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Originally Posted by Dazza
Neg reps... no. But, your saying nothing should be free?
Sorry, this is way off topic, but you pay your taxes, right? A percentage of what you earn is taken to go into government. A percentage of what you use to play here goes to creating a way for new people to start. Same difference.
The new people "drain" from what you put in? Thats harsh. These new people are your source of getting ME. Do you sweat and mine to make your own ME? Now, if you do, good luck with that. But knock off all the new people, and you got yourself up sh*t creek without a paddle. They are the constant supply of your sweat for ME. So see them as people who try, because they are trying their hardest to get somewhere, anywhere.
You want sweat in loots? Hmm, lets see, what will that do? Raise the price. You kill an exarosaur young, you get 21 bottles. You sweat it, get about 50-60, and then loot, if any. The minimised amount of sweat will raise the price. If you increase the amount in loots, then everyone will have a WAAAYYY to easy way to get money, because they are looting both sweat and loot. Watch as the people who hunt for hours on end, with 200k ammo, walk into PA, selling 100k+ sweat. Who will even BUY that amount? Think of the negative influx of such things. You will have a surplus of sweat, and not enough people mining FN to make ME. Then what would you do, hunt after hunt, collecting these copious amounts? Do you just tt them? Or stop hunting and try to sell the crazy amounts collected?
There are alot more negatives that blow the positives way out of proportion with this idea.
No neg reps, as I see where your coming from, but dont flame on all the new people. They try as hard, if not harder, to maintain some income. They dont have the 10kUSD to deposit to go buy themselves all the uber armours/weapons, to buy all the chips, to buy the materials/tools. Give 'em a chance, ai?
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I think Kaiser's idea about sweat in loot is a good idea
but yeah, everything needs to be balanced
If you think 21 bottles of sweat for killing a small mob is small, well, I think I would get quite some good money on that amount
like when I startet skilling longblades and bought a bunch of tt swords and killed daikibas, I would have a pretty high amount of sweat after that
back to topic
I agree with Kaiser, nothing should be free in Entropia, it's just not fair, but it could be other ways to show the newcommers around, and as mentioned, by just going to
www.entropiauniverse.com they would find loads of information, screenshots etc. I'm sure you find ten times more information about Entropia, than you could find from many other games. Still you say that noone would deposit 10$ in Entropia, but go buy a game for 20$ in a store?
But don't get me the wrong way here, I spend a lot of time helping newcommers, I do go sweating with them, I use hours telling them about the game, take them with me on hunts, gave some of them sove Vivo's and yeah, I actually give away many peds, and I know that is against what I say here, but this is because I know we need the newcommers, we need more people in our community
but since free things is the only way to hold them here long enough to deposit.. Well, then that's the way we have to do it, even if I think it's wrong..
+rep to Kaiser for actually telling us a truth here, a good word from him
And the worst thing I know about in Entropia, is newcommers and resellers whining because of the low prices on sweat and other free stuff
It's the ones who deposit money in Entropia that should get good prices, not the non-depositers who is taking they're $'s..
