Q&A (Aug 06)

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Q: How come the old Mindark forum is yet to be reopened/will it ever?

It's been three years (and counting) - it was only supposed to take a month. :tongue2:

Q: Why was the crafting system actually change so as to ban all sorts of use for components all those years ago?

Q: Are you going to speed up the process of bringing components back into use?

Currently there are only a few items that require them in the crafting process.

Q: Are you actually planning on selling the houses in Minopolis - or are the open houses just for show? ;)

Q: Where are the milestones? :)

Q: As Entropia Universe is a game of skill - How come not everyone is entitled to the same facts from start? (ie decay on items, skill to miss ration when attacking mobs etc). Yes with more skills you might do more dmg and hit the mob more often, but how are we supposed to know when all of that sort of stuff is kept away from us?


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Q: Have Mindark changed their minds about ingame gamemasters (or similar)? I know You've expressed a posetive way of mind in the past, however the official statement has always said "No!".

Q: Any news on ingame casinos? You just don't want them or are you not allowed to have them? ;)
(Reference: PC Gamer May edition 2001 - Swe :whisper: )

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Q: The Gazonk is supposedly the weakest mob on the planet - the same time being the most hunted one. Where is it? :laugh:
 
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Q. Will there be any updates to the auction, like the ability to sort items on price or subgroups for all kinds of unrefined ores/enmatters ?
 
Q: when Entropia Universe will be granted of a new graphic engine and physic engine ? For the occasion, will you update the models and textures of Entropia Universe ? They are getting really old.

Q: when will we be able to tweak more aspects of Entropia Universe ? The graphic options (screen size ... 1024*768 is ugly on my 19" flatscreen ... fog distance, etc), the HUD (the other parts that haven't been changed yet), the chat (something IRC-like would be awesome).

Q: customized content ? I mean ... design our own clothes, weapons, items in general. Even if it's planned for a distant future.
 
Q: when will there be cycles of day and night?
 
My questions won't exactly make a difference to my stance on MindArk as a company personally, but I'm just curious.

Q: Can MindArk show how fruitful the partnership with Bridge, Kostabi and other partners has been for the players?

Q: Can MindArk agree that the last batch of VUs has been dissappointing, bug-wise, and can MindArk share how they intend to insure it will not happen again?

Q: Is MindArk willing to admit that collectively taking a holiday is bad for the playerbase, and what can/will be done to prevent that from happening in the future?

Q: Will MindArk take actions against anyone cheating, exploiting, scamming and what not, regardless of uber-status?

Q: What is, in MindArk's mindset, the result of blocking Romania as a country? Will this happen to more countries? Will the measure be taken to other countries as well? What about the reaction of the playerbase, and in particularly the players from Romania who do actively contribute to PE as a whole?

Q: What is MindArks official reply on the spider trapping ATH?

Q: What was the outcome of the Atrox event?

Q: Will there be 24/7 support as promised? If so, when?

Q: What will MindArk do to improve the nagative feelings from the playerbase towards the company.

Q: Will there be a way for players who successfully withdrew before to withdraw without having to wait ~2.5 months for their money?

Q: Will there be an in-game lending system?

Q: Will there be a secure way to deliver items to someone living on the other side of the world, without having to meet them in person?

I might add more questions later. I'll just edit my post by that time.
 
Q: Are there any new professions coming within the next 3 VUs?

Q: When will the vehicle system come into EU?

Q: When will we be able to go to that Planet in the sky?

Q: Are there any expansions to the variety of items? If so in which sectors?

Q: When will Planet Calypso be colonised? ANd when will the robots leave Planet Calpyso?

Q: When will the Land Area system be upgraded? (for example you get to choose the plants that grow in the Land Area and these plants affect the stats of the Monsters uniquely )

Q: When will there be new mobs to become tameable (i want a Molisk as a pet :D)

Q: When will there be a colour mixing system?, so then you can make (or you can say 'craft') colours like purple

Q: When will there be new BP sectors such as colour mixing and jewelry?

