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[quote="DEAMOND"]I love soma, I really do and want to spend my time playing it. At the moment there is nothing "worthwhile" for those who are capped I've not got the best gear, far from it - I need a lot of items to improve my char which consist of OTM'S, Rubys,DT'S and RDT's troll rings etc, However the rewards are not worth the time put in, Last night i hunted 200 mags and got 1 hard stinger 1ep and 1 frog. Previous nights i've had similar drops The fact the drop rate is so poor and doesn't even include gorshak weps, yet we have to put up with whelps and magus is just beyond me, I've also not seen any other person at conti mags all this week I need these items to improve my character, but if it's going to take me thousands of hours i'd rather do something else. I do NOT want this to turn into another flame thread, I am posting it here because none of us know if the GM'S view the suggestions/idea's as there is no way to tell unless they reply which is not very often, I'm posting it here in the hope of it being seen and a response. This is not a thread of complaining, I would just like to see the UC improve and people to feel its worth investing their time still into soma, Another good suggestion would be to add daily quests (kill 200mob) for a tablet of your chosing, as if you don't get a good drop from the mobs themselves you'll still continue hunting as your guaranteed something at the end of it. It would also be pretty cool if we could have randomized boss spawns as if a gm was online doing an event. [/quote]

[quote="TEMEROSO"]Im totally with you, there is nothing dropping, I’ve done 160+ hours at blg and got 1DT and a few large ruby... I’m confused to why GMs thinks it’s ok for this grind for such a small return. There is no one saying it’s fine and if they’re it’s because they enjoy playing on their own. Can we have a big push to get some players back. [/quote]

[quote="RAVENSOUL"]I've told you before Dea, there is always something to do in the land of soma ;) Personally I find mags the most boring mob ever to roam in soma, maybe removing the whelps all-together may help. 200 mags isn't going to put much of a dent in the rng of drops though, there are plenty of mobs that drop the items that you mentioned though, just takes abit of patience and time to farm for them, and that is soma in a nutshell farming. On a good day I can have a large diamond, or 1 or 2 large rubies by the time I log off, some days not so good but I always log off with the minimal amount I set for the day ;) If you want something badly enough then set yourself a target and the motivation will then see you through to the goal. [/quote]

[quote="TEMEROSO"]A large diamond a day 😬[/quote]

[quote="DEAMOND"][quote="TEMEROSO"]A large diamond a day 😬[/quote] How many hours are you talking raven ;p ? 8? [/quote]

[quote="RAVENSOUL"]As many hours as I would if I was crafting ;) Large diamond is only 9 small diamonds over 12-14 hours, but that's a good day, I'll settle for 4-5 on a normal day :)[/quote]

[quote="RAVENSOUL"]I funded around 190 skill of the 200 weapon crafting skill from diamonds, and I spent over 500 mil in Barr at the abias shops on mats, as I said if you want something badly enough just take abit of time and patience :)[/quote]

[quote="LORD_GRIM"]I agree the rates could do with some tweaking as the time you need to spend to force/meet desirable drop rates isnt healthy. The alternative is to play less if you dont like it but that only makes it even worse and you eventually hit a plateau where you feel like you make no progress. The question is why though, the more people playing and actually enjoying it is better for everyone. Theres only so many rubies and diamonds you can farm before you burn out leading to it feeling like work. [/quote]

[quote="DR_EVIL"]I do agree, with all the speed ups of levelling rates (which I’m definitely not complaining about) I feel drop rates have been left behind a little - things are even worse in regards to drops for mage’s, but an across the board drop rate increase even if kinda small would be much appreciated by myself and I’m sure others also![/quote]

[quote="SUBXERO"]After taking a 3 month break and coming back to a lower UC i agree something needs to change, I really think dan should dictate some jobs to new GMs voted for by the community 1: forum mod 2: a “ban” GM like ghostlord did 3: An events GM 4: Most important a development GM This would take the workload off dan but with all the gms answering to him Personally this far down the line the game is way to grinding with the low UC you cant get trades If the economy was better then i woukd play but in 3 months nothing really seems ti have haplened and trading seems pretty dead apart from low lvl items. [/quote]

[quote="DR_EVIL"]From what I heard when I took 2-3 months away from the game, things seem to be on the up in terms of UC and the economy (the latter probably due to UC increasing from what it was for a while), I feel like with some improvements to drops it’d continue to improve both the UC and the economy - which is only going to be a good thing.[/quote]

[quote="SAL3M"]D Soma is even worse - pretty ridiculous to suggest people just grit their teeth & commit to 12-14 h a day imo. Only somebody with absolutely nothing to do and no goals irl could commit to spending the whole waking day trying to generate a badly drawn picture of a diamond via rng.[/quote]

[quote="CARNAGE"]12-14 hours a day? That's still a thing outside of China? Lol [/quote]

[quote="SOMAWIZARD"]Totally agree with this. I can't justify spending so much of my personal time for so little reward and it's for this reason that myself and i'm sure many others aren't playing as much / at all anymore. I'm struggling to understand why with leveling rates and crafting rates being increased, why can't we have drop rates increased too? IMO this would bring so much life back to the server.[/quote]

[quote="SUBXERO"]Incrase drop rates x2 Increase healing int x4 (gives people incentive to work on new chars) Add greater dt/rdt/tow to mags +2 stat gain. Add hard nega weps drop to mags X 4 mats in abias store If news that like spread accross the lands of soma i can see a lot coming back. Anything less like 20% incrase in drops i dont think is enough [/quote]