Update RE Ark Moon Deeds & The Rest

 Yes, they are tradeable finally for some time now. Yes, they crashed to about 30 PEDs right away, but as of this post, are back to around 50. They have a lot of potential and the fact I traded my pile of them away should be enough to tell you they are going to the moon, everything I sell always goes to the moon. If I buy more of something it always crashes. Seriously.

Why do I think AMDs are a bargain right now?

Sure, it will take a year or two probably before they start paying up like we want them to. But imagine when the codex finally comes to Arkadia. So many people are refusing to go to the moon or to Ark because there is no codex. I understand it, especially with the meta rewards for attributes now. I am probably crazy for being on Ark most of the time, but I am working towards more important goals that require me to be there.

So, imagine, you have Smuggler invasions on the moon and in the underground. You have story arc's and more missions that we are told are coming to the moon. And then, the codex. Especially if the smuggler mobs are in the codex, I think you will see ridiculous dividends on the AMD's. An awful lot of people ubered up fast and went for the big smuggler mechs. If you want to chase an ATH, that is probably the best opportunity I can think of. Apparently everyone else thinking that too for how many of them you see being hunted in recent times.

Mining on the moon is a bit dicey; it is new enough that you won't have the intuition where to go with what finder to hit what like you have if you spent a lot of time mining on one of the planets or on FOMA or in HELL. But I do see it as an untapped potential to further add to the AMD's.

You really should never underestimate how much "free" peds are worth in Entropia... I thought $100 was too much for CLD's, but look at it, every day I check the markups they are closer to $300 now. "Free" money costs a lot. You can expect AMD's will be trading for 100 peds in no time. AUDs have traded over 100 in recent times, again probably due to the heavy grinding that was going on outside of the various mayhems, on the smuggler mobs.

If I had to rank the worth in terms of ROI, of the available deeds and shares...

1. CLD

2. AUD

3. AMD

4. Crystal Palace

50. Greece. Yes, it is so bad because of how many were created and the structure of revenue sharing, that I just couldnt resist jumping it to #50 instead of 5. I just don't see it ever having an ROI. And only COMPET is worse, hopefully none of you have too many of those left on hand... Oh, I am not knocking Greece, it is a tremendous opportunity to skill Melee I am told. But whoever decided on how many shares to issue must have been thinking "lets make printer go brrrr".

If I have to rank them in terms of potential opportunity in the future, if you aren't worried about now and immediate rewards and gains...

1. AUD

2. AMD

3. CLD

4. Crystal Palace

5. Greece

CLD has already gone up so much, and it seems to be fairly cyclical in terms of dividends, and events on caly and etc. It will be easier for the other shares and deeds to double in value than for CLD to double in value. And then, factor in all the new updates I imagine are on the horizon, there is a lot of long term potential in the AUDs and AMD's. 

I don't expect everyone to agree, and these are my opinions. I would assume you are here reading this because you are looking for some advice to consider. Reconcile these points against what you are already thinking or what other people are saying, and you will be that much closer to being able to make an informed decision. That is all I am here to do is provide some advice you may not be thinking about already.

In the interest of full disclosure, I hold NO shares or deeds as of this posting. (Trading my AMD's for a full set of Imp Spec was the best thing I could have done at the time.)

Good luck! And you may want to see the post that came just before this; as it does show you where you can go to make over $100 in free cryptocurrency with no strings.

Smuggler Warehouses

There is very little information available as to the actual mobs, loot, cost to run each warehouse, etc. I think the assumption is that if you can afford to grind say, Wombana through stage VI (which counts whether or not you've bought the smuggler clothing yet or even found the smuggler den; you simply visit them, buy your clothes and tell them you've already completed the task and then you will be granted access to the appropriate warehouse for that mob. Wombana = 1, Navi = 2, Badger = 3, Togolossi = 4).

They likely also assumed if you can handle those mobs with no problem, the instances should be not that bad for you. Well, that is a fairly accurate statement, with exceptions and caveats. 

If you have chipped out any of your dodge and evade at any point in your Entropia career and never replaced it, the bigger boss mobs in the instances will be a pain, and whatever armor was good for the mobs you completed, you will be wanting to have some plates and good healing. You are going to want DPS as well since it is a timed run, plus the faster you drop the bosses the less you will die, and the smaller the revive counter will be. Yes, the incrementing revive timer is the worst invention ever conceived by the swedes.

I have unlocked Warehouse 1 and 3. I unlocked 3 first, because my avatar likes robot hunting, and does the best on bots, always has, probably always will. But even though I was able to drop the level 10 badgers, there was just no way I was going to progress very far on the warehouse 3. So, that's when I decided I need to complete Wombana and open up warehouse 1.

