Ok, hope you know what misquote that is from, if not do a google on Harlan Ellison. Now thats out the way, I've been spending a week on Arkadia. Impressions: Beautiful - excellent work on the landscape, even at night the mobs are easily able to be seen, Calypso seem to be entering a "brown" phase in that they are redoing mobs in brown - Molisk, Neconu, even Longu are more brown than before. Thats up to them. Thank you farmers wife. Creatures. Pretty good, also nicely designed. However they all seem to be of the "regen sort" if you were forced into it Dave then fair enough, if you had a choice its a shame you made them all (so far encountered) like this. Still, 475 of the mission attribute sort and then I dont return to them. Loot. Ah yes, the purpose of this thread. 5 mob types in, Madana, Oweko, Kiana, Otorugi & Kadra. How many pistol or rifle have I looted? None. Bit fat zero. Arkadia is over a year old and a Level 78 laser sniper isn't happy about this, and even less happy about having to hope Soc mates can ferry guns over from Calypso to help him out. Do something or forever be a "me too" planet. Please. Forum. When I click "New Posts" will my own thread appear on the top as it does on every other forum I've ever visited or will I have to wait for someone else to post on it to check it for typos etc? Stupid decision mods, change it.
Has been addressed before. Was not a decision by us, stupid or otherwise, it is just a reality of the version of vBulletin that we use.
Re Loot: I think there has been a problem with hunting loot since the Treasure Hunting release. There was a big shakeup of the loot tables to accomodate the new animal part stackables used in tailoring and weapon drops have really suffered. Previously on Huons I could almost expect to loot enough weapons to keep hunting forever. I think I have had one weapon drop since the release. And of course none of the new weapons have droppped yet. Somethings not right. Having said that. Buy my GunZ. There are a number of crafters selling arkadian weapons though of course we are still waiting for the high level bps to drop.
as the loot tables are server side its a shame they havent given them another good shake to set this right. Im not really surprised the new weapons havent dropped consider the almost non-stop events that have been ongoing on calypso since that update, together with the rush to complete missions before they are re-nerfed err balanced. I presume its going to take quite a bit of turnover before they drop and with so much hunting happening on calypso at the moment it might take a while.
the other thing is player base is down for the summer as always which can throw loot off and the shops usually have lots of guns takes me a while just to pick which one.
You also need to add in that MA has done everything possible to stunt Arkaidas growth with every VU.. Seems like everything A Team does they must argue with MA to adjust things to how they should be. It wouldnt be so bad and far less conspirtoristic if once in a while the errors were on the too much side but its ALWAYS less then what is required where Ark is concerned.
This... is the only reason why I spend more time on Calypso than on Arkadia. Hell I even went to the shitty ROCKtropia for a while since you just loot soooo much more items there. Personally I make my decision where I stay based on item+MU loot and PP content quality. So for me it was: Loot: ROCKtropia>Calypso>Arkadia>NI Content Quality: Arkadia>Calypso>NI>ROCKtropia This is why I am currently on Caly but it could be different today as I am not playing that much anymore. This is also why Cyrene is out of the equation for me as I have no clue where it would be standing.
im no MA fanboi but i dont see how it makes sense for MA to stunt arkadia's growth? Maybe i missed something but i was still under the impression that PP's growth was meant to come from a influx of new players that advertising/promotion by the PP's would bring and not by all of them competing for calypso's existing player base. The most recent change by MA that i know of seems to be designed to help/favour the "new" PP's, the calypso mining nerf made RT mining more attractive, RT mining amps more competitive, and gave Arkadia medium level crafted weapons a decent boost in desirability as far as crafting is concerned. This effected quite a few people on calypso, ore distribution on valuable land areas changed, popular and expensive bp's became less attractive to use and own. At least PP's would seem to have sufficient power over MA to be able to force them to listen to valid concerns.
Uhh maybe becasue MA still owns Caly and now that they are paying deed dividends out they need to keep as much money on Caly as possible? That would be the obvious reason. Maybe because people were so freakin fed up with MA and were ready to do a mass exidous to Arkadia when it came out they had to do something to stem that sudden flow of money from their coffers? Maybe because planet partners got their shit together and know what it takes to make a planet that is not only desireable to play on but functionally superior. MA is fucking clueless when it comes to doing stuff in an effeciant manor that is potentially positive for ALL not only their lardy ass selves that have been so used to having ALL the cake and eating it too. Arkadia was and still is a huge threat to Calypso which is MA's cash cow. why do you think that their devs have permissions to spawn things at will..That Caly has MAJOR events running nearly all year with other planets loot being gimped to pay for it all. That when ever a PP comes out with something different it automaticly gets scheduled to function on Caly even though the concept of becomming a PP was they MUST have something unique to offer before they can even get a planet. MA countered the exedous from Caly with making space full on pvp. Now people are used to the workings or are plain bored with space altogether they decided to make it even harder for the avg player to travel away from Caly on their own at will by making it even larger. This was also done when Cyrene was launched. Another huge threat to Caly. Every VU Arkadias A team puts out something they have to fight with MA to get them to make it work as intended and MA STILL takes its dear sweet time resolving these issues while focusing on keeping the attention on the Caly driven events. As far as the changes on Caly we all know MA is coveting that planet and its been quite obvious. MA HAD to make changes to give the illusion of balance. MA has always been all about the smoke n mirrors thing when it comes to protecting their interests.
