Well from the planets to the Universe .. it's ever growing, and in fact it keeps getting bigger.
Now granted the One thing that needs to connect the worlds is in fact the one thing that connects Earth to the rest of the Solar System we live in
and that area, is in fact, space.
That's right Space. The real final frontier.
Imgine instead of taking a transporter from world to world, you actually fly there..
That's right you fly.. in space. You leave the planet you're on, and you head into the blackness of space. to an orbiting spacedock, and it's here when you can land in a mothership.
Yes a real live ship that is so huge, it makes the Enterprise and the Space Battleship Yamato look small in comparison.
And yes, that mothership has everything, A revival bay, a fighter bay, an engineering section, and even a pilot, co-pilot and navigation seat..
Oh and did I mention the gunners? Yep this isn't just a mothership that flies around in space, but a real warship that really shoots.. and what does it shoot? Any other ship that it gets in path..
And speaking of the enemy: There,'s going to be AI fighter craft shooting back.. and sometime it'll be other players.. in Short, you have just gone from being a fighter pilot on a planet, to a REAL Space jockey that will really seperate the wen and women from the boys and girls of the Universe..
Oh and did I mention the other dangers? Not only will you have to navigate the space and doge enemy ships but also space creatures that will try to destroy you..
But if you're lucky to survive the trip you will reach a new world.. and then disembark and land on the planet below you.
In short, Space.. will be the best thing to happen to the game, and already? I'm a trained astronaut. But to quote a real life astronaut, I have to say this.
No Bucks, means no Buck Rogers. Literally
so yeah Space will truly be the final frontier..literally.
and if the Uchuu Sanken Yamato shows up, well I'll be ready.. to go into a fire fight in my space VTOL.. armed to the teeth.. And then watch a real cowboy become what he's dreamt of ..
A Space Cowboy..
Yippee Ki Yay...
Saturday, June 4, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
The State of the Universe: 6 Months later.
Howdy Folks, "The Blind Sniper here"
Wow, has it been that long since i posted? I mean the last time i checked was that I poswted in October 2010.. and then .. nothing..
Until now.
It's been 6 months since I last posted and in tht 6 months a lot has happened inside the Entropia Universe.. And I mean a lot.
First off First Planet Company (FPC) is no more. That's right folks the folks who ran Calypso were bought out by SEE Digital Studios (SDS as it's called now) and things have definitely improved. because it seems that FPC couldn't handle losing players right, left and center, so they did the honorable thing. They put themselves up for sale, and SDS really bought them out.. for 6 Million dollars USD. A lot of money for a planet.
Then there's the Flip side of the coin. Namely the Medusa Island Complex. A New area that is located southwest of Eudoria, and it was put up for auction in late December, and the winning bid? Just 300,000 PED (or about 30,000 Dollars. A paltry sum in My opinion. It's so paltry, that a lot of players have been bailing out of the game. Literally, especially the land owners.
Of course then there's Next Island, (Planet 3 of the Universe). They say that third times a charm right? Wrong. Next Island was partially created by NeverDie Studios, and just like the Previous Planet, (ROCKTropia), this has in a way become a world that doesn't quite work right.
Which brings us to today.. and the 4th planet in the Series, known as Planet Arkadia.
And no, that's not Mispelled either.. But where both ROCKTropia, an Next Island have faileed (Literlally) Arkadia, is quite the opposite. So what's the difference?
The answer is this: Arkadia's CEO Emphatically would NOT launch untila vast majority of the systems were in place, and there were plenty of blueprints for everyone to have.
And they were projected to launch on May 24th, 2011. So you're probably think with the way MindArk acts, that this goal of May 24th, 2011 wouldn't be reached on time. Well you're only partially right. It wasn't, but not a major delay. Try May 25th, 2011. Just 1 day late.. and you know what happened then? Half the planet of Calypso jumped ship, and moved over to Arkadia, and for the last 10 days, Arkadia has become a bit of a thriving community, and some of the former Calypso residence are planning on staying.
