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Newly Discovered Moon to be Auctioned

the more i read the more i like it less...the idea to have the buyer help design sounds good but i'd like a more specific date for it's arrival...q2 or q3 sounds like 2014 to me which would be bad...make it one week from the sell and i'd be willing to admit it's something worth buying
 
nutrageti said:
the more i read the more i like it less...the idea to have the buyer help design sounds good but i'd like a more specific date for it's arrival...q2 or q3 sounds like 2014 to me which would be bad...make it one week from the sell and i'd be willing to admit it's something worth buying
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So you like the idea of being a major decision-maker in the development of the moon....

...but you want the moon to be ready one week after the sale...

To be a major decision-maker in the devleopment, that means the Moon has not been developed :p yet, because they need YOUR input :).

...but you want the moon to be ready in one week after you're made the head honcho....

Well, when you buy the moon, tell the MA dev team that you want it up and running in one week :). I totally want to visit your really buggy, 2D, squar-ish moon with large blocks of pixels where mob design is supposed to be :D.
 
Neil Stockton said:
It's not really separated... it sounds like that's just the storyline. The "wormhole" TP leads straight to the moon, so there's no "space" surrounding it. Basically like foma or CP. It has a hangar and you TP from the hangar to the other regions.

Three areas have names that suggest wormholes... Barton's Corridor, Eschenbach's Gate, and Sayah Space.
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Well, Howling Mine is still an incomplete _____. Maybe they'll use that.

It looks wormhole-ish if you've ever been there :D. I was there once........ it looked like the aftermath of destruction.
 
There will be one bid, as I am sure the price isn't a coincidence. If MA had allowed share deeds for the moon, then a cooperative bid would have been successful, but the main guys trying to raise funds have a big job ahead.
 
Few Scars said:
There will be one bid, as I am sure the price isn't a coincidence. If MA had allowed share deeds for the moon, then a cooperative bid would have been successful, but the main guys trying to raise funds have a big job ahead.
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how would a cooperative bid work with the design ascpects? and how many shares, 10, 50, 100? think its a bit early to suggest it wont be succesful and if they have a buyer lined up and they buy it, then that job done. i actually think the starting bid is low, given the funds expected for a full planet, which has the same revenue arrangement and the in game assets held by many, its not much of a stretch for this to go well past $150k/1.5m PED.
 
Few Scars said:
There will be one bid, as I am sure the price isn't a coincidence.
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I think the start bid is to minimize the risk of the medusa island fiasco where the new property went way to cheap (imho). (For a normal player that isn't of any advantage as they are charging same tax as land areas bought at a higher price.)
 
JustinStarry said:
So you like the idea of being a major decision-maker in the development of the moon....

...but you want the moon to be ready one week after the sale...

To be a major decision-maker in the devleopment, that means the Moon has not been developed :p yet, because they need YOUR input :).

...but you want the moon to be ready in one week after you're made the head honcho....

Well, when you buy the moon, tell the MA dev team that you want it up and running in one week :). I totally want to visit your really buggy, 2D, squar-ish moon with large blocks of pixels where mob design is supposed to be :D.
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what exactly do you think you'll be able to design? they already said how many domes, what size :

The moon estate includes the following features:

A start room for new participants to become acquainted with the Entropia Universe user interface and basic gameplay.
A Lunar Command Center with teleporters, terminals, storage, auctioneers, quest NPCs, four (4) premium shops, and portals to the subsurface caverns.
Two (2) Lunar Habitats, each with 50 apartments and 5 shops. These apartments and shops are individual estates which can be traded to other Entropia Universe participants.
Eight (8) subsurface caverns filled with unique creatures and rare resources.
Four (4) unique creatures.
Four (4) hunting quest chains, one for each creature.
Mining within the subsurface caverns, including two (2) new mining resources, exclusive to the moon.
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the only thing you'll probably be able to choose is the color of the walls and if you're lucky the terrain type (probably your options will be hill/plain +- lake with the land covered in either grass/snow)

If they were to specify that you'd be helping designing the mobs, the missions, items etc that I would understand...but what exactly is "design" ? they already say 4 mobs, 4 missions...sounds to me like they got most of it done or is this just the project and the buyer actually, in fact, is funding the creation of the moon ?
 
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nutrageti said:
what exactly do you think you'll be able to design? they already said how many domes, what size :




the only thing you'll probably be able to choose is the color of the walls and if you're lucky the terrain type (probably your options will be hill/plain +- lake with the land covered in either grass/snow)

If they were to specify that you'd be helping designing the mobs, the missions, items etc that I would understand...but what exactly is "design" ? they already say 4 mobs, 4 missions...sounds to me like they got most of it done or is this just the project and the buyer actually, in fact, is funding the creation of the moon ?
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lol, you obviously missed the tread started after this one.

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?239763-Moon-Estate-FAQ

In particular:
Q: When is the moon estate expected to be released?
A: After the auction is completed, MindArk will contact the Moon Operator to discuss overall design aspects of the moon estate. Depending on the specific details from that discussion, the moon estate is expected to be released late in Q2 or in Q3 of 2013.
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Doesn't sounds started to me. ;)
 
OZtwo said:
Anyone remember a moon map we played just a few months ago here in EU? Could that be the 'new' moon? Seems about right since it just went offline a few months ago. So as I put, could MA's old Moon project that turned into the THING now be our new moon?
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More like this...ahhh the m-o-o-n...imagine........just imagine....

 
MindArk in direct competiton against its own "partners"?

Let me get this straight.

MindArk is now going into direct competition with not only all of its (remaining) "Planet Partners", but also its own wholly owned AR (that owns Calypso)?