Q: What are the new professions that are coming within the next 3 VUs?

Q: Will there be any sectors of Gambling within the next few VUs? (for example slot machines)

Q: When will the graphics system be upgraded? (for example to be able to change the graphics settings)

Q: Will there be a Quest system for anyone? (like collecting a certain amount of items for the quest) If so what will the gains be?

Q: Will there be a colour system were you can colour items anywhere you like? (like customizing the colour fields)

Q: Will there be any scientific professions (for example being a chemist)

Q: Are there any continenets on Planet Calypso that we haven't discovered yet? If so what are your ideas on this?

Q: Is the game going to become more realistic? (for example the Geography of the continents)

Q: Will there be more specific bills to Land Area owners? (for example electircity bills)

Q: Will there be any new furniture items coming within the next 3 VUs? (for example wardrobes, acting as a clothes only storage unit) If so what are they?

Q: Will there be a drawing, musician or technical professions?

Q: When is the Atrox egg going to be hatched? If so what will come out? (may not be an Atrox!)

Q: Are the bugs in Entropia Universe ever going to be fixed?

Q: Will you be able to post people's answers on to this thread instead of private messaging them?

Thanks :)
 
Q: Will there be an autocrafting feature so that crafters wont have to use illegal 3rd party software?

Q: What are the future plans for (L) items? And kind of related, will the tt weapons be removed or changed to make (L) weapons more popular?

Q: When will more shops be up for sale? Are there any upgrades to the shops planned?
 
Rumor has it that a new RL economy based game will go into beta some time this year - If this happen, will MA then try to make PE more enjoyable for new people who can't deposit $20-50K to start playing ?

This is not a MA flame, but from alot of new people I have heard that they have to leave PE since they simply can't afford skilling up to a lvl where they can actualy enjoy PE like "the rest" of us.



(He said anything goes) :D
 
Well, you have allot of work Marco, now what's the public stand on the Romanians requiring extra verification and why hasn't the system been changed to let them know what. I mean it's kinda rude to just ignore an aplicant and not tell them what they should do.

I have some friends that seem very thrilled about the concepts of EU and I will try to get them aboard, if not, they will go back to WoW....
 
Q: Where are the native mutants and the volcano that were supposed to be on Treasure Island? :confused:


mohsinali410 said:
Q: Are there any continenets on Planet Calypso that we haven't discovered yet? If so what are your ideas on this?

FYI I don't think myself wrong when I say there are three COntinents on Calypso. :cool:




/me thinks Marco will have to spend a full 8 hour day only to read all the questions he will get, another day to sort out the answearable questions and then a third to write the answears. :D
 
Q: Will be auction updated with option: search? That improvement would help people alot.
 
Wow, based on the questions this thread was really nescassary..
 
Is a "pack item" auction will finally come.Its specially whanted for sell Full armor set.

Does MA people play other game like : Seconf life , EVE , Roma Victor ?

Does the next item generation will be futuristic, the axe , katana , armor ... does not seems to match the game futuristic style...
 
Will there be more payment options in the future? I personally dont like credit cards and same goes for most of my pals... and pretty much all of the other payment options arent available in Australia.
 
Q. Is the food/drink profession that was promised more than a year ago on its way in the coming VUs?

Q. Will the help system for newcomers ever be updated? 10s upon 10s of newcomers leave everyday due to the fact that they have no clue what to do. Maybe make a tutorial when they start the game?

Q. Can we expect an official Entropia Universe Forum in the future?

Q. Will a clear and non-evasive answer ever be given about Auto-Clickers and 3rd party software?

Q, Will something ever be done about the oil rig and people who use macros and auto-grabbers to grab oil at a really fast pace?

Q. Can we expect Mindark to re-open the PE Exchange and/or Voting Booths one day?

Q. Will offline messaging ever be available? For example, my friend is online, i can send him a message and he will recieve when he comes online.
 
