1&3 - If my rate was only 3% then fine, whatever. That's Ryzom. But my experience so far is closer to 13%. My luck has been bad enough that your argument is not really any different from arguing that seat belts are useless because you personally have never been in a car accident. The distribution has been such that I cannot attribute it to luck though, unless you are willing to concede that your own personal experience is in no way, shape, or form any more indicative of reality than mine.
5 - Part of the beef I have is simply that I've seen enough folks who are all, "Travel is it's own reward!", that hearing that the best thing about DMs is visiting more parts of Atys evokes a visceral reaction. If my boss paid me in navel lint instead of dollars, I'd have a similar reaction. Don't tell me something is an upside unless it's something I actually care about. Add in that I've had more bum missions than you by large margin (and for a STUPID reason), and you wind up with an even larger sense of "Why bother?" simply because of broken things.
My opinion will change once Loria missions are fixed to be as doable as the other region's missions are now, but until then, don't bother trying to tell me broken stuff is good even if I like what they are trying to do.
7 - That was in response to your split feelings on crystals.
8 - I got here just after Merge. I didn't know about NH until I was pretty high in all fames and good enough at dig/craft to earn more dappers more easily from overseers. Different experiences, so different opinion.
9 - If I read right, you do an hour a night per occupation. That means that on your four-occupation nights, you're already on for at least twice as long as I often get these days. Run that chart on 90 minutes 4 days a week and see if you'd be as ambitious. Also, since you mentioned "vagaries of chance", re-read the first paragraph of this post. Again, different experiences, so different opinion.
5 - Part of the beef I have is simply that I've seen enough folks who are all, "Travel is it's own reward!", that hearing that the best thing about DMs is visiting more parts of Atys evokes a visceral reaction. If my boss paid me in navel lint instead of dollars, I'd have a similar reaction. Don't tell me something is an upside unless it's something I actually care about. Add in that I've had more bum missions than you by large margin (and for a STUPID reason), and you wind up with an even larger sense of "Why bother?" simply because of broken things.
My opinion will change once Loria missions are fixed to be as doable as the other region's missions are now, but until then, don't bother trying to tell me broken stuff is good even if I like what they are trying to do.
7 - That was in response to your split feelings on crystals.
8 - I got here just after Merge. I didn't know about NH until I was pretty high in all fames and good enough at dig/craft to earn more dappers more easily from overseers. Different experiences, so different opinion.
9 - If I read right, you do an hour a night per occupation. That means that on your four-occupation nights, you're already on for at least twice as long as I often get these days. Run that chart on 90 minutes 4 days a week and see if you'd be as ambitious. Also, since you mentioned "vagaries of chance", re-read the first paragraph of this post. Again, different experiences, so different opinion.
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