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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Open Letter to the Traders and citizens of Entropia

As long as you export every resource that isn't nailed down from Arkadia and Rocktropia, these economies will not be able to grow. It has become so impossible to mount any kind of crafting effort due to the lack of availability of resources that are FROM these planets exclusively. It is ridiculous. The reason it would appear most people end up on Caly despite what planet they started on, is the simple fact that they have to follow the materials.

 I URGE MindArk in their wisdom or lack thereof, to eliminate the bug that allows traders to log out on a mothership and thus not be able to be looted in space, and log back in at their destination. This defeats the purpose of piracy, and the risks of space flight. It is an expoit, but you may call it what you wish. This would help curb some of the malicious exporting all in the name of turning a ped. I mean seriously, raping entire planets economies all for the sake of making a ped or two. Yes, I have been a trader off and on. Yes, I see nothing wrong with trading. But I do not trade in this manner. I do not believe in bleeding a planet dry to the point where crafters cannot support what should be a growing population.

To all of the miners, hunters, crafters, I urge you to be tougher in negotiating with traders. If you simply give in to whatever price they offer, there is nothing but downward pressure on prices. I know most of you including myself need peds now, but it is a vicious cycle that will destroy our abilities to stay afloat in the long run. I've already been forced to take prices far below what is acceptable, and the traders are UNWILLING to negotiate upward in the slightest. This is bad business practice, and if you can't be flexible in trading so as to be fair, then I may have to compile a black list of traders who are unfair and offer what can only be construed as the lowest prices in entropia. And trust me, I do have a few names that need to go on such a list.

Sure, I might upset  few people, but I am long past upset myself. Every resource on every planet is shipped out to Calypso. I know why you are doing it. But the economies on these other planets are only a fraction of what they were a year ago. And it is pretty bad when there used to be pages of resources on the auction, but now, there are maybe three or four listings with prices inflated so bad a crafter can't take them seriously.

I will get off my soapbox now... Good luck to everyone... But in the meantime... Traders, I will be watching.

Rocktropia: L4 Motorhead Global!

Apparenty yes, they actually do global! So I thought I would post my screenshot for those who are curious. I find even if you don't hunt together, being in a team is a big help to loot... But it is a bit depressing to hit a good one and it not show up under your own name on tracker but rather under a team name. But right now loot has been so bad for me that it is a matter of, give me the loot, I will worry about solo globals and hofs later.

Hunting globals are something for me that do not simply happen. I am nearing 10K in loot for Crafting, nearing 10K in loot on tracker for mining... But hunting, solo, I've had abou 140 peds... If I add my team globals and hofs... I maybe, in 5 years time, have had 500 peds in global loot from hunting.

And well... Most of my hunting skills are well above level 20.


But yeah, not bad for a Level 4 Motorhead!

Rocktropia: Hell Key III L Blueprint For Sale!!!

I plan to take this post down when it sells, but, I was crafting and the print dropped. 47 clicks I think, and it is the only one as of now on Auction. I was going to click it until I seen how many peds we are talking about. Just the Telemans coins themselves that are needed is insane... 4 of them per click, so 5 clicks would be 80 peds just in Telemans coins with markup! Not to mention the other stuff going into it. So...

Given the apparent rarity of this print, I've listed it for the historical buyout of about 20K%, or 100 peds... I think it is a bargain considering the Hell Key III's have good markup, and this is your chance to corner the market. If it does not sell within the week's time, well, at that point I will have an uber crafter I know click it for me and go from there...

It has about 6 and a half more days fom time of this listing on the Rocktropia auction. I do have the bid price starting at 50peds, so buy or bid, is your choice.

I have also listed some shogun armor pieces on the Auction as well, and they are selling fairly fast so if you want them you better get there first!

Thanks for taking the time to read this announcement.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Land Area Taxes... My Opinions

I see land owners are becoming greedy and upping their taxes. Is there no sense of competition? I have quit mining on land areas with rates pushed into the 5% bracket. I am sure many of you have to. I have no problem at all with a tax rate in the 2's and 3's. But 1.1% isn't a huge difference you say... No, it's not... But it is enough to determine whether you run a profit or a loss at times.

