Built-in Horoscope ?

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Is there some sort of horoscope built into Project Entropia ?

Reason i guess there is is that we hear and experience ourself that certain times of day is better for good loot than other, even counting in months too.

Players that start their second (and third) year in PE notice it, i know i have.

Some times are just better than others, like a little over a year ago i hunted ambulimax almost 24/7, i could set my clock after it, at certain hours of the day i got good loot, for a two hours period, then loot sucked the next 3 hours, then loot was good again for another 2 hours and so on and so forth, i made tons of peds following that schedule.

Im pretty sure theres a horoscope kinda thing that each avatar is “born” with, the above mentioned ambulimax hours didnt fit other avatars that hunted in the same area as i did, they had to hunt different hours to get the good loots.

MA has been asked many times if there are any hidden skills an avatar is born with, like a “Luck” skill or something, MA have everytime answered “No”, but a horoscope system wouldnt be a “skill” as such, it would just be a “system” that is pretty easy to implement.

Im pretty sure after many many hours of hunting the same mobs and keep note of the loot that there are some kind of “horoscope” built into Project Entropia that each avatar is “born” with.

Maybe we should try ask MA about it :smiley:

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[QUOTE=MindBuster]
Im pretty sure theres a horoscope kinda thing that each avatar is “born” with, the above mentioned ambulimax hours didnt fit other avatars that hunted in the same area as i did, they had to hunt different hours to get the good loots.

MA has been asked many times if there are any hidden skills an avatar is born with, like a “Luck” skill or something, MA have everytime answered “No”, but a horoscope system wouldnt be a “skill” as such, it would just be a “system” that is pretty easy to implement.

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Well copy paste of what I wrote at EP some time ago…

Avatar Biorythms:
"Im not saying I believe to these ingame or irl but here’s a fun thought play…

We all know how luck and bad luck seems to come in streaks. Its common to see someone hoffing couple times withing a week and then have a months break. Also without hoffing sometimes it just seems that everything succeeds for a while, and then opposite again.

I have amused myself with a thought that avatars have [b][u]biorythms[/u][/b].

Of course avatars would have clearly three cycles: hunting, mining and crafting. It could be calculated from avatar creation moment so that avatars actually would have these cycles in different times.

It would have some interesting properties for MA:

  • no player can have success all the time
  • all players cant have success at same time
  • specialized (~one professions), highest skilled players would have more rarely “success times”
  • general (~many professions), lower skilled players would have success more often in wider front

Of course no proper studies or anything behind all this."

:cool:

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It sure seems like that’s how it is, MB.
Been thinking about this for awhile too… but the more thought I put into it the more confused/paranoid I get. :wise:

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I firmly beleive this is how it is. The trick is to somehow know what mob and time is coming up next for you :wink:

I haven’t been able to figure that one out, lol

DD
:evilking:

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Hmm good thinking. Certainly fits with the therory about a certain place and time has a connection to certain avatars!

Just need to figure out where and when my luck o clock is!

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This is probably the most logical thing I have read about hunting and HOFs or loots. I also think it is different for everyone.
For a time I was able to go to oil rig and HOF 2x in 1 hours of hunting, not small ones either but 100-300 peds, then I’de stop and leave. I did this for about a week same time same place.

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I had the exact same experience with allos for a few weeks. Same time place and loots :wink:

Then one day it stopped :eek:

DD
:evilking:

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this actually ties well with both legion and his evil brother rattexx ´s findings would also explain how i can have such bad luck lately with hunting bots since i pretty much hunt at the same time of day dependant on IRL time and not the loots ingame ill try and see if i can hunt other places at these times and see if it changes anything

i still belive that some avatars have uber luck so the comunity can have their heroes thou not that they have it much easyer but when they hit the jackpot they hit it better than the rest of us ?

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Although I just posted my loot theories in the Hunting forum, I actually like this one. I have a proof of that too, once I think about it. In August 2004 I HOFed 733 peds on a Faucervix Old, with a teammate. And that was after I killed about 500 faucervix alone and got nearly nothing. But the items I looted were the same I usually looted. Nemesis, paladin parts, thunderbird, viking.

Do you think that this “horoscope” could also include items? Like, some avatars are capable of looting Shadow, and some are not?

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hmmmm very interesting idea, i myself can see where this could work for myself, as i do at least think at some times of the day i am luckier than others. But then again every once in a while i will have that crappy week when no matter what i hunt i dont find a decent loot, so yes like you say there may be many other complex factors involved.

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I’ve experienced the same things both when hunting and mining as you have MB, damn i really wonder how my horoscope looks like.

Monday: Bad loot, Good mining, nice chicks, 1 hof (atrox, if you kill em)

Tuesday: Good mining in SW part of Eudoria and in the first cK zone on Amethera, good loot at Araneatrox at Vulcano.
and so on…

Would be cool if there was such a thing as this :wink: not

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I would have to agree with you MB.It looks that way more and more when I think about it( I almost belive :confused:

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i am a firm believer in randomness with intermittent patches of coincidence.

good loots at certain time of day for a week and then it changes. okay…what’s up with that? it doesn’t seem to fit into any idea of a horoscope or biorhythm theory to me.

its an interesting idea, but i don’t think it can be a preset factor based on the avatar.

one way to get a better understanding of it though would be to play an avatar for about 2 weeks straight…24/14…and record the loot ranges by time. well, this would be a start. you’d then have to do that with every mob. and then start over and see if the findings matched. :slight_smile:

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[QUOTE=MindBuster]
Is there some sort of horoscope built into Project Entropia ?

Reason i guess there is is that we hear and experience ourself that certain times of day is better for good loot than other, even counting in months too.

Players that start their second (and third) year in PE notice it, i know i have.

Some times are just better than others, like a little over a year ago i hunted ambulimax almost 24/7, i could set my clock after it, at certain hours of the day i got good loot, for a two hours period, then loot sucked the next 3 hours, then loot was good again for another 2 hours and so on and so forth, i made tons of peds following that schedule.

Im pretty sure theres a horoscope kinda thing that each avatar is “born” with, the above mentioned ambulimax hours didnt fit other avatars that hunted in the same area as i did, they had to hunt different hours to get the good loots.

MA has been asked many times if there are any hidden skills an avatar is born with, like a “Luck” skill or something, MA have everytime answered “No”, but a horoscope system wouldnt be a “skill” as such, it would just be a “system” that is pretty easy to implement.

Im pretty sure after many many hours of hunting the same mobs and keep note of the loot that there are some kind of “horoscope” built into Project Entropia that each avatar is “born” with.

Maybe we should try ask MA about it :smiley:
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yea have noticed the same myself .. even thou I dont think there is such a thing.. there is certainly a form of time period/cycles that makes loot better some certain time on certain mobs that span over hours, days even maybe several days/weeks until next time they drop good..

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yesterday there was a person hoffing around 800ped on a molisk young and then faucervix mature 2 hours apart. :eek:
I think that fit well to the theory!

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[QUOTE=Skam]
yesterday there was a person hoffing around 800ped on a molisk young and then faucervix mature 2 hours apart. :eek:
I think that fit well to the theory!
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Yup, that has been seen so many times, ppl getting 2 ubers within a very short time.

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ya last week i was getting all sorts of argo globals and hofs, this week nothing yet and i have been hunting them even more than the week previous :stuck_out_tongue: guess it isn’t my week :wink:

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I know what ya mean… was amb for me to actually :smiley:

Interessting :wise:

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Patiently waiting for my “biological clock” to hit…

DD
:evilking:

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well if there is a “born” luck i think Pham Pham Newen is one of the luckiest on Calypso :slight_smile: