I remember the days when you could hit X's and XII's unamped on FOMA which was then CND. Now, you are lucky to hit IX's unamped, sometimes VIII's, and that's on ore!
If you run a level 7 amp, virtually every hit is a global, though I've had the odd XII and X running the 7.
When you drop below a level 6, you no longer can expect a global with every claim.
If you can't hit in 20 to 40 drops, my experience is its not a good time to mine up there. Give it an hour or two break. If you see other foma globals cycling through, then chances are you will get some claims too.
I have yet to actually totally nrf a level 7 amped run. Most of them break even or profit. If you should nrf a level 7 on foma, then, maybe its best to leave foma alone.
Based on my experience, if you see someone globalling a lot, or hof spamming three digit foma hofs, they are amped for certain. On a level 11 amp I was getting 180 to 280 ped hofs.
Further note: If you only plan running what you have for peds and going back to caly, it is best to just save your ores and ingots and take the TP down to caly. 7 peds is cheap security versus the odds of actually getting looted on the flight back to caly.
If you get shot down a few times carrying just a nova fragment or two, seems the pirates get the idea you are a no loot mob.
Either foma will hit or it will be cold, if it is cold, do not try to force it unless you have deep enough pockets to bomb every inch of every dome.
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Friday, March 21, 2014
My Experience in Making My Own LUCK (CRAFTING)
I have had my hofs capped, by what I don't know, to 1322 peds or under. It is frustrating. All of the peds I cycle, all of the hours spent playing. It seems there is no way to break through this glass ceiling. I mean, I can see through it but I just can't punch through.
So, what did I do... I tried a few clicks of level 2 lights on condition. 5th click in I got 1320 ped hof. Seriously... Why is it keeping me in this range?
I then decided to get a few L prints, shear xr's, bull tacs... I proceeded to hit three more hofs 1K+ on these L prints.
My experience is that as long as you have the success rate maxed, you will get your best crafting return doing L prints on condition. A lot of things worth crafting use materials of such a high markup that I don't think it is possible to profit at all doing them on quantity, unless you can do short runs of bigger items that you can make with residue and turn a profit on that way... But, if you are tired of not hoffing, or just want to see if you can change your luck, get yourself a 20 or 30 click L bp, try a bull tac10 or a Shear XR 40 print. The tac10 runs about 3.5 peds a click. I promise most of you wont be deposited. AND
What further confuses and confounds me:
If I lose a bunch of peds hunting or mining, I can take a L print and usually get some or most if not all of my losses back. My experience is every 5 to 10 runs you can expect a hof, but whether the hof is big enough to recover your losses, hard to say. But if you play eco a lot, it doesn't hurt to shake up the system every so often with a condition L print run.
So, what did I do... I tried a few clicks of level 2 lights on condition. 5th click in I got 1320 ped hof. Seriously... Why is it keeping me in this range?
I then decided to get a few L prints, shear xr's, bull tacs... I proceeded to hit three more hofs 1K+ on these L prints.
My experience is that as long as you have the success rate maxed, you will get your best crafting return doing L prints on condition. A lot of things worth crafting use materials of such a high markup that I don't think it is possible to profit at all doing them on quantity, unless you can do short runs of bigger items that you can make with residue and turn a profit on that way... But, if you are tired of not hoffing, or just want to see if you can change your luck, get yourself a 20 or 30 click L bp, try a bull tac10 or a Shear XR 40 print. The tac10 runs about 3.5 peds a click. I promise most of you wont be deposited. AND
What further confuses and confounds me:
If I lose a bunch of peds hunting or mining, I can take a L print and usually get some or most if not all of my losses back. My experience is every 5 to 10 runs you can expect a hof, but whether the hof is big enough to recover your losses, hard to say. But if you play eco a lot, it doesn't hurt to shake up the system every so often with a condition L print run.
Monday, February 10, 2014
NOOB MISSIONS: LOTS OF FREE STUFF AND SKILLS @ HALFMOON BAY!
