Was a long post but this is also one of the more troubeling things you wrote about.
Like the ATH's witch costs all player a bit to give it to one person.
PS: If I would loot such a +150K Ped Markup item or even a bigger one I would totally agree it was a good thing MA introduced, if on the other side I'm again for the xth time in 5 years a spender and paied once again for the profit of a small group of LA-Owners lucky Avatars with regular Profit in ATH's or Markup items I would be once again pissed off by the give profit to a few an let all pay for it (privatisation of the profit and socialisation of the costs or same as in real live where bankers who gave the normal people billions of US$ in losses to be paied with our tax money and still earning millions of US$ in bonus for their bad work)
Wow, people, MA already set like 4 ETAs allready... why should this one work out?
Marco posts something and everyone is wetting their pants... lol, u guys still think that he's your friend and all...
Its his job to post this stuff, and I see everyone kissing his asscheeks for it.
ITS HIS JOB FFS
Wow... 12 pages of disbelief and lack of trust towards FPC/MA and NO ONE from FPC/MA has jumped in to do damage control...... I guess it's evident that they really don't care.
yes i agree that last comment was totally daft, got carried away with the typing, but i was talking about the majority of the countrie's summer.
Well ... if u put urself in the skin of a noob now, or let say a frech 6 month/one year noob, u will see this potential upgrade as a "cool" and "awesome" thing.
Most of the vets here, more than 3.5 or 4 years ingame, was habituated to a totaly different game play, let say that the game was realy different. Vets was here durring a very large and extneded period of changes ingame, and some can be proud to have resisted and adapted.
The problem is understandable and i think that MA "try" to be gentle with both parts, vet & noob. Its a virtualy generational and interesting problem must be studied at school.
...I think summer on some of the outer planets is years long...
We have a forum member called Pluto don't we? Or it might be another forum - anyway, let's get some confirmation on this. Oh.... wait... Pluto is no longer a planet.
Oops, nvm.
(Sorry, carry on - didn't mean to sidetrack the topic.)
When the summer sun shines on "the 7th planet"
Really like what that planet means in english
You either have it, or you don't, as they sayI read something about "Special Loots" - I've been getting LOADS of those!
Nice 65% avg returns for many months now. Very "special" in comparison with a soc mate who seems to profit on anything
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Will MA give out some (limited amount ofc.) "tickets" to players who wish participate in beta? Or that "test phase" will be carry out inside MA (by MA employees)?
As i understand that "final test phase" will be like "closed beta". So - how MA will carry out that stage? Usually devs need a lot of feedback to clean up ingame bugs and such.
Will MA give out some (limited amount ofc.) "tickets" to players who wish participate in beta? Or that "test phase" will be carry out inside MA (by MA employees)?
They will not give any "ticket". Accepting any player into a closed beta will give them knowledge of new features allowing them to have an advantage on other regular players. As we are playing with real money, MA can not take that risk.
When MA asked some of us to "beta test" the french, german and spanish versions of the game we did it on the "live" server between two VU's.
The test phase will be done by MA internals (and also by all of us when VU10.0 is live )
Somehow the Golden Age makes me think of the Red Banana’s we spent a fortune hunting for in that ridiculous war.
Yes, and we got a red banana.... just not in loot.
Wow... 12 pages of disbelief and lack of trust towards FPC/MA and NO ONE from FPC/MA has jumped in to do damage control...... I guess it's evident that they really don't care.
Wow, people, MA already set like 4 ETAs allready... why should this one work out?
Marco posts something and everyone is wetting their pants... lol, u guys still think that he's your friend and all...
Its his job to post this stuff, and I see everyone kissing his asscheeks for it.
ITS HIS JOB FFS
I was wondering why you were running awkwardly for a few weeks after the new year.
Golden Age hype rubbish aside, personally I feel Calypso will get back onto its feet within a couple of years once VU10 hits.
By this I mean, be a truely worthy service to be involved with.
Though this is going to take time.
I will be sorely disappointed if Marco tries to rush to bash out a patch-quilt once he has his full development resources back in an attempt to manage the environment rather than providing real improvements of substance for the 'real RCE' and 'entertainment' aspects of Calypso.
Actually I would be rather pissed off.
Rushing to get things back upto speed is the perfect recipe for mistakes that lead to a further negative and potentially damaging effect.
I personally feel Marco needs to go back to the board of directors and ask for an offset to slowly inject into the Calypso economy over time to help keep the feasibility of participation afloat while work is underway to improve Calypso.
It is the least they can agree to doing after 3 years of serious neglect and strain placed on Calypso to drive the expansion of the MindArk group of companies.
The CE2 overhaul was not by choice for planet Calypso.
It was a necessary agreed to step by MindArk in collaboration with the platform partners.
The 'Golden Age' with nice looted items that may be worth something one day down the track is all good and fine and will generate interest;
Though generating interest is only half the equation, especially if their is little fiscal feasibility attached to retain this interest over the longer term.
The majority of the community have been losing their arses off to the point they have little left to sit down to, to enjoy Entropia.
A proper ROI paid back from the MindArk board (Cold hard PED/Equity, not a mere bashing out of nice loot items code or skill bonuses which impact on internal economy skill value) distributed back per capita over contributed earnings (With a small portion to be set aside for numerous treasures) would be a good start to getting things properly underway again and redeeming the environment back into a fiscally sound one again over time.
It is quite a worrying and disheartening sight to see it in such a feeble and violate state present-day.
It is all about confidence,
Marco well knows this as does the FPC team. I hope the board of directors can take a moment out of their busy days to reflect on the above bolded.
Please do not turn a blind eye to that which got you to where you are today.
It would be like neglecting your own child/family in the real world.
i like it maybe get new stuff ingame.