Do the level of skills matters in getting good or bad loot?

[Kartunes]

Originally Posted by LeeYap

Skills no matter. If they did you'd see the same ubbers spamming hofs, globals and new items all the time.

I remember the begining of this vu it was Buzz doing just that

[Kartunes]

It also seems to me that skill level does affect the size ESI you can loot.

[kosta]

good question
a friend of me hes in top 10 best miner whit bout 40+ prospection and how he tells me he can profit 90% almost whitout mark and just a regular mining whit like 20 prospection he can he need at least like 130%

[milwal]

Sorry if this is slightly off topic however imho.

As we all know the gambling commission in Sweden classified EU as a non gambling entity.

I would therefore suggest that the amount of money you actually spend with MA has an almost direct influence on what loot/PED amounts you receive.
Many times I have added purchased 50,000 ammo from a TT and within the space of 5 to 10 mins of hunting received 1 or 2 globals. I realise we dont want to hear this as it kinda spoils the fun in the game however this is tied to TT values only as anything over TT value is generated by the players market.

i.e You purchase to a value of 1000ped (TT value) then MA decide on a percentage of that 1000ped (which will probably be a fixed % value) for arguments sake we will say 80% therfore 1000ped spent with MA they give you back 80% (in loot) of 1000ped which is 800ped (we wish:-)

[hojlund]

Well i am tuning lvl 40 prospector within this week, and what my skills allow me is to use finders that go deep enough for rare ores, and lvl 30 would be more than enough there... and about looting bigger ESI's with more skills bullsh..

It is RL skills, knowing the ground what it holds, and when to mine what and when not to mine at all.......

Stop dreaming about skills will change your world and replace your IRL brain, they wont.......................

[Harald]

I will have to say no effect since it has show that unskilled players can hit the jackpots aswell.

[Rednexi]

I Voted no, got my best loots when skills were 0-20k , and all my esi / gsi drops also, havent really got anything mentionable after 35k of skills, so atleast from my point of view, answer is definately no. I might revise if things would change considerably after some skill level, but i highly doubt it.

[snake_eyes]

Skills will have no relation to loot level. The only thing skills will allow is for people to use better equipment and use it more effectively cutting down decay costs. Because Mindarks business model works through generating income from decay and not advertising revenue all loot returns will be less than you put in. Unless you get lucky. I am talking tt wise. Someone with level 40 prospecting I would expect to be able to possible breakeven with markup due to the rarer ores they can find.

[Nicole]

Unscientifically I would have to say that skills seem to effect loot, or maybe its weapons choice not really sure.

But it seems I do get better average loot then most of my friends and society mates from some strange unknown reason.

Most of my current society cK I seem to get better loot except for Angel who is a Mad looter, and I let him loot every time we are in team


But another ck member will not name (good friend) told him serval times if he loots my mobs will leave team, and not hunt with him because he loots really shitty!

[kosta]

maby its just sum avatar have theri thing like auktuma he got those uber loot in craft and some people are getting good loot in hunting
my thing is mining i profit there and when got some pedies go flush it away on hunting ,...