I didn't bother with Half Moon Bay, since I figured there would be so many people there, I'd probably lag out and never get to play again, which has happened at times due to being on dialup. Well... I decided what the hell, I better see what I am missing. Apparently, I was missing half the fun of playing Entropia!
The mission chain leads you down the path to new cape Corinth, which is where you will find daily missions, token exchangers, mining guild representative for mining challenges... You are just throwing away ped if you are mining and not doing the challenges!!! I am actually excited about playing now, it gives me something to work towards even if I can't global or hof most of the time.
Ok... SO:
First upon arriving at half moon bay, you need to go talk to the guy down by the beach, forget his name but you can't miss him, he's the foreman npc. He tells you go kill a few sabakuma and retrieve a finder. Along the way you will probably loot a knife and a gun, but they give you guns and ammo for doing the quest. Sure, is noob weaponry, but that's ok. By the time I made it to cape Corinth, I probably had 5 to 10 peds profit including mu on stuff. Not bad for just killing time. Plus skill gains too!
After you return to him with the finder, you are sent back in to go after the big sabakuma in the nest, which is inside an instance. Go into the cave and follow it in and kill the big saba. Return and then you will be asked to talk to the female NPC that is hiding in the bushes by the TP. You will be sent up the road to find her boss.
Please note, MA did a crappy job of writing a story and plot, half it might make sense and only then if you make up half the stuff that supposed to fill the blanks. They even have two npc's conflicting about whether the one NPC is a male or female! Talk about bad writing. But, I will be the first to admit fiction writing is very tough, simply because fiction HAS to make sense, reality doesn't.
You end up progressing down the path, and you find the npc's boss, who instructs you to retrieve 5 maffoid skulls and turn them into her boss. You are given a voucher once you do that, for a piece of CDF Scout armor, UL. I got the harness which presently is +4 ped mu. I think what piece you get is entirely random.
BEFORE you get to her boss though, you will run across a courier that lost medical supplies. This is a quick and easy quest as it is just around the next bend and on the right in a little path on the other side of some big rocks.
There are a few more quests though, and even some I am told beyond Corinth, including a kill 300 punies and get 4 peds of ammo.
It will give you hours of fun if you have nothing better to do than sweat!
GOOD LUCK!
The mission chain leads you down the path to new cape Corinth, which is where you will find daily missions, token exchangers, mining guild representative for mining challenges... You are just throwing away ped if you are mining and not doing the challenges!!! I am actually excited about playing now, it gives me something to work towards even if I can't global or hof most of the time.
Ok... SO:
First upon arriving at half moon bay, you need to go talk to the guy down by the beach, forget his name but you can't miss him, he's the foreman npc. He tells you go kill a few sabakuma and retrieve a finder. Along the way you will probably loot a knife and a gun, but they give you guns and ammo for doing the quest. Sure, is noob weaponry, but that's ok. By the time I made it to cape Corinth, I probably had 5 to 10 peds profit including mu on stuff. Not bad for just killing time. Plus skill gains too!
After you return to him with the finder, you are sent back in to go after the big sabakuma in the nest, which is inside an instance. Go into the cave and follow it in and kill the big saba. Return and then you will be asked to talk to the female NPC that is hiding in the bushes by the TP. You will be sent up the road to find her boss.
Please note, MA did a crappy job of writing a story and plot, half it might make sense and only then if you make up half the stuff that supposed to fill the blanks. They even have two npc's conflicting about whether the one NPC is a male or female! Talk about bad writing. But, I will be the first to admit fiction writing is very tough, simply because fiction HAS to make sense, reality doesn't.
You end up progressing down the path, and you find the npc's boss, who instructs you to retrieve 5 maffoid skulls and turn them into her boss. You are given a voucher once you do that, for a piece of CDF Scout armor, UL. I got the harness which presently is +4 ped mu. I think what piece you get is entirely random.
BEFORE you get to her boss though, you will run across a courier that lost medical supplies. This is a quick and easy quest as it is just around the next bend and on the right in a little path on the other side of some big rocks.
