Question 1: Will that app have it's own dedicated server?
Question 2: Because of it's ties to EU's taming system, how ComPet will affect already very bad lag (and freezes) that we all experience in-game frequently?
Question 3: Because ComPet will be web based and we have Awesomnium integrated with EU - will we be able to play it from within the EU?
I took from the quote below, that its seemingly almost a complete separate entity. That its an app, will be available from iTunes no doubt... That they have saw that these daft game apps are where the money is at in this day and age.
It seems, again just my opinion, that the new app will share features of Eu's taming system, but that they may be quite separate entities, linkable through ones webpage based EU account, and not necessarily on the game itself. That you may possibly be able to interact with your pet or what not in game, but to "compete" you need to be over on compet.
That although you need to have a registered EU account, you dont even need to download the game. The new app, can all be managed and played completely away from EU the game.
One would like to think if it is a separate entity, then no life would be sucked from the EU servers to run it, and as the Compet players wont actually be in game, they wouldnt have an effect on game play as we know it.
But yes you are right, it would be nice to know these things for sure! If the 2 are completely split, with just the theme and webpage based account being the same. Or will they be truley integrated? If so how does that work with one being an App with players having not even needed to DL the game.
It will be interesting to see, if any, what the cross over between the two is. As far as I can see at the moment, this is a new venture, quite separate from EU in mechanics, but cross over in the taming ideas.
Finally you will be able to play the Entropia Universe(EU) on different platforms.
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The new Competition Pet (ComPet) system will provide features of Entropia Universe, including creature clashes, and bring them together in an exciting smartphone, tablet and web browser application.
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Smartphone, tablet and browser users will be able to compete with one another by selecting one of the many pets available in the ComPet application.
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Additionally, any player can be part of this revenue opportunity and earn PED when smartphone, tablet and web browser users play the new Entropia Universe ComPet App.
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anyone with an Entropia Universe account, even those who may not have installed the full Entropia Universe PC client software. They can alternatively purchase deeds through the Virtual Tycoon Android mobile app and start earning revenue from ComPet activity, which is scheduled for launch in Q1 2015.
Just my tuppence, clarification would be fab