So, I find out for myself. As I always have done.
I have 140 moon deeds bought not long after they launched the sale. Since the last major VU, the moon has paid out every day but two it appears. AND! The last couple days I am seeing 2 pecs per deed per day! Will it go higher? It should.
"Are you sure other deeds aren't confusing your numbers?" Yes, 110% positive, I don't own any other deeds.
When the AUD's were paying none or 1 pec a day most times, I can't wait around for a 20 to 30 year return on investment (ROI). Yes it still beats savings account interest at the bank; but if you read the EULA, anything you have in game is NOT an asset. If something happens, if anything happens, if someone working at Mindark just wakes up one day and decides they hate you, with a flick of a switch or whatever their ban hammer looks like, you are out everything. So I suppose one could say it's paying out better than a savings account interest is because of the risk; but if you ask me it isn't commensurate.
At the end of this post you will find two screenshots of my deed revenues for the last few months basically.
Of course the deeds are doing much better lately. And yes, the AMD's are a risk too; but I bought them with the last of my cryptocurrency profits from a year ago. Running $1K to $120K and then not selling and watching it crash thinking it can't possibly go back to where it started, only to find out oh yeah, it not only can but did... I did bail out before it went back to the starting point though; but being up 120K and down not quite that much in the same month? Yeah it hurts. So I got out, did things I absolutely needed to do with what was left. And I figured worst case, in a year or two I will have enough deeds to sell (still waiting on them to be tradeable), and actually not have to worry about depositing for a little while. Given the way loot has been the past year, a very little while. The moral of the story is... Whenever you have a tremendous gain, you need to view it in terms you are familiar with. How bad do you hate your job? How many hours of doing what you hate going to pay for the profits you can take if you don't take them and lose them? In my case, thinking of all the books I would have to write and publish to even come near making that up on the short term. Long term oh yeah no problem, but the problem with money it is only useful in one large pile instead of a bunch of little piles. Think of Archimedes and his give him a place to stand a lever big enough and he could move the world with it. If you have a hundred small piles of wealth, that's just a box of tooth picks. But if you put it all in one pile, just maybe you are talking a baseball bat, or for some of you maybe a telephone pole. It is all about leverage. Even Andrew Carnegie said to put all your eggs into one basket and then watch the basket. Oh, I was watching the basket, but I froze up and yes, I almost always lose every 50/50 wager or decision I've had to make in my life. If I would have flipped a coin and went with the coin toss my life would have been infinitely better. But what the hell. I have too much going on to be bothered with cryptocurrency crazes. I mean, its not dead, but I've been there, done that, I will worry about it when I deal with my current situations adequately.
I absolutely have enough confidence after seeing what the update has done with the moon, to not only hold onto my deeds but acquire more. If any of you were on the fence, you might seriously consider grabbing at least a few. If I have learned anything in Entropia, it is that free peds are awful expensive!
I figure the AMD's in a year or two if Arkadia doesn't drop the ball, could reach 100 peds each, and they could start paying up to 5 or 10 pecs a day. Yes it is optimistic; but if they really do everything right, especially if they can draw the big spenders into doing things on the moon that contribute to the payouts.
And this brings me to another point. I remember just last year or two years ago, Entropia was so dead. You could mine half of Eudoria or Amethera and not see another green dot. Now, all of my secret mining places, even the hardest ones to get to, constantly running into green dots. I generally am not hostile or rude to them; but when you are at New Switzerland, and they run right up to you and drop a probe, of course I am going to give them a free ambulance ride back to the revive. But I am glad to see that just about everywhere you go now there are players doing stuff. I am not sure what happened, it isn't like anyone is running television ads or youtube ads for Entropia; at least if they are I sure as hell am not seeing them. Do you know what the last advertisement I ever seen was? A banner ad! Yes, the most ineffective form of advertising there is. And that was back in 2007 and it was what made me aware of the game and how I got going... Financially I wish I never did see that ad... But, I really do mean this... There's been quite a few of the best people one could hope to know that I have met in Entropia, and several are after all this time, as good of real life friends as one ever would hope to have. Yes, the game costs money. I remember when it WAS pay to win. Now, I am certain enough people bitched and got it changed to just Pay, who cares about winning. So it is pay to lose now. Even so, I am glad to have been able to do it. You can't put a price on the friendships I've gotten out of it.
So many things are different now in Entropia, much of my past blogging may be obsolete, but I know I've said it a few times; let this blog serve as a timecapsule, a witness to forgotten times.
I've got quite a few new posts I want to make soon, and I should keep up a fairly regular pace again. I also want to overhaul the design of the blog, but I just don't have the time.
I am trying to establish my amazon business, if any of you want to take a look at some of the stuff I am making and selling, I registered the domain www.jewelrystoreshop.com and pointed it to my Amazon shop, I do not have a sponsor for this blog, or any advertising really, so its pretty much just my stuff that I get to plug here and there. Sure I've put a banner for my book at the top of the blog page; and yeah, woopdedoo. So, if you want an affordable high quality coin ring, or something and feel like supporting my blog, take a look. I guarantee high quality that won't break the bank, and everyones happy with my work! Business is slowwww though. eBay is dead, and I don't know what the deal is with Amazon; it literally is two different worlds and if one of them is Pluto you know the other is Goofy. I do hope it is appreciated this is one of the few places you can go and not get bombarded by paywalls and pop-unders and all that junk. There aren't enough of you's Entropians around to risk irritating anyways. And yes, I probably still do irritate some of you. No two people can play Entropia and have the same outcomes, or see the same theories actually work when you crunch the numbers on them. The fact you can never make two ends meet, is I feel part of the mechanism behind why they call it "dynamic".
In case you were wondering, yes, there was a class action lawsuit going on against Google over their wrongful termination of adsense publishers to get out of paying them. I was one of those people who were able to make a claim; still waiting to hear what and when, supposedly they had all their hearings and all, but my luck the judge is bought and paid for by Google. If we get anything we will only get the exact amount they owed us when they terminated our accounts; but really, its been like 10 years, there needs to be some compounding interest on that. If you want to see for yourselves how big of a rat Google is, http://www.adsensepublishersettlement.com/index is the home page for the class act suit.
And yes, before I go, here's some pictures of the recent deed payouts. Remember to divide each days payout by 140 to get the pecs per day :)