There have been a lot of Q's here .... now I guess it's high time I asked:

Q. When and where are you going to A the Q's?
 
Sharyn said:
There have been a lot of Q's here .... now I guess it's high time I asked:

Q. When and where are you going to A the Q's?

Give the guy some time, the thread only been up 8 hours - I figure he wants to give people a chance to see it and post their Q's first.... ;)
 
Will Landgrab still consist of instant revival and teleportation back in seconds, thus making armor, skills, and pk weapons irrelevant? Will a respawn time ever be implemented?

And more important: Will MA be at the offices for the upcoming Landgrab?
 
Q. Why do Bristlehogs skill Evade when they are clearly a projectile launching mob (electric)


Tox
 
with the recent hyper inflated economy would the idea of a market crash be possible in the eyes of MA, and what would/could you do to make sure we dont see a crash
 
Q: For each of these questions can you please give everyone an estimate on every one of their questions on about when the feature could be expected to be implemented?

Q: Could you please hold true to your promises on when to add certain features?

Q: Can you PLEEEASE answer every question here without giving us 'grey' answers that arent specific and leave us wondering about the same subject we asked?

Q: Will we ever have weather effects, day night cycles, environment sounds, and other things to make it more realistic? Many would kill to be able to sit down in game next to their gf/bf on a virtural cliff out over the water as the waves crash below your feet and the wind and grass russle around you.... :)

^^ I would DIE for this

Q: Can we expect a larger range of weapon amps?
Q: Can we expect a larger range of mining amps?
Q: Can we expect a good range of weapon amps that make meele weapons very effective? Or ever healing amps?

Q: Can we ever have a chance at player created custom items? For example good old akuma gets a very rare 'global' and manages to do something such as control the chaos in the machine for a second and perhaps gets x amount of extra protection on an armor?

Q: Could we ever expect a 'ramping up' system so perhaps a bigger gun is always harder to use than a tiny gun? Not as good as some of the limited weapons offer, but better than a flat rate. Think shooting a .22 at 30 feet vs 30.06 in a warzone at 1km

Q: Could we expect more reasons to get a condo? Perhaps a unique reason to go there...

Q: Could you possibly create various reasons that would cause people to use all cities? I guarantee NOBODY besides brand new people who are stunned at the vast city trying to talk to the NPC's ever walk through our beautiful capital of Hadesheim...

Q: Could you possibly work on a way so that the game is more fun than a gamble to lose cash? Read the weather/daylight/sound and add in a NICE graphics update...

Q: Could we possibly ever see a SOUND update?

Q: Could we ever possibly have area of effect weapons(balanced to allow mass minimob fragging....perhaps extremely powerful, rare, not too accurate, and slow to encourage teamwork to defend the cannon)

Q: Could we get more beauty professions?

Q: Would you ever possibly think of giving good old Neverdie a nice very unique CONSTANT draw up to his space station? And adding some things to it...

Q: Will we ever see perhaps mob infighting or sensible teamwork between mobs/mob hatred between species?

Q: Can you give us a nice mindforce update that adds good reasons for us to use mindforce for hunting and other things as well as give the ubers who have worked to get those rare chips and be able to use them a good 'insurance policy'?

Q: Can we get some additional professions in game?

Q: Can mindarc please get themselves a powerful PR campaign that draws in people from everywhere so we have an even bigger playerbase? Seeing the streets of Hadesheim buzzing in neon and flooded during the day with a lone couple walking the streets at night together would be amazing

Q: Could we possibly see more of the nice lighting effects near limnadian district placed in a larger area with the option to remove them from your game?

Q: Can you give us an ingame recording system for demos on client side?

Q: Can you create a society storage box where with acceptance and the ability to retrieve item back at any time, you could loan other society members certain items/weapons? Perhaps could charge a small NON TT BASED fee...

Q: Could you remove the percentage based fee on selling things in shops?

Q: Could we please get inventory to toolbar drag and drop back?