I don't really think Mindark would care about players play in which planet. If the what I knew is right, then we can divide our decay into 4 parts 25 % each, Mindark getting 50% no matter players in what planet, 25% goes to the avatar born planet, rest goes to the planet decay generated in. So if player were born in Calypso and play in Calypso then the divide would be like this 50% to Mindark, 25% to Calypso( AR universe that is), rest goes to CLD owner. I think most of the current players were born in Calypso, so no matter where they are playing, Mindark still getting 62.5%( Mindark+ AR universe and minus 12.5% to CLD owner) decay players generated. I don't really see this is a big issue to Mindark, I don't think they ever care about the player base. I think what Mindark really want is a successful PP, then they can advertising this to the potential PP and saying this PP business model is workable. This would bring Mindark even more money than care about where the players play in. As for fuck the VU up, I don't think this is mean to do that in Arkadia content. I think Mindark's employee simply can't do the things right at the very first, no matter the content is in Arkadia or Calypso or any other planets, there are always bugs inside. As for the events, I personally am surprised that there's no events running during the summer vacation in Arkadia. I thought there would be some Alienware gear in loot again during the summer vacation. But according to the posts in Entropia Planets by RAZER that there might be some Real Life treasure event begins soon, so at least we got something to looking forward to. I still don't know why people bitching about lootable space so much, do you guys remember how much we paid for teleporting to other planets? 45 ped that is. And how much it costs nowadays? I would say 7 ped top, right? you simply don't bring loots to other planets then you are free to go. What they want is you go buy the materials you want in the planet you want to craft in, so the local materials can be consumed and the local economy can have a go. It might had a bad impact to Arakdai economy at the first, but I would say this is a good advantage to Planet which has a working economy. And if you really want to bring your loots with you anyway, then you can simply join the scheduled flight with MS, it costs you around 12( 10ped MS fee+ 2 ped entry fee or 5 ped MS fee + 7 ped tp fee). It is a very very affordable price for average players compare with 45 ped in the past. I can't really find a reason to bitching about it. Last but not least, we don't like Mindark or Calypso because they often fuck things up and putting stuff in with tons of bugs. That's also why we love Arkadia because they trying hard to make things perfect before implement it, but they are human too, they are not perfect, same as the VU it can't be always perfect. I don't think it is a right thing to do to blame every bugs happened in Arkadia on Mindark, Arkadia has some bugs that can't be fixed after some VU as well, but at least those bugs are not a critical one that would costs players.
i sense a little anger as i said, im not a fan of the way MA does things, so im not going to spend time defending them. I have to say that your little rant doesnt fit that well with how i understand things, for one MA makes its money wherever people are, the deeds are not owned by MA, and they have a TT value of 0. the suggestion that loot is "gimped" is a bit strange, some players on calypso also complain that loot is worse on non-event mobs, the only connection i see is that if a large part of the population is participating in events it is normal that a large proportion of the loot also drops from event mobs, and in case you didnt notice people hunting event mobs also complain about the loot. there are quite a few calypso players worried about MA favouring and propping up other planets at a cost to calypso so no, not everyone seems to know what you know. the fact is that when PP's were first talked about it was understood that they would have to bring in their own playerbase. Having PP's compete for the existing player base does not lose MA money directly as far as i can see but it does not do the existing player base much good if there is no new influx of players to correspond to the growing size of the universe. as i briefly mentioned in my previous post there are many existing players who have had their "investments" devalued due to the choices MA made to support the new PP's, or by allowing PP's to create/drop items that devalue items already owned by existing players.
Big sigh..... where to start.... ahh yes first..Rant..that term gets way over used by people with small vocabulary. If you know anything about me ( AKA Trina Xenophage from PCF) then you know I am a very direct person when replying. My veiw on things is fuck political correctness say what ya wanna say and be done with it. If you cant after nearly 6 years tell the difference between directness and ranting I suggest a regimen of fish oil and vitamin E it will help. Trust me the brain needs this stuff to function properly. Secondly I reply to a post as I see need. If someone re replys with a question I try to answer. At this point I will kindly ask as this happens EVERY post I reply to that someone has to take the original topic off track to pick apart my views and inject personal positions against mine for some odd reason. Please stop doing this. It is bad for the OP to get side tracked like this. If you wish to debate my thoughts please respect the OP's and hit me with a PM or chat me in game as I love to debate things or start a whole new bills a nutbag thread and address your thoughts not on topic in that. I thought since PAF was new I could start fresh and discuss things normally but I see many cant let go of Trina from PCF and let Bill from PAF thrive as a normal person. Whats next... MA... MA has never cared about the player base after the restructuring from the near / actual bankruptcy. Anyone who has played for more then a month or had to submit a support ticket who wasnt a huge depositer knows this from the way they get treated. They have lost touch thru the years what the gameing world is about and are nothing more then tired old men rubbing their hands together at the bank vault. Their entire reason for pp's are so they could get content developed that people may actually want and use at the cost to someone else while they can reap their rewards. You see all the copy cat crap they are just dumping into Calypso in an effort to make more money. They have no creativity left and are simply grasping at straws now. They care not for the player base and care not for the PP's either. The only care for MA is $$$$. Now is there anything you guys wish to ask regarding the original post I will be glad to share my views on that here.
