So I guess we're just not doing state of the universe anymore?

New CEO on the scene, future of compet, space, housing, deep token...etc all up in the air. People losing faith with MA by the hundreds every day over stagnated development, shady practices and ZERO communication.

Yup... no need to make any sort of statement about the future of EU and what people can look forward to. Nothing on the horizon even worth mentioning apparently. This is how sad the state of development is at this point.

Well it was nice while it lasted I guess. Makes sense though as every year posting was getting later and later into the year and more and more vague filled with nothing but empty promises so maybe they are doing us a favor here.

jambon said:

Well it was nice while it lasted I guess.

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I'd like to have something surprising arrive in 2018 - no notice, just appear, just like the vehicles did.

Mega said:

I'd like to have something surprising arrive in 2018 - no notice, just appear, just like the vehicles did.

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Are you and RickEngland the same guy? Sometimes i wonder..




We truly do need some better communication. Was hoping that it would come. If they ever want to get above 4-5k active users and bring the game out of the stone age..

Guess i will just bury my head in the sand like you Mega..

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I'd like to have something surprising arrive in 2018 - no notice, just appear, just like the vehicles did.

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What would you do if you would find that you totally missed it? You must admit, it shocked everyone:



Originally, this revolutionary update was announced here

ZippO said:

Are you and RickEngland the same guy? Sometimes i wonder..

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We aren't, England has a population of 53 million - there are a few of us about.



I'm not Oleg either.

We had dev notes recently talking some stuff they plan on doing, though they still have done very little with their game in the last few months all things considered, and it does feel like the playerbase has lost some enthusiasm as a result of this lack of progress, the problems being ignored, and trademark lack of proper communication and involvement in the community.

I do think they are working on the stuff they talked about in the dev notes though, I just fear they're dedicating the majority of their time and resources into some moronic crypto venture and neglecting their flagship product which is the only thing that has consistently brought them success and has so much room for improvements which would likely be a much better use of their seemingly very limited time and resources.

I'm pretty sure that just about sums up the entire community's thoughts on this.

Evey said:

What would you do if you would find that you totally missed it? You must admit, it shocked everyone:

Originally, this revolutionary update was announced here

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This was moreso a bugfix of lag they themselves caused in one of the recent updates, but it was still greatly appreciated, though I have a hard time seeing how all of the coders, artists, etc were busy with this, it should only have been the network engineers occupied with it, so I don't think it's exactly a fair excuse to release next to no content for months unless MindArk is composed of like 5 employees total.

Probably some truth to this post

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Yeah, Sven the litigation specialist, in between his duties on reception and office manager has had a chat to Helga in game design / accounts / network management and they're both all over it.

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Is there much of a point?

They only started doing them in the first place to placate the at the time increasingly vocal and pissed off player base.

Darkaruki said:

This was moreso a bugfix of lag they themselves caused in one of the recent updates, but it was still greatly appreciated, though I have a hard time seeing how all of the coders, artists, etc were busy with this, it should only have been the network engineers occupied with it, so I don't think it's exactly a fair excuse to release next to no content for months unless MindArk is composed of like 5 employees total.

Probably some truth to this post

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I still can't believe how much effort McCormick puts into Entropia still, all his research and posting. I think if everyone at MA HQ, combined, would put the same effort as McCormick alone is, the game would be light years ahead

gluma manusa!

nevermind.... fuck I need to quit this game and this forum. It's just a constant source of aggravation and stress. Literally every business decision MA makes brings my piss to a boil.

Evey said:

I still can't believe how much effort McCormick puts into Entropia still, all his research and posting. I think if everyone at MA HQ, combined, would put the same effort as McCormick alone is, the game would be light years ahead

gluma manusa!

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I strongly agree

I've also probably put more work into EntropiaWiki in past few months than all of MA has put into their game, so I can relate with that sadly.

jambon said:

nevermind.... fuck I need to quit this game and this forum. It's just a constant source of aggravation and stress. Literally every business decision MA makes brings my piss to a boil.

