases - I would
assume as a % of the spend rate per month - decay etc) for the purpose of short-term investments. (Of which you most likely also gain a small % of the earnings of the investment returned to you - Yet nothing stated due to the blackboxing of this technology)
This is one of the lure and hooks of being involved with Entropia I am afraid. Being involved is a rather long-term involvement commitment.
Also part and parcel as to why they lack the motivation (Maybe skills & understand is a better phrase to use) to do their jobs properly (including measured future impact analysis & foresight for their actions) in providing a good service,
although a lot has improved as of late since FPC took over - Marco promises change on this front with a plan for the future of Calypso over the years to come.
Which I will personally strangle him (in the virtual sense ) if he comes up with several storylines as his *core focus* in place of substance related improvements to service mechanisms, economy growth (expansion, management and balance through cross-related dependencies) and fair & balanced assessment and distribution systems outside the balancing engine (especially for events) for the RCE environment.
We shall have to wait to measure his worth in bettering the service we have today, as far as growing & developing new business (participants) and providing satisfaction, retention and balance over all spheres of activity (including rewarded opportunities for financial advancement in the RCE environment) while competing with others in the same marketplace industry lateral.
Either way, I received this reply from Marco
after pointing him in the direction of this post:
LINK > https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...-planet-cyrene-games-radar-7.html#post2046690
Marco|FPC said:
Hello,
Thanks for you message. I have a long-term plan for development of Planet Calypso and FPC and there are numerous content systems planned. The ambition is to "The Colonist MMO", with focus on gameplay, business and entertainment.
Regards
-Marco
So I remain 'in check' and with faith that Marco will turn out to be a better manager of the business (with attached economy involving other peoples real life money not belonging to FPC nor MindArk) than the predecessors as he works to improve Calypso (
& FPC team) over the next 2 to 5 yrs.
Remember this is primarily learn as you go, on the job experience (to a large degree for *most* of the employed skillsets once you have researched each persons past work & education credentials at MindArk;
So train wrecks from time to time are going to happen - Ofc no one is perfect. (However, hopefully they start learning to drive the damn train
better as time progresses than crashing it as frequently as they do today - In developing (&expanding), managing (Business choices and correctly following statements produced by management while maintaining a financial organisation with an attached
Economy invoving real people and their hard earned real world money)
So in a nutshell:
What Marco has said won't happen overnight. People can either have faith that things will change over the course of the next 2 to 5 years;
While expecting a few train crashes in the process while they learn to provide for future impact analysis, foresight and what they missed -
Current example - Shop signs working, shop fittings colouring & texturing not working, leaving the current shopping mall competition to be a very grey one;
Or you say you have had enough and move on.
I understand many are pissed, or suffer the love to hate to love syndrome when it comes to this service, but personally, I think it is worth the wait to see how things pan out;
Especially now with competition starting to crop up and announcing their intentions to compete for industry market share in time to come.