There are a few more quests though, and even some I am told beyond Corinth, including a kill 300 punies and get 4 peds of ammo.
It will give you hours of fun if you have nothing better to do than sweat!
GOOD LUCK!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Portable Trade Terminal & Portable Repair Terminal!!! YES THEY EXIST!!!
I somehow apparently missed the VU notes, though MA is a bit derelict in announcing changes in a timely manner so I tend to miss them as they happen. Years ago I made suggestions that they implement portable terminals for trade and repair, it only made sense. A couple weeks ago I was browsing through the Auction and ran across them!
They are Limited, and have a max TT of 20 PED. Markup for the portable TT unit tends to start around 140% on a buyout. Sure, prices will go up, prices will go down. I am uncertain if they are looted or crafted though I would imagine they are crafted.
The portable repair seems to go much higher in the 200% to 300% range at least at present time. Possibly due to the vast numbers of people who hunt and have use for a portable repair terminal. In any case, they can be found under Tools > Misc Tools in your auctioneer. Don't be surprised if you can't find any on other worlds, but like everything else in the game if you want it, you can buy it on Calypso.
I have not owned either of these so I cannot testify as to their decay per use, but when you are out in the middle of nowhere, whats a little decay as opposed to the cost of TP chipping to a terminal or the time involved in flying or driving to one.
They are Limited, and have a max TT of 20 PED. Markup for the portable TT unit tends to start around 140% on a buyout. Sure, prices will go up, prices will go down. I am uncertain if they are looted or crafted though I would imagine they are crafted.
The portable repair seems to go much higher in the 200% to 300% range at least at present time. Possibly due to the vast numbers of people who hunt and have use for a portable repair terminal. In any case, they can be found under Tools > Misc Tools in your auctioneer. Don't be surprised if you can't find any on other worlds, but like everything else in the game if you want it, you can buy it on Calypso.
I have not owned either of these so I cannot testify as to their decay per use, but when you are out in the middle of nowhere, whats a little decay as opposed to the cost of TP chipping to a terminal or the time involved in flying or driving to one.
Thursday, January 16, 2014
Mining Finders and Returns: What you can do to improve them!
Unfortunately the modifications done to the mining system have destroyed tried and true mining methods. I suspect anyone doing gridline mining will lose their bottom dollar in a hurry. You can no longer just run and drop, turn around and dig up your finds... Simply because mining in such a way won't give you much to dig!!!
This is only one small problem compared to how many new finders there are available.. All of them are L, too. I hope better UL finders are on their way some day. In any event the old tried and true finders are not working as well as they once did in the areas they were great in. Here's how I started fixing this problem:
If you have a bit of a bankroll and want to become a REAL prospector in Entropia (The difference between a prospector and a miner is, a prospector looks for a place good enough to mine and a miner stays in a place that is good enough to mine once it's been found through prospecting) You need to pick a few finders, do a few runs on each in a few of your favorite places.
The result of my doing this has confirmed that indeed some finders work better than others in certain regions. If you regularly suffer heavy losses with one finder, switch to another. Is it better or worse? And keep working your way through finders until you can't find one that gets you any better results.
At present, I am very happy using the F-213 on calypso. It is doing better than my old 105 was after the alterations to the mining profession. I just got tired of bad mining returns and had to do something about it, but the last thing you want to do is buy new finders because you don't know how much ped will be wasted along the way, but I realized I was losing a lot more by not doing what needed done.
You also need to watch the ground. If the ground has the appearance of a certain ore, that ore is probably found there, as I mentioned before. Places that don't look like they would have something probably don't. You can't just keep dropping bombs and expect the system to compensate you.
I suspect results will vary from person to person as to which finder works best due to your play style and skill level... There quite probably is no "one finder fits all" approach. The F-105 USED to be the considered "one finder fits all" but not any more. As soon as someone figures out how to make ends meet, MA moves the ends. It never fails.
I hope this gives you a good starting point in rebooting your successful mining, as it has for me.
