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I manage to participate in the last Oratan attack on planet Arkadia. This is some sort of event (but not really event) where for 2 days Oratans are attacking some bases on planet Arkadia. There is nonstop fight for 48 hours.
Let’s start with what I like about it. First it is shared mob so everyone can join and shoot whatever mob he like and in the end take his part of the loot in some way fair way. This is good; you can participate in team hunt with 20-30 other players that usually is hard to organize. Other good point is that if you want to skill fast this is the place for you. You don’t have to wait between mobs, they are coming to you and you shoot nonstop. The mob is definitely interesting looking – some robot riding big lizard or something. And there is always a chance that such big mob will drop some nice UL item. Good work planet Arkadia it is really something never seen before in Entropia Universe.
Now for the things I don’t like. Due to too many players, big mobs, walls and whatever almost every mob is flying in the sky. This is probably the most annoying thing in this event. Similar problem is that too often, almost every mob is becoming ‘Unreachable’ at some point. We don’t lose ammo now shooting at unreachable mob, but it’s still annoying. And again due to too many players and mobs I have to play on safe mode instead on some high settings. This is enough to make me skip the next Oratan attack. And there is some loot question. Usually the players with the big guns will take most of the loot leaving little fish with not much to cover their expenses. And there are the really small fishes shooting one time at every mob waiting to loot some UL item. One small issue might be that Arkadian official is healing the hunters. I know this is not a big deal, but I’m not sure if it's the right thing to do.
At one time we got 8-9K global, but I was dead and reviving at the beginning of the killing of that mob and got only 50 PED. So luck is also big factor at your loot. I feel kind of stupid for saying that for loot in Entropia Universe. At the beginning I was on profit 16 PED than was on loss 80 PED and finished on loss around 35 PED. For 410 PED ammo. That's little better than 90% return I think so I’m happy. And on the next day I got HOF 271 PED of Aarkan Pellets on the first drop, so my trip to Arkadia is very profitable so far.
I know I have zero chance to be in the first 15 players for the 2013 Halloween Mayhem Event and close to zero to get some lucky reward if I place exactly at position 100, but this event is worth participating not just for the prizes. This time Calypso team did really amazing job creating the instance for the Halloween Mayhem Event. The scenery is good – rain, fog, fires, graves, church, zombies, vampires, trees and scary sounds. It all really works together and makes some nice atmosphere. There is even text on the tombstones.
I don’t know why but it reminds me of the graveyard in Fable: The Lost Chapters – a game I enjoyed very much:
I used Viceroy Skullcandy Edition armor which is not good enough, but I am skilling MindForce healing so I don’t mind to get so much damage. The weapon I used is Kinetic Attack Nanochip V UL and later Kinetic Attack Nanochip VI (L). Not enough damage per second to win the event, but it was way cheaper than the laser rifles I buy for 200% during events (if I even manage to find good rifle at the auction). And with this chip I got 92.87% TT return including armor decay and healing. Not counting the Halloween Candy Box and Essence of Evil that I can sell for 200 PED.
So far I hunted in the Halloween Mayhem Event 7 hours and 20 minutes. For that time I collected:
58 x Rotten Halloween Pumpkin (1 point)
11 x Sickly Halloween Pumpkin (5 points)
6 x Damaged Halloween Pumpkin (10 points)
5 x Healthy Halloween Pumpkin (20 points)
1 x Mature Halloween Pumpkin (50 points)
0 x Fully Developed Halloween Pumpkin (100 points)
0 x Twin Halloween Pumpkin (500 points)
0 x Mutated Halloween Pumpkin (1000 points)
Or total 323 points.
Also I looted 2 Halloween Candy Box and 1 Essence of Evil with TT value of 1 PED and is now sold for 200 PED. You can loot Essence of Evil from the L 15 The Big Pumpkin.
So far I did 2 globals - 96 PED from The Big Pumpkin and 87 PED from Zombie Dog Mature
and used it to spawn boss mob named L52 Count Vamp of Boorum. From him you can loot a lot of pumpkins to help you win the event. If you are really lucky you can loot Vampiric Cloak that gives you 1% life steal.
Hunt details:
Date: 08 of November 2013 Duration: 1 hour VU: 14.3.2 Place: Planet Calypso, Halloween Mayhem: Level 1 Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining
Coordinates: Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Zombie Mutant , Zombie Dog and L 15 The Big Pumpkin Damage types:
If you ask old players what is the most economic weapon or what weapon to use to make profit or at least don't loose much PEDs most will tell you to use laser weapon or may be BLP, but don't use MindForce weapon - it is not economic, you will loose too much. And this is probably true in the beginning, while you can use some unlimited weapon from the trade terminal like Sollomate Opalo. But when you start using bigger weapons like now I use Herman ARK-27 (L) and you have to buy it for 130% more than TT value I'm starting to think that MindForce chips may be good idea.
