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What did you think you were going to do when you decided to join EU?

valentin said:
Same here...:yay::yay::yay:

This game nowdays is crap.
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Thats hard words, but have to agree.

When I started, there was a lot more opportunitys you could survive with low to no deposits.
Seems that is impossible these days, as crafting is nearly dead.
MA managed to eliminate nearly every demand for crafted goods.
Still very few opportunity in crafting, but not how it has been in the past.
 
I had been looking for a game where you had to spend cash because I figured that was the only way to get a more mature crowd and less hacking. It turned out just the way I wanted it - less children fighting and harassing each other and much less hacking unlike a lot of free games.
 
Well, I was unemployed for a while, and even when I worked I made very little money. I thought, "Hey, even though sweating ans stuff is boring, I have nothing better to do. Even if I only make 5 buks a day sweating, its better then nothing."

Well..I played and soon realized, I wouldn't be making 5 buks a day. At BEST 1 dollar a day..for an 8 or 10 hour "shift" sweating. I thought getting more skills, would slowly make me earn a bit more...and it does..but..not hardly.

I gave up on wasting my time sweating, and got my "will work for food" sign out, and made FAR more money just begging at traffic lights. ANyhow, I became homeless for a couple years...and eventually found work, and convinced my parents to let me move in with them, for a couple hundred buks a month.( Where I live even if you work full time, it is IMPOSSIBLE to live alone)

So I played other MMO fir a while, speninding maybe 10 or 20 buks a months..then realized, I was just throwing money away, I would never see again. SO I came back to ENtropia, and deposit like 30 buks. SInce then, I deposit about 60 buks a year. And recycle PEDS with hunting. I spend my time sweating alot, standing at the oil rig line, exploring the worlds,and small hunting.

Now, with the oil rig gone, I may not continue to play for much longer. But we will see what happens.
 
ana305 said:
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Now, with the oil rig gone, I may not continue to play for much longer. But we will see what happens.
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Hate to say it but from what I read, I think it would be best you leave this game and try and get your RL in order. Jobless people should not be in casinos. It's really not good mix.

GL in RL hope all works out well.
 
OZtwo said:
Hate to say it but from what I read, I think it would be best you leave this game and try and get your RL in order. Jobless people should not be in casinos. It's really not good mix.

GL in RL hope all works out well.
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Oh I have a job now. Nothing great, but where I live you are lucky to find any work, even min wage job.

And its not quite the same as a casino. Here I put in maybe 20 buks one month, and play as long as I can. My last Depo was like 60 buks, and that was over a year ago. ANd My current avatar value is still like 300 something PED.

And I have ships, vehicles, clothes, ammo, guns, etc. so, im not doing so bad.

As far as me getting my RL "in order" Unfortunately life doesnt work like that. least where I live. You work wherever you can, if you can. And you get paid whatever they are willing to pay you, hoping that one day, you can move up, or find something else. In the meantime, you try to live the best in your means.

Sure I see people all the time in BMW and Mercedes, and I dont even own a car. Where I work, people pay 5 buks for a bottle of water, and dont even bat an eye. There are homeless literally sleeping right in front of the door where I work, and these people would not give them 1 dollar, to save their life. I dont know how people can afford it, other than the fact they grew up with a rich family, I guess. Same deal in Entropia. I see people with a FAP tool that is like worth 20k USD. lol Insane to people like me, and thats just it. If you got money, you got it, and you have no comprehension of reality, and having to actually work a real job, and pay bills.
 
Really have no answers other then sorry to say it mostly has to do with our society in general and how we raise our kids today. Just a few decades ago we as kids learned young what hard labor was and what it meant to earn a buck whereas today one can go to jail for trying to teach this to kids of today. So yes if you are young you have been thrown out into the RL with really no idea where to go next and how to earn a buck. Sad times ahead. But anyway, back to the game. By crying out about not getting oil you now are given a lot of other noobs hell as many ubers will be going to the rig now to give him hell over your bitching.. :)
 
ana305 said:
lol Insane to people like me, and thats just it. If you got money, you got it, and you have no comprehension of reality, and having to actually work a real job, and pay bills.
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Thank you for your personal account. Quite soon I realized that EU has this poverty simulation aspect, and I could decide whether to be "poor" or "rich" by not depositing for a year, and then again depositing.

