mortal hope drop rate

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Sotto_voce wrote:

The Hopes are frustratingly hard to get but I fail to see how that is a result of ridiculously greedy people.

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Sotto_voce wrote:

Perhaps you simply need to make more of an effort to interact with the community.

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Veruski wrote:

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Sotto_voce wrote:

The Hopes are frustratingly hard to get but I fail to see how that is a result of ridiculously greedy people.

well it's not JUST greed. it was the terrible design that enabled that greed to take place. the ticketing system.

a finite amount of tickets dropped per day across the entire playerbase.

during the peak of ambush it was MAYBE 20 - 40 hopes a day that the entire server was generating.

this means that basically in order to do it, you had to already be rich -- or get on the boat so early that it was basically like printing exalts

once the ball was rolling, you would have the purchasing power to greedily snatch up all hopes that appear on the market -- forcing later entrants out of the market.

this created an artificial pyramid economy. i say artificial because the ticket design is optional, and without it, you wouldn't have seen this kind of behavior dominate.

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Sotto_voce wrote:

Perhaps you simply need to make more of an effort to interact with the community.

rofl, what the fuck are you talking about? i downed uber atziri in ambush (a temporary, 4-month league). that's not doable without a SHITLOAD of community interaction. gearing up alone would have been impossible otherwise.

edit: to be honest, it wouldn't surprise me in the LEAST if GGG put this system in place deliberately knowing that certain people would get ridiculously rich based on being early uber farmers. almost certainly some of the people who got rich are staff employed by GGG, or "friends of GGG" -- alpha testers with special privildges or otherwise insider knowledge.

this sort of corruption within small/independent games is quite common. it has happened a shitload with EVE Online, for example.