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Date Posted: 02:49:43 10/13/05 Thu
Author: Ras
Subject: Marshall Plan

Of course it was the first time, and we needed to see what would make money. I Stratholme run, however, was a somewhat success, and will probably make us some 80-100g.

But those money depend on the Rightous Orb we found, without it, the harvest would be quite meager to put it the least...

It took us one hour and 41 minutes in Stratholme. That is 101 minutes I calculate this: 101 * 9 = 909 minutes in all (9 being the number of persons there).

Let us be generous and assume we made 100g: 100 / 909 = 0.110011 g per minute per person on average. 0.110011 * 60 = 6.6g per hour per person.

6.6g per hour? That is a far cry from some grindings I hear ppl make. Some have claimed they can make 26g an hour grinding.
We are still talking about a Stratholme run, and I only calculate the time we spent there, from we came to we left. I don't even want to calculate what we did after (world grinding, SM) as it was tests and turned out horrible.

IMO it was a fiasco. Especially seeing that 4 people never turned up, and another 3-4 signed off right before the event. And then 2-3 left very quickly, when it began to feel like a grind.

The time scale on this thing is too long for most people. People will have to wait 6 months if not more for them to get something out of this in the worst case. I don't believe people will have the stomach for it, and to be frank, Im not sure it is even worth it.
Maybe we can optimize our efficiency (I believe we can), but we have to ask ourselves if it is worth it. We risk ppl getting mad because they feel cheated when they get nothing out of it. And the event clearly showed that many don't look entusiastically upon this.

IMO we should liquidate the plan and give the money back to the participants.

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Replies:

Re: Marshall Plan -- Kylara, 12:28:14 10/13/05 Thu
Re: Marshall Plan -- Atlanticus/Psychosmurfa, 12:29:28 10/13/05 Thu
- Re: Marshall Plan -- Ras, 16:28:08 10/13/05 Thu