Question: Do we agree that.....

[CozMoDan]

Do we agree that loot is by area? Also, one area has a lot of hunting and another has very little so the most hunted area has more/better loot. Is an area by server and it each TP(area) is on a server or is it just a map area? What about LAs, do the owners get part of the money spent on ammo or just their percent on hunting, mining etc.? Do they contribute to the loot on their land or is it just like else where, up to the EU program. I have noticed one thing that I find very interesting, on 9 different occassions the first time I went to a new area to hunt, and usually a new mob, I got a global. Also happened 2 times on mining. I never mined much at all maybe 3 or 4 times since I started about 6 months ago, thought I would try a little and boom 2 gbls, one e-matter, one ore. I have went back to them all several times and now I don't get squat. How does that work, is the first time just a little chumming to make sure you come back?
Like to hear your thoughts and if this happens to you.

[Nighthawk]

loot is by area, time, mob/ore/enmatter/bp, equipment, etc... I think everything changes loot

[onyx oZ Zombie]

all i know is what loot isn't by ... me :|

[billairboy]

Yes, i have notice that globals often comes in the 1-5 kills when coming in to an new area/mobs and if i don't have a nice loot in the first kills, the chance to get a global goes down after that. But it's very hard to tell it it's a pattern or just random.

My guess is that the "loot pool" for a type of mob in an area/server is filled up in intervalls in a random way and your loot depends on how "full" the pool is for that mob in that area. That the yellow no loot often comes in groups is a sign of this i think. It can also be some time dependent on/off function. Like, 10 minutes of good loot, 5 minutes of bad loot, 3 minutes of good loot, in a random pattern.

[Shadowmage]

Originally Posted by onyx oZ Zombie

all i know is what loot isn't by ... me :|

You exactly got my point

[somon90]

Landowners get a percentage of the tt value of all things looted and mined within the boundaries of the LA.

[CozMoDan]

Originally Posted by somon90

Landowners get a percentage of the tt value of all things looted and mined within the boundaries of the LA.

So you are saying that is all they get and have no say-so on gbls or HOFs. I was looking at an event, I beleive it was the Atrax one last Friday, and the winner was the player with the largest global and there was a 10ped entery fee. If the land owner has no say-so about gbls then how would he/she be sure there is going to be one? I have never done an event but maybe this is set when the event is created and the land owner has to pay to have one larger global. Also it would seem that the more loot in an LA the more money the owner would make and I would wonder what kind assurances you would get from MA to make the investment of buying an LA worth it. Another words I would not want to pay 50,000 ped for a LA and then be hit or miss on loot in my area. Surely there is something that gives one some type of protection on the investment.

It is no big deal I am just wondering.

[Gluepot]

Originally Posted by Nighthawk

loot is by area, time, mob/ore/enmatter/bp, equipment, etc... I think everything changes loot

Including avatar beauty. So if loot sucks - come get a haircut!

[Az Bloodz]

Originally Posted by CozMoDan

So you are saying that is all they get and have no say-so on gbls or HOFs. I was looking at an event, I beleive it was the Atrax one last Friday, and the winner was the player with the largest global and there was a 10ped entery fee. If the land owner has no say-so about gbls then how would he/she be sure there is going to be one? I have never done an event but maybe this is set when the event is created and the land owner has to pay to have one larger global. Also it would seem that the more loot in an LA the more money the owner would make and I would wonder what kind assurances you would get from MA to make the investment of buying an LA worth it. Another words I would not want to pay 50,000 ped for a LA and then be hit or miss on loot in my area. Surely there is something that gives one some type of protection on the investment.

It is no big deal I am just wondering.

If the highest loot during the event is 5 PED then the guy who got 5 PED wins the event (assuming it's highest single loot wins)

[somon90]

Originally Posted by CozMoDan

So you are saying that is all they get and have no say-so on gbls or HOFs. I was looking at an event, I beleive it was the Atrax one last Friday, and the winner was the player with the largest global and there was a 10ped entery fee. If the land owner has no say-so about gbls then how would he/she be sure there is going to be one? I have never done an event but maybe this is set when the event is created and the land owner has to pay to have one larger global. Also it would seem that the more loot in an LA the more money the owner would make and I would wonder what kind assurances you would get from MA to make the investment of buying an LA worth it. Another words I would not want to pay 50,000 ped for a LA and then be hit or miss on loot in my area. Surely there is something that gives one some type of protection on the investment.

It is no big deal I am just wondering.

LA- owners actually don't have the power to influence the size of loot or the amount of globals on their land area, and when competitions like the one you mentioned with biggest global the landowner just assumes there's gonna be one. The promise of prizes just acts as a carrot for the competitors so that they spend more peds on the LA hosting the event...