Last night (June 2nd, 2011), it's amazing that I ran into the CEO of Arkadia, and instead of receiving a lot of complaints from the players who talked to him, he got a lot of positive feedback.
A lot.
In short, me and a friend looked at the overall Market of the Entropia Universe, and get ready for a shock, cause 20% of the market is Arkadia driven. That's right 20%. And folks keep coming back or staying on Arkadia. That's an amazing thing. A world that is just as alive as Calypso was back in it's heyday just 5 years ago.
So yeah, things are improving. So then this brings up my next post:
Wow, has it been that long since i posted? I mean the last time i checked was that I poswted in October 2010.. and then .. nothing..
Until now.
It's been 6 months since I last posted and in tht 6 months a lot has happened inside the Entropia Universe.. And I mean a lot.
First off First Planet Company (FPC) is no more. That's right folks the folks who ran Calypso were bought out by SEE Digital Studios (SDS as it's called now) and things have definitely improved. because it seems that FPC couldn't handle losing players right, left and center, so they did the honorable thing. They put themselves up for sale, and SDS really bought them out.. for 6 Million dollars USD. A lot of money for a planet.
Then there's the Flip side of the coin. Namely the Medusa Island Complex. A New area that is located southwest of Eudoria, and it was put up for auction in late December, and the winning bid? Just 300,000 PED (or about 30,000 Dollars. A paltry sum in My opinion. It's so paltry, that a lot of players have been bailing out of the game. Literally, especially the land owners.
Of course then there's Next Island, (Planet 3 of the Universe). They say that third times a charm right? Wrong. Next Island was partially created by NeverDie Studios, and just like the Previous Planet, (ROCKTropia), this has in a way become a world that doesn't quite work right.
Which brings us to today.. and the 4th planet in the Series, known as Planet Arkadia.
And no, that's not Mispelled either.. But where both ROCKTropia, an Next Island have faileed (Literlally) Arkadia, is quite the opposite. So what's the difference?
The answer is this: Arkadia's CEO Emphatically would NOT launch untila vast majority of the systems were in place, and there were plenty of blueprints for everyone to have.
And they were projected to launch on May 24th, 2011. So you're probably think with the way MindArk acts, that this goal of May 24th, 2011 wouldn't be reached on time. Well you're only partially right. It wasn't, but not a major delay. Try May 25th, 2011. Just 1 day late.. and you know what happened then? Half the planet of Calypso jumped ship, and moved over to Arkadia, and for the last 10 days, Arkadia has become a bit of a thriving community, and some of the former Calypso residence are planning on staying.
Last night (June 2nd, 2011), it's amazing that I ran into the CEO of Arkadia, and instead of receiving a lot of complaints from the players who talked to him, he got a lot of positive feedback.
A lot.
In short, me and a friend looked at the overall Market of the Entropia Universe, and get ready for a shock, cause 20% of the market is Arkadia driven. That's right 20%. And folks keep coming back or staying on Arkadia. That's an amazing thing. A world that is just as alive as Calypso was back in it's heyday just 5 years ago.
So yeah, things are improving. So then this brings up my next post:
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
10.1: MA Delivered the Goods, but was it really Good?
Well it's October 6th, and this morning when I started up my Entropia Universe Game, There was an Update sitting on my desktop. It was the long awaited VU 10.1 and in fact after downloading it, I decided to give my Teleporter Chip a Run for it's Money.
Now the current way things run you don't have to equip your Implant on yourself, but you do have to have both Mind Essence (ME) and your Teleporter chip on you as well.
Just power up the chip, wait till it powers up, and then use the tool to select where you want to jump. Once you've picked where you want to go (It's a Little Blue dot) you hit Teleport, and Boom you're there (Of course there's always the chance you might "Miss your Target". and end up landing somewhere where you don't like it. (Like in a Mob setting)
But there's a downside to Teleporting and that is you 'burn' Mind Essence, and the way Mind Essence is in short supply, the cost is gonna kill you. (At last report, Mind Essence is now 240% over TT Value for just the Day Markup, which means a 1000 Mind Essence (with a TT Value of 10 PED) is worth 24 PED On the open market with some of these folks asking as much as 280% (28 PED). I even saw some on auction for 300%.. That's 30 PED For just 1000 Mind Essence (About 111 Jumps with the Teleporter chip I have.