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I think most of know this feeling as well, again, sadly.

mastermesh said:

http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/roadmap-2018.21895/

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Why not copy n paste the article in it's full gory glory?

"Roadmap 2018 - Detour to the stars ?

This is for historic reasons and to show a bit about how MindArk is working :

Instead of pointing you towards the mess of my blog and talking about dozens of lies and fails that are so old, that noone will remember them anymore, I decided to pick out the "most precious & recent" ones and combined em to one long and powerfull, emtpy list, that will initiate the end of 2017 :

Yes, I have better things to do, but as a part of this community...seeing noone else doing such "lists"...I felt responsible.

I dont expect any of these things to recieve any update in 2018...but ofc, you never know.

Enjoy

Taming Stage 2
Promised and postponed since 2005...its now 2018...no news of rideable mobs, or additional "tricks"...combat support etc.

Creature Battle Octagons
Set for late 2014...it is now 2018

Compet
Meant to be as rival pokemon app, especially designed for the mobile market, this game bobs up and down since its start in early 2016. After 2 years of "we are working hard on it" (keep in mind they hired an external team), this game never seemed to leave beta state and never gathered a huge community around itself. With the recent (2017) announcement of "Now we are planing to advertise it", this game died, before it ever went live. No mentionable gameplay/design updates ever happened.

Compet Deed Payout
Deeds available since 2014...1st promised payout, dec 2016...but it is now 2018...no payouts recieved

CLD Land Plots
Promised in early 2015...people pumped several tenthousands of US Dollars into this "new system"...MA promising gigantic towns and various buildings that actually have a meaning...but all you can do 3 years later, is growing some plants...no more news about it...and again its 2018

The promsied ingame companies
Ever heard of "Sphere Ordnance", "Redyne", "Castor Meele Systems", "Ashley & Perin", "Chikara", "Genesis Star" or "Omegaton" ?
These are the ingame companies since 2001. Mindark always announced big plans about them...what we got was a "Genesis Star Headquarter" in Twin Peaks in 2009. For a single Mining Event, with an NPC inside. The building then dissapeared.
Also there was a nice RDI building in Port Atlantis...RDI, you know...

Next Island (lol)
It died in 2012 and became Calypsos Outpost...ya, right...in october 2016 David Post (original owner) and the society "Big industries" joined forces...announcing the revival of "Next Island", by advertising very old screenshots as "new updates"...even announcing a mobile game of it... just to become silent...and again it is 2018.

Gigantic Space update with Missions :
it never happened, but got announced again, now and then

Partner Buildings at Athena Spaceport
Announced as new partner program in 2015 (with jobs and education and bitcoins and stuff), these comapnies never ever entered Entropia and the buildings are still empty...no news...and its 2018 by now

Oculus Rift
In early 2015, MA announced full support of it...not a word about it ever again...it is now 2018

MindBank and CashCard :
Cashcards first appearance was in 2006...it got canceled right after the 1st participants recieved it. Mindbank was about to go live in 2009...but MA failed to secure the required fundings.
In 2015 David Simmonds started talking about MindBank plans again...no news since then...and its 2018.

Asteroid mining and tradeable mining claims
Such announcements are as old as Entropia itself...it got announced several times...but never happened...

The new promised cinematique trailer, with a professional female actor
Got announced now and then...since 2007...in 2013 Team Arkadia released a..well...not so professional trailer...without any reallife actors and decent voice acting. This was meant to be the new promised cinematique trailer...

The smartphone app "Virtual Tycoon"
"Help Craft The Future Of Entropia Universe With Your Android Mobile Device"
Announced and released in late 2012, it recieved its last update in mid 2013,
while some screamed for updates and begged for new features...we reached 2018 by now, without any new announcements about it.

