Wednesday, November 23, 2011

Entropia Universe Forums

While you can play Entropia Universe without reading any forum or wiki site, if you want to be well informed and expand your knowledge about the game you should register for some forums on the internet and read them regularly. There you will find information about new features, known bugs, trades, you can even ask question the developers of the game.
The problem now is that there are too many forums about the game and normal players will be tired of browsing all of them every day to find few good posts in them.
Here are the forums that exist now:
- Planet Calypso Forum - People call it PCF for short. This is the most crowded forum. It is about the biggest and first planet in Entropia Universe - Planet Calypso so the biggest part of the player base use this forum. I recommend registering for this forum even if you are not playing on Planet Calypso.
- ROCKtropia Forum - The second planet in Entropia Universe was ROCktropia developed by Neverdie Studio. So this forum is also a little about Neverdie Studio and music. I recommend registering for it only if you are playing on Rocktropia or planning of visiting it in the future.
- Next Island Forum - The third planet in EU. I recommend registering for it only if you are playing on Rocktropia or planning of visiting it in the future.
- Planet Arkadia Forum - The 4th planet that was discovered in Entropia Universe was Arkadia. Still new planet so again I recommend registering for it only if you are playing on Rocktropia or planning of visiting it in the future.
- Planet Cyrene Forum - This is the next planet that will be released in the first quarter of 2012. It will be one of the best planets in Entropia Universe and if you register on the forum between now on the first of May 2012, you will receive a "Cyrene Pioneer" badge.
- Planet Toulan Forum - Planet is not yet discovered, but the forum exists. No need to register.
- Entropia Forum - This is the forum where developers (MindArk) read and write. So if you want to ask them some question about the game or see what they have to say about other topics this is the place. You will also find information about all kind of stuff like Entropia radio, tracker, wiki, social media, new planets and more. I recommend registering for this forum.
- Entropia Planets Forum - This forum is not owned by MindArk or any planet partner and it is about the game and all planets in it. While you will see less players here then on Planet Calypso forum, usually you can read some interesting interview with some of the game developers and planet partners. I recommend registering for this forum.
To summarize things up: Register for Planet Calypso forum for the player base, register for Entropia Forum for the developers posts, register for Entropia Planets forum for the interviews and articles. And if you are on other planet than Calypso register for its forum too.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Promoter Rating, Reputation and Land Lot Deeds


How can I combine those 3 in one sentance? First they all start with value of 1000 and second if we forget about the ROI, the land grab and the voting - the Land Lot Deeds will act like Planet Reputation Skill. And not hidden one.
Every planet will start with reputation 1000 PED per deed and if they perform good reputation will rise, if they perform bad reputation will drop. One day you will have to look at the MU of every planet deeds and see wchich planet perform best or worst.
Or with other words deeds will be the Dow Jones of a planet.

Wednesday, November 9, 2011

Get a Virtual Job in Entropia Universe

Here is a list of jobs you can do in Entropia Universe to get some PEDs to fund your virtual life.
The list will be updated with more jobs and better payment when it is possible so check the page regularly.
To be easy to find me you can add me ingame in your friend list. My full avatar name is Wand AxeMurderer Silva.
It is even easier to find me and add me on Skype - axemurderer7

Here are some jobs that will be available in the future for the members of society Project Extropia:

Jobs and Positions in Society Project Extropia

Here you can find jobs on mothership in Entropia Universe

Virtual Paid Job on Mothership in Space

Beauty agent - Temporary Stopped 
If you bring me clients for haircuts I will charge them 2 peds for haircut and I will give you 1 PED. So 1 ped for me, 1 ped for you for every person that you bring me for haircut. He must pay 2 peds.
Soon the same will be for body sculpting and face sculpting.
Also soon I will add pictures of the haircuts I can make so you can show the client even before he comes to my beauty salon.

That's for now. In the future there will be more jobs and the payment for this will rise.

