TEAMS: Being In A Team = More Globals

This is something I wanted to cover quickly. I cannot explain it totally, but presumably the system is more favorable in giving loot to teams than individuals, since groups tend to burn peds faster than individuals, a logical deduction.

But it baffles me that I have had dozens of hunting globals and hofs, yet only two were solo. I can't for the life of me rack up any solo hunting hofs or globals. The two I had almost certainly were accidents.

Today, I globalled 56 peds on a mulholland boy level 3 or 4 mob. My team was active still and the friend I was in team with was offline, and it would seem as long as they are still in your team list online or not, you can still loot your kills.

Generally, I don't hunt with anyone else, even if I am teamed with them. I am off doing my own thing, as are they. I still set the loot to damage stack share just in case they do run into me and help kill something. I get all my loot from what I kill that globals or hofs.  So I will set up a team JUST FOR THE PURPOSE of getting better loot. I know I will global in a team but that I most likely won't solo. And this irritates the hell out of me. No pun intended lol.

SO if your hunting is complete crap like mine, give a team a try, find someone you know who is willing just to be on your team even if they aren't hunting.

UPDATE: What You Should Know About Interplanetary Travel

The Universe has grown a LOT in the last year with the advent of Arkadia, Rocktropia, and Next Island and it's associated areas that serve to add onto the Entropia Universe. However, some urgently important issues need to be stressed now that the travel has changed so much with the creation of interactive space.

The grass can certainly be greener on the otherside. I had planned to take my 500 ped mining run to F.O.M.A. (Which I still try to refer to as CND, just because I have tons more respect for Neverdie than I do for Foma, and to me it was always CND, and probably always will be, so forgive me if I use CND interchangeably with F.O.M.A.) which I decided not to and stayed on Calypso because there is no one way teleport from the asteroid to Calypso any more. Which means...

You either have to find a trader that will take the risk to buy your ores, and because they are risking getting looted by pirates in space, they will probably pay you smaller amounts than trader or auction on Calypso will.  Or, you trade terminal your ores if they are under a certain markup. Not very pleasant situation.

It is important to note that everyone going into space, everything on your materials tab and resources tab, generally speaking, can be looted if you are killed in space by pirates. Your best bet, is to try to book passage on a mothership. Your next best bet, is to find someone with a craft fast enough to outrun most pirates, but it will probably cost you.

I have heard especially after the last update, the pirate activity has picked up immensely in space. So best bet, A. Dont take anything valuable with you that can be looted. B. Go with someone extremely well armed, and worst case hopefully you can defeat the pirates.

I connect to EU on dialup. My lag isn't bad much at all normally. But in space, I can't run the risk. I would get killed before I could even try to defend myself. So make sure you have a fast connection if you attempt to fly yourself. If someone else flying you, don't worry about it, it in their hands.

If you must travel and try to haul your cargo, take the most indirect routes to your destination as possible. I can't be any more specific than this or I risk letting everyone know the strategy I use to stay safe. But even if you dont have anything to lose from being looted, you still will lose TT value on your vehicle from taking damage from another player in PVP.

Plan ahead, talk to people who frequently travel through space, get every possible bit of advice you can... And you should do fine. Good luck, and I wish everyone an ATH, becuase if I can't get one, you guys might as well!