Question: what's your return rate?

[-=rAndom=-]

Originally Posted by Vedder

Plaing EU. Yoor doing it rong!

I know a person who gets 10-20% returns from opalo+A101 snable hunting. sure she is doing something wrong.
Sometimes EU is just screwing someone and you're lucky you're not one of those ppl. (note I'm not saying they will be screwed forever, roles usually cycle in few months)

[miathan]

Voted over 90%.

Last 15k ped spent on ammo, decay and everything else I have made a profit of 200 ped(this has been over a time of about 3 weeks). Thats about 101,3 % return.

I mostly use breer p5A with A103 (or E-amp 14 if i want to lose peds...).

[Xandra]

Hi,

didn't vote because it's dependent of what I'm doing ...

Well, I check my percentage this way:

1. First, I check my expenses:
   [All repair after hunt] + [loss in TT of L items] - [ammo difference]
   ("ammo difference" because I'm melee and easily could have more total ammo TT after hunt, and "-" because it would then be a positive value ...)
   .
2. Then I check my return value:
   [TT of all that I looted]
   Since it's ages ago that I looted something I actually was able to auction this works.
   .
3. Last, I calculate how much % my return value is from my expenses, 100% would then mean a break even.

OK, and what this percentage is depends of what I do. In short I'd say:

• Did I have fun during my hunt?
  well, return then is usually below 50% if I was happy enough to have some globals and/ or minis. Can easily reach 20%, and because "fun" usually means using bigger gear and challenging mobs this very often is devastating to my PED card. Very, very rare to reach 100%.
  .
• Did I do the mindless stupid boring grind again on tiny mobs with most eco orientated gear?
  well, return then is usually above 80%, often actually a (tiny) profit. These mobs don't drop much, but they drop and are cheap to kill. A hunt with a bad result doesn't cost a fortune and is easily compensated with a mini in the next hunt.
  The "kill bonus for skilling" is something that I don't despise, too ;-)

These % are what I have for quite some time periods, guess it wouldn't make much sense to judge a single hunt.
Think it's rather sad it's working this way now - it was different in the past!
"Standard loot" was better, but we didn't have this much of the insane Uber loots - so we wasn't this dependent of frequent globals/ minis!
For these to get we need to maximize our kill count as much as possible, which means we're ending on small, boring critters that die fast. No fun, right?

Have fun!

[Snuggins]

I see a lot of people complaining about the big hofs and low avg loot as if it was something that MA chose to force upon us. It is my opinion that this fate is a result of our cumulative actions.

Think of this: If more people are burning more peds and our wins are calculated from our losses, it will mean that loot comes in bigger batches. If everyone gets angry and starts playing less (losing less) then the ones with the highest losses (the big looters) will do so at a lower tt value. MArco has stated before that the one who loses the most wins the most. I think that is very important information when analyzing loot on a macro scale.

I am drunk but I think but I think my reasoning is sound.

If it doesn't make sense, get a glass and a bottle.

Ok joking aside, the point I want to make is that I think the balance of huge loots vs good avg. loot is not something that MA has changed... it's a result of our actions.

[L3xUS]

just wondering who are the ppl wich vote "under 10%" i mean are they joking? .. i dont think that this is possible