What am I doing wrong?

[Nea]

you are not doing anything particulary wrong zanathos.. check out my stats

SOLO HUNTING HoF's: 5 globals: 77 | since November 2003 |

yes, you would think I would know all the formulas and secrets how to loot good, why then some ppl have much better globals and HoF's on those above than me. It's EU, this is after all about luck, it is sad, but it is true.

I have noticed though, when i dont try to hunt that much economically, i get better what comes to globals. so maybe put that Opalo in corner and try some bigger mobs?

well anyways, fact is, only thing you can try to make really a difference is ROI, but even then sometimes, if you hit unlucky streak, it goes out of the window, but next day.. oh well. EU.

good luck and have fun, fun is what this is all about, escapism, from IRL.

[Squee]

I have had my share of luck but up to 2k ( dunno when it was or what vu ) i hardly had a global. maybe 1 or 2. After it was going better for me..

I do agree on having more globals in team then alone .. Not necessarly due to bigger mobs..

When I am alone, I can say, most globals come from the weaker mobs in the field field. So if im out shooting Allo young's to old + some esto's, most come from allo youngs.. Not that i have 100's of examples.

I can say that you can sometime notice a global coming up. I dunno why, different loot pattern as in more loots, higher loots then average.

I dunno about area's, as i neva found much difference in loots between areas. But loot does change alot over time. I have tested for a short period on snabbles with an opalo, cheap test & enough time to write stuff down, and thigs went from 50% returns to up to 200% returns on one occasion. Also noticed an occasional "peak" loot, one really good loot, with alot of items, and pedz ( atleast for a snabble that is ), that seems to be a multiple of the normal loot you get. Sometimes resulting in globals or hofs when it an unusually high "peak".

[Dazy]

I would be willing to guess that the mathematics would dictate that most 99% of the player base will lose money hunting on high percentage of their hunting runs as Mindark can't stay in business if the money isn't streaming in. So to be profitable you're going to need extreme efficiency (read economy) on your pec per kill (PPK). I would suggest tracking how many ammo cells it takes to kill a mob along with your gun and armor decay for each mob killed. Then adjust your armor or adjust to a mob that's more efficent to kill. While the lower level mobs have a very low possibility of a global your losses won't be as stragerrring and you'll gain the requesite skills to improve your efficiency.

Harbor no illusions that by simply improving your skills and improving your weapony armor etc that you'll improve your odds dramatically.

It appears that making money in this game requires hard work, large capital investment, and some luck. If you engage in activites that eliminate luck like piloting spacecraft to CND, or giving patrons coiffures, you eliminae the luck aspect and you're then working like a business. Sure you still need luck but you're eliminating a large portion of the random element.

[Zanathos]

Well, perhaps im better off hunting just simply as efficiently as possible


Perhaps Ill change my fap to a more economical one, and or get more efficient armor or no armor.

I dunno... Ill have to take a look at some mob stats, look at what their damage is, and get the appropriate armor

Most likely Ill end up selling my M2875 and bear armor, and just use opalo or the pistol and my a105 (but i wanna get an a106, its more efficient) and then get sets of armor for different types of mobs that I could possibly hunt with the opalo and a105/a106

so far cornundacauda provider level mobs or lower seem best to hunt... but ill have to take a look at all the mob stats, which ill have to do on the weekend when I maybe have some time


ah well


But yeah, Ill just try to be as efficient as possible and try to analyze how things work.

that and to stop tting all the items i get... :p but i just dont feel like selling them >_<

[Kerham]

i say that 106 is a bit useless if u're gonna use it with opalo. considering:

a) markup on a106
b)daily profit with opalo

u'll need shitload of time to break even over it. but it can be good investment, only if u plan on hardcoring it later on, when more skilled. so, if after buying it, u still have some healthy reserve (minimum 1k peds), go for it.

and i wanna say again: globals mean nothing. think like this: how many loots of 40 peds u had? if global limit would have been 40, u would had alot of globals.. would have been ur economic situation other? no.. global is just a matter of special effects, not an influx of money.