Q: Could we see higher scaling as well where we can add even higher end weapons and mobs so the ubers like stryker will quit bullying around our longus as the only thing they hunt on their 1.3 million ammo hunts? And give them something along the lines of a warant squad eater :silly2:

Q: Can we possibly see other ways where newcomers could perhaps do certain jobs and have a way to make money like sweat gathering is at the moment?

Q: Can we see an improved event system?

Q: Is gambling in game illegal?

Q: Could we possibly have multiple events going on at once or an event system? Perhaps have regular events then host smaller ones that people could take part in that are just small non-'storyline' based events

Q: Could we possibly see more main events happen faster in order to create a feel of a 'storyline' in game?

Q: Are the TT weapons here to stay?

Q: Was the a205 ever made or is it possessed today?

Q: Could you expand crafting to some new things that are above the level of what even the ubers are capable of today? Essentially instead of it being game over there at the end then instead have them have something to always look forward to...perhaps give them an 'unlockable book'

Q: Could you add more adverts in the game to add to the string so we dont have a damned Axe ad repeating a million times back to back?

Q: Could you please make the major graphics update you told me would happen this spring at that disco on CND when I was a noob dancing on the counter in front of you happen?

Q: Could you make said graphics GOOD on todays standards?

Q: Could you possibly give us some christmas gifts that are fun to use and rather useful? There was the fireworks which kicked ass, but you could give us something that can be used forever and works nicely...

Q: Could you give said christmas gifts based on time since acount was first created instead of seemingly random?

Q: Could you open up a larger variety of 'mentor edition' items that are useful and make mentoring more worth it to do it and also more worth it to do it RIGHT?

Q: Could we get our pets to be useful for something? My stalker takes a lot of food to keep happy and trust me hes a hungry customer.... even if its just to ride and leveling them up increases speed SIGNIFICANTLY! Say an exaro thats been traned to race and could run at 8x the speed of a human at a full sprint...

Q: Could you have pet races and/or VEHICLES in races(plus vehicles able to be used)
>>Trust me even the animals being able to be ride around and not be expensive to use, so worth it to even ride around towns for the fun of it to show off, would be a MASSIVE noob wow'er and make us very happy!!! ...and it wouldn't cost you a single cent! Teleporting? Maybe increase its range and cost in a ratio so that it cannot teleport just short distances....

Q: Can you open up more continents, asteroids, and planets for us? I already saw the thing in the center of the CND space station and I see two other planets on there that I want to set foot on! Perhaps give each a unique set of minerals so lyst could only be found on calypso, but many things that arent tiny skilling things like dampers or filters could require some from multiple planets...give the spaceship captains reason to fly more and open more hangars

Q: Could we get more realistic characters PLEASE plus more emotes? Maybe some romantic ones or something :laugh:

Q: Could we see more types of weapons and possibly space based combat?

Q: Could you consider hiring more development crew possibly directly out of the playerbase in order to get a few times as many features in each VU and fix bugs? After all if you were to add amazing new content that wowed everyone each VU instead of turning them away, then that would be a MASSIVE draw into the game and a unique feature!

Q: Will you add body mods as are shown in part of the inventory menu and allow us to augment our bodies with electronics/mechanical parts?

Q: Can you have society 'wars' where a certain battlefield is given, and two societies can ready up players and teleport off to said battlefield and fight a war and perhaps put certain things on a line as well as keep leaderboards?

Q: Can you please give those clothing tailors some new stuff to play with that doesnt look like everything else out there? Perhaps anti-grav breifcases/handbags that are displayed on the avatar when items are in them? Perhaps mining tool in one hand bag in other and it can be chosen whether not to display it?

Q: Could we possibly have an upgrade in the combat systems so teams are more useful? Perhaps multi-person weapon systems?

Q: Could we ever expect votes to be held on popular subjects perhaps once every 1-2 weeks and the winning feature would be in next VU?