Peanut Mining Maps and Logs


First Disclaimers: The depths listed are NOT the only depths you will find these ores and enmats I primarily run around with a F-103 so all results are biased to that finder, I thought I would add the depths they might be helpful, with the exception of the rugaritz those are accurate and if you could find rugaritz shallower then 800 I’d love to know AND Rugaritz is extremely rare and will require a very high end finder or an uber enhanced medium end one. Even then no guarantees you will find a single stone.

This map is a work in progress only a fraction of my notes are here the parts where I can't give a clear answer on that aren't hit or miss I have left out for now. I will always be I’m always collecting data, if you see something they looks like it needs to be improved or have any suggestions I’d love to hear them

Here is the Map the little red circles I’ve marked with Note next to it are my special mining areas i love the frequent and I will explain them on the bottom of this post if I marked something ON* it is my older data I don't have the best notes on mostly missing the exact depths, and if I have depth ?? it’s just something I have new data on just not enough to give an answer for depth on IE only 1 or 2 claims, Solis beans at the moment are the only enmat I don't have the best data on so far

It’s a big map let it load. Click on it to see it bigger. Scroll to the bottom for notes.
The noted areas are my favorite spots the ones I’ve found over the months and years to give me a good shot at doing good, I primary use a Finder F-103 sometimes with 2 enhancers sometimes un-enhanced for best results use something comparable.
I also mine without amps just for your information.

Note 1 ( South of Zs little farm TP)- This is one of my new areas I’ve mined it a few times now but it’s still new in my book but I’ve had good luck here
You will find a lot of duruilium and gazzurdite on the ore side, en mats will be cave sap ( tt food ) for the most part and pockets of garcen, MU wise the ores are the money makers here cave sap and garcen really don't fetch much on auctions
Duru and Gazz at the moment both hover around 115-120% not amazing MUs but it will still be a nice boost.
The one thing I love about this spot that makes it great you will be hard pressed to find claims under III or IV ( remember I mine un-amped) The claims here on average are at least a small(V) and you can find a good amount of them when the mining is good here.

Note 2 ( West of TI ) this is a more interesting spot i don't mine much but it has one redeeming quality ( Some may not like it ) that is it is packed full of oil and lyst. I personally use a lot of oil and lyst in my crafts so when I need to resupply i come here. If you don't need oil or lyst just skip this spot I have almost never found any different claim here.

Note 3 ( South of the chilled hugglo and maffiod TP ) This has got to be one of my favorite spots by far the claims here are small but just come by the handful when this place is hot double bomb all I can say. when this place is not hot you will find out fast claims will be sporadic and small MOVE leave this spot right away you will lose ped this spot has to be on fire and you will do great
Ore wise you will find a lot of frigulite and blausarium
Enmatter wise you will find a lot of force nexus and acid root
What’s so special well let me tell you you will also find another enmatter , Devils Tail that's right the 900% MU of liquid ( or tailish ?  ) gold. It’s rare but not a real rare find here it hangs out at depths of around 500 give or take a few hundred. A nice sized mining run here when it is good you will come back with an actionable amount of devils tail , my average is between 20-40 ped that's after MU

Note 4 This final spot, North of Nea's place , specifically on the ridge you will find where i highlighted.
Here is where I go when i need cumbriz you will find a lot of it there and it has a decent MU. According to my data the cumbriz loves to sit in a very specific depth here almost always between 400-500
Ore wise you will be hard pressed to find anything different.
Enmatter wise you will find a few scraps of random stuff nothing primary, including angelic grit, typonolic steam and lytairian powder

I have really gotten to the point where I can pull a profit on it with a decent consistency.

A few beginner tips for you aspiring miners. Start with the new TT rookie finders just have fun get a feel for it. Keep conscious of the distance you allow between you bombs, every miner has a different length. Over lapping is good but not too much, don’t drop a probe walk 4 steps and drop again. Also double dropping, dropping another bomb at a claim you found people have mixed feelings on that to for me depends on the situation. Personally I don't double drop on small claims, when I do double drop I like to double drop AT the claim not standing in the same spot right after you find a claim

And my final tip that will save you PED when the mining is bad just stop! Find something else to do, if you really have mining fever find a new spot that is a completely different location. Best would be to wait half a day or a whole day don’t mine angry it is never good.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Become a citizen of Planet Calypso

Today MindArk announced that they will sell shares from Planet Calypso to the players so 50% of the profit will go to MindArk and 50% to the players that own the deeds. One deed will cost 1000 PED and will give you piece of land 100m x 100m. You will also receive interest each week. Also one of those deeds will give you the right to vote for future development of the planet and 9 deeds will give you the ability to build house on that land. Below is the full official news, but first you can read some of the questions and answers from MindArk employees to make things more clear.