Usually I loot small limited mindforce chips that I can sell on auction and profit like 1 PED or less. So I am feeling it is better to use them to skill in mindforce. Not important what kind, just skill for some time when I will have some bigger chip.
For some time I was thinking of buying some Unlimited Corrosive MindForce chip. They are fastest chips out there. Meaning great for finishers and also prevent overkilling and loosing peds. With some luck I looted Corrosive Attack Nanochip III and used some smaller corrosive chips to skill enough to use it on max. It is cheaper to get unlimited mindforce chip than to get unlimited rifle. That mindforce chip has TT+500 MU but this is not enough to make me sell it. I prefer to use it to skill even more Pyro Kinetic so I can use bigger corrosive chips. It is really hard to skill it without UL chip. And even if it is 5% more expensive to use mindforce chips than using laser weapon saving 20-30% or even more MU buying that laser weapon makes hunting with mindforce smart idea. Not to mention that it is cool looking to use that "magic" as new players sometimes call it.
And if you skill healing with mindforce you will unlock some resurrection chips later on. And there are some additional chips with powers that you can't get not using the mindforce.
Bellow is my first hunt with Corrosive Attack Nanochip III . I expected better return, but probably next time will have more luck.
Hunt details: Date: 03 of August 2013 Duration: 1 hour VU: 14.1.2 Place: Planet Arkadia, closest teleport: Ocean Lookout Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining
This year MindArk changed how Merry Mayhem works. Until now everyone was hunting at the open world and it was possible to interact with other participants now you enter instances where you hunt alone if you enter solo instance or you are only with your team if you enter team instance. Some people didn't like the change, but most are happy that now everyone has a chance to participate solo, not like in the past years where you needed team and a lot of work to form it and coordinate it.
To start the mission you must go to Port Atlantis and talk to Carl Tucker (61421; 75105). He will give you 30 keys for solo instances and 30 keys for team instances. Each key give you 1 hour to hunt in that instance. So you can do 30 hours hunting solo and 30 hours hunting in team. The event started on 14 of December 2012 and will end 30 of January 2013 which gives plenty of time to do it.
There are 4 categories for the event. In what category you are depends on your highest hunting profession:
Category 1: Highest Professional Standing 0-24
Category 2: Highest Professional standing 25-49
Category 3: Highest Professional standing 50-69
Category 4: Highest Professional Standing 70 or higher.
I am Laser Sniper (Hit): 33 and Ranged Laser (Dmg): 31 so I am in category 2. Looks like I don't have much chance to compete with players level 45-49, but I decide to do it for the fin. The price of weapons looks pretty high at the moment, but I buy EWE LC-120 Purpose (L). The MU was like 137% yesterday but 125% today.
I get in the instance, but few L21 Merry Mayhem Araneatrox (S,2) spawn around me and I die fast. I quickly decide that they are too strong for me and I start hunting the weaker L11 Merry Mayhem Kerberos (S,2). And I am not even thinking of getting close to the boss mob L38 Yulebot (S,2). I just take quick picture with him. In the end I was lucky enough to get a global and finish the first run on profit. For that run I made just 141 points for 141 killed Kerberos.
Hunt details: Date: 16 of December 2012 Duration: 1 hour VU: 12.10.1 Place: Planet Calypso, Merry Mayhem Instance 2012 Category 2 Solo, closest teleport: Twin Peaks Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining Coordinates: Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Merry Mayhem Kerberos (S,2) Killed Creatures: 141 Points: 141
To keep players in Entropia Universe amused until the spaceships are implemented on 21st of June 2011, MindArk introduced some sort of competition. The person with the biggest loot in game will win Medium Fighter, but no one knows what that will be exactly. This will benefit mostly Planet Arkadia and was probably made fast after two unsuccessful version updates that were supposed to fix hunting bugs, treasure hunting bug, mining bug, and all kind of stuff that didn't allowed Planet Arkadia to become playable planet and people are rushing back to Planet Calypso to be able to play their favorite MMORPG.
So here am I stuck on Arkadia for few more days and the only meaningful thing I can think of is trying to win that Medium Fighter hunting L2 Halix Young on Planet Arkadia. The loot was terrible, but at least I got mining HOF 269 PED while I was hunting. Also got a claim inside one Firebase.