But in the end Did Mindark/FPC Deliver the Goods? Well this is just the first installment of Version 10.1 and there's a lot to go for VU10.1 to be worth the effort..
So did they bring in the goods? Kind of..But there's still a lot of room for Improvement
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper)
Now the current way things run you don't have to equip your Implant on yourself, but you do have to have both Mind Essence (ME) and your Teleporter chip on you as well.
Just power up the chip, wait till it powers up, and then use the tool to select where you want to jump. Once you've picked where you want to go (It's a Little Blue dot) you hit Teleport, and Boom you're there (Of course there's always the chance you might "Miss your Target". and end up landing somewhere where you don't like it. (Like in a Mob setting)
But there's a downside to Teleporting and that is you 'burn' Mind Essence, and the way Mind Essence is in short supply, the cost is gonna kill you. (At last report, Mind Essence is now 240% over TT Value for just the Day Markup, which means a 1000 Mind Essence (with a TT Value of 10 PED) is worth 24 PED On the open market with some of these folks asking as much as 280% (28 PED). I even saw some on auction for 300%.. That's 30 PED For just 1000 Mind Essence (About 111 Jumps with the Teleporter chip I have.
But in the end Did Mindark/FPC Deliver the Goods? Well this is just the first installment of Version 10.1 and there's a lot to go for VU10.1 to be worth the effort..
So did they bring in the goods? Kind of..But there's still a lot of room for Improvement
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper)
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Woot! Another Global! (152 PED) Plus an SGA Item!
Well it seems that every time I've turned around something good is finally happening to me.
Well Saturday Night was to me just another night to play Entropia Universe, and in my evening I was helping a Fellow Socmate Initiate get another 9 TP's so he could be 9 TP's closer to getting promoted.
So I said, Sure why not, and we started our run out at Cape Cornith, a nice little place that is full of atrox, daikiba, imutatrox, ginib, and of course Cornundacauda.
Well during the first leg of the run from Cape Cornith to Honuri TP, we ran into a batch of Cornundacauda, or "Cornies" as I like to call them. So we're out on the Beach around the Cornith Beach houses and I spotted a Cornundacauda Guardian, perhaps a big one..
Now for a Skilled person like myself, These creatures are a walk in the part. For what it was worth, tonight's kill was really special on two fronts.
For first of all killing that Cornundacauda I got a global that was worth 152 PED.. My largest Solo Kill to date.
But what was more surprising was in fact in the loot itself, namely a Corsican Enblade 1, SGA Edition, (So yep I finally got a "Second Golden Age" Item that was at least worth 15 PED, but the rest of the loot was enough to give me a 152 PED Solo Kill.
But what is more intriguing is that for my first four Globals each kill has been equal to or larger than the previous ones.
Here's how it breaks down
90 PED Atrax Mature (x2)
106 PED Argonaut Young
152 PED Cornundacauda Guardian.
There's a pattern starting to form here, and in fact I think it's a lot to do with my skill rather than with blind luck..
But tonight was yet another notch in the belt. But what a haul this time.. An SGA Item.. Woot!
But what's next for me? A 200 PED Hof? Or maybe a 200 PED Global.. but the next Global is just anywhere from a few days to a few months from now.
And I'll be waiting for it to happen.. which mob will it be next time?
Oh well that Cornundacauda didn't see it coming..
But chalk one more up for
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper)
Well Saturday Night was to me just another night to play Entropia Universe, and in my evening I was helping a Fellow Socmate Initiate get another 9 TP's so he could be 9 TP's closer to getting promoted.
So I said, Sure why not, and we started our run out at Cape Cornith, a nice little place that is full of atrox, daikiba, imutatrox, ginib, and of course Cornundacauda.