Online campaigns and advertising aka. marketing
Announced and promised as "big news" everytime since 2009...we never got anything else but some mini banners, that still pop up here and there on rare ocassions...

The promised fishing system
Announced as "its ready" in mid 2012...Kim Timkrans posted in may 2013
"It only existed on paper...no (more) ETA"

The facebook emmissary program
Started with great announcements (unlock stuff and win great items by answering questions) in 2012...it got shut down in the very same year and
wasnt working correctly anway.

The Entropia 3D casino, that had absolutely nothing to do with Entropia
Went live as standard 2D slot machine site in 2015. You could unlock and win prizes, like cars and clothes from Entropia, to play inside a planned 3D world of...Entropia ...which wasnt really Entropia. Got it ? Anway, it never got beyond 2D standard fancy slot machines...and shut down 1 year later, in 2016.

While the idea of a ingame casino is as old as Entropia itself (fitting Animations and textures could be found in the old clients), this one got set up by "an external"...partner...and ofc, MA had nothing to with a 3D Entropia casino.

The president of Virtual Reality
Because of a faked and fucked up voting process, John Jacobs aka. Neverdie became our president...as noone else wanted to pay the 1000$ fee to participate.

Neverdie wanted to introduce teleportation fees...MindArk said no...Neverdie resigned from office...after doing nothing, but introducing his own houses of parliamnet...blaaaahhhhhhhh

Neverdie then introduced his first crypto (scam) ICO...together with an announcement of a giant teleporter, which should have been announced on the Mobile World Congress in Brazil...it never got announced..no more news...and his ICO failed...so MindArk tried...with

The MindArk Blockchain Project
Announced in dec. 2017...lets wait and SEE

SoOooOoooOo, these are just some of the more recent&precious ones and I wont mention bugs and lost details here. Still, quite a long one, eh ?

Which reminds me, that the shop decoration competition from 2009 is still running and noone ever recieved a price after spending up to 3000$ on...decorating their shops..."

Thanks Mccormick. Depressing reading indeed and he hasn't even mentioned lootscam 2.0

you forgot the statues not being delivered. and compet payout has happened which resulted in a predicted price crash of compet deeds

Don't forget the space cargo missions which was being funded by the auction delivery fees. No cargo missions but fees are still there. Where is all that ped going?

The Entropia 3D casino, that had absolutely nothing to do with Entropia
Went live as standard 2D slot machine site in 2015. You could unlock and win prizes, like cars and clothes from Entropia, to play inside a planned 3D world of...Entropia ...which wasnt really Entropia. Got it ? Anway, it never got beyond 2D standard fancy slot machines...and shut down 1 year later, in 2016.

This is a perfect example of proof of the difficulties when working with this game engine. I think it would be one time of great difficulty to move to an upgraded engine (with a possibility of fail). This idea needs public support and it's time for the leap of faith. Think of the consequences of doing nothing.

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?302784-New-FREE-Graphic-Engine-made-by-Amazon-(derived-from-CryEngine)-A-deep-collaboration-with-Amazon

As a side note scientists have discovered the best method to recreate and repair damaged ecosystems: Do absolutely NOTHING at all.

jambon said:

New CEO on the scene, future of compet, space, housing, deep token...etc all up in the air. People losing faith with MA by the hundreds every day over stagnated development, shady practices and ZERO communication.

Yup... no need to make any sort of statement about the future of EU and what people can look forward to. Nothing on the horizon even worth mentioning apparently. This is how sad the state of development is at this point.

Well it was nice while it lasted I guess. Makes sense though as every year posting was getting later and later into the year and more and more vague filled with nothing but empty promises so maybe they are doing us a favor here.