Before I go into details here, I better tell you what I was equipped with. And mind you, I was one of those people who thought "I will just chip out all my hunting and never do it again, stick to things that actually loot for me like mining"... I only got as far as chipping out dodge, evade, and firstaid. I never really replaced those skills, so they are quite low as of this attempt on Warehouse 1 I am going to tell you about. What gear did I have? This is important. If you are this well equipped or better, warehouse 1 will be no problem.

Piron PBR-20 with Fi/Ra/Co Evil; no damage enhancers used. Adjusted Vigilante (full set) without plates. With plates, the boss (Col John) would have been a LOT easier. Or of course more DPS would have been good too. I have 169 Health, and 210K total skill, but only like 2K each of Dodge and Evade though I have 7500 points of BLP Weapons Tech and 7200 of Rifle. (No matter how tempted you are to chip out, don't do it, DONT do it, unless you are truly done.)

What is the difference between the warehouses and ark keys?

Well, Ark Keys you have to craft or buy a key each time you run the instance which it isn't such a big deal as it was in the beginning of Arkadia. Also, just anyone can run them, solo or in a team. I would tend to think the more people able to run an instance the more competition you have for the good loot that remains to be got.

The warehouse, once you've completed the stage VI to unlock it, and have your smuggler clothing and have talked to the smuggler boss; that's it, you've got free access for life for the instance. You can run it as many times as you want any time. The only exception is, there is as of yet no solo option. You have to have a team, and someone has to be on the team, even if they aren't hunting with you, you can't loot mobs or enter the instance without a team and someone on it.

I don't want to go into all of the specifics, certain things I need to keep close to my vest because these certain things have made it worth the couple years it took to grind my missions and get into these warehouses. But I can tell you most of what I have discovered.

There are a lot more multipliers on the loot than on normal mobs in normal instances. It is easier to global, presumably hofs will be easier to get too. Of course the real draw to the warehouses is not the better loot, but rather every kill has a small, a very small, chance of dropping a smuggler armor part. I am hoping I can loot a set, yes it is bound to account, but is that so bad? How many of you have had a full set of uber armor, pawn it or sell it because you are poor and then wish you never did it? What if you could have a set of uber armor that will always be yours and the only cost to you is the TT value it was worth when it dropped which you cannot TT it for?  That's the only way to really look at it... Though I hope these things which are not tradeable in 10 or 20 years might end up tradeable finally. The game has changed so much since I started in 2007, that I would say anything and everything is possible.

I will only say that Wombana are the biggest losing things I ever had to grind. It was COSTLY to unlock the warehouse 1. My only advice if you are going to do the Wombana's first, do not continue if you burn say 100 Peds of your run and have not had a mini at least. My last 10K points of Wombana were a 400 Ped loss to me. But I persisted because the finish line was in sight and I was sick of hunting Wombana. I probably will never hunt another one ever again now.

The first run on Warehouse 1 was a profitable run. I didn't track it closely enough to know how profitable, but it was noticeable. Of the 300 Peds in loot some 40 Ped of it was in the form of Arkoins, and another 40 Ped or so were in the form of weapon attachments (L). The rest was not mostly shrapnel, but had the feel like the old days of hunting loot were back. So, are the warehouses running with the old style loot algorithm? I don't know. But it sure feels like the good old days to me. 

Yes, it is costly to get access to the warehouses. Yes it is a pain to find someone to team with you every time you want to do one. But, in my honest opinion, it is all worth it. I am sure some people will read this and say "Oh my god, the instances are so horrible how could anyone like them." I surely would hope those people are in the minority. I quite probably have had the best hunting of my entire Entropia life in these warehouses. I can't guarantee you will too though. 

Warehouse 1 mobs start out with Level 10, and go up to what Level 30 or 33 with Col. John. I would say if you can take on two or three generation 10 badgers at the same time, Col. John will be no problem. The mobs leading up to him, I dunno, comparable to say young to old Atrox really. No big deal. 

No I do not have any AUD's, so I do not gain by talking you into doing these missions. I do however have AMD's and I will shamelessly ask anyone who has never been to the moon but thought about going, to please go already  (LOL). Seriously though, I need to get serious about this blog again, I still have not found an adequate means to monetize the blog yet, so that leaves me with plugging my own stuff, which is fine.

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Is the Planet Arkadia Moon going the way of COMPET? No! And proof included!

A few weeks ago I may have said maybe not, give it some time. But now; a lot has changed. People are grinding on the moon, judging by new item discoveries it seems there are smuggler mission chains on the moon too, not to mention the shared loot smugglers are there as well. I do not follow the forums closely at all because there is too much drama, too much whining, too many jerks, let's face it. You and I know it. Everyone knows it. Not worth bothering with. And I am not scared to say it.

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 :)

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!