Q: Can you get a phone deposit system that works again?

Q: Can we get other entertainment tools like for a party be able to buy a boombox and when placed down on the ground can only be picked up by owning avatar and would allow streaming music to an area around it? People could 'vote off the radio' and possibly ban it from towns

Q: Could we have we have a rental system?

Q: Can we have these questionaires every month?

I'm out of questions I'll be back later... :girl:
 
This thread is rather long now so i haven't read it all and this may have been asked but.

Q : In up coming VU's is there a possiblilty of a Alliance chat option??

Eg . IF our Soc was friendly with another we could chat between each other with out using PM's ?? Who we're allied with would be controled by the Soc leader.
 
this seems to be more of a suggestion thread than a Q&A
regardless, these are my suggestion and they are good

1. Weapon Skill Tiering - I have the same HA on a Jester-1 as on a MKV. easy to change. (and this basicly renders everything below an MKII useless because of the opalo)

2. Refferal System - I want create a website(s) to refer people to EU - Give me banners, links and incentives. Ie...Reffer Edition rewards when the person you refer reaches a certain Prof Standing.

3. there seems to be a triple standard on autoclicking the 3 stadards being

- autocrafting - this seems to be ok by everybody and just a part of the game.
-Autofapping - it seems ok by MA that certain people use an autoclicker and MOD Fap while they sleep to rake up dodge points
-Autorunning - it seems NOT OK to MA that anybody uses an autoclicker to rake up dodge points without a MOD Fap - (ie...no decay)

come on - that means mr joda and friends are allowed to get (almost) free dodge and I am not - that makes me sick - not a leveled playing field
since MA will probably never do anything about the autofapping, better to just nerf the stats on the MOD FAP


4. god man fix the warriors.

reading through this threads it seems that there is alot of frustration in the players at MA's appartent indifferece to things going on. I run a business too and also have lots of complaining customers and I understand that MA cannot do all things at all times. Perhaps the solution is you hire a intern punching bag - his job will be to be on the players side and understand things from the players perspective and then acrurattly pass along the ideas to the design team along with proiority.



everything else is great; MA is doing an excellent job - keep up the good work!!!
 
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Q. Will there be an alternative way to manufacture food than the current one? ie, picking up fruits.

Q. Will Mindark implent Avatar Food in the near future, and if so, how will that food work? Will it boost certain attributes/stats for a certain time, or will be used for survival?

Q. Can we expect some kind of an economic upgrade on the Mindforce Items?
Today, most MF items use a rather high amount of Mind Essence, they would be more economic if the major part of the cost was the decay, and not the Mind Essance. Perhaps this could be changed for the lvl 9 - 10 items?
(Which would require a high amount of skills, and thus, it would be rewarding for the MF users)

Q. What purpose would factories have, would they be able to mass-produce Ammo, ME, Nutrio Bars? Will the factory owners be able to pick out a certain percentage of manufactured wares that should be put into a private terminal, while the rests goes into some kind of storage?
Will the Factories be automated?
Example, the owner selects a certain blueprint and the Factory then buys all the required material in a certain terminal, which other avatars could sell material to. The Factory would then automatically manufacture items and put them into a private terminal, from which other Avatars could buy items.

Q. Do you think that ammo will be removed from the terminal in the near, or distant, future? Perhaps when we have factories?

Q. When will crafters be able to repair items?

Q. Will the Land Areas ever recieve repair terminals?

Q. Will Hangar-owners be able to hire pilots and give them a certain percentage of the ticket cost in the near future?
Will Hangar-owners be able to sell real tickets in the near future?

Q. What kinds of upgrades will be made to the Mindforce system?

Q. When can we expect more Adj/Imp/Mod armors, and possibly, the Modified Shadow?

Q. Some weapon types don't have that many advanced items such as Modified weapons. Are we going to recieve more Adj/Imp/Mod items into weapon types such as Melee, Gauss and Plasma in the near future?