This is only one small problem compared to how many new finders there are available.. All of them are L, too. I hope better UL finders are on their way some day. In any event the old tried and true finders are not working as well as they once did in the areas they were great in. Here's how I started fixing this problem:
If you have a bit of a bankroll and want to become a REAL prospector in Entropia (The difference between a prospector and a miner is, a prospector looks for a place good enough to mine and a miner stays in a place that is good enough to mine once it's been found through prospecting) You need to pick a few finders, do a few runs on each in a few of your favorite places.
The result of my doing this has confirmed that indeed some finders work better than others in certain regions. If you regularly suffer heavy losses with one finder, switch to another. Is it better or worse? And keep working your way through finders until you can't find one that gets you any better results.
At present, I am very happy using the F-213 on calypso. It is doing better than my old 105 was after the alterations to the mining profession. I just got tired of bad mining returns and had to do something about it, but the last thing you want to do is buy new finders because you don't know how much ped will be wasted along the way, but I realized I was losing a lot more by not doing what needed done.
You also need to watch the ground. If the ground has the appearance of a certain ore, that ore is probably found there, as I mentioned before. Places that don't look like they would have something probably don't. You can't just keep dropping bombs and expect the system to compensate you.
I suspect results will vary from person to person as to which finder works best due to your play style and skill level... There quite probably is no "one finder fits all" approach. The F-105 USED to be the considered "one finder fits all" but not any more. As soon as someone figures out how to make ends meet, MA moves the ends. It never fails.
I hope this gives you a good starting point in rebooting your successful mining, as it has for me.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
MA Support: Incompetent? Or complicit? BIG unresolved issues.
A friend of mine once had me check on his support cases for him, since he hadn't been able to log in and play in quite a while. I looked at the date stamps on the messages and thought wow... After this long of a time? How long are cases supposed to take to resolve?
If anyone rips MA off, the "banhammer" comes down on them sooner or later. But... We can't exactly ban MA support for ripping US off. Because there are no doubt hundreds of thousands if not millions of disputed peds tied up in support due to bugs, glitches, and MA's unwillingness to assist their customer, I thought it would be helpful to help put their feet to the fire as it were. If I suspect there is a bug in any aspect of Entropia, I avoid it like the plague, because I know there is no justice when it comes to asking them for help.
So... I want you to look at what your calendar says the date is now... And I want you to look at the dates on this case which is still pending by the way... I always wondered why my friend was quitting and selling out for good, if this happened to me I probably would too. This is far too serious of an issue to not have been resolved. They have demonstrated they have the ability to track every pec and transaction, yet they are unwilling to do it when it doesn't benefit THEM. A happy customer, is a paying customer. If they don't actually assist us, there will be fewer and fewer happy customers, and they wonder why they have to watch their bottom line.
Since there is no accountability with MA, All we can do is expose what they probably would rather remain hidden and unseen.
To protect identities, names will be blotted out but all other details as they were in the case history. I obtained permission from my friend to discuss his case in my blog. If this case hasn't been resolved, IMAGINE how many bigger cases are probably no doubt still on the books that MA won't own up to and do something about? This can't be the only one. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, if you have something you are waiting for them to do something about, bug them every single day if you have to, don't let them get away with not helping you.
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2012-11-07 06:23 You wrote:
did a level 6 key tonight and the 7th box ( large chest) said i opened it however no loot or loot msg followed nor loot apear in my inventory
If anyone rips MA off, the "banhammer" comes down on them sooner or later. But... We can't exactly ban MA support for ripping US off. Because there are no doubt hundreds of thousands if not millions of disputed peds tied up in support due to bugs, glitches, and MA's unwillingness to assist their customer, I thought it would be helpful to help put their feet to the fire as it were. If I suspect there is a bug in any aspect of Entropia, I avoid it like the plague, because I know there is no justice when it comes to asking them for help.
