Looks as a very well setup ewent i will give it a try 
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Yippy Skippy, and as always love the events Ms. Pudding!
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Thank you! I hope you enjoy it ?
Big GZ on the Unlimited Kinetic 7 drop!!?
Thx, Iām glad youāre having fun! GL on the grind, if you get something else interesting let us know :handgun:
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Niann Code Acker
I am definitely in, please register me.
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Nice hit! Looks like youāre off to a great start!! ??? GZ!
What determines tiebreaker for weekly/monthly bonus? At first glance, it appears to be by alphabetical preference
Good question, Rick. Yes. In the case of a tie for 10th in the weekly, or 15th place in the monthly, it gives preference to alphabetical order.
The way the bonus points are setup, you get the same amount for 10th or 1st or 15th or 1st. My suggestion to anyone close to 10th or tied with it, is go hit up OLA#30 and grab a global worth 0.5 points, youāll pull ahead, and its very easy to global there.
Some of my thought behind organizing the competition bonuses this way, all paying the same amount was to encourage people to make it into the top 10 or top 15, but not so much that you were discouraged from even trying if you didnāt get the silver bonuses. I didnāt want the Silver bonuses weighted in such a way that the main focus of the event was competition, rather, I wanted that to be a side element that was more āfunā and not super stressful.
Lootius Mayhem, the other automated event you can see on the website, is meant to be stressful. Lootius Mayhem is a hyper competitive event that only lasts 35 days, and youāve got to keep an eye on it most of that time. Granted, the prize pool there is rewarding enough that it does a good job keeping players involved, its stressful. Its all or nothing if you donāt land a top 15 placement in that event. Currently, Lootius Mayhem is inactive.
GoldGrinder is supposed to be the event you can grind away at for months and years to come. Its supposed to be a āgo at your own paceā kind of thing, and who cares if your name is 80th on the list, you probably put in 1/80th of the effort of #1, so its balanced in that regard. Yes, I think its fun to see your name move up and down the rankings, get little promotions and work toward level progressions, but the beef of the rewards in GoldGrinder are adding up in your personal Gold/Silver/level achievements. Also, those jackpots that keep building are capable of being won by anyone and any mob theyāre hunting with or without a loot 2.0 weapon. GoldGrinder is supposed to be a little more laid back, and be a true grinding event.
I mentioned this in the #entropiagold chat in game, but it might be good to have here too, that GoldGrider has the capability already coded in to be āpausedā or frozen in time. Another, different type of event, say Lootius Mayhem, could run for 35 days, and then GoldGrinder picks up the next day, everyoneās Gold/Silver/Levels would resume where they left off, unchanged.
A lot more of how this event is set up, or how I attempted to set it up, was to reward you for your personal effort. Yes there is an element of competition, but the lion share of the rewards are coming in the form of personal Gold and Silver.
I wanted people to feel secure investing months and even years into GoldGrinder, which is why currently I donāt see it ever going away. If it becomes stale or boring at some point, perhaps a new event is in order, and then when people miss the grind we bring it back. If ever I was to terminate GoldGrinder I would give the community at least a 6 month warning or something so they could wrap up any close exchange levels, but honestly Iām not even thinking about that right now.
I just purchased custom global naming on all 4 land areas for 5 years, if that tells you my intent on keeping the servers up, the event running, and I hope to expand the platform and bring exciting new events in the future. But be aware that I have a family, full time job, and this āhobbyā of mine is a passion I tinker with and work on when I have free time. GoldGrinder took me about 9-10 months putting it together, error testing, coding, designing artwork and promos, etc etc. So any new future events will be slow to come out, unless I expand my team.
I also intentionally set the triggers for the EntropiaGold Jackpot low enough that any of the event mobs can trigger it. And have, I might add. In analyzing past globals on all the mobs and maturities on the land areas, every single one of the 5 mobs triggered the EntropiaGold Jackpot. This made me happy. So its really just a matter of time now. Additionally, with loot 2.0 it can be a little trickier getting those big HOFs, but even all those thresholds are more than capable, and will get triggered many many times as the event chugs on.
