Pre-destination?

Do you think that from the time you create your avatar you have a sort of pre-destined Profestion that you’ll be in. Or that each avatar skills in a different way in different areas. Mabey you gain hunting skills faster then in crafting. Mabey you profit more crafting then hunting but gain less skills?

I wonder if how you “design” your avatar makes a difference. For example i’ve known quite a few very lucky miners that happen to be very short avatars. So i’ve wondered mabey MA thought well hey short ppl are closer tot he ground they should be better miners.

I also wonder if thats why i’m not realy that great in any profesion. My skill gain is kinda slower then others that do the exact same thing as me in every aspect.(although i havn’t tested out medical skilling yet that much). Also in my year and a half of playing i’ve done everything the vets have said to do and still i’ve never gotten a loot over 40 ped. I made my avatar in the mid range of almost everything mid size arms,torso legs, everything pretty much.

Anyone else notice any trends like this or am i just crazy and looking for a reason why i essentially suck at pe :smiley:

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am i just crazy and looking for a reason why i essentially suck at pe :smiley:
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:yup:

I agree on some points but I don’t think it has to do with avatar appearance. More like the “avatar horoscope” theory. :slight_smile:

:wink: You aren’t crazy. Many ppl believe this. Personally, I have no idea. But sure, it could be so :slight_smile:
Also see Essi’s thread on avatar bio-rythms… somewhat linked to what you’re saying :girl:

Lmao, are you for real? I am a hunter because i like killing things? I have tryed other things like crafting and there just not my deal. I liked mining and did well with it but aklso found that to get boring for me also. I think the reason you see so many short miners is because they just happen to be kids…who arnt sure about how to get ped any other way. I just think rex your ideas are so cute, very entertaining. But hun i really dont thing the Ma staff would spend there time with things to that detail. they would be working for microsoft if they were that detailed lol…but that just my 2 cents worth lol…omg this is so cute lmao

" but i do have to ask about the avatar horiscope theory.. Is that like the day i created my avatar it was determined at random i would be better at something?

Well, the pre-destination theory has already been discussed on a few forums, so don’t worry RexDameon, you’re not that crazy :slight_smile:

My first avatar (the pregold one) was really tall, and he sucked in every profession. Not a single HoF nor global since December 2002 :eek:

My second avatar, which was born on February 2004 and is a dwarf, got most of his mining HoFs during the two first weeks. Now he is unlucky :smiley:

So, I can’t verify the theory, but I can’t get it wrong either :wise:

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" but i do have to ask about the avatar horiscope theory.. Is that like the day i created my avatar it was determined at random i would be better at something?
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https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=193&page=1&pp=10

Could very well be that in the times where hunting is bad, crafting or mining would be good and vice versa.

:slight_smile: Well, I suppose if you could make an avatar with four arms it might make a difference through multi-tasking…

:laugh: But otherwise I’d say the appearance of the avatar makes no difference! :silly2:

:loco:

:silly2: Nah dont belive this :slight_smile: I belive it has more to do with who sits behind the screen and what profession/looks they choose…

I think you interpreting too mutch in the Charakter Creation. I belive everyone have the Same Chances from the Start. Would pretty Unfair to give someone a “Mining Bonus” who always wanted to become a Tailor and sucks in this for that Reason :slight_smile:

my thought on the pre-destination or fate theory is that it wouldn’t be good for MA to have done that.

yes, if you were fated to be a miner but hunted, you’d be contributing a lot of ped to the loot pool.

but it would be better for MA to give everyone a clean slate. the best customer for MA is a depositing player that over the course of many years goes in to EVERY profession.

and if i am not mistaken, MA doesn’t want us to have multiple avatars. right? i haven’t read that in the CoU, but i don’t think you can enter the same personal information twice for different accounts. :whistle:

so, i don’t think they would want to limit their customers to a single niche.

in fact, MF (or tailoring) wasn’t implemented when i created my avatar.

if you were pre destined to some profession, then none of the avatars created prior to MF or tailoring being implemented would be any good in those areas. and i am sure that it would be easy to prove that that is not the case.

[QUOTE=Silo]
my thought on the pre-destination or fate theory is that it wouldn’t be good for MA to have done that.
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I agree.

Especially as every vet has at least tried every single profession. If they would notice that they get peds easier from that they would move doing it. (Even hardcore hunters love mining as long as they find deposits all the time.)

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Anyone else notice any trends like this or am i just crazy and looking for a reason why i essentially suck at pe :smiley:
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Yep :laugh:

I have only one thing to say:

Konrad D. Knox aka “maniac”.

Born. To. Hunt.

Nothing, NOTHING else in PE ever gave me profit, but hunting.
Ever.
Hunting, trading my loot, auctioning.

Never succeeded in mining (one global on iron and thats it), never succeeded in crafting anything.

[QUOTE=Silo]

so, i don’t think they would want to limit their customers to a single niche.

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But they just might be that evil! How else do you explain the winners and the constant losers, who picked the wrong thing and never hof?

[QUOTE=maniac]
How else do you explain the winners and the constant losers, who picked the wrong thing and never hof?
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I think its pretty much up to each person how they do.

I have heard numerous time different version is these:

  • I cant break even
  • Try to change to smaller mobs
  • But they dont drop anything useful or give big hofs
  • :rolleyes:
  • Im doing great on these, Im on profit side
  • Youd better stop while you are
  • Oh no, last 30 were no loots and now Im back on losing side
  • :rolleyes:
  • I checked 10 different areas and first 10 mobs gave no loot… I lost over 100 peds
  • :rolleyes: