jambon
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- James Jambon Zidane
Loss, loss, loss, loss, loss.... up 50 peds.... loss, loss, loss, loss, loss... lose 15,000 peds in a couple weeks hunting. Try and double-down on something larger or a different profession thinking maybe get lucky to balance out - nope just increases the loss. Get 15% hit rate mining with a terramaster 6 planetside and 15% success rate qty crafting. Seems legit.
Oh well who cares, there's always someone who can boast bigger losses right? That's the real measure of your virtual penis. How big you can lose before tilting, right?
In the last couple weeks I was solid grinding hard on Araneatrox to complete the 10k mission. I killed well over 10,000 which included a range of young - olds. Mostly like 95% youngs to avoid maturity volatility. And I hunted on untaxed land using high eff Ar-Matrix rifles with the lowest markup that still allowed me to kill the things before they reach me. Mostly lr-45's but also threw a fen L FEN editions in there too. So practically no excess loss in armor or fap decay.
Returns at the best of times were 120% (rare) and the worst of times 59% with my average being in the 75% return range. My runs were done in chunks of 1000 peds in ammo but I was doing runs back to back. I'd only stop to look at my returns after 1000 peds in ammo was spent.
During this time while grinding 8+ hours a day. I witnessed a number of people hitting HoFs of 2k - 7k. Some people that appeared to have just started working on those mobs. Had a very limited number of globals logged total in EL and no more than a couple globals logged on them in the month.
After a couple days of grinding one person was lucky enough to hit a 7k about 35m away from me just minutes into their run. Essentially close enough to practically be hit with their hof swirls like a nice slap in the face. So that was nice.
All the while gritting down thinking "it's ok, I'm bound to get some sort of decent hit to balance out if I keep at it". Balance is in the numbers and playing efficient". I kept this manra for weeks and while I did get a bunch of globals that allowed me to bounce up closer to the 75% return area when I was dipping really low my best loot was like 300 peds. Whoopty-fucking-do.
Last year I really cut back on my deposits. This year I decided that instead of doing smaller deposits throughout the year I would start off by depositing most of my years budget up front and really invest in some decent gear and making some solid progress with my avatar.
So far it's been nothing but solid losses that constantly have me think "why the fuck am I forking money over for this crap? It's bringing more stress than joy.". If this is what can be expected this year in game, count me out.
Big losses are way to common, while good loots are impossibly rare. Too few and far between to keep interest for the average player. Especially when the average player just wants a decent loot so they can maybe upgrade their gear and/or continue to play for a bit without having to deposit every 15 fucking minutes.
Getting a little tired of it is all. My story is nothing unique, I'm sure there are many others that have similar stories.
We deserve something better than this!
...and sometime soon someone else is going to give it to us if you don't step up.
Oh well who cares, there's always someone who can boast bigger losses right? That's the real measure of your virtual penis. How big you can lose before tilting, right?
In the last couple weeks I was solid grinding hard on Araneatrox to complete the 10k mission. I killed well over 10,000 which included a range of young - olds. Mostly like 95% youngs to avoid maturity volatility. And I hunted on untaxed land using high eff Ar-Matrix rifles with the lowest markup that still allowed me to kill the things before they reach me. Mostly lr-45's but also threw a fen L FEN editions in there too. So practically no excess loss in armor or fap decay.
Returns at the best of times were 120% (rare) and the worst of times 59% with my average being in the 75% return range. My runs were done in chunks of 1000 peds in ammo but I was doing runs back to back. I'd only stop to look at my returns after 1000 peds in ammo was spent.
During this time while grinding 8+ hours a day. I witnessed a number of people hitting HoFs of 2k - 7k. Some people that appeared to have just started working on those mobs. Had a very limited number of globals logged total in EL and no more than a couple globals logged on them in the month.
After a couple days of grinding one person was lucky enough to hit a 7k about 35m away from me just minutes into their run. Essentially close enough to practically be hit with their hof swirls like a nice slap in the face. So that was nice.
All the while gritting down thinking "it's ok, I'm bound to get some sort of decent hit to balance out if I keep at it". Balance is in the numbers and playing efficient". I kept this manra for weeks and while I did get a bunch of globals that allowed me to bounce up closer to the 75% return area when I was dipping really low my best loot was like 300 peds. Whoopty-fucking-do.
Last year I really cut back on my deposits. This year I decided that instead of doing smaller deposits throughout the year I would start off by depositing most of my years budget up front and really invest in some decent gear and making some solid progress with my avatar.
So far it's been nothing but solid losses that constantly have me think "why the fuck am I forking money over for this crap? It's bringing more stress than joy.". If this is what can be expected this year in game, count me out.
Big losses are way to common, while good loots are impossibly rare. Too few and far between to keep interest for the average player. Especially when the average player just wants a decent loot so they can maybe upgrade their gear and/or continue to play for a bit without having to deposit every 15 fucking minutes.
Getting a little tired of it is all. My story is nothing unique, I'm sure there are many others that have similar stories.
We deserve something better than this!
...and sometime soon someone else is going to give it to us if you don't step up.