Anyways, you asked about ties in the competition, and Iāve kind of gone over board with info, just dumping all my thoughts here. Iāve had a lot of thoughts the past few days, and perhaps it will help to get them on paper so you better understand where Iām coming from and where I want to take EntropiaGold. My vision for the platform is to not only continue to support it for years and years to come, but try and make it better. Gather feedback from you guys. I pop into Twitch streams and hear people discuss the event. Yea, sure its nice to hear kind words about how much fun people are having, but its more valuable if I pick up on the critiques. If someone says something on the website is confusing, I can try and update it and make things more clear. If someone thinks something is off balance I can look at it and see if their point is valid. Is it the opinion of one person, or many?
People are asking about a mining event, which honestly, Iād love to design! I donāt have a good mining LA. If I can get a hold of a couple of nice mining LAs, sure, I think it would be great to have an automated event thatās competitive and challenging for miners, but thatās a LONG time off at this point.
Sorry, its late, and Iām really chatty and just dumping all my thoughts here. I probably repeated myself two or three times! ? definitely time for bed. ?
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Thanks for always taking the time to share your thoughts! I greatly appreciate your effort and passion, and am always looking forward to what you come up with next :woohoo:
EDIT: Iām just starting to see some of the different ads on EL and THEY ARE CRACKING ME UP!!! :laugh::laugh:
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Hey 
Register myself with this 2 possible teams:
TEAM los globals son los padres
TEAM Ants on Elephants
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Hey, just wanna say thank you to everyone who has made this event a huge success the last 4 days! The grind has just begun, we closed out our first weekās bonus silver winners with the winnerās below:
[CENTER]https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forum/index.php?media/week1-jpg.336179/full
Congrats to those that locked down +750 bonus silver, thereās going to be plenty of opportunities to get bonus silver, and we still have 12 days left for the bonus +2500 silver for the month. GL out there guys![/CENTER]
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Just hope you ran this one with MA so we can all avoid drama like the last timeā¦
The problem with the two events in the past youāre referring to, is that both of those events used a āraffleā and āsweepstakesā system. In those old events that got closed, 100% of the prizes were put into 3 places that somebody else was drawing the winning #'s for. Someone elseās activity chose the winners of the prizes. This was a big problem, because even winning anything was completely out of the participants control.
This event, GoldGrinder, is not setup at all like those past two events that were closed. This event rewards every single global, and all rewards are dependent upon the participants activity utilizing MindArkās global system. There are a multitude of other event promoters currently running jackpots similar to these.
This event DOES NOT use any sort of raffle system or randomized components outside the participants control. This event relies 100% on MindArkās in-game global system, and is dependent on the individual users global activity. All prize distribution in this event is tied to the participants in game global activity, there are no outside factors or components.
Gold and Silver are awarded based on MindArkās global system. 70% of the rewards in this event are obtained through the grind, it is overwhelmingly classified as a grinder event. Thereās a level progression system, weekly and monthly competition element, and of course personal Gold and Silver from every global, as well as daily bonuses. GoldGrinderās jackpot element, like other current running jackpot events, only makes up a small component of the total rewards. The vast majority of the rewards are going straight to the participants every global they get.
If there were an issue with this event, there would be an issue with the following other events:
Entropialife/BIG Industries - Monthly Progressive
8-ball Jackpot at OLA40
Osseocollum Mega Markup Jackpot loots
The Ambuliped jackpot
etc.
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Point system is not a problem as you have noted because it relies on ārewarding the loyaltyā for hunting on a given land area and sure, it is based on MA global system.
MAās info about last time was a little bit blurry since the interpretation of the rule being inforced is a little big vague and they have noted that it can be checked with them if it is in accordance with ToS.
apallo sincros neverweave
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No need to register if youāre a solo hunter, only teams are required to register their captainās and team names here.
If youāre doing the solo grind, youre all set. GL!
team funwithhunterandminers
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Hi, welcome! Are you the team captain, and is your in game name sweat tom 123?
Nice hit! A few ped either which way and youād won the jackpot!
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