Hunt details: Date: 12 of June 2011 Duration: VU: 11.10.3 Place: Planet Arkadia, close to Steadfast Firebase, closest teleport: Steadfast Firebase Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining Coordinates: 18618, 14121, 174 Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Halix Maturity: L2 Young to L4 Guardian Attributes:
Agility: 49
Health: 104
Intelligence: 33
Psyche: 41
Stamina: 2
Strength: 31 Professions:
Electro Kinetic (Dmg): 14
Electro Kinetic (Hit): 12
Evader: 6
Biotropic: 5
Unlocked hidden skills: Marksmanship Equipment: Weapon(s)/Chip(s):
1.Kinetic Attack Chip I (L); MAXED; Attacks per minute: 22/22; Damage: 5-10; Damage per second: 3.7; Durability: Very good Armor: No Healing: No Loot TT Value: 51.74 PED Offensive cost:
Ammo: 50 PED
Shots: 2732
Kinetic Attack Chip I (L) decay: 16.72
NeoPsion 10 Mindforce Chip Implant decay: 12.50 PED
Total offense: 79.22 PED Defensive cost:
Armor decay: 0
Healing: 0
Total defense: 0 Total expenses: 79.22 PED Loot - Offensive cost = 51.74 - 79.22 = -27.48 PED (65.31% TT return)
[Formula: retturn in % = (loot/offensive cost)*100] Loot - Total Expenses = 51.74 - 79.22 = -27.48 PED (65.31% TT return)
(Formula: retturn in % = (loot/total expenses)*100)
I needed Tier II components to upgrade my Ore finder to tier 2 and I can't find them so far on Arkadia. So I cheeked Entropedia and found out that you can loot them from Madana. So I grabbed my Breer M4a (L) with amp, Gremlin armor and Regeneration Chip III and headed out to hunt Madana.
Well I didn't loot any Tier II components, but on a 100 PED hunt I looted 10.40 PED Madana Hide which I am sure will be able to sell for good profit and I did 122% TT retern even after all repairs.
I even found Bombardo hunting Madana. Is this luck or what.
Hunt details: Date: 05 of June 2011 Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes VU: 11.10.3 Place: Planet Arkadia, close to Dauntless Firebase Academy, closest teleport: Dauntless Firebase Academy Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining Coordinates: 22693, 18207, 179 Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Madana Maturity: L17 Mature to L23 Dominant Attributes:
Agility: 49
Health: 104
Intelligence: 33
Psyche: 41
Stamina: 2
Strength: 31 Professions:
Laser Sniper (Hit): 21
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 17
Evader: 6
Biotropic: 5
Unlocked hidden skills: Marksmanship Equipment: Weapon(s)/Chip(s):
1.Breer M4a (L); MAXED; Attacks per minute: 37/37; Damage: 20-40; Damage per second: 6.4+amp; Durability: Good
Weapon Amplifier: Omegaton A101 Armor: Gremlin Healing: Regeneration Chip III Loot TT Value: 187.77 PED Offensive cost:
Ammo: 100 PED
Shots: 1428
Breer M4a (L) decay: 31.12 PED
Omegaton A101: 10.25 PED
Total offense: 141.37 PED Defensive cost:
Armor decay: 11.30 PED
Healing: 1.44 PED
Total defense: 12.74 PED Total expenses: 154.11 PED Loot - Offensive cost = 187.77 - 141.37 = 46.40 PED (132.82% TT return)
[Formula: retturn in % = (loot/offensive cost)*100] Loot - Total Expenses = 187.77 - 154.11 = 33.66 PED (121.84% TT return)
(Formula: retturn in % = (loot/total expenses)*100)
Killing Oro for the IFN Challenge on Planet Arkadia. Hunting them with the TT BLP pistol. It's hard to stay out of their hit range, so prepare for healing or don't shoot bigger than L6 Young.
The bug with "Failed" message is still not fixed. May be this is the reason for very low TT return from that hunt.
Hunt details: Date: 04 of June 2011 Duration: VU: 11.10.3 Place: Planet Arkadia, outside Resolute Firebase Academy, closest teleport: Resolute Firebase Academy Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining Coordinates: 29719, 17960, 93 Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Oro (Killed: 233) Maturity: L6 Young to L8 Provider Attributes:
Agility: 49
Health: 103
Intelligence: 32
Psyche: 41
Stamina: 2
Strength: 31 Professions:
Ranged BLP (Dmg): 12
BLP Pistoleer (Hit): 10
Evader: 6
Unlocked hidden skills: Marksmanship Equipment: Weapon(s)/Chip(s):
1.Herman ASI-10 (L); MAXED; Attacks per minute: 48/48; Damage: 4-8; Damage per second: 6.4; Durability: Excellent Armor: No Healing: No Loot TT Value: 29.18 PED Offensive cost:
Ammo: 50 PED
Shots: 2702
Herman ASI-10 (L) decay: 2.89 PED
Total offense: 52.89 PED Defensive cost:
Armor decay: 0 PED
Healing: 0 PED
Total defense: 0 PED Total expenses: 52.89 PED Loot - Offensive cost = 29.18 - 52.89 = -23.71 PED (55.17% TT return)
[Formula: retturn in % = (loot/offensive cost)*100] Loot - Total Expenses = 29.18 - 52.89 = -23.71 PED (55.17% TT return)
(Formula: retturn in % = (loot/total expenses)*100)
Hunting Oro again. The loot is again the same as Calypso loot with 2 new items Oro hide and Arkace timber. This time I am hunting with no armor and no fap and with the Arkadian starting BLP rifle - Herman ARK-10 (L). Damage per pec ratio is better than the SGA Opallo and Herman LAW-101 (L). And if you know that on Calypso if you are new player it is hard to skill in BLP Rifle - this is the best gun a new player can get and use it for few months.