Myh original plan was to spend some 1 USD per hour in this game. That was myh take of "the real economy"; it is "real monney burner" just like driving around in a taxi. There was some sense in this because I did not have time for this game (or any game in general) but some 5 hours per week. That makes costs small. But within the game it allowed me to live a lavish "digital tourist" lifestyle. All those profiteers, they need someone who pumps in monney, and that someone is me.
 
i dont know why once and then someone resume a 5 year old thread.
i consider this a MIA wall of old forum users and a list of "old soldiers"
that still play.
my avatar is April 2007 then payed wow long time and in 2020 came back...
 
The real cash economy was what got me in the game. I had my goal set on becoming a non depositor crafter.. That's very, very hard and I found crafting something is one thing, selling it is much harder. The social aspect now is the most important thing for me. I've also learnt skills for EU that I also use for other things.
 
Nakor of Boreft said:
The real cash economy was what got me in the game. I had my goal set on becoming a non depositor crafter.. That's very, very hard and I found crafting something is one thing, selling it is much harder. The social aspect now is the most important thing for me. I've also learnt skills for EU that I also use for other things.
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Now that you mention it, the social aspect is really important now. I really love to meet people from all over the world. Really respect them after getting to know them. Except for the trolls of course! :)
 
Isclay said:
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I thought I can prove it can be played for free. It went downhill for first few years, but now I been on plus side for past 3-4 years - meaning my item TT/MU value is more than I have deposited. I don't really put value on my skills, since I doubt I will ever sell them anyways.
 
I discovered the game in 2003 and installed it to play, it seemed like it was going to be just like any other MMO out there. Felt similar to Anarchy Online which I had been playing before.

I made a character name, not realising that I was going to have the same name for the next 20 years almost now .... Would have 100% chosen a better name had I known better ...

I ran around ... deposited 10 quid so I could buy some protection and a gun ... and got scammed into buying TT armour for an MU from someone ... bought a TT gun and then realised I needed ammo which I didn't have ... sold the armour back to the TT and went out and shot stuff ... Ended up depositing more ...

Honestly .. I've left the game countless times ... I've always been drawn back to it ... The last few years I've been crafting mostly, which is perfect as it means I can do other stuff, play other games, watch netflix or just do my 9-5 job while the craft finishes.

My policy is that, if I want to deposit 50 quid for the month for hunting, I just simply don't go out that weekend for drinks. That 500 ped will be cycled over and over and generally lasts me a good while.

I know there's some toxic folks around, but in general, I've found the community of Entropia to be unreal. People can be d1cks, but if you ask anyone on this forum, on Twitch, or in game for help or advice, they will give it to you. It's the most welcoming group of players I've ever met. Just don't ask ANYONE for a "spare pec". that's just considered rude ..
 
I had played post-apocalyptic zombie games since 2008.. Culminating in World War Z. I spent ages in that followed by the next game Aftermath.

My main interest was trading, I loved the trading aspect of World War Z, dropping stuff so you could then pick it up. That was how trading was done, setting up an online shop as well..

Going out finding things, but it was all PVP so the added risk was a thrill, but at the same time I used to die all the time, but I still remember finding my first Uber gun and the crazy trek I made to get back to the safe zone. It wasn't even that Uber but to me that run was EVERYTHING at the time.
In those games you traded in-game guns/ammo/skins for bullets and eventually I became one of the rich guys, in Aftermath. I had this little scheme down and knew how to get some good BP's.

