Question: Loot now (present) versus years past

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So I am a firm believer that what made this game EXCITING and WORTH playing was the fact you could loot some pretty neat shit. When I started in 2004.. the sky was the limit when it came to hunting. For those in disbelief, have a peek at the HOF section from 2004-2010.

I am curious to the old timers and any of those that remember.. if loot was EXACTLY back then when you started, a perfect replica of what we’ve had now for the past 2-3 years, would you have invested and stuck around? Maybe I’m stuck living in purgatory nostalgia, but man am I disappointed in what loot has evolved into.

I see these threads about returns, loss, profit, frustrations. I could care less about returns/profit/loss.. this is entertainment and money is just money. Make EU great again god dammit.

Curious what others think!
 
entropia is very dynamic ... thing is, mindark seems quite slomo or even static :silly2:

btw one can still loot nice stuffs, but nowadays it's more often my GF than me...

but why not, i ask you? she kinda deserves it too! :girl:
 
Yes I get it.. things do still drop.. at the pace of Zimbabwe’s space program.

You didn’t answer the question:p
 
Nvm..... wrong thread
 
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Only shrapnel, items are extinct for casual/normal/medium players. You would loot atleast a few armor parts on a regular hunt, maybe some MF chips. It's like, maybe you will loot an item on 10k cycled now.... lol, but probably not
 
Only shrapnel, items are extinct for casual/normal/medium players. You would loot atleast a few armor parts on a regular hunt, maybe some MF chips. It's like, maybe you will loot an item on 10k cycled now.... lol, but probably not

Well, we did ask for that to stop so that we could have a craft based economy.... except.. we don't have that. :D
 
But no one is answering the question haha! I truly want to know your answers!

If MA say to me today.. Mad, loot forever = this BS.. get outta the past.. I’d literally just go buy a boat and fuck around all day. I think because they won’t, they claim it’s all possible to be looted, and I’m just ignorant and addictive compulsive, I ignore the obvious :dunce:

I needed a good laugh. Here’s the initial question:

if loot was EXACTLY back then when you started, a perfect replica of what we’ve had now for the past 2-3 years, would you have invested and stuck around?
 
If loot & returns would be like when i've started, in july 2014, then i would return and invest again.
 
... if loot was EXACTLY back then when you started, a perfect replica of what we’ve had now for the past 2-3 years, would you have invested and stuck around?
Curious what others think!

I'm not sure it was the drops back then that kept me around compared to today, but the mus on stuff were higher and fluctuated higher than now. Obviously I started as a noob, so I was getting pixie parts, fap-5 and so on. Getting those in loot as a noob today probably wouldn't help much as the mu would drop to barely above tt.

A bit later, being able to loot an occassional esi while still at noobish level WAS good. NOT getting that in loot now would make it more likely for me not to stick around.

Frankly, I don't know what a noob is supposed to do now. I went from sweating to swunting and then to hunting, so the 'invest' part of your question is a time investment in my case.

It may sound strange to use the expression 'trickle down economics' here, but I believed players higher than me didn't want to waste time doing noob stuff, but needed noob produce and were prepared to pay mu for it. Whether it's sweat or force nexus or whatever, the market doesn't provide the 'climb' that it used to. I think that is more of a problem than loot drops as such...
 
It may sound strange to use the expression 'trickle down economics' here, but I believed players higher than me didn't want to waste time doing noob stuff, but needed noob produce and were prepared to pay mu for it. Whether it's sweat or force nexus or whatever, the market doesn't provide the 'climb' that it used to. I think that is more of a problem than loot drops as such...

Rocktropia has done quite a good job in regards to trickle down economy, imo.

Furniture & Armor plates all need sweat, common ores and some hunting loot to make.
Attachment & Vehicles, after i reworked their BPs (i suggested , ND implanted the suggestions), were using level 1-50 mob loot as ingredients. The attachment BP changes worked out quite nicely, imo, untill MA brought their Armatrix amps.

So people outfitting their shops & getting vehicles were trickling money down to newer players.

And then there's ofc the popshop for big time investors, where you can buy instances, houses etc. with bananas which are droping from l0 to l1119 mobs.

However, trickle down economy only works, when rich people don't mind losing money. If rich people only want to get profit and make more money, then the whole trickle down economy doesn't happen and it's trickle up instead.

Edit: EP recycle & armament device II gamblers , who are you trying to get the ATH and don't care much about losses, are the ones who create a trickle down economy.
 
I've hunted since pregold and i'm also the nostalgic type. I think memory can definitely trick you, like only remembering the sunny holiday memories from your childhood. Of course we remember HOF boards with more than one 20k atrox young, pictures of loot windows with several ul eon parts and people looting mod mercs. I've looted several cool ul items myself back in the day (which wasn't worth as much back then) but I can also remember having the most frustrating times in this game. Loot was all over the place. You could go days with 40-50% returns. Totally devastating hunts. It was a total hit or miss. The top 10 ubers might tell you otherwise but for most people it was loose heavily for weeks, and then hit the jackpot (or not) and bounce back.

Honestly, loot 2.0 is better because it distributes the loot more evenly. Most hunter get at least 90% returns, but you don't see those 200k solo loots anymore, which is fine. Shrap is boring, so was no loots and oil. We always wanted more items in loot, also back then.
 
Only shrapnel, items are extinct for casual/normal/medium players. You would loot atleast a few armor parts on a regular hunt, maybe some MF chips. It's like, maybe you will loot an item on 10k cycled now.... lol, but probably not

Seriously, wth are you talking about...??? What planet are you on???