Q: Futurama:
The question is - will we be able to sell them to someone else afterwards? Or i will have to wait few years to get my peds back?
The Land Lot deeds are tradable just like any other item in Entropia.

A:Bjorn|MindArk:
Revenue share dividends will be paid once per week, to whichever participant currently holds the deed at the time of disbursement.

Kim|MindArk:
I guess you will all be my bosses from now on then

David|MindArk:
Other planets in Entropia Universe
Once a planet partner has reached a certain criteria, such as level of users and a record of profitable revenue stream they will have the chance to include this system on the planet.
David

Q: AxeMurderer:
Now the deed is like a share from all calypso or for exactly named plot siting somewhere, so everyone will get different revenue depending where his mini land is?

A: Bjorn|MindArk:
Each Land Lot deed provides an equal share of the total Planet Calypso Planet Partner Gross Revenue. The plots that will be made available later will not affect a deedholder's share of revenue.

Kim|MindArk:
More of these deeds will be added on a daily basis.

Bjorn|MindArk:
Additional Information
To clarify various questions raised by participants, the following information has been added to the original Land Lot Deed announcement:
Land Lot Deeds can be found on the Entropia Universe auction, under the ‘Global’ location (selectable in the top right-hand corner of the auction interface), and are sold by the avatar James Bowerbird EstateBroker.
Land Lot deeds will be added to the Entropia Universe global auction at varying times throughout the day so that participants from all timezones will have an opportunity to acquire deeds during the initial offering.
The Land Lot deeds are tradeable just like any other item in Entropia Universe. Revenue share dividends will be paid once per week, into the PED card balances of all participants currently holding Land Lot deeds at the time of disbursement. Land Lot deeds need not be held in an avatar’s carried inventory; as long as the deed(s) are included on the ‘My Items’ list, dividends will be received.
The Planet Partner Revenue paid to Planet Calypso (AR Universe AB) will be divided equally: 50% paid to Land Lot deedholders and the remaining 50% to cover the ongoing development, marketing and operating costs of Planet Calypso.
Land Lot deeds are unable to be looted in PVP areas.

Kim|MindArk:
Posted on behalf of Jan Welter Timkrans

One of the main reasons for introducing this new system was to finance a substantial marketing campaign for the Entropia Universe. We are committed to initiating a marketing campaign as soon as possibly at much larger scale then we have ever done before.

/EDIT: This was posted in response to questions from Viperstrike voiced yesterday in this thread and through private messages. I thought that the rest of the community would benefit from knowing this as well and that is why I posted the statement in public. - Kim

Q: AxeMurderer:
Is there end date for this or until all deeds are sold?

A: millstreet2:
James (broker) was answering a question in town today, and said vice versely that if they all dont sell, you still get 1/60k of the share, not 1/x amount that sells. But I highly doubt that will happen. Won't be a month before these are gone once bank transfers hit.

Bjorn|MindArk:
It seems that some participants still hold the misconception that buying a Land Lot deed is like buying a "mini Land Area" or that Land Lot deeds will function in a way similar to other existing estates.
This is not the case, as we have tried to make clear in our original announcement and in later statements.
Land Lot deeds are not the same as Outback Land Areas (commonly referred to as LAs or Land Areas).
Land Lot deedholders will not have the ability to set tax rates, manage mob DNA setttings, host events, etc.
The Land Grab mentioned in the initial announcement simply describes a forthcoming system whereby Land Lot deedholders will have the ability to claim a 10m x 10m plot of land for each deed held.

p82

And here is the full news:

Entropia Universe takes Virtual World Citizenship to a whole new level!

