I have been playing Vendetta for about a month, and I have noticed that some updates and changing player dogma have affected the Vendetta universe. In economics, equations with many variables are used to describe elements of the economy. I was wondering if I could possibly create a set of laws that could be used to predict the future course of the Vendetta universe in terms of the economy and playing style. I will use this survey, combined with regression analysis, to attempt to derive these laws.

Please post a message on this thread that looks similar to this (the words in parentheses are possible answers.)(If you have multiple characters, use the one most often played with, or post for both):

Faction: (Itani)(Serco)(UIT)
Licenses: (4/6/5/3/2)
Player Kills: (2 Itani, 6 Serco, 3 UIT)
Kill Ratio: (1234/24, 51.41)
Player's Focus: (Trading, Botting,
PvP,Pirating,CtC,Mining,Bounty Hunter, etc.)
Preffered Ship: (Bus, Centurion, Vulture, Centaur, Ragnarok, etc.) NOTE: NO UNIQUE SHIPS (Serco Vulture Guardian, Itani Valkyrie)
Usual Amt. of $: (350,000)
Aggressiveness: (Fight on Sight, Aggressive, If you shoot I'll shoot, Why don't I head for the WH..., RUN!!!)
Hrs Per Week: (7)
Total Playing Time (Note: You can find this by clicking on "account info": (2 days, 6 hrs)
Alpha or Beta tester?: (Yes, No)

Thanks for your time! When I get enough replies, I'll post up my findings.

Faction: Itani
Licenses: 5/7/5/5/3
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 2 Serco, 1 UIT
Kill Ratio: 862/26, 33.15
Player's Focus: Trading and PvP
Preffered Ship: Vulture (MKIV)
Usual Amt. of $: 150,000
Aggressiveness: If you shoot, I'll shoot
Hrs. Per Week: 9
Total Playing Time: 2 days, 1:06
Alpha or Beta Tester: No

Itani
7/9/8/5/3 (so close to valk though!)
5 itani, 20 serco, 2 UIT
13.45
Botting til Valk, then PvP
Vulture
400,000
Attack all Serco, ignore UIT (unless they attack)
10
3 days, 16 hours, 10 minutes, 21 seconds
No alpha or beta

Faction: Serco
Licenses: 9/11/10/9/5
Player Kills: 58 itani, 3 serco, 22 UIT ( I'll have to check. my totals have changed... )

Kill Ratio: 3202/161 (19.88)
Player's Focus: CtC
Preffered Ship: Warthog, Vulture
Usual Amt. of $: 2 000 000
Aggressiveness: Aggressive
Hrs Per Week: ???
Total Playing Time : 7 days, 19:17:11 (More than 1 char)
Alpha or Beta tester?: Yes, Yes.

Faction: Itani
Licenses: 8/9/9/4/5
Player Kills: 1 Serco
Kill Ratio: 1228/24 (51.17)
Player's Focus: Guild combat
Preffered Ship: Centurion (although I love my IBG Centurion and Valkyrie Vengeance)
Usual Amt. of $: 500000cr
Aggressiveness: If you shoot I'll shoot
Hrs Per Week: 3
Total Playing Time: 1 days, 8:23:06, about 100x that pre-release
Alpha or Beta tester?: Yes, signed up 2002-10-16

Faction: Serco
Licenses: 3/4/2/3/2
Player Kills: 0
Kill Ratio: 330/7
Player's Focus: Trading, chatting, roleplaying
Preffered Ship: Wraith
Usual Amt. of $: >100,000
Aggressiveness: Why don't I head for the WH..., RUN!!!
Hrs Per Week: 1-5
Total Playing Time 1 day since release, countless before that.
Alpha or Beta tester?: Yes. Alpha. Signed up 2002-04-22

Faction: Itani
Licenses: 9/12/8/7/0
Player Kills: 5 Serco
Kill Ratio: 3069/64 47.95
Player's Focus: CtC & trading
Preffered ordinary Ship: Warthog (first choice would be the Rune Valk)
Usual Amt. of $: 1.4 million
Aggressiveness: Fighting only if necessary (note that I incorrectly assess circumstances sometimes)
Hrs Per Week: ?
Total Playing Time 7 days 16 hours
Alpha or Beta tester?: No, no, newB in fact

Hoax

Faction: UIT
Licenses: 3/6/2/4/4
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 1 Serco, 0 UIT (so hard without neut III's)
Kill Ratio: 545/18, 30ish
Player's Focus: PvP, Pirate Hunting
Preffered Ship: Vulture
Usual Amt. of $: 150,000
Aggressiveness: If you shoot I'll shoot after giving you time to think it over when I don't run...
Hrs Per Week: 1-5
Total Playing Time: 1 day 14 hours
Alpha or Beta tester?: Yes, Alpha 12/2/2002

I need 25 more responses to conduct an adequate survey. Until then, I don't have enough information to make close predictions. Please respond!