I did a very small run on Feffoids at Fort Fury recently, only had to kill 200 Feffoids for the TP chip upgrade at Ithaca. How long does it take to kill 200 Feffoids? 1.5 hours?

Within that time, I hit a global with a Martial Harness and a pair of Thunderbird Arm guards, and then another global with a full tt Kinetic chip.

So I really don't agree when you say you need to cycle 10k ped to get an item, it's just not true.

Legends
 
if loot was EXACTLY back then when you started, a perfect replica of what we’ve had now for the past 2-3 years, would you have invested and stuck around?

Yes because that's not what it's about for me.

If you go play WoW and try to tell Blizzard that the virtual items and gold you've accumulated in the game is yours to do whatever you want with and tell them you are going to sell everything for real money, they're just going to lock your account and take everything from you.

Same thing with all the other MMOs I know.

So, Entropia has always been very unique in that respect, you really truly own the virtual items and money you have in the game, and you can sell it, it's okay.

If loot is really really bad, I just find a different activity to do, or a different way, I mean isn't that the very definition of (in)sanity?

Legends
 
All great points from different (and respected) points of view. I think for me, it’s always been the thrill of the swirls. It just bores me to see 5k value in my loot window (yes I use them still haha) and it’s literally one thing.. shrapnel. Everyone chooses this game for different entertainment purposes, and for me it was the fun looting of things in the past that keep me around today.

They can do things to make hunting fun like the past, they just choose not to. My hope is that before my interest fades, something happens to keep me and new players coming around.
 
The composition of loot has changed greatly as the game evolved over the years.

There were definitely definable "ages" if you will of general loot compositions. There's a bit of blur between these changes but roughly I recall that:


  • In the early days it was very much filled with UL items (guns, armor, paintings, furniture..etc) and actual peds.
  • Then it was thought that dropping peds was too close to being a "casino" so it was changed to animal oil residue and ammo.
  • Then MA started realizing that giving away UL gear is isn't the way to build an economy so you started seeing much less UL gear (except low level crap) and more L gear in loots. At this time there were still lootables like paintings and masks.
  • Then with the creation of rocket launchers and people complaining about oil residue and valueless items in loot so we started seeing more explosive projectiles in the loot and less oil residue and items like paintings and masks.
  • Then MA pioneered the EP blueprint as a way to isolate gamblers and stabilize the economy. They also came up with shrapnel as a substitute main loot to replace explosive projectiles, ammo and some oils. Shrapnel being something that has a guaranteed exchange of 101% (via conversion).
  • It was around this time other planet partners started getting serious and coming up with their own economies and loot compositions.


And this is pretty much where we stand now. The primary loot on Caly is shrapnel. Items loots are rare and are almost always L items. And it is quite boring. But to be fair there isn't a simple fix to this. You can't just slap a ton of different types of stuff in the loot to make it interesting.

Look at Rocktropia, I'd argue they have the most diverse loot composition of any planet in the game. Go hunt any mob and you'll wind up getting 20-30 different types of stuff in your loot. The problem is, almost all of it has no value because the planet is pretty much dead and true development has appeared to have stopped (so much wasted potential... most people don't even realize.).

So yeah... loot was more exciting a bit back in the day when you could loot interesting things like clothes, furniture and UL guns regularly. It would be good for them to revisit dropping cool items again. Maybe loot doesn't always have to be high markup resources for crafting. But maybe just some unique items. Think L backpacks (that actually store stuff), L fun mini-vehicles (think like the old witch broom gift)...etc. Who knows what the future will hold though.
 
Loot sucked back then... still does, but now it's much slower drain than back then.
 
So I am a firm believer that what made this game EXCITING and WORTH playing was the fact you could loot some pretty neat shit. When I started in 2004.. the sky was the limit when it came to hunting. For those in disbelief, have a peek at the HOF section from 2004-2010.

I am curious to the old timers and any of those that remember.. if loot was EXACTLY back then when you started, a perfect replica of what we’ve had now for the past 2-3 years, would you have invested and stuck around? Maybe I’m stuck living in purgatory nostalgia, but man am I disappointed in what loot has evolved into.

I see these threads about returns, loss, profit, frustrations. I could care less about returns/profit/loss.. this is entertainment and money is just money. Make EU great again god dammit.

Curious what others think!

They allready stack away hahaha they were looting ESIs from exosaurus infront of my eyes ;););) Those that seek just profit they stack yes. But those that seek fun and still have a decent chance to profit if they are smart same time are still around for nostalgia i guess. I cant stop playing it either ;) Plus the game has enourmous potential
 
They allready stack away hahaha they were looting ESIs from exosaurus infront of my eyes ;););) Those that seek just profit they stack yes. But those that seek fun and still have a decent chance to profit if they are smart same time are still around for nostalgia i guess. I cant stop playing it either ;)
U have to remember this is just a game also so u have to enjoy it in the first place ;)
 
I miss ESI's, be them the old .99 GSI or the new ESIs. Which stopped being such a solid loot because skill trade stopped being a thing. Who needs it when you have skill bonuses raining left and right?

The argument against them, back then, was "OH BUT WHY SHOULD I PAYY FOR TRANSFER OF SKILLZZZZZ AAH". One could argue that even this change, the inflation of skills, was at the request of community. Many, actually, of the abhoring (in retrospect) changes were so.

And that's a solid reason (on par with lacking time) of why I don't mentor. I just can't, with due sincerity, tell a newb "deposit 2k$ to get a proper start". I can't, I consider it absurd. "Hunt punies for 10k bones", also... lol..

But ul items, not so much. I looted precisely ONE piece of jaguar shins and that was all. Size of hofs... dunno... very tricky area. I am fine with 1-3k area.
 
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