Bacon is bad for you. (stating the obvious)

5% here or there doesn't matter does it? It constantly amazes me how stupid some Entropians are. What does 5% matter when I loose 50% or more on a hunt? This seems to be the common response when it's put to them that hunting on taxed lands is not economically viable and will eventually loose them all of their peds! Thing is, MA say eventually you will get that 50% back, when your luck changes, but you'll never get the 5% back.

Since EU is a zero sum game, it's this 5% that does matter, taxable land areas are profit makers for the owners, Land Grab is popular, because it is very profitable to be a land owner.

It does seem that the lure of different mobs and higher maturities is enough to encourage regular hunts on taxed lands. When was the last event on Treasure Island that you remember? There aren't any, yet folks hunt Hogglo's there like well.. like it's going out of fashion. There is no incentive to hunt there, but people do it anyway. Players are giving away their peds hand over fist, and for what? no service as far as I can see.

Wake up Entropians, taxes are there for a reason, they are a transfer mechanism for peds from your pocket to land owners, the least land owners could do is provide some service for the peds you are handing them.

Secondtropia

Why does Mindark want to make EU more like Second Life? With the avatar update, our avatars do look better but they also look more cartoony like SL ones. The load screen is also distinctly less science fiction and more science SL. The new updating of the textures, the adding of make up, it's all small steps to make EU more similar to one of it's closest competitors.

This is completely the wrong approach, MA should make EU stand out from the crowd not meld in. If it copies SL it will fail, SL is bigger, better known, and cheaper to play than EU.

Mindark need to innovate, make a game worth talking about.



(bringing back a really engaging science fiction plot line, now that would be worth talking about)