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Penwize has cowardly forfeited the challenge to mortal combat issued by Atalkez.
Oh, wait.
After about four hours or so people started calling it and we all headed in, everyone sold the trophies and we split it amongst the 12 or more people involved across all vessels. Think I got like 200k. Haven't been back out since, but at the rate of what we did that night the statement of people pulling in "upwards of ten million in a couple of hours" that the news post mentions seems completely exaggerated to make it look a lot worse than it was. If I had to guess I think the total amount for that trip was a little over three million, which is still a lot, but that was over the span of multiple hours with multiple ships involved.
I don't have an issue with the 15 min timer cap on the top tier zones, as these seem to require assistance in order to drop the seamonster before it drops you (just judging this on previous trip before I went dormant where five of us on a galley were sunk by a leviathan or something crazy). But being able to stack ships with the spawn rate being per ship instead of a flat timer definitely makes it very lucrative. The lower level zones, if they remain under this current change, will just go unused completely I imagine because if you have to wait 15 mins either way, you might as well do so in the place that yields the better reward.
Happy to put this concern at ease - Achaea is doing very well (actually better than expected since isolation has a way of boosting gaming services due to limited alternatives). Auctions are just to complement the credit sale, no other particular reason!
So 800k / ship for 2 hours could very well be a lot higher if a 3rd ship was involved and also got it's own kills, etc.
If those 2 ships only had 4 crew each, that's still 200k gold for 2 hours (that doesn't affect gold cap).. which is very strong, but reasonable. However, the more likely case is it was 2 people, or even 1 per ship.
You were not part of "Y'all fuckers" though. (It was mostly Icraa, and whoever he told). Still love u @Laedha , even if you don't let me into your house hall.
Side note: I don't know who the announce post was talking about, but it sure wasn't us. Being able to make 10 mil in 2 hours isn't even mathematically possible. So there's a group of seamonster hunters out there who were -way- better than us.
Disappearing from Achaea for now. See you, space cowboy.
smileyface#8048 if you wanna chat.
@Makarios
The only differences I noticed the time I went out was a) it was a different, apparently much higher zone than I was used to (usually would hunt the lvl 2? zone near Tapoa) and b) instead of rotating kills like used to be the method with multiple ships, everyone just killed it as quikly as possible and all ships involved split the entire profit evenly across ships and crew who partook.
In the past, we would have groups form at the Tapoa spot usually would just start with one person, then other people would sail out, join the rotation, and you got to kill what you personally pulled, and then you helped the next person weaken their monster so they could kill it. While this process was typically much slower, and the zone itself with just your individual kills might yield you about 30-50k an hour. I remember having a day off and spending about 5-6 hours out there (in the Tapoa zone) and since I got a few of the Kashari Raider pulls my total for that day was probably close to 300k.
Compared to the trip the other night where the average total per ship was around 400k for about 4 hours of hunting with multiple ships, and at least 2 people per ship, I made about 200k from that trip. Not exact numbers, but best estimates based on memory.
That being the case, I find it hard to believe that anyone, even as a group, was pulling anywhere close to 10 mil in just a couple of hours, or even a half or a quarter of that.
It said "a couple of hours". Not 2 hours. could've been 10 million gold in 4-5 hours, etc. Anyways, hope you've saved up enough for what's headed your way!
If it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
This was, and was changed. Given the precedence already set by the Admin in similar situations (IRE vs Accipter), (IRE vs Kresslack), (IRE vs Zulah) the a punishment should be coming the way of people who made off with more gold than was intended.
Assuming perfect rotations (unlikely, sometimes the monsters don't play ball) and no time wastage during killing (very possible if you only have one person per ship to maximize fire rate), in a 10 minute spawn nest that pays out 50,000 per (a typical level 4 nest - there's more than one, Zanzi is just the easiest to get to), you earn 300,000 across the group every 10 minutes, or 1.8 million over an hour.
I'm assuming there's some hyperbole involved in the news post, and we shouldn't quibble that specific number, but if you DO want to quibble, this is how much gold you might plausibly make at a maximum.
EDIT: There's a quirk with most nests above two where there's a low chance (let's say 10%) to spawn a leviathan, worth 100,000 gold per. Judging by the above numbers, let's say you've pulled 3 leviathans. You can add 150,000 to your hourly total, to get 1.95 million.
Even if you did not necessarily do the exact worst.. the fact that you were able to generate as much as you did should have turned a few red flags, and then made you go "If we did this for x amount of time.. it'd generate millions of gold!" I wish I could group hunt for 5 hours and make 1.6 million gold for each member of our group. (which is.. still y'know. MASSIVELY (6~7x) over the gold cap).
Is the gold cap even documented anywhere? If I'm wrong please correct me.
EDIT: Documented in a help file, I mean.
May as well put it in a help file somewhere at this point...
"If you accumulate over 200,000gp in a 24 hour period expect to be turned into a shrub for at least a month, thank you!"