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Are Mindark just focused on limited weapons now, or are you going to implent more regular (not Adj/Imp/Mod) weapons in the near future?

We haven't recieved any new (lootable/craftable) non-limited weapons that aren't Unique or Improved in some other way since the Skill-bonus was implented, can we expect to see any new of these any time soon?

Q. Should the old melee series be considered worthless for all future, or will those recieve some kind of upgrade through any new major system or such?
Ie, weapon upgrading?

Q. About that, can we expect some kind of system made for weapon upgrading in the future, ie, a crafter is allowed to adjust the decay rate or damage on a certain weapon? The weapon would possibly recieve a new name or such then.

Q. When can we expect more creatures in the open ocean? What kinds of creatures should we be expecting?
Will these creatures be tameable?

Q. Will there be any other means to tame a creature other than to use a whip?

Q. Will boats be available in the near future, if so, when? What function would these have?

Q. Will Fishing be made a profession in the near future? What will these fishes be used for, if so?

Q. Will the Land Owners recieve any upgrades in the near future? What kinds of upgrades should they expect? Will we have the ability to build houses, or even teleporters and towns on Land Areas in the future?

Q. When are we going to be able to rebuild our houses?
What kinds of advantages will a house owner have in the future? Will he be able to build any kind of business or such if he decided to demolish his house?

Q. Are we going to experience what Calypso is like on the night any time soon? Can we expect certain night-googles or some kind of special equipment when that time comes?

Q. When are you going to create a huge cave that we could explore?

Q. When can we expect the legendary Gazonk or the fearfull Katang to appear in the universe?
 
I know some of these have been asked but I wanna make sure the value of the questions

1. Are Imp Mk II, EP-21, Mod/Adj/Imp Fap and other "ubber" items ever going to drop?

2. Is MA going to get a quick handle on the inflation of such items or are they going to let it takes its' course of distruction?

3. We have seen many new and usefull (L) weapons, are there any (L) armor or faps planned for the future?

4. When is MA going to start releasing more minerals into the ground so prices are not so outrageous?

5. Is MA planning on killing the whole metoring system? No skill gains anymore for graduated disciples.

6. When is ingame advertisements and better loot gonna "happen"?

7. Weapon modification question: How about an amp that increases the weapons range? How about an amp of sorts for meeele weapons? Different type of bullets?

8. Will the event system be modified so you can control the types of weapons/faps allowed in the participation area?

9. Did you have a nice vacation and will we see more of you now? ;)
 
-Why are TT weapons such as the Opalo allowed to be sold on auction at a markup price?

-How many real active players do we really have ingame?

-Any action taken at all against shill bidding on auctions?

-Do MA employees actually play EU on non-altered/standard/non-modified avatars without unlimited/free peds and uber equipment on the standard server and not some test server to experience what we have been experiencing with bugs, lag, scams, and of course no loot?

If answered yes to the above question,
-Were they successful at developing a uber or average stats avatar with decent equipment without the inside information or advantage that a normal player won't know? How much did it cost?

-What is the average cost to play EU for an hour? average cost per month?
(Please don't answer with numbers based on uber avatars)

-What makes EU not a casino or not gambling? What odds are we playing against?
*I don't want to know how the loot system works so don't tell me you cannot reveal sensitive game information.

-We got a Real Cash Economy ingame so why isn't decay rate on items given an exact number instead of "medicore" or "good"?
The item is decaying and my money/peds are paying for it so why isn't the information provided directly by MA/EU. Paying customers are not suppose to need to refer to third parties such as PE Wiki, (which may contain incorrect information) inorder to find out how much we are paying!
 
Q: Is there gonna be an advanced soc management system? (soc bank, soc items , soc shop etc?)
 
Q: will landowners soon be able to (if ever) change the minerals found on their land?

Q: will landowners soon be able (if ever) to make robots come to their land?


Q: will landowners get unique mobs other then those avaible already, such as flying mobs. swimming mobs other then the ones we have now?
 
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