Wow unfortunate. I assume the pincers only drop during loot waves as well. So most ped spent off wave would be a complete waste of time and money.
Very similarly to droplets, very predictable
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solution is easy, limited time per instance per week. for example 5h total per 7days.
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[CENTER]scam scam next quest for you is :[/CENTER]
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Did you get your armour?
I managed to do 1 part Perfected - the Harness
Im working daily for the rest of the parts.
With some luck maybe I finish it in 2026. If not ..we talk in 2027 about a complete set Perfected.
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Is it possible to buy parts from others who grind there and do it faster?
The problem which Zana posted is - The drop rate!!- it is limited to a daily amount and whoever gets them thats itâŚSo if more people go in there it will take longerâŚ, I dont think MA or Arkadia understand that âŚand if everyone is aware of this which they are âŚno one will go in there till they fix it⌠i would love to continue my grind and i was the first one in there and when i figured it out I LEFT FAST⌠ZANA is a better man and is still pushing and hoping MA and ARKADIA actually do someting to fix it⌠If they did i would go backâŚbut till then ill sit and let Zana have at it âŚbecause i dont want to take from the 2 drops a day lol
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Itâs the same all over with the limited supply. Itâs not a resource that can be mined faster by more people. More people means fewer drops per person.
In the real world even toilet paper can become scarce if too many people go loo roll âhuntingâ.
The issue I have is with greedily low artificial rates that can be changed on a whim. Iâve likened it to a coffee shop that only allocates one cup of âbetterâ coffee per hour, whether it be with sprinkles on top, or cream, or a shot of âsomething elseâ or whatever. I gather this is worse than that even, not even every wave gets an injection. Itâs thoroughly anti-grind and totally stupid to have customers standing around waiting to pounce when the âstaffâ give some subtle hint that people âmightâ be in luck for the next 5 mins - but only one person mind!
Do I see it changing? Well, I have seen tests carried out by ânon-MAâ devs from time to time, but those donât exist any more it appears.
Iâve also called this universe the stupid place of Little Prince planets - room for just one inhabitant and one on a visit. On a mob spawn level, rather than planets, itâs not even an exaggeration sometimes, and itâs been like this for years.
Itâs no wonder we donât advertise this game to friends or share info much - it is to our direct disadvantage!
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Point on, why would you tell your friends to play entropia when more players mean less loot possibilites for yourself. Its a destructive loot system and if more ppl would understand less players would spend their ped hunting. A limited amount dof drops per day is such lack of design.
I think its high time to make entropia devs aware so they change this system.
The worst part for me is when they âfillâ the limited supply, and whoever was there, will sometimes loot everything all at once, months of grinding and you get screwed over if you were not there for that 5 minutes. Remember some instances like on Cyrene with drops from the armor upgrade part.
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I have to say , that is a point I had never considered.
Once it gets down to just me playing , all the loot will be mine.
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Ive asked the Ark dev team and they say they have âfixedâ this issue and its now better than before whatever that means. You can see it on their discord chat.
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As someone else who has unlocked the nest.. Zana is correct. In itâs current state, the epic quest for this armor and the nest is a complete scam. You get approx 4-7 pincers per 6 hour run and itâs half that if somebody else has gone that day. Do the math itâs absolutely ridiculous. They baited us with an epic quest and hope of upgrading our armor but the mu in the nest is worse than molochs or even the aurli cave that are less work to unlock. The tt loss to make the set complete is very likely more than the set will even be worth.
I donât know who is responsible for this, but the Ark team has heard our feedback and we wait for any results at this point⌠Iâm writing this only to save other people from the scam
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This is just my personal opinion, but yesâI felt completely cheated after finishing the armor, clinging only to the false hope that the cave would offer anything worthwhile.
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[li]Roughly -50k in hunting losses in cave , plus upgrades to 1 adjusted part and 2 improved parts. This was only possible by trading with Zana, which already tells you he was short on small parts.[/li][/ul]
PS: Donât kid yourselfâyou cannot do this in stages. All pincers drop at the same rate.
When Zana originally made his post, the drop rate was identical and you could get the same result in 3 hours. Instead of increasing the pincer drop, they simply dragged the exact same outcome over 6 hours.
So Dr. Zanaâs calculation now needs to be multiplied by 2 to reflect reality.
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[li]Loot was pure stone-age trashânothing new at all. Just old guns and armor. I saw one 10 PED ESI during the entire run.[/li][li]And if someone runs the cave before you, you can forget about getting anything close to the same result. At that point, youâre just burning PED.[/li][li]Mob maturity varies, but pincer drops donât. That means smaller players have no place there. The mobs have AOE, making solo play unrealistic. Teaming could work, except only one player actually progresses, which defeats the entire purpose.[/li][li]Iâve also spoken with Arkadia Dev multiple times. At this point, all he says is: âWeâve been making changes for a year and it should be better.â[/li]Yes, they responded to an image request, but only because there were no perfected pincers dropping at all.
[li]And letâs be honest about why they stretched out the pincer drops: there was no reason to run the instance after the bossânothing dropped, period. Instead of fixing that, they simply spread the same pincers across the whole run to force people to stay longer.[/li][/ul]
This cave should be open to everyone who is making dailies , and players who have finished the mission should be able to trade with others. It was clearly designed for teams, yet I havenât seen a single team in there so farâwhich is a clear sign that something is fundamentally wrong.
We tested with Dr Zane team run and result was same, we both had similar amount of pincers based on dps, but total sum was same.
Mr KAAK
Done hoping, done waiting, done being cheated.
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[SIZE=4]I offer you an advice from my heart, stop writing against the MA. You will suffer consequences like I did. Maybe itâs too late for me, I hope is not to late for you.
It is what it is![/SIZE]
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I advise people to stop visit arkadia since 2015, nobody ever listen.
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Kind of remember it slightly ?
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Couple of years ago there was hope, some big talk comming out of arkadia and some community talks, then dead silence once more. Was promises of all sorts of overhauls, are there even any devs left there?
Puny islands are great 20 metĂ and ton of leather
Aakas trial.. same
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