My question to you buds would be
Question : You had so many nice questions you could have asked as you have stated in the post, especially (1) which is very very logical and a personal pet peeve of mine but you chose to ask one question you knew would not be answered and another that you knew you would not get a satisfactory answer for. Why?
But this 2 points come to my mind that frustrates me most and killed the most fun/trust for me. I just used this AMA to point on this 2 problems that I didn´t like most.
1. Because emotions won on the day I wrote it.
2. I do think there would be just another "political" answer like:
"Our economy team is allways striving for a good balancing. The ArMatrix series succefully boosted the economy as you may noticed. The new UL items were introduced to give some new goals to our community and celebrate the fifteen years of Entropia, which should be also remembered in 5 years due to its stats."
while the true might look like:
"We are not totally aware of the big issue all the UL stuff brought. Our stuff who also play the game have boosted loot and doing well. Also a lot of our customers asked for more UL drops and missions to upgrade UL items. We followed their wishes which leaded us to the point where we are.
Moreover after our Planet Partner "Arkadia" introduced all the UL Armors and the UL Melee weapons, we found us in a corner where we needed to go out. Thats why we introduced the EK-2350 & EK-2600 upgrade missions and later on we also made "Mission Galactica" and announced it as the longest mission chain. This gave us the opportunity to destroy the FAP market as well, after the 2 other (gun, armor) were already destroyed.
Then we realized that it won´t work in the long run and listened to some players and introduced the ArMatrix along with the Widget and Gizmo BPs. To our surprise it boosted the economy a bit. We were so happy about it that we forgot that we now have 2 parameters for guns efficiency and dpp and introduced the new guns following the old design model."
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As soon as I saw the announcement of this 2 parameters for guns, I thought that within a short time 1-2 Months new items will hit the market. Something in this lines.
1) Low effi, high dpp
2) high effi, low dpp
3) low effi, low dpp, extremly high dmg compared to lvl needed (pvp gear)
4) high effi, high dpp (L) only
But well all goes a (bit) slower then I sometimes expect.