Planet Calypso introduces a groundbreaking Citizenship System that includes Land Lot Deeds with an expected annual return on investment of up to 30%.
Gothenburg, Sweden, November 8th, 2011 – MindArk, developer of Entropia Universe, announced today that it will introduce a groundbreaking new Citizenship System. This system will provide planet-wide revenue sharing to participants, as well as a forthcoming political system that will allow users to influence the future development of the planet.

“The Citizenship System will have a strong impact on the social and virtual worlds industry”, said Jan Welter Timkrans, Chairman of MindArk, “Now people can make money using their game-playing skills and by engaging in the micro transactions economy. They can both share in the revenues of their favourite world and help decide its future via the political system! “

The new system will allow participants of Entropia Universe to acquire a Land Lot deed. This deed grants holders citizenship on Planet Calypso, along with political voting rights. Citizens of Planet Calypso will receive a share in the planet partner Gross Revenue. Based on Planet Calypso’s performance over the last twelve months, the potential ROI (Return of Investment) of such shares is expected to be between 27% - 30% per year.

Jan Welter Timkrans: “So far, land management in Entropia Universe has been a very exclusive thing, as the market price for land area deeds have ranged from $5,000 on the low end, to upwards of $500,000. Now, participants of all levels and budgets can manage a piece of an entire virtual world for $100 USD – less than the price of two regular PC games. The Citizenship System brings a new era in MMO and Virtual World participation, something people have been crying out for. It will bring value to people who are passionate about games and global online culture.”

The new Citizenship System will showcase the economics of a successful Planet Partner on the Entropia Universe platform. Planet Calypso is a profitable Virtual world. It is the oldest of the planets in Entropia Universe, has over 1 million registered users and over $ 400,000,000 USD per year in user-to-user transactions.

In total, sixty thousand (60,000) Land Lot deeds will be created, each representing a 100 square meter plot on Planet Calypso. Starting on November 8, 2011, batches of these deeds will be offered on the Entropia Universe auction. Each Land Lot deed will have a start-bid price and a buyout price of 1000 PEDs ($100 USD). The Land Lot deeds will be implemented as stackable items, and will be made available in single units, as well as in stacks of 5, 10, 20, 50, and 100. Batches will continue to be offered on the auction until the entire sixty thousands deeds have been sold.

Each Land Lot deed entitles the holder to a share of the 50% planet partner Gross Revenue generated by Planet Calypso. Payouts of revenue share dividends to deed holders will be made once per week, as opposed to once per year or once per month for many other investments!"

The success and profitability of the planet will determine the revenue received as a land lot deed holder. If Calypso becomes more popular, the ROI will be higher; similarly, if the popularity of Calypso decreases, the ROI would also decrease. First revenue payouts are planned for the beginning of December 2011.

Once every six months, audited figures will be presented on MindArk’s homepage so that deed holders can verify their revenue share payouts.

Current land area deed holders on Calypso will be entitled to one free land lot deed. This does not include deeds for claim battle areas, houses, apartments, shops or sub-divided areas, only Outback Land Areas (OLAs). Treasure Island, FOMA, Crystal Palace and Medusa’s Head will receive one deed, issued to the main estate manager. Management of existing Outback Land Areas will remain unaffected.

Land Lot Deed holders will have the opportunity to take part in a Calypso Citizenship land grab. Certain areas will be opened on Calypso where deed holders can stake out their land plots. This system development is scheduled to begin in 2012.

Land Lot Deed holders will be able to build house(s) on the plot(s) they have staked out. (Minimum of 9 plots in a 3x3 format suitable for a structure). This system development is scheduled to begin in 2013.

Additionally, a comprehensive political system is planned that will allow Land Lot Deed holders to become directly involved with decisions affecting the future development of Calypso, with voting power relative to the number of Land Lot Deeds held. This system development is also scheduled to begin in 2012.

This information has been released prior to the official press release planned for 16th November as a courtesy to Entropia Universe participants. Further information and specifications may be applied.