Well during the first leg of the run from Cape Cornith to Honuri TP, we ran into a batch of Cornundacauda, or "Cornies" as I like to call them. So we're out on the Beach around the Cornith Beach houses and I spotted a Cornundacauda Guardian, perhaps a big one..
Now for a Skilled person like myself, These creatures are a walk in the part. For what it was worth, tonight's kill was really special on two fronts.
For first of all killing that Cornundacauda I got a global that was worth 152 PED.. My largest Solo Kill to date.
But what was more surprising was in fact in the loot itself, namely a Corsican Enblade 1, SGA Edition, (So yep I finally got a "Second Golden Age" Item that was at least worth 15 PED, but the rest of the loot was enough to give me a 152 PED Solo Kill.
But what is more intriguing is that for my first four Globals each kill has been equal to or larger than the previous ones.
Here's how it breaks down
90 PED Atrax Mature (x2)
106 PED Argonaut Young
152 PED Cornundacauda Guardian.
There's a pattern starting to form here, and in fact I think it's a lot to do with my skill rather than with blind luck..
But tonight was yet another notch in the belt. But what a haul this time.. An SGA Item.. Woot!
But what's next for me? A 200 PED Hof? Or maybe a 200 PED Global.. but the next Global is just anywhere from a few days to a few months from now.
And I'll be waiting for it to happen.. which mob will it be next time?
Oh well that Cornundacauda didn't see it coming..
But chalk one more up for
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper)
Saturday, October 3, 2009
10.1- The Next Step starts in 3 days.
It's October 3rd in the Entropia Universe, and so far MA/FPC has been rather silent about the upcoming Version Update 10.1. But according to sources it's due to hit about 6 October (This Tuesday)
What will 10.1 entail? Well according to sources 10.1 will have the return of the 'Teleporter" Chips at least, so that folks can get around the planet faster by using Mindforce and their Teleporter chips.
But the question is will MA/FPC Deliver 'On Time'
My guess is going to be a resounding 'no' they won't deliver on Time..
But then I could be wrong, as MA/FPC has already done 14 minor updates in the span of just two months, or one minor update every 4-5 days.
And I'm guessing also that when 10.1 comes out then there will be a lot of content coming out with it. Including the afforementined 'Mindforce'
but then there's going to be an interesting thing happen. Where are the folks going to find "The Mind Essence to power these mindforce Chips? After all Ive yet to see Force Nexus and Sweat out there on the market, so it's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out
But stay tuned.. the first release is in just 3 days.
Ben Coyote (Aka 'The Blind Sniper')
What will 10.1 entail? Well according to sources 10.1 will have the return of the 'Teleporter" Chips at least, so that folks can get around the planet faster by using Mindforce and their Teleporter chips.
But the question is will MA/FPC Deliver 'On Time'
My guess is going to be a resounding 'no' they won't deliver on Time..
But then I could be wrong, as MA/FPC has already done 14 minor updates in the span of just two months, or one minor update every 4-5 days.
And I'm guessing also that when 10.1 comes out then there will be a lot of content coming out with it. Including the afforementined 'Mindforce'
but then there's going to be an interesting thing happen. Where are the folks going to find "The Mind Essence to power these mindforce Chips? After all Ive yet to see Force Nexus and Sweat out there on the market, so it's going to be interesting to see how this all plays out
But stay tuned.. the first release is in just 3 days.
Ben Coyote (Aka 'The Blind Sniper')
Thursday, October 1, 2009
Scotty, I Need More POWER! (Or at least a better computer!)
Well it seems that maybe in the next week or so I'll be out of game for at least a couple of days (at least) as my friend is getting his computer upgraded.. The Good news is that I'll probably get his old parts to upgrade my own computer which means I'll probably have a good enough system to play Entropia Universe.
The Bad News? Well I'll have to reload the entire Client Software from the Entropia Universe Website.
The Good News again? Thank God I got Cable connectivity.. and fast too.