If land areas who have 5% taxes cut to even 3.5%, I would bet almost anything that your revenues will double.

It's kind of like the paytable on video poker. 6-5 Jacks or Better pays close to 94% on the long run if played properly. Gamblers don't take it seriously. I sure don't. I rather play slot machines than such a bad paytable on video poker. Full pay is 99.56% on the long run, which is a 9-6 Jacks or Better paytable. What does this have to do with land area taxes? A lot...

See...

A casino will actually make more off full pay machines than they will by trying to cut the payback of the machine by altering the pay table. The people who take the game seriously and will spend countless hours on them, will be going somewhere else doing something else, and the game is only making money if someone is running money through it.

Likewise, I do not take 5% land areas seriously. But... If hunting taxes are LOWER than mining taxes... I REFUSE to support that land owner with my mining. The whole game is slanted towards hunting, leaving mining in the dust. And they wonder why there aren't many miners any more. Also... If I come accross your land area and you do not have a list of what ores and enmatters have been found there, I am not likely to stick around. If I know whats there, I know what finder to bring, and whether or not it is worth bothering with.

I guess in principle, The difference between 3% and 5% is greed, and greed will never get you anywhere. And I will not support anyone that is greedy. I know land area owners want to make money... But I see almost 0 in the way of effort for marketing and advertising, events, etc. You will only get out of something what you put into it, and just because it's there doesn't mean you will have customers. You have to do something to bring them in, not alienate them and drive them off. I used to mine a lot in miner's heaven. The mobs came in, and sorry, Kanerium or not, I will mine elsewhere.

The success of land areas relies on understanding your customers, why they are going there, and making things so that they don't stop going there. If you make major changes to how you are running things, expect to lose customers... But you should be sure that you will pick up more new ones than old ones you will lose.

Complete List of Finder Amplifiers and What They Used to Be

Ok, it took long enough... But here it is... What did the old amps turn into?

Level 1 Amp equivalent to MA-101

Level 2 Amp equivalent to OA-101

Level 3 Amp equivalent to OA-102

Level 4 Amp equivalent to MA-104

Level 5 Amp equivalent to OA-103

Level 6 Amp equivalent to MA-106

Level 7 Amp equivalent to OA-104

Level 8 Amp equivalent to OA-105

Level 9 Amp equivalent to OA-106

Level 10 Amp equivalent to either MA-108 or MA-109, not sure which

Level 11 Amp equivalent to OA-107

Level 12 Amp equivalent to OA-108

Level 13 Amp equivalent to OA-109

So no more guessing for you all... Hopefully this puts things into some perspective for you!

Arkadia Key 1 Loot!!! My First Treasure Chests!

I am by no means a tough hunter... Most mobs shred me to pieces easily... After running my timer out on the first key, I decided to run clear to the end, kill the boss, and loot the treasure. It took some work running with bad frame rates...

So...

After reviving about 5 times I killed the boss.

Chests... Well... If I wanted robot loot I would have done a beacon!!! I got (17) Robot weapon Grips from the first chest! Yes! I thought it was a bad joke!

Second chest... (796) Robot Low Loss Link Cables worth about what 20 ped... And 5 peds of laser ammo!

I spent 5 peds in ammo, nevermind decay, killing the boss. And well... The other stuff barely covered the key.

So...

Even though that was my best hunting return ever...

IT IS A PAIN FOR ME TO DO IT WITHOUT GAIN!

But... Maybe I will do another when I feel up for it.

But what a thrill, to open my first boxes, by myself, what a feeling of accomplishment! If I can solo the Ark 1 key, you can too!!!

Whatever you do, do not get turned around!!!

I had an hour left on the clock by the time I finished, in case anyone wanted to know!

