About maintenance fees

What do people who play a game at all have against gambling? It's a personal choice. Has everybody turned religious?

 

This would be the most surefire way of clashing with regulation, cf. Second Life.

We have a random algorithm at the core of Entropia's systems, while your chances to returns are algorithm-based, much like a simulation of how nature works (quantum mechanics). With the regard for science in decline, the specter of getting that pulled, too, is a limiting factor.

 

Raffles (i.e. lotteries) are IN GAME!
https://cyreneforum.com/threads/cyrene-booth-event-rare-loot-raffle.8450/

 

But the odds are published, if arguably obscured.

 

I am not in agreement with most regulations against it, but there are realities a company in this field must work with to be allowed to exist at all. I just wonder sometimes about others playing the same game, but at the same time expressing themselves as if they wanted to destroy it by calling down authorities on it if any aspect, related or unrelated to gambling, is criticized.

 

Of course. I don't like this murkiness either, and even when they do publish hints they are deliberatly vague. If it was "just a game", okay, but in an RCE nothing short of full disclosure is acceptable.

The ominous 90% are a myth, however. I don't recall this number ever being uttered by officials, it's players who keep floating it. In developer notes following the introduction of Loot 2.0 a figure of 97.x% was given, but this is the overall return to the entire community and likely subject to change with economic conditions and they don't follow up with regular updates. Individual chances vary and are controlled by several factors. Iirc, two dimensions were stated to have their influence limited to a difference of 7% between highest and lowest impact, and that individual long-term results can no longer exceed 100%. We have the additional element of a market for loot, which brings skill or business acumen to the front again. No, we do not have a pure gambling operation here but the chance part should not be subject to players investing large sums of real money only to find out its workings.

 

EP blueprints... available from the TT... gamble away my friend... as much as you like... no inconvenience with lack of resources either...

 

That's not the same as a raffle. Crucially MA and their algorithm determine who can enter (get a ticket/entry). It's not the same as me selling 1 ped tickets for a raffle that anyone can buy any amount of. Participation is controlled by MA. I do note that, IIRC, a player tried to do something like this on their land area and got shut down (Ms Pudding?). Presumably MA didn't like the notion of a player rolling the dice unsupervised. I guess with a planet partner MA are OK with it though. It could be Kris even arranged to pass the data to MA and have them pick the winner... who knows.

 

If you are interested in raffles... they've got them on Entropia Partners. You can read my (very out of date) review here, be sure to click my affiliate the link in the article and give it a try ;) ;) ;)

(Seriously Entropia Partners is pretty good if you have time and no PED and Tia is really nice, she channels any cash made back into Entropia so she can play big for free essentially so you don't need to worry about lining someone else's pockets too much. She's been on at me to write another review for ages but I just don't have the time to spend on research/writing these days. I did try the site again recently for a short while and made a handful of ped)

 

I'm sure I remember MA saying something like this at some point... but fraid I don't have a source.

edit: Similar to @NotAdmin I had a feeling it was around about the time of loot 2.0 too

 

Thanks haha I was actually listening to my computer read it out to me again the other night and was laughing my head off. Nice to know I can amuse myself :D