The growth of the new Platform business plan put forth by Mindark is dependent on travel between worlds.
You cant possibly believe that these worlds owners expect to be completely independent and not hope to gather traffic from other planet partners.
The selling point of the platform is to get your product out in front of as many paying people as possible.
Not every planet can be a game planet , for the platform to have a growing and sustainable economic base there needs to be a flow people infusing fresh money into it.
Fresh money will come from retail sales such as electronics , music sales , clothing , and an entire array of products and services.
I cannot see a consumer paying these added fees to view products at other locations , especially when they can surf the web for items without any transport fees.
I am not saying that Mindark doesnt owe a possible usefullness for the spacefleet that is waiting in limbo , but to make the partner planets dependent on this fleet to shuttle their customers at the customers expense is just silly.
Bones
The growth of eu doesnt depends on travelling, it depends of making new worlds worth it for people they want to target it at that dont know the game and us that think its worth going there
,it will be new people by their own advertising aswell as us the current player base.
they will never be totally independant,and will all helps each other in the end to bring customers to every planets even if each goal of planet owner is to bring people and to keep them on their own, being sucessfull of course as a new planet or at least making profit enough to not care that people switch.
its a platform as u said, and we are linked through tp with fee aswell as auctions with fees using the same economy and same base of gameplay, it still doesnt change the fact that as a new planet not working at all, and suposed to bring its own customers because they have something worth to show, its still normal fees are there,and it should never change.
Advertising, diversity and new things are the key for sure, just look at what brings passive news such as CND resales, about 30 noob a minuts last weeks or something, it benefit mainly FPC because of the news from cnd located on fpc,
but certainly bring noob to rocktropia too (which iam sad to think about since its been up for 9 months or something, and still not noob friendly even if the planet itself we have to say looks amazingly well designed, but might be discouraging to keep playing, and feeling forced to remake an avatar on FPC if they feel like the game is worth it)
In the end everyone benefit from it, the more planets sucessfull the more players get to know entropia because news fell everywhere and they make their own advertising and make something more and more deeper depending of their ideas and what they are allowed to do, so if u can imagine one day having 20 planets up all proposing differents things mostly close to the same that we know on lots of planets and really differents things, its only natural to push up motivation for people owning planets to actually make them alive first and wokrs their ass better to make it a blast fast and keeping fees.
Imo, its normal that fees are here to stay, before rocktropia was here u didnt need it, u are born on calypso, why do u feel bad about paying 40 ped to go try it out, even tho u get all u need to know about it before hand thx internet ?
U dont even need to try it out to know what is on it and if it attracts u.
If u want to try a new movie, but dont wanna pay, its up to u and your choices, its what i dont understand,
u will never need to go somewhere to check price on real items on some virgin megastore planets, i dont get the expemple of selling goods but its maybe way too late for me..
there will always be all infos known we want online, the same than entropedia does already, and if u feel like buying something on some planets as a FPC player there then its worth paying the trip right ?
And i cant imagine them selling things that sell in the real worlds.. what would be the point.. or then if its cheaper than real worlds, then u will gladly pay the fee anyway to travel there, this exemple of people wanting to move from a planet to another just to check things out but not wanting to pay is something i dont get, if they create something it will be well thought and a viable business plan, they know what they do, u dont have to worry about it and if anyone feel the need to move somewhere else then there is a reason still.
in the end we all choose where we wanna start as a newcommers, and adult enough to choose if we wanna go check a planet and that 40 ped is worth the try, we started on calypso, we still dont need to go on other planets but we will do if we feel its worth the shot, and maybe prefer to migrate on others planets aswell in the end for some.
i will be glad to pay to discover the new EU next island when it comes up, but no one force me too and i dont need it, but iam curious and its nothing more expensive to me than going to macdonald, to cinema, already seeing a total new world and having fun hours with something that actually has real content hopefully will be worth the shot.
I can also just wait and check forums to see if it appeals me.
So your extra fresh money will come if something is interesting enough for us to bother coming and newbis not knowing eu before finding a X planet interesting in the entropiauniverse and deciding he wants to try it out, but not because fee arent there.
As for newbies spawning on a virgin megastore planet, they will be here initially just for that, and not coming from a planet of gamers, but maybe in the end after purchasing something on virgin megastore planet, they will still wanna try others planets after discovering the universe, and then its up to them to choose if its worth paying like us deciding to go to CP, CND or ROCKTROPIA, after all they didnt come to have fun kill harbringers, make mining global or crafting or pk in the first place but maybe as they are immersed in it will want to in the end, still a virgin megastore planet make money by selling good worth it for anyone, so its their problem if they dont make enough cash and that when newbie spawn to buy something decide to go on some planet rather than spend it on the thing he wanted initially.
In the end they all benefits each others, and i dont see a problem with fees at all.
sorry for the badly written thing its late, i hope iam not out of subject XD