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Well I have one thing to say about that "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth". Haven't we all seen what happens time and time again when MA has made improvements. Or try to fix things that were never broken. I would like to see new things and development but at what cost ? MA's QA is non-existence. Just a quick case in point: A couple of weeks ago the lag was fix pretty much and I must agree that is ok now. Also the spawn at Icarus and it was during the week but not the weekend. I was there today at 1400 hours and counted 14 green dots and not a single red dot. It took me about an hour and 15 minutes to complete a run that, during the week, takes about 30-35 minutes. MA just does not go all the way with a lot of things. How many times have you seen in the notes that they are aware of a problem so no need to report it. Really ?? Also how many times have they had to releases a patch to fix something they broke with the release.

Don't get me wrong, like I said above, I do want new things and increase ease of play and so on but hire a REAL QA team before you start the over-haul.

New CEO

I love how the new CEO would focus on communication and he havent said jack shit. Good job new guy, you straight up radiate competence!!

Tiny Lord said:

I love how the new CEO would focus on communication and he havent said jack shit. Good job new guy, you straight up radiate competence!!

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He is not reading forum. You need to e-mail him or sent support case with forward reques as I did

shoti said:

He is not reading forum. You need to e-mail him or sent support case with forward reques as I did

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has he ever played this game?

shoti said:

He is not reading forum. You need to e-mail him or sent support case with forward reques as I did

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At least we'll always have Ludvig to chime in once every month or two.

theProphet said:

has he ever played this game?

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NO, he became CEO for one reason:

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Opps.

I want more surprises, I can live without a 'State of the Universe' statement if something totally unexpected happens....

Hurrah!

Mega said:

[video=youtube;aKfbSHW9uGA]I want more surprises, I can live without a 'State of the Universe' statement if something totally unexpected happens....

Hurrah!

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just wait for the next VU

Every time MindArk makes an announcement about a plan to do something, instead of reading it as "we promise this is coming" I read it as "we thought about doing this and decided to cancel it". Any time I'm wrong I am pleasantly surprised, and I don't boil my blood or piss over anything they say.

It would be nice to get some official word closing out some of the old failed projects that have been ditched though.

Captain Jack said:

Every time MindArk makes an announcement about a plan to do something, instead of reading it as "we promise this is coming" I read it as "we thought about doing this and decided to cancel it". Any time I'm wrong I am pleasantly surprised, and I don't boil my blood or piss over anything they say.

It would be nice to get some official word closing out some of the old failed projects that have been ditched though.

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There is one thing you forgot: When MA makes a statement be careful because it seems that it can be taken more than one way. Case in point " The Temp increase skill bump" Anything from like 10% to 200% I read that as you get a bigger increase when one got a greenie and when I said I noticed that the bump didn't increase the amount at all. One of the MA boys jump on and said " Oh no you got it wrong that was just to increase your chance to get one not make it bigger" I re-read it and I don't get that at all. I'm just saying. BTW when I posted that I read it different than that and so did a couple of others we never heard from anyone again.

The Amazing Weirdo's/Atrox Old/16 159 PED 05.03.2018
gratz for the guy who got his first glob ever
I think nothing really suprising, i lost hope. I play maybe 2h weekly compare to ~4-6h daily 2months ago. You fck up big time MA

KokaBurra said:

The Amazing Weirdo's/Atrox Old/16 159 PED 05.03.2018
gratz for the guy who got his first glob ever
I think nothing really suprising, i lost hope. I play maybe 2h weekly compare to ~4-6h daily 2months ago. You fck up big time MA

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It′s a team.

GradenFoss said:

It′s a team.

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My bad.
It doesnt change the fact.

KokaBurra said:

The Amazing Weirdo's/Atrox Old/16 159 PED 05.03.2018
gratz for the guy who got his first glob ever
I think nothing really suprising, i lost hope. I play maybe 2h weekly compare to ~4-6h daily 2months ago. You fck up big time MA

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edit: nevermind.

KokaBurra said:

My bad.
It doesnt change the fact.

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it does, we don't know who that team is. individually they might play 8-10 hrs a day, choose a different team name each time they team up and just so happened to hit well.

just ignore what others are doing, it will fill you with unwanted stress.