Entropia Universe Explorations

After the first month….

astrogem — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:57:24 +0000

A calendar month has now passed since I have started playing Entropia using BlackHawks guidelines. I was not able to play for the full month though as I had a trip during the month. So how far along have I gotten so far? Lets see…..

I did a lot of reading on the game mostly using the entropia guide I found when I was doing the teleporter runs. The first goal of getting all the teleports was done very quickly. At that point we started the sweating stage to build up out skills before starting to hunt. The orginal plan as posted at this point was to get to 300 sweat gathering skill during the rest of the month. As we played this was changed a bit. The goal was changed to focus more on the evade skill, and to get that to at least 200 evade before the end of the month. The plan was also changed to have us sell the gathered sweat and use it to buy pixie armor and a vivo t1 and skill up the first aid skills. So far I have aquired four of the seven peices needed to complete the pixie set, found an S(30) gun, and also bought a vivo with peds from selling sweat. I have my evade to 150 and my fiirst aid to 100. So I am behind the plan at the moment, though have made some definate progress.

Today we are supposed to start the next phase of hunting. Some people are still on vacation however, so I think I will wait a few more days and work some more on getting my evade up at least, and catch up and make up for some of the time I lost in July on the project.

Sweating….

astrogem — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:47:46 +0000

Well, I have a few unfinished draft posts, but can’t seem to get myself to finish them.

So this is just to let people know, I have been slowly working on the next goal, which is to get better skills without spending peds through ‘sweating’ which is a process in the game to collect an energy essence off the native beasts. Unfortantly there does not seem to be much to say/report during this phase of things. I now have to figure out how to sell some of the sweat I have gathered though.

Amethera completed

astrogem — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 18:15:26 +0000

Now Amethera is completed as well… done my first in game goal. Yeah…..

now I am blurry eyed and hungry…. time for a break for sure…

Eudoria Completed

astrogem — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 11:56:48 +0000

Well as of yesterday I lhave now completed all the teleports on the continent of Eudoria… the completes one subgoal.

The first goal….

astrogem — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 18:08:44 +0000

The first goal we were given was to get all the teleports, and seems I was already way behind as the others had started before I logged in. This goal in turn be broken into two parts, geting the teleports for each conitinent. That in turn can be further subdived, as running between these teleport points can take some time. So armed with a map I had found before in a guide (guess our real first goal was to research and read on the game before starting actually) I started off. Exploring the world was interesting, lots of odd critters and plants, though you could see what Earth animal they were influenced from a lot of the time. The graphics were nice and the world felt like a very clean place, I could almost imagine breathing in the clean air, in fact I wish I could somehow have that as part of the immersion! After the first few teleport sites though, I started to wish I was not rushing to catch up. I think this phase of the game would be better done in more peices and with more time to explore and relax between the points. Guess that is one draw back of doing something in a group, you don’t want to get too far behind the rest. So at the end of the night I had 17 points of the 35 on the first contient collected and was ready to call it a night….

(this was supposed to be posted yesterday, but I forgot to publish it and left in draft state)

And So it Begins……

astrogem — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:28:57 +0000

Day one of our explorations and adventures begins…..

I installed the teamspeak software and created an account at http://www.planetcalypso.com/

First thing I learned is that this is a harsh world. The ship I am in is shot out of the sky by robots and I am dead before even really starting!!!! So now I have to be reformed from my DNA it seems, and get to select my look. I follow some of the guidelines set up by BlackHawk for this trial and enter the game proper. I find that some of the others in the experiment have already formed a society for it, which is this games name for guilds. Seems the others have already started and I am way behind already! BlackHawk meets with me briefly and has me join the society and tells me to get started collecting teleports. What a teleport is, is the way to be able to quickly get back to some of the points on the map, that you can use once you have already visited them once to record their locations in your map. And so it begins…..

Hello world! ( in this case the world is the planet Calypso)

astrogem — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:28:16 +0000

I am about to start playing in a multi user game game world. The game is called Entropia Universe and the world you play on is called planet Calypso. The game itself is free to download and play. When you start you have almost nothing, just some wore out clothes. The game features a real cash economy, the in game curriency called the ped is exchanged for US dollars at a rate of 10:1. This means if you play well and have some luck you can eventually withdraw from your game out. Like most games though, it is best viewed as entertmainment, especially at the start, and played within a budget. I have recently been invited to take part in an experment to see how the current gameplay works out on a budget similar to a subscribtion based MMO, of $15 a month.