But if you know anything about the dev team, and yeah I was even in Shattered Skies because I never learned my lesson, they had a great game mechanic but never seemed to quite finish a game, but it really was like being in an arcade like back when I was a kid.

Then I found Entropia in 2017.. I can't recall how exactly, but I would have traded all of the previous gaming I had done to have been a part of this game earlier..
If only I had known!! Taking a bunch of tt finders and wandering around.

To me it brought to life the Adventure books I used to read when I was a really young. The "turn to page x or y" to make a decision. The game just seemed to bring those words and pages to life in such amazing graphics.

I started out being VERY non-depo.. I read all the guides and chose a Jester D-1 like a noob. But I soon realised you need some PED to play with.
Bought my Opalo SGA after winning a bidding war and getting my A101 like it says you should. I never set myself goals because then everything seemed so far off.

I soon realised that Rex's were my mob, it seemed that with the irons more than a couple of Mobs were just too much to get done, so I concentrated on Feffoids because the pit had just been introduced and they paid very nicely. Rex's were about 10 levels above my pay grade, but the buff you got from the pit meant I could kill Feffoids at the pit (it stacked then, boy I miss that), run from the pit to Naval Station Triton, work on the Entropia Rextelum Hunter chain because of the buff, and when the buff ran out, run back and start again.

I'd say I probably thought of this as my sort of retirment fund. I would NEVER withdraw and just see how much I had after 20-30 years.
Of course real life and getting a bit bored somehow, hampered that, but I left enough valuables and skills to come back.

So this is part two.........
 
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Octo Production said:
I had played post-apocalyptic zombie games since 2008.. Culminating in World War Z. I spent ages in that followed by the next game Aftermath.

My main interest was trading, I loved the trading aspect of World War Z, dropping stuff so you could then pick it up. That was how trading was done, setting up an online shop as well..

Going out finding things, but it was all PVP so the added risk was a thrill, but at the same time I used to die all the time, but I still remember finding my first Uber gun and the crazy trek I made to get back to the safe zone. It wasn't even that Uber but to me that run was EVERYTHING at the time.
In those games you traded in-game guns/ammo/skins for bullets and eventually I became one of the rich guys, in Aftermath. I had this little scheme down and knew how to get some good BP's.

But if you know anything about the dev team, and yeah I was even in Shattered Skies because I never learned my lesson, they had a great game mechanic but never seemed to quite finish a game, but it really was like being in an arcade like back when I was a kid.

Then I found Entropia in 2017.. I can't recall how exactly, but I would have traded all of the previous gaming I had done to have been a part of this game earlier..
If only I had known!! Taking a bunch of tt finders and wandering around.

To me it brought to life the Adventure books I used to read when I was a really young. The "turn to page x or y" to make a decision. The game just seemed to bring those words and pages to life in such amazing graphics.

I started out being VERY non-depo.. I read all the guides and chose a Jester D-1 like a noob. But I soon realised you need some PED to play with.
Bought my Opalo SGA after winning a bidding war and getting my A101 like it says you should. I never set myself goals because then everything seemed so far off.

I soon realised that Rex's were my mob, it seemed that with the irons more than a couple of Mobs were just too much to get done, so I concentrated on Feffoids because the pit had just been introduced and they paid very nicely. Rex's were about 10 levels above my pay grade, but the buff you got from the pit meant I could kill Feffoids at the pit (it stacked then, boy I miss that), run from the pit to Naval Station Triton, work on the Entropia Rextelum Hunter chain because of the buff, and when the buff ran out, run back and start again.

I'd say I probably thought of this as my sort of retirment fund. I would NEVER withdraw and just see how much I had after 20-30 years.
Of course real life and getting a bit bored somehow, hampered that, but I left enough valuables and skills to come back.