Hunting low level Oro and walking backwards minimize your defence cost to 0 and that way your loot return is maximized. In the end I was at 109.60% TT return.
If you are new player this is excellent place for you to start your career as hunter in Entropia Universe. Grab the Oro mission from the IFN Challenge terminal that you can find in any Firebase at the moment. Grab a weapon from the trade terminal and you are ready to hunt. You even don't need armor or healing tool, but you can use one if you don't want to wait regenerating health. With the Herman LAW-101 (L) you can make 7276 shots before it brakes. That mean ammonition for 211 PED. This is enought for 8 hours hunting.
The loot is almost identical as the loot from Calypso. I looted Oro hide that is new and looks cool. Still no sales on the market, but I suspect the MU will be good. The other new resource is Arkace Timber. That has MU of 276% at the moment on the auction.
For this hunt I used the Arkadian L starting laser rifle that you can byu from the trade terminal. No armor, but I used the starting FAP to heal myself. Next time I will use the starting BLP rifle and try the starting armor with no FAP to see if this makes my defensive cost lower. This starting laser gun has Exceptional durability that makes it very economical like the Sollomate Opalo on Calypso. Excelent choise if you don't want to spend your peds too fast.
Herman LAW-101 (L) acording to Entropedia has stats even better than the Sollomate Opalo SGA edition. Damage per pec is 2.832 and only 2.748 for the SGA Opallo. This is great for the new players on Arkadia, but bad for all the people that looted SGA items or bought them for huge price. The other difference between those 2 guns is that the Opallo makes 8 HP "BURN" type of dammage and the Herman LAW-101 (L) makes 10 "BURN" and 2 "PENETRATION" type of damage. At the moment there is no information that different type of damage makes difference when you hunt, but this may change at any time.
Hunt details: Date: 26 of May 2011 Duration: 2 hour VU: 11.10.2 Place: Planet Arkadia, outside Resolute Firebase Academy, closest teleport: Resolute Firebase Academy Land Tax: 0% Hunting; 0% Mining Coordinates: 29719, 17960, 93 Team or Solo: Solo Creature(s): Oro (Killed: 225) Maturity: L6 Young to L8 Provider Attributes:
Agility: 49
Health: 103
Intelligence: 32
Psyche: 41
Stamina: 2
Strength: 31 Professions:
Laser Sniper (Hit): 21
Ranged Laser (Dmg): 17
Paramedic: 7
Evader: 6
Unlocked hidden skills: Marksmanship Equipment: Weapon(s)/Chip(s):
1.Herman LAW-101 (L); MAXED; Attacks per minute: 36/36; Damage: 6-12; Damage per second: 7.2; Durability: Exceptional
Weapon Amplifier: none; Weapon Attachments: none; Weapon Enhancers: none
Clothes: Rage Pants (M,C); Urban Pattern Shirt (M,C); Mannell Shoes (M,C); Gullaldr Shades (M); Armor: No Healing: GYRO FAP-2 (L); SIB: No; Heal interval: 7.5-10; Uses per minute: 20/20; Durability: Very Good Support: Teleportation Chip I; Teleportation Chip II; Sleipnir Mk1 (C,L); Valkyrie Mk1 (C,L); Jormungand Mk1 (C,L) Loot TT Value: 43.93 PED Offensive cost:
Ammo: 50 PED
Shots: 1724
Herman LAW-101 (L) decay: 0.68 PED
Total offense: 50.68 PED Defensive cost:
Armor decay: 0 PED
GYRO FAP-2 (L) decay: 2.62 PED
Total defense: 2.62 PED Total expenses: 53.30 PED Loot - Offensive cost = 43.93 - 50.68 = -6.75 PED (86.68% TT return)
[Formula: retturn in % = (loot/offensive cost)*100] Loot - Total Expenses = 43.93 - 53.30 = -9.37 PED (82.42% TT return)
(Formula: retturn in % = (loot/total expenses)*100)
Here is what Oro drops:
