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These days in The Hunter the composite bow was introduced. Although the comments about it in the forum were mixed, I did purchase it and gave it a try. Finally I got close enough to a buck, shot and hit. Then I had to chase him some meters. (From the forum I already knew that the bow does not have the stopping power of a rifle. Instead it kills through bleeding.) When I found the buck he was standing still, only shaking the head. I waited some 20min but no change – so I had to finish it with the rifle.
P.S.: Before you ask – no, that is not the bows sight. The picture is taken using the rifle scope for it has a better magnification that the binoculars.
The Hunter is a game of patience and luck. This weekend still runs the extended Win a Bow Competition. I went on a little hunt and saw mostly does. Except one buck. First time I saw him, I did not expect him to be there. So I spooked him and he ran away. I found him some distance away. As he was on the other side of an hill I moved around and he suddenly was behind me. When I turned he ran away… Later I got his trace again. But, for having bad sight, I moved a bit. Hush – he was up and away. As careful and evasive he was, he must have been a very old trophy buck. Or better: a very old buck who avoids becoming a trophy.
Over at TAGN I stumbled into an discussion on pro and contra RMT. I don’t know, if someone had noticed, but I promised to collect some harder numbers. So I took out the credit card records of the last half year. Here we go:
| WoW | AoC | Eve | RoM | theHunter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| month played | 12 | 3 | 3 (*1 | 4 | 1 |
| Fix | 55€ (*2 | 50€ | 5€ | ||
| RMT | 82€ (*4 | 19€ | |||
| credit left | 17€ (*4 | 3€ | |||
| subscription p. m. | 12€ | 14€ | 15€ | (*3 | |
| total | 199€ | 92€ | 50€ | 65€ | 16€ |
| avg. per month | 16,58€ | 30,67€ | 16,67€ | 16,25€ | 16€ |
Footnotes:
- After some pause I’m back in with a different subscription interval, so I only count the current subscription.
- 20€ WoW-Classic + later 35€ BC.
- I have no subscription but play as a guest player.
- This includes one (already abandoned) toon I started in open beta and two current toons which both have a horse and some enhancement stuff. I do not plan to consume up the remaining diamonds in the near future.
I’m surprised… …how much I’ve spent into digital puppets 
And how close all the games are (with exception of AoC due to expensive launch day price and short play time).
Observation 1: The monthly total of subscription based games (WoW, AoC, Eve) will converge to the subscription fee. On the long term you have very constant costs.
Observation 2: The RMT-games will be more expensive, if you play often and extensive, consuming a lot of item mall goodies. They are cheaper if you play irregularly. As long as you have some self-discipline and as long as the RMT-game is a bit balanced, they are not more expensive as the subscription games. In my opinion, RoM and theHunter do a good job, RMT-wise.
To all the discussions: As Tobold, Saylah and other said: every price is relative. For instance, I do not cook myself, because the pizza at the italian restaurant is cheaper than the time I need for shopping and cooking multiplied with my net wage. Plus, I can read a book while waiting and the food in restaurants is better than my own 
Ten dollar or euro for a horse may sound a lot. But remember your first WoW mount? Guess you played 6-8 weeks for it (unless you have rich friends), making it worth around 15-20€. And as I wrote some days ago, the skill to fly a Covetor in Eve Online costs about 20€ subscription time. Maliciously said, Eve is a RMT-game disguised as a subscription game. You buy time as the item shop currency and exchange it for skills (conspiracy theory: did you note, that time and item are anagrams?). Nothing else you do with diamonds in RoM, but you have not to wait like in Eve.
I think of RMT as a way of deciding deliberately and of my own, how much and what (money or time) I invest into a game. In an subscription system I personally feel pressed to “make the most of the paid time”. A good RMT-system gives you the freedom to play like you want, but also the obligation to use that freedom wisely.
New day, new luck. Maybe today I would get the 375ft-shot? No, murphy wont allow it. Little 4.5ft where missing, or one good step back. To be honest: later the day I got the long shot. 
Some days ago in The Hunter, I got a mission to shot a mule deer buck at 375ft. I never managed to get one in the right distance. Even today. But this weekend is also “Whitetail Weekend”, offering whitetails to the guest players. So I started the whitetail missions. The second mission was to take down a whitetail buck at 150ft. In the moment I took the mission I knew immediately (by some divine prevision) that I would take down the whitetail buck at a distance I need for the muley. Maybe with some paint, duct tape and the spring of a ballpoint pen I can build a muley out of the whitetail? Guess I’ll better try to get a muley on the plain where I took down that whitetail.
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