So this is part two.........
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Didn't know about World War Z and Aftermath, so thx for sharing.
 
had stacks of money laying around , burning them with fire did bring me no joy anymore
heard of some crazy dudes spending a fortune in a online game called Entropia
did go well for a while untill 2.0
figuret out burning them with fire is way more funn then entropia 2.0

nowdays i rather support some unknown billionair´s next flight to space by playing a casual amazon game.
 
INTERNUT said:
Didn't know about World War Z and Aftermath, so thx for sharing.
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I am glad. The Dev team also made Shattered Skies. And I am positive they or someone who worked there or was involved, is partly responsible for Escape From Tarkhov, which really blew up during, or just before Co-Vid. It is a good game if mad PVP is for you.. I haven't played in a while, but I bet it is still in Beta lol.

Edit : I know they had trouble with the movie and had to change the name, but it could have been "The Waz Z" and I confused the two. Changed to "Infestation: Survivour Stories.
 
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First joined in 2007
-I heard about the "unique economy", people making money blablabla...
-Mainly gathered sweat at nea's place, sold it for hunting, then redid the cycle. It entertained me for a few months... then i left.

Came back mid 2010
-I wanted to experience the game with real deposits this time (deposited 500$ total.)
-Mainly had fun hunting, hunting and hunting (i burned my 500$ fast and then i left)

Back in 2021
-I wanted to see how the game had evolved... was ready to invest BIG (if that means good ROI) but first i need to learn how everything works.
-Mainly doing the chain of newbie missions on Calypso since 20+ hours and having a lot of fun

little downside : While exploring Calypso doing the missions, there is a lot of running around involved and... I haven't seen many people...
I was expecting more crowded places :unsure: don't know i thought there were more people on EU in the past... Or well maybe it's just me and i am confused with another mmorpg, maybe there never was more people.
 
Originally joined in 2010 while in uni, had a potato tier laptop that couldn't handle EU. Back then I just heard it was a cool mmo you can make money in so purely curiosity.

Recame back in 2020 when the world caught the sniffles, with all the extra free time for nostalgia's sake I was revisiting many old games I played, EVE online, osrs, wc3, diablo, Minecraft etc too see if they had changed much. Funnily enough it was a controversial YouTubers video on zychion defense skilling that intially reminded me of EU and got me excited about the potential within it and genuinely triggered the spark to have another look. While he has an absolute marmite reputation on pcf and in game you can't deny he has brought a lot of people to the game and while I have no dog in any of the fights he has with people I am grateful he's out there as I wouldn't be here if he wasn't. Once I got a few days of learning under my belt I came across various player profiles (written by DME hosted on the VS forum - excellent read if you have the time) about game legends like auktuma and the imagination was set alight. Then I learnt and read the stories of Messi (another incredible read on the undisputed top dog in the game), Evey, Jbk n Bonnie, Legends ( he has a semi auto biography on his journey to having some of the best shops in game - both his story and his shops are genuinely 10/10 imo), NVD aswell - I came to realise that's there's a whole pantheon of OGs that have accomplished insane feats within this game, far too many to mention. Slowly learning just how insanely deep this game is to see these really smart people beating it in totally unique creative ways really tickles my pickle. While I didn't know what specifically I wanted to do for the first few months as EU is mind boggingly deep, what players like Auktuma, Drakill, Buzz, Legends and many other industry masters have accomplished with their incredible and completely unique approaches to the armor and many other industries inspired me much more than any of the other awesome stories I read and so while still unsure of the exact specifics I knew the rough outline of the long game I was looking to head down and my drive to bring something equally great to this phenomenonal meta-verse which has had me hooked for 1.5 years since I donned me blue undies and ran head long into some mulcibers.

Just so happens this path is the most cost and spreadsheet expensive path, wouldn't recommend it unless you have big pockets and spreadsheets "do something for you, emotionally."

Great thread idea!
 
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Rocket192 said:
came to drop bombs.


dropped so many bombs.
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I wonder what would happen if you dropped a bomb after running and jumping off the end of a short steep bank? I might try this just for fun :)
 
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