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Fair enough, not truly random, but fairly unpredictable. Thanks for the wiki link! That's exactly what I was looking for.

When I last played - several years ago - there were maps of Eudoria and Amethera showing revival borders. I'm unable to find any that aren't years old however. Does anyone make this sort of thing anymore? I found them quite indispensable since the revival borders are pretty random.

He didn't build it block-by-block, he somehow imported it into the game. He made the original, though.

I had one a long time ago where I mined and found some huge claim. It was on the western side of the river going south to the Troy peninsula, about halfway there, before VU10. Somehow I found a location that was almost exactly the same in game. There was no huge claim, of course.

I don't really see a reason for personal loot pools to exist, anyhow. It should be much easier to tweak the entire system to generate a desired amount of money for the developer than to keep logs of every single avatar for as long as they exist, and constantly calculate how much loot they should...

Why not make it free for everyone, really? It's a service you don't typically have to pay for. I can't see why anyone would, anyway. As for the (L)imited vehicles and other items... I can't say I particularly like using them, but I can see very good reasons for their existence. They keep the...

I believe it was mentioned that the system won't be back right away but when it comes back you'll have all your EFD. ...somehow I'm reminded of VU10.

Avatar-based loot would mean that they had to redo the loot system in its entirety when the current mining system was introduced. You used to be able to not claim a find and you could rebomb and find the same deposit or another player could take it. It was there in the ground, anyone could take...

I'm amazed that people deposit <a significant amount of money for them>, lose it, deposit again, lose it, and keep doing the same thing. Perhaps somewhere around the second step it would be apt to adjust your strategy? When it's really frustrating is when you lose due to pure bad luck, no...

After giving this some more thought, I still don't like it one bit. Mindark is turning Entropia into some sort of online pop culture theme park, where anything goes, long as it makes money. I guess I now get to talk about the 'good old times'... No, the loot wasn't any better, and MA was...

More novelty planets utterly unfitting of the universe, yay. At least Cyrene looks promising.

Hmm. Travel. Relatedly, become familiar with at least one foreign culture. Fly a plane. Can't think of anything more just now, but I'm sure there are a bunch of things. Oh, space would be great to experience, but I'm not counting on that becoming remotely affordable to me during my lifetime.

Well, at least make them not attack outside their normal aggro range. When mobs go in aggressive mode, they can, I believe, attack any players in the entire radar area. Even if the driver doesn't do it on purpose, anyone within a couple hundred meters is at risk.

The problem is one of immersion. Entropia used to be one scifi universe and one setting, but now it appears anything at all goes. We'll probably end up with guitar weapons and night elves on Calypso before too long. It's no longer one universe; it's a mess of universes that bleed over to each...

No, not directly. But whenever a car drives past and aggroes some mobs, they'll switch targets to anyone else in the radar area once the car shakes them off. If a car drives by you in an area full of troxes you're utterly screwed unless you can and want to fight them all. They don't need to be...

There are plenty of exotic places, just depends on where you go... I think there's a good mix of terraformed terrestrial landscape and surreal alien environments.

I can't say I've seen veins, more like dense fields of ore less than a square kilometer in size. Almost every bomb inside the field will yield a deposit. They have pretty distinct borders; go too far in one direction and you won't find anything anymore. Bombing through one of those in a...

There's nothing wrong with oil burning internal combustion vehicles in the future. Since oil is plentiful on Calypso it makes lots of sense. Sure, we have teleporters, but they don't obsolete cars any more than jetliners did in the real world. What are you rather going to do, ferry in mini...

So has anyone yet tried finding a deposit, leaving it for an hour for it to expire and seeing if they can claim the same deposit again?

My guess is run 155.

Depends on how far back you go. I think it was definitely harder when every mob was as aggressive as an atrox and running around the PA swamp meant you soon had 30 ravenous daikibas on your tail.

I only drop enough bombs to cover the whole area if it seems like it'll be worth it. My method is to bomb every few minutes, then drop a bomb or two close by if there's a find. I probably end up missing a bunch of big finds, but I save tons of PED by not carpet bombing what are clearly empty areas.

It looks cool but I wish it wasn't so conspicuous on the map. It's like they just slapped a perfectly square new area on top of it.

It's not a normal ion engine, it's a plasma rocket. VASIMR, short for Variable Specific Impulse Magnetoplasma Rocket. The "Variable Specific Impulse" part means it can shift gears in a way: It can switch between more thrust with less efficiency and less thrust with more efficiency. It can't...