Loot theories and superstitious thinking

[Tricity]

As far as I remember (it was somewhere on this forum) the Swedish authorities audited MA and they confirmed that the game was not a gamble. So probably it is not a game of dice nor random. It was also mentioned on this forum that one of MA staff said an avatar was determined by approximately (don't remember the precise numbers) 200 skills (or variables), putting the actual numbers aside, someone noticed that the number of skills we know of was much smaller than the number mentioned. So it might be that there are lots of factors determining both players and the universe and that the sheer number of these makes it hard to predict for anyone what might happen and give the impression that the system is random. So the unpredictability might be the result of the complexity rather than randomness. Dunno if it makes any sense, it's late and I'm down with flu, but just my

[Casay]

Originally Posted by Zwarka

There have a Tank with two Gold Fish in Server Room and every time
a Fish passed the Line someone gets a Global ... if two Fish passed the
Line same time someone gets a HOF ... and there told us it's dynamic



Greetings - Zwarka

ROFL... good one!!

[Xandra]

Hi,

Originally Posted by myne ah byrd

if its too hard for you to read , then dont read it, i didnt seem to have a problem typing it

Sry Myne, no offense meant. I have read your post, for sure, eyes bleeding.
It's just - may I kindly ask you to hit "Return" every other time when you have finished a paragraph? It would make reading your posts this much less painful!

Have fun!

[Xandra]

Hi,

Originally Posted by Tricity

As far as I remember (it was somewhere on this forum) the Swedish authorities audited MA and they confirmed that the game was not a gamble. So probably it is not a game of dice nor random.

Swedish (and probably US) authorities have been presented MA's view, and have accepted, IMHO. Powerpoint is a mighty tool if used on persons that believe in it.

We know that skill & gear matters - you need certain skill to use certain gear, and you need certain gear to kill certain mob (without paying most un-eco sums for the kill). This is different to, let's say, roulette, where you don't need anything but a phat purse to participate and go for the jackpot.

Rather easy, I guess, to mask a pure gambling scheme as "not-gambling", if presented in a well prepared way to people not knowing this much about the what-abouts.

Guess the fact that some authorities are thinking it's not gambling doesn't mean this much - they're thinking the most funny things about a lot of matters - watch your local news!

Have fun!

[SpikeBlack]

Someone asked for a youtube link to the tv show, I had a quick look and found the show (series 2 episode 6 of Derren Brown Trick or Treat). It's split into sections so you may have to skip through or watch all of the parts to see the bit I used as my example.

part1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDi2NlsA4nI

part2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX18zivi6QM

part3
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzXSSPp4Epg

[MadMark]

I can't wait to see what kind of bazaar behavior I see out there now! Players jumping on one foot while mining, etc...

[Triton]

Nothing is random in EU according to me atleast, if it was totally random it would be a lottery (and well it sure seems to be that sometimes...) although MA has everything worked up, and rewarding a few and take everyone elses peds.

[ZLostAlien]

Originally Posted by Snabble

i totally agree with the thread starter...

Nothing affects loots its just random

Your thoughts affect reality, so you can say your thoughts affect loot
If I ever get a 200k ath, then you'll know the above statement is true

The Law of Attraction

Also, check this quote I pulled from the web (you can google parts of it to get the original link):

One general theme emerges if you spend enough time looking for the meaning of life and looking through personal development literature - your thoughts create your reality. Before you click the back button on your browser and dismiss this as a bunch of mumbo jumbo, this actually can have a lot of scientific basis in reality! You’re probably skeptical, and I don’t blame you. After all, thinking about a thing doesn’t make it happen, right? Imagining a million dollars isn’t going to get you a million dollars, right? Thinking about getting your orange peeled certainly doesn’t seem to make it peel itself… It probably seems unrealistic to anyone with an ounce of common sense!

But wait! When you turn on your radio and television, pictures and sounds seem to come out of nowhere. Doesn’t that sound pretty unrealistic too? And yet there they are! There’s certainly nothing connecting the TV or radio to anything else. You just turn it on, and hey, there’s light and sound. There certainly seems to be “things” appearing out of nowhere!

“Yeah, but it’s powered by electricity and there’s liquid crystals or cathode ray tubes projecting photons,” you say, “There’s all sorts of electrons bombarding the screen, releasing energy to create the images we see. On the other side, somebody used some electricity (or other form of energy) to power their transmitter, caused some electromagnetic waves, and your receiver on your TV/radio gets those signals and converts them.” In short, in goes some energy, some waves happen, and out comes some matter really far away!

Hmmmm, so then, what happens when you think? Your thoughts are waves too! Since we don’t completely understand how our brain works, isn’t it possible that part of the brain is a transmitter that runs on the energy from our body, and sends out waves of thought? After all, we don’t really know how thought works either! Maybe depending on the receiver at the other end, those waves are somehow converted into matter, and if thought results in actual physical matter being created, then does that not qualify as thought creating reality?

In physics, there is a theory that says all matter vibrates and has a wave component. If that is true, then everything is connected. If our brains are sending out wave after wave of thought, who can say exactly what effect they’re having? After all, EM radiation doesn’t go away in space! Once it’s sent out, it keeps going light years away and centuries later! Who’s to say thought waves don’t operate the same way?

In this light, “thought creates reality” is not nearly as far away or as implausible as it would appear! After all, people thought that it was impossible for radios to work the way it does now. All it would take for this theory to be true is for someone to discover a way to measure thought waves emanating from other people!

This would also make things like telepathy very plausible. If you are sending out thought waves, then it would make perfect sense for someone “tuned” to you to be able to receive them. It would also make things like seeing dead people, ghosts, etc. completely within the realm of reason as well! Maybe those things just send thoughts in ways only certain people can perceive. There are definitely articles that say ghosts exist and seeing them is just a matter of you wanting to. You wanting to - you tuning your perceptions to receive “ghost frequencies”.

Following this train of thought, if people are transmitters of thought to other people, then perhaps people are receivers of thought as well. After all, we get ideas seemingly out of nowhere sometimes when we are seeking creative solutions. Maybe they’re someone else’s thoughts that you just tune into when you ask that question. Who knows?

This would mean that all of our thoughts are connected somehow and there is a collective consciousness. In a way, this is like the Borg from Star Trek. We have our own thoughts, but we can tune into the collective consciousness and broadcast ideas to each other.

If you keep sending wave after wave of “cure cancer” into the collective consciousness, would it not seem more and more likely that someone will come up with a solution for it? Or maybe there are other types of receivers of your thought who gets that thought and acts on it. We know so little about how the universe works, but we do know that energy, waves, and matter aren’t as disconnected as we think they are! e = mc^2, right?

Another interesting idea is that since each little bit of matter contains a lot of energy, it takes a lot of sustained thought in order to turn energy into its physical form. This is consistent with ideas in books like Think And Grow Rich, where persistence is deemed to be very important. It also is congruent with the general motivational advice that you should “keep at it” and “keep going after your goals”. Maybe it just takes a while for your thoughts to manifest into reality.

With so many unknowns, who can really say? Evidence certainly seems to point to thought creating reality as being more likely than not likely!!

If you had the patience to read the above, congrats.

Oh and to the above post:
Entropia seems to come from Entropy which basicly means randomness

[Mega]

Heard a couple of good theories this past week or so.


Hunt in direction x seems to loot better (not sure what happens when you reach the sea or enter Spider / Hogglo areas)

Loot after x number of seconds gives fewer no loots.



Out of respect for those providing me with those tips (and just in case they work) I haven't' posted 'x'

They didn't work for me anyway