PVP Revenge? If you can't beat pk'ers you can make it hurt.

It's an old trick but noobs might not be aware of it. If you find an abandoned vehicle in PVP areas such as Amethera outside an LA or contaminated zone... It means someone was being sneaky and TP jumped into where they think their target is. Destroy their vehicle with your weapon, after it is destroyed, hit it once with your RK-5 repair tool, destroy again, rinse and repeat until it has no TT value left. Sure, you will be out a ped or two in ammo, but you will get some good skills repairing AND successfully irritate your adversary. Of course there isn't much profit in revenge, unless you can shoot and loot them which is unlikely. The trick works well during land grabs and at the oil rig also. But most success will come from them not knowing their vehicle is under attack else they would recall it to storage.

I am not convinced pvp expenditures are "wasted" because I've tended to global and hof after being involved in things like landgrabs and what not. It is so unclear how MA handles deposits, ped, and loot in their algorithms, that we have a clear case of, to coin a phrase and pun at the same time, a "Schroedingers Loot" situation :P All theories are true and false at the same time until MA will be at least a little transparent with us on how things work. I've seen them contradict themselves in support cases so many times. If a person had enough of their official responses, and could read between the lines, maybe there is something to figure out afterall. Basically, the sooner we can figure out the keys to how loot works, the quicker it will force MA to make loot more honest. Casinos figured out a long time ago if you tighten up the payouts, you LOSE money. MA thinks if you tighten returns you will MAKE more money because you pay out less...But worse payouts do NOT give customers incentive to keep playing.

About the Author: Why I chose to be the "Goldbaron"

You might be wondering how someone would come to the nickname Goldbaron. I know a lot of you are in parts of the world where such a thing is unheard of, but I am a gold prospector in real life, and the initial draw to Entropia was that it gave me some mining I could do in the wintertime... But with loot so bad now, I will be better off working in the snow for the real thing this winter :P

The following is a picture of what I recovered from two 5 gallon buckets of gravel from a stream not far from where I live. Is it work? Yes. But, it is more fun than work. Real gold as it is found in nature's streams.

Maximizing your returns: A quick and simple way

If I have four digits on my ped card, I can play almost indefinitely if I play carefully. If I have just 100 peds on my ped card, no matter how carefully I play I am easily wiped out. There are many reasons for this but a major reason is that you need much longer runs for everything to average out than we used to need. A small bankroll means you won't be able to stockpile high markup items enough to get markup out of them on AH and traders pay TT for most hunting loot, and they TRY to get ores for nearly TT as well, so be careful with traders.

I have in the past, deposited $10 at a time as I needed peds. A few years ago, it would have lasted a month or two. Now, it lasts maybe half an hour. I know most of you notice this happening to your deposits as well... Soon as you put in its time to put more in. What I will start doing, and I'd recommend you to consider...

Either save your smaller amounts up until you can do one big deposit with what you would have deposited at a little at a time anyways...

OR...

Just deposit half of what you normally do, and put the other half aside and let it build up so that likewise you can do one big deposit.

A lot of people who deposit big play proportionally to the size of their deposit and they go broke just as easily. There is no real difference between you and me doing 100 x 1 ped clicks and an uber doing 100 x 10 ped clicks. There is a difference if you save up 10 times your normal deposit and do 1000 clicks of 1 ped plays. Or, for ubers, 1,000 clicks of 10 ped plays instead. 100 clicks is going to be 100 clicks and stands the same chance of a wipeout. Bigger bankrolls proportionate to how you play will reduce variance in results and hopefully help you survive the upswings and downswings.

If you can deposit big, and play carefully and not get greedy, just keep doing what you would do had you deposited smaller amounts, in my case I tend to gain peds, until I get greedy and gamble them away.

Also be aware that there are certain resources prone to shortages on the auction... I won't tell you what these are, I had to figure out without help and only because I never could buy the stuff when I needed it, or when I did find it the price was too high. If you familiarize yourself with L prints, you will see the types of things that the typical gambling uber crafter will pay a bit more for if it means being able to click an expensive L print.

Gone are the days of putting things up on auction and them selling easily. You now must specialize in niches to be effective at crafting for profit and trading for profit.

Entropia Partners DOES Pay!

I just got my 109 peds from them yesterday. You just need to find someone who is online that can handle the withdraw for you. It went quicker and easier than I could have expected. Although it did take some time to finally find someone on the same planet as me that could pay me. Just have a little patience and give it a try since it all has to be done manually and you can't expect people doing these menial tasks to live in the game 24/7.