So... I want you to look at what your calendar says the date is now... And I want you to look at the dates on this case which is still pending by the way... I always wondered why my friend was quitting and selling out for good, if this happened to me I probably would too. This is far too serious of an issue to not have been resolved. They have demonstrated they have the ability to track every pec and transaction, yet they are unwilling to do it when it doesn't benefit THEM. A happy customer, is a paying customer. If they don't actually assist us, there will be fewer and fewer happy customers, and they wonder why they have to watch their bottom line.
Since there is no accountability with MA, All we can do is expose what they probably would rather remain hidden and unseen.
To protect identities, names will be blotted out but all other details as they were in the case history. I obtained permission from my friend to discuss his case in my blog. If this case hasn't been resolved, IMAGINE how many bigger cases are probably no doubt still on the books that MA won't own up to and do something about? This can't be the only one. The squeaky wheel gets the grease, if you have something you are waiting for them to do something about, bug them every single day if you have to, don't let them get away with not helping you.
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2012-11-07 06:23 You wrote:
did a level 6 key tonight and the 7th box ( large chest) said i opened it however no loot or loot msg followed nor loot apear in my inventory
Tuesday, January 14, 2014
New Mining Advice for 2014
MA revised the mining system as you all know or should know. As a result, I am better able to determine where I should and shouldn't drop my probes. However, before there was no indication by looking at the ground as to what was there.
Now, I find that when I hit a claim particularly on calypso, I can look immediately near the claim marker and see ground textures that have either the same texturing as the ore I found, or at least the same coloring. It is weird, but I didn't notice this until after I looked down at the ground in high graphics quality, hmmm, a caldorite claim, and the ground had the same texture as the caldorite ore. Of course the ground that looks more like copper and belkar has copper and belkar. Wolverine Hope is one example of that. TI is a good example of finding gazzurdite near rock outcrops that look, like gazzurdite. And if you look closely at the textures on TI, you will notice blue looking rocks. Of course cobalt is mostly blue, and it is found all over TI.
By applying what you know about what ores look like, and look for those features in the various places you mine, you can get a bit more accurate in dropping your probes. It may not yet be an exact science, but MA has done a better job at letting it be a little closer to reality.
I can't say for certain this trait exists for ALL ores, or if just for ores, or for ores and enmatters alike... But I was strolling through my usual area that I hit Langotz in, and I notice a very limited amount of langotz looking rock in the terrain. Right about where I usually hit it too. SO.. Just wanted to give you guys some more of that great quality content you've come to expect from me. Keep your eyes peeled, and if you decide to scoff at this, I am telling you, you will be surprised. Just make sure you are using the right finder to hit the stuff you think you are looking for.
After a long break from posting here, it's good to be back actively posting... So... Until next time, Never fear, the goldbaron is here!
Now, I find that when I hit a claim particularly on calypso, I can look immediately near the claim marker and see ground textures that have either the same texturing as the ore I found, or at least the same coloring. It is weird, but I didn't notice this until after I looked down at the ground in high graphics quality, hmmm, a caldorite claim, and the ground had the same texture as the caldorite ore. Of course the ground that looks more like copper and belkar has copper and belkar. Wolverine Hope is one example of that. TI is a good example of finding gazzurdite near rock outcrops that look, like gazzurdite. And if you look closely at the textures on TI, you will notice blue looking rocks. Of course cobalt is mostly blue, and it is found all over TI.
By applying what you know about what ores look like, and look for those features in the various places you mine, you can get a bit more accurate in dropping your probes. It may not yet be an exact science, but MA has done a better job at letting it be a little closer to reality.
I can't say for certain this trait exists for ALL ores, or if just for ores, or for ores and enmatters alike... But I was strolling through my usual area that I hit Langotz in, and I notice a very limited amount of langotz looking rock in the terrain. Right about where I usually hit it too. SO.. Just wanted to give you guys some more of that great quality content you've come to expect from me. Keep your eyes peeled, and if you decide to scoff at this, I am telling you, you will be surprised. Just make sure you are using the right finder to hit the stuff you think you are looking for.
After a long break from posting here, it's good to be back actively posting... So... Until next time, Never fear, the goldbaron is here!
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