Arkadia Key 1: My First Experiences in Aakas

Well... I have ventured back to Ark to finally try the treasurehunting. I am glad to be able to report that my returns are much higher on treasure than doing ores and enmatters, but due to the larger cost per drop, you may need a larger ped roll to be able to absorb the ups and downs of doing treasure only as compared to ore or enmatters. I do not like running combo drops, because like I said before, MA would not have given us the ability to run multiple types on our finders if it didn't add to their profit margin. It is just simple common sense. Also, you have to bear in mind that a finder that is geared for ores in a certain area is not going to be as effective at finding enmats. Every serious miner knows certain tools for certain places to find certain things is what is effective.

But...

I want to say yes, the keys are like the beacons. If you have ANY lag or have to run on reduced settings for normal game play, you probably will NOT be satisfied with your results attempting a key. They are pure bloatware, I mean, I have to shoot in first person with RIGHT CLICKING because frame rate is so low I can't hit anything aiming and shooting, right clicking at least only shoots when a target is lined up!

Do not attempt them with a slow internet connection. Best results, use hard wired. I have less lag on hard wires than with wifi. Also, if your wifi craps out you will lose valuable time.

If your system resources are not sufficient enough to keep up with the key runs, you will crash frequently and often. If this happens, you may attempt compensating by clearing your shader cache in the launcher options. This is what cured the crashing for me.

Last night I attempted doing one of these on dialup at home. BAD idea. Lagged out constantly. Finally it kicked me out and the next morning I log in to find my 20 peds for the key was refunded. NOTE: If you are paying for a higher key, with huge markup, (even though the keys are UL, apparently they are only one time uses, so you do not get them back), and they give you a refund, You better open a support ticket and ask them for the key back due to the high markup. On the ark 1 keys, the +2 peds is nothing really, for the hassle of trying to get them to replace the key and all.

In the ark 1 run, you will have level 2 snakes that I can one or two shot with the herman ark 10. The grasshopper things are pretty much two or three shots, but I am using the CB 13, which one shots everything except for the level 6 Ubos... They are kind of a pain because they hit hard, probably doing acid damage which I am not protected against. You must make it down four levels. Once you reach bottom you go out through the center of the underground complex, and under the big statue, into the other side... You keep going and you will find the treasure room. There will be a bunch of snakes. You must kill 8 of them or 10 of them to spawn the Dahar soldier or whatever it is called. It looks like those same statues standing in the main room with all the doors where you entered the run.

He is very much a pain, I did not have time to defeat him due to about 30 minutes of crashing trying to make it work. And I wasted much unnecessary time... But now I have learned what I must know and will reattempt it. You will find two treasure chests. I am not 100% positive as to whether or not the loot not gotten in the previous run is added to the chests in the next one, but I can only imagine it would be.

A team of noobs should easily handle this run. It is soloable if you just make a team put someone on it that doesn't want to go, and go by yourself, if you have decent weapons, fap, armor and high frame rate. You do respawn fairly close to the boss mob at least, which is good because you can keep running in... But I am not sure also on the mob boss's regeneration or anything, so I may need to do some research at this point.

Those of you that do not have Aakas... You must head towards the southwest of the desert area, but the exact spot can be found on entropedia.info.

Good luck and happy treasure hunting!

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Notice to the Pirates

I do not travel through space often, and when I do, I do not carry any cargo except a few novas and blazars since I figure MA is kind enough to give me such crappy loot that I would return the favor to those of you who like making others miserable by robbing them in space. I mean, seriously, to blow me up a second time RIGHT after I already been looted, what did you think, that I somehow flew into an ATH on the way to a revive terminal? I don't appreciate the decay on my quad wing.

So... Consider this my only warning... Keep wasting your ammo on me, and I hope you enjoy the novas and blazars that I gratefully reward you with for your trouble... At least you are keeping MA solvent wiht your wasted ammo :-)

Space controls are so crappy I don't know how anyone can actually do anything at all in a space craft... Takes me 10 minutes just to get straightened out on the course I want. With that said,,, I am NOT stupid enough to subsidize the pirates by carrying cargo...  I am the Goldbaron, NOT the Red Baron!

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Second Oil Rig on Calypso?

I just read the update notes, and it appears a new oil rig has came into existence. I will comment more on this once I have investigated it personally, and will provide you with more pertinent details regarding it in my future posts.