Something I've Been Wondering About

[Von]

I've been here for 7 months now and have hunted a lot, and of late also have mined. As one gets familiar with how to efficiently hunt, one uses certain weapons depending on the circumstance. Let me give an example...

I go hunting for Fef's....I use my foxtrot in distance to get the attention of Fef and then as the weapon reloads while moving backwards(to keep distance relationship to max), I keep shooting to get max damage from foxtrot. As Fef gets closer I change to a lesser weapon to finish mob off. The lesser weapon I choose depends on the damage the foxtrot gives to mob. As I do this I notice the wild damage fluctuations from my weapon, the foxtrot at times will go from 129 damage to as low as 16. Also the amount of misses are very unpredictable, I sometimes miss as much as three times in a row, and the weapon of choice dont seem to make any difference.

I'm trying to understand what makes the decisions when the misses occure and what damage average you get. I'm aware that my skill level has some to do with that, but what makes the decision what those points are. Is it a random average event or does the program have the abillity to make decisions to its atvantage. In comparison to a slot machine at a gambling establishment the machine is not aware of the operator and the win event is totally random. But in this virtual world the system has all your information as to how much you deposited, how much peds you have at hand, what armore you have on, etc. etc. So when mob gets to x distance, the program can manipulate your misses and mob will reach you to make damage.

I have never seen MA state how those events occure and what the loss chances are, and whether they are random events or manipulated by the system software. In comparison the USA gambling establishments are thightly controlled, and their percentage claims are closely scrutinized to make sure of accuracy. Im aware that MA doesnt claim to be a gambling establishment in their EULA or anywhere else, but never the less resembles it by a large margin. Since I'm not familiar with Swedens laws I wonder if PE would fall under the catagory of a gambling operation and if not, why. I have seen these question come up somewhere in a forum before, but I'm not aware of any answer ever given by MA.

Von

[Darkaner]

It is an interesting question. In Sweden the government has a monopoly on all gambling and betting (sports betting, casinos etc). So if PE could be classified as gambling by swedish law, MA would be in trouble... But I'm pretty sure MA thought of this when they created PE, and have things under control. If not, a tiny server move to the UK or something would solve the problem.

As a matter of fact, I'm not sure the servers are located in Sweden. Are they?

[Nostrop]

Last known location is Stockholm, Sweden. But it`s about 2 year old info...

[Von]

The servers are in Sweden...if you look at the routes they are telia.net...wich is in Stockholm.

Von