Faction: Itani (more so for the roleplay, but will peacefully interact with anyone)
Licenses: (5/6/6/6/5)
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 0 Serco, 0 UIT (I plan to keep it this way)
Kill Ratio: (856/11, 77.82)
Player's Focus: *Roleplaying a Character*(includes Trading, Botting, Mining, Bounty Hunting as needed)
Preffered Ship: Warthog MkIII/MkIV (Cargo/Assault vers.), Centaur MkIII (Light), Atlas MkIII (Light Armored)
Usual Amt. of $: 1,000,000c, +/- 100,000c
Aggressiveness: "Why don't I head for the WH...", "As called for by Roleplay", "Based on Previous Character Interactions"
Hrs Per Week: 15+
Total Playing Time: 2:22:06:27 (d:h:m:s), This is total retail-time. I have many more hours from alpha/beta time.
Alpha or Beta tester?: Alpha (Signed up 2002-09-22 11:28:04)

Faction: Itani
Liscenses: 5/5/5/4/5
Player Kills: 1 Itani, 5 Serco, 0 UIT
Kill Ratio: 531/33 (16.09)
Player Focus: Serving my guild anyway possible
Prefered Ship: Warthog Mk IV, Rail, ADV Gattling
Usual ammount: 100,000
Agressivness: non combative untill shot at, unless in CTC
Hrs Per Week: 14
Total Playing Time: 1 days, 22:09:32
Alpha tester: 2003-04-21 22:32:39

Faction: Serco
Licenses: 8/11/10/10/6
Player Kills: 13 Itani, 0 Serco, 4 UIT)
Kill Ratio: 17/2178 50deaths
Player's Focus: Bounty Hunting, CTC
Preffered Ship: Prometheous. (i know you said no unique ships, but it is what i prefer) Second choice, Marauder. Third choice Warthog.
Usual Amt. of $: 2,000,000 =/- 250,000
Aggressiveness:If you shoot I'll shoot
Hrs Per Week: (10+)
Total Playing Time (Note: You can find this by clicking on "account info": Time spent online retail: 5 days, 0:23:13 (i've been alpha since 2003-01-18)
Alpha or Beta tester?: Yes

Faction: UIT
Licenses: 4/5/6/5/1
Player Kills: 4 Itani, 5 Serco, 7 UIT
Kill Ratio: 16/931, 12 deaths = 78.9
Player's Focus: PvP, CtC, mentoring
Preferred Ship: Warthog
Cash: 100,000 - 200,000 cred
Aggessiveness: you shoot, I shoot
Hrs Per Week: 5-10
Total Playing Time Since Release: 2 days, 3:30:53
Alpha or Beta?: Alpha, joined 2003-06-02

Faction: Secro
Licenses: 0/0/1/err... too many slashes. I have a liscence in light weapons and in trade.
Player Kills: 3 UIT
Kill Ratio: 16/139
Player's Focus: KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL LIE TO NEWBIES KILL KILL KILL
Preffered Ship: EC-88 forevah!
Usual Amt. of $: 25k
Aggressiveness: KILL
Hrs Per Week: 6
Total Playing Time 3 days, 19:43:12
Alpha or Beta tester?: mebbe.

Serco
6/8/8/6/5
1 Itani (CtC) 1 Serco (duel) 2 UIT (duels)
1420/115
Get rich, have fun, and get good at pvp.
Centurion Mk 3
300k
Shoot at me or make me think your gonna shoot at me (i.e. be Itani (or any one) and come at me vary fast in gray space) and I'll shoot back.
Alot, at least 10.
Time spent online: 4 days, 3:38:35
No, I've only been playing a month.

Itani
2/2/1/3/2
no player kills
300/9
hmm, goals, lets see, well there's always getting more credits(mining,trading), and getting higher levels(botting), and last but certainly not least (maybe even first) having fun(all of the above).
Wraith Mk 3
now around 150k but going up all the time
shoot at weak bots, run from strong bots, run from players that attack, dont mind other players
more than 9
23h 24m 32s
none

Faction: UIT
Licenses: 1/1/0/1/0
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 0 Serco, 0 UIT
Kill Ratio: 0/80, undefined :p
Player's Focus: Trading trading trading trading mining mining.
Preffered Ship: Centaur (once I get high enough levels ;-))
Usual Amt. of $: 8,000
Aggressiveness: Run awayyyyy!
Hrs. Per Week: like 2
Total Playing Time: 0 days, 5:35:39
Alpha or Beta Tester: Yep and yep.

I do so enjoy this Game.

Faction: (UIT)
Licenses: (10/13/13/10/8)
Player Kills: (0 Itani, 2 Serco, 2 UIT)
Kill Ratio: (7440/152 )
Player's Focus: (Trading, Botting, PvP, Mining, Bounty Hunter)
Preffered Ship: (Centurion, Centaur, Warthog )
Usual Amt. of $: (3,550,000)
Aggressiveness: (If you shoot I'll shoot, if I'm on a mission.
Hrs Per Week: (25+)
Total Playing Time: (17 days, 5:02:51)
Beta tester?: (Yes)

Syberfly Out.

I live for the One, I die for the One

Faction: Itani
Licenses: 3/4/4/4/4 (Almost 4/5/4/4/4...)
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 3 Serco, 0 UIT
Kill Ratio: 903/53
Player's Focus: Getting better and better ships & weapons
Preferred Ship: Vulture for now, Valkyrie probably in future
Usual Amt. of $: 200,000 credits (Someone give me money!)
Aggressiveness: Try to kill Serco if they are in Itani space (if I can) Otherwise I am still learning...
Hrs Per Week: around 5, maybe 10 if I'm lucky (or bored)
Total Playing Time: 3 days, 7:36:19
Beta tester?: Nope

Faction: Itani
Licenses: 3/4/2/1/0
Player Kills: 0 Itani, 2 Serco, 0 UIT
Kill Ratio: 800/12
Player's Focus: PvP and Pirating
Usual Amt. of $: 10,000 (im so freakin poor)
Aggressiveness: if its grey space, its on
Hrs Per Week: 10+
Total Playing Time: 4 days
Beta tester?: Nope