The Bad news again, It'll probably take me about an hour to upload the entire client program and all the updates..
But the Good News will be that I'll be starting off with a whole fresh set up.. complete with enough memory to keep me going for quite a while (until something happens)
So in the end, the Good News Outweighs the bad, and in the end, I'll have some spectacular Graphics with probably High Settings being the norm..
But we shall see After all this new Power project may begin as early as tomorrow.. So I guess I'll be rather busy.
Will keep you posted.
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper")
The Bad News? Well I'll have to reload the entire Client Software from the Entropia Universe Website.
The Good News again? Thank God I got Cable connectivity.. and fast too.
The Bad news again, It'll probably take me about an hour to upload the entire client program and all the updates..
But the Good News will be that I'll be starting off with a whole fresh set up.. complete with enough memory to keep me going for quite a while (until something happens)
So in the end, the Good News Outweighs the bad, and in the end, I'll have some spectacular Graphics with probably High Settings being the norm..
But we shall see After all this new Power project may begin as early as tomorrow.. So I guess I'll be rather busy.
Will keep you posted.
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper")
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
October 1st.. Here we go again.
Well it's the end of the month, and again I've met my expectations as I've still got cash on my PED Card to play with.. of course with October coming up a few new decisions come into play
First off my armor.. It's Shogun, and while it's not a bad armor to have (Especially with 5B's or 6A's on) some of my friends are suggesting I move up to Ghost Armor.. which costs about double the price of Shogun to repair, and has about 30 % more protection (including electrical and acid attacks)
But will I decide to go "Ghost?" Or should this guy keep his Shogun?
Then there's weapons.. I'm qualified for a Taurus AL15 Laser rifle and I probably could use one, but the 210 PED price tag has been keeping me from getting one. Plus I've started to enjoy the usue of a 50 PED Breer M3a (I always keep 3 on me at all times) so even though the newer more expensive gun would be able to allow me to hunt atrox (The Biggest game on Entropia Universe) I feel that maybe my 210 PED would be better used for 4 Breer M3a's and I could go hunt argonauts hoping for another global.
And that's not counting the ammo burn.. I usually for keeps keep at least 10,000 rounds of ammo on me (So it's a difference between getting 800 shots versus 2500..)
so the question that comes up for October is.. What do I buy? What don't I buy? and above all what to do this month?
After all with Mindforce tentatively set for October 6th, it's anyone's guess if I'll be using a TP chip or not before the end of the month is out.
So then .. here's the thing.. You got a limited budget of just 675 PED to spend.. the question..
What do you buy?
I'll leave this one up for the Peanut Gallery
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper")
First off my armor.. It's Shogun, and while it's not a bad armor to have (Especially with 5B's or 6A's on) some of my friends are suggesting I move up to Ghost Armor.. which costs about double the price of Shogun to repair, and has about 30 % more protection (including electrical and acid attacks)
But will I decide to go "Ghost?" Or should this guy keep his Shogun?
Then there's weapons.. I'm qualified for a Taurus AL15 Laser rifle and I probably could use one, but the 210 PED price tag has been keeping me from getting one. Plus I've started to enjoy the usue of a 50 PED Breer M3a (I always keep 3 on me at all times) so even though the newer more expensive gun would be able to allow me to hunt atrox (The Biggest game on Entropia Universe) I feel that maybe my 210 PED would be better used for 4 Breer M3a's and I could go hunt argonauts hoping for another global.
And that's not counting the ammo burn.. I usually for keeps keep at least 10,000 rounds of ammo on me (So it's a difference between getting 800 shots versus 2500..)
so the question that comes up for October is.. What do I buy? What don't I buy? and above all what to do this month?
After all with Mindforce tentatively set for October 6th, it's anyone's guess if I'll be using a TP chip or not before the end of the month is out.
So then .. here's the thing.. You got a limited budget of just 675 PED to spend.. the question..
What do you buy?
I'll leave this one up for the Peanut Gallery
Ben Coyote (Aka "The Blind Sniper")
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