Loot 2.0 experiences and armour skill effect decay (did it happen?)

We got, er, an official answer.
http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...elease-Notes&p=3588311&viewfull=1#post3588311

 

Woah, hold your horses...Kim-o-fficial is pissed and comments on a single players loot ?!
Offers to drop ppls grievance on the "right desk" ?

Ima better initiate my next withdrawal...

 

I want to cut them some slack. This was a piece of work and nerves must be lying bare. I am happy that communication takes place (again) for as long as it's going to hold. I'm not on top of who is who, more staff are chipping in.
http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...question-about-Loot-2-0&p=3588486#post3588486

The new armour features were subject of various chats and most seem to agree on the understanding that it's not fully implemented yet.

 

I meant in-game chats, quite a few are wondering. Nothing I know of got deleted from the forum these days. Some have begun decay testing, but I can't find a note on skills influence having started yet.

 

they lowered the decay on the armor, so yes, it makes sense that they lowered loot return from the 90% down to 83% or whatever it is... the level requirment on the armors isn't in place yet, but the little dings on it vs 1.0 hit every time is definitely working.

The last few months I've been depositing via purchase of webshop boxes... not looted much from em other than a bunch of pills, pets, fireworks, etc. Since this loot 2.0 thing I've been combining the pill and ball buff things from the boxes along with some L rings I obtained a while ago to buff up and do mini-runs of 30-60 minutes with extra buffs on top of the rings... seems that doing this gives you ok returns... I think and is what they are wanting us to do... sort of go at it full speed all buffy for a short window instead of doing uber eco crap for hours at at a time...

 

now I gotta see if that show is on hulu or netflix.

 

buy some L rings off auction. Most of my current buffs are from some that a soc mate tted to me. :) The UL rings have higher actual buff level than the L rings, but if you just want to get 'a lot of buffs' go for the L ones to start out since they are pretty cheap... and so long as you aren't obsessed with being a barbie doll, changing what you wear daily, the decay on the L rings will be minimal... just put on the ring and never take it off so it won't decay. I think most buffs I picked up at once was 7 or 8 and that's when the auto buff kicked in that you get when you hunt over an hour or two... that added to the pill buff skill buff as a second buff. Not sure if system actually was adding the two skill buffs together, but both icons were on screen.

 

Yes, it still works. Also, some of the most active ships have invested a lot in upgrading structural integrity, so much that pirates aren't bothering them anymore. Suggest to go with one of the top carriers when transporting stuff:
http://www.efa.ms/
http://titans-of-space.de/ (- Normandie, strongest ship in game afaik)
http://kronan-ms.info/