people who mainly use mindforce can afk skill by sweating while people who mainly manufacture can afk skill repairing on a ship and you dont even have to be all the way there to auto heal a player for quick paramedic skills so i had an idea to give hunters an afk skill option,nothing major of course * players could go to training shooting ranges owned by other players or owned by mind ark and shoot at targets to skill there could also be holographic training dummies of various creatures specific to the planets creatures the difference from the normal range targets and the training dummies is the range targets would not die and could not give a kill skill bonus, players could only skill from shooting at them the holographic training dummies however could die and would give the kill skill bonus** the owners of the training shooting ranges would have to buy more holographic dummies as their durabilty wore out. manufacturers would be able to craft the training dummies which could use the trophies given from the ifn challenges as key ingredients or even the dolls and other such likenesses that naturally fall of the mobs * note im not a hunter my self, i spend all my days mining and i personally believe miners dont need to hit high levels to hit it big but hunters do ** players could loot the dummies at a reduced rate so let me know what you think
Well... if there is no loot involved no one will be using it, or barely any one. I just like the normal hunting, pew-kill mob-loot. Shooting at a dummy also wouldn't increase your defensive skills either, which is one of the most important skills when hunting.
If there were people interested in this, you would see them in PVP areas, AFK and auto-shooting into thin air.
Well if this was any other game yes, be kind of cool but just like the small PVP areas we have around on Arkadia that are never used due to the cost involved and what not, I don't think this would go over well since you would be spending your ammo on nothing other than skills which of course you could get as easily killing mobs for loot and mission points.
There is a shooting range as part of the Hunt the Thing mission on Rock Tropia. Personally I am not a fan of AFK skilling and whilst you might be able to AFK Craft / Repair you would only every get limited skills from this and when shooting I prefure the excitment of shooting a mob and collecting loot and grinding missions that then give you skill rewards and see what skills you get and what loots you get as well and if you see swirlies. I personally dont sweat gather my personal preference as I would rather spend time doing things that i really enjoy. I am under the Impression that a Long time ago Hunters that had very Eco gear and set this up to use AFK actually got banned for AFK Killing and had there accounts locked and assets disposed of in disposal auctions - the EULA got changed then for the whole game as well and so I would be VERY carefull if you are already doing this. http://legal.entropiauniverse.com/legal/eula.xml 3. No Interference 3.1 Prohibition to Interfere with the Entropia Universe System You may not analyze, hack into, interrupt, redirect or in any other way affect or interfere with any data and/or network communication to or from the Entropia Universe System, the Entropia Universe servers, clients, websites and systems, as well as not use any other software than the Entropia Universe Client to interpret or affect data sent to or from the Entropia Universe server and client systems. You may also not replicate or in any other way falsely portray the Entropia Universe. You may not use, launch or install any third party software, device or techniques that MindArk deems, at MindArk’s sole discretion, to be possible to use for collecting information from the Entropia Universe System or servers, constituting “cheating” and/or affecting the Entropia Universe in any way. This includes, without limitation, if possible to use for affecting the Entropia Universe System interface, the Entropia Universe environment, components, balancing and/or the Participant’s experience. MindArk reserves the right to revoke this limitation either generally or in specific cases. 3.2 You Consent to MindArk Monitoring Your use You hereby give MindArk Your consent for monitoring Your use of the Entropia Universe System for the purpose of detecting use of unauthorized third party program or tool (as set out in paragraph 3 No Interference (EULA) 2:nd section). Now if there was a MAJOR overhaul of how you shoot so that you could actually have an aim and get different hit rates for head shots and body shots then this might be slightly different but this would be in the hands of the Platform Mindark and not the planet partner.
Seeing how this is an RCE game it would be throwing PEDs away for nothing going to a shooting range. To those wanting to skill up while "AFKing" I'd suggest swunting carabok or gallard. That's the closest you get to what you're after. It's not as boring as it sounds. You may not be truly AFK but you can multitask throughout the missions. For instance, I had a Grimm marathon today while working on my caraboks.
as i cloudy remember this was -some time ago- announced by a certain member of the MA family. as he likes pvp so much he wanted the hitboxes to represent headshots and such...
hmm I can see them do this using special guns that burn 6200 ammo per shot have fragile decay and cost thousands of ped to buy from the TT because you would want them to last a little while while your AFK.