I think "WTF?!" is in place.

I also think elaboration on these issues could be a somewhat good idea for MindArk.

Madoff, anyone?
 
aia said:
I think the start bid is to minimize the risk of the medusa island fiasco where the new property went way to cheap (imho). (For a normal player that isn't of any advantage as they are charging same tax as land areas bought at a higher price.)
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Considering MA themselves valued all of Calypso at around 285k USD a few years back, I'd say that "island fiasco" gave them way more money than deserved.

If we instead look at the facts, they got exactly what the market found it worth. :)
 
OZtwo said:
Anyone remember a moon map we played just a few months ago here in EU? Could that be the 'new' moon? Seems about right since it just went offline a few months ago. So as I put, could MA's old Moon project that turned into the THING now be our new moon?
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Any pictures of this moon map?
 
tamlin said:
If we instead look at the facts, they got exactly what the market found it worth. :)
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A year or so after the sale, someone wanted to sell their shares at 10x initial price.
And now there is a salesthread about medusa island shares at 2.5x price. Is there anyting ingame that has *increased* that much in value? Or was Medusa Islands sold for less than half the real market value?

My gut feeling about the sale was that at the point, a few people knew there would be an investment group. Well the people who had a substantial amount of PEDs ingame probably knew.

And secondly, when a player known from previous auctions to be able to produce >1M peds showed his interest, it probably scared off a few other bidders.

At the time medusa islands were sold scipulors was a mob that ubers liked to hunt and this would be the only DNA/landareas with them, and a normal landarea was about 150k ped. Price of hangars were jacked up to around 150k ped or so. And included was a mall with shops to sale - first new shops ingame since the big mall sale.

And after the sale of medusa islands I saw someone unknown to me selling one of the "huts" (that apparently was enabled as shops). Dunno how he got it.

And apartments at medusa was priced at 5k ped or so/each.

What did MA get for it? Slightly above the price MA got for New Switzerland (practically 3 LAs - no mall and no hangar). Only extra investment (as far as I know) has been a single teleporter. What do players pay for it? Tax as on normal land areas.

And, what did the sales before this produce? Well, CND was sold at 1M ped BO within a day. And CP went for 3 million peds and there was competition about the bids. Even emerald lakes mall - a mall with one (1) land area went for more than medusa islands if I remember right (and emerald lakes mall has been nerfed - no ground level servicecenter, no ground level teleporter just the one on floor 5 - yes there was a ground level teleporter at emerald lakes mall at beginning of VU10, and I think there were even two one in mall and one on ground - but the ground one has been removed).
 
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Spawn said:
Any pictures of this moon map?
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Edit..OK..Wrong on that one...
 
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Arctic = designed by ND, big, with lots of snow
Moon = designed by MA, small, with domes
 
they think the arctic assets, map etc will be used to create the new moon. which imo iwould be better than paying to develop more assets..but whatever is above my pay grade.
 
Farmer Smurf said:
they think the arctic assets, map etc will be used to create the new moon. which imo iwould be better than paying to develop more assets..but whatever is above my pay grade.
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Yes, is my guess. When looking at the video the terrain and of course objects look like the items used in building the THING..so my guess again is that since they just removed it..they will be making it the moon since it's just collecting digital dust right now.
 
OZtwo said:
Yes, is my guess. When looking at the video the terrain and of course objects look like the items used in building the THING..so my guess again is that since they just removed it..they will be making it the moon since it's just collecting digital dust right now.
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The thing will be back according to ND. It was taken down for updates and improvements. :)
 
Nor Alien said:
The thing will be back according to ND. It was taken down for updates and improvements. :)
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Yes, what I'm hoping..but he also has a new map in the works..so not sure if it will be back up or he took it down to replace it?
 
OZtwo said:
Yes, what I'm hoping..but he also has a new map in the works..so not sure if it will be back up or he took it down to replace it?
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Hmm I think he was working on a new film project, if my memory serves me correctly... If so then I think that may be the new map. :scratch2:
 
The buyer will be Mercury. If you haven't all noticed he's been on a selling spree of anything and everything since the initial announcement of another investment opportunity.

This is all a waste of money and time. The only real benefits to this will be for MA and the investor, sitting back after a little design watching you mindless zombies pump countless number of dollars into the search for gear, items and entropia fame. The casino that is MA will always win, and the high rollers will always be favorited.

If your rebuttal is "how do noobs hit ATH then?!?"... You're too far gone. Just hand MA your credit card and bend over so they can swipe.
 
Dane said:
The buyer will be Mercury. If you haven't all noticed he's been on a selling spree of anything and everything since the initial announcement of another investment opportunity.

This is all a waste of money and time. The only real benefits to this will be for MA and the investor, sitting back after a little design watching you mindless zombies pump countless number of dollars into the search for gear, items and entropia fame. The casino that is MA will always win, and the high rollers will always be favorited.

If your rebuttal is "how do noobs hit ATH then?!?"... You're too far gone. Just hand MA your credit card and bend over so they can swipe.
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I wouldn’t be so sure it’s a one horse race, I think there is going to be an amazing battle for this moon.

The obvious big sellers on PCF right now are Star, Akoz, Squall, Skippie, Atami, raising millions of peds between them (not to mention how much ped they have on their cards from LA income....enough to make most of us fall of our chairs in disbelief if we saw those cards...I'm sure).

I would not be surprised if minim, Divinity or Xp10jd are getting in on the action as well with supporting bids, since they’re doing a lot of PCF trading.

Some of the prices being asked and actually being achieved are really making me smile, but hey I’ve been around long enough to see how it works. Not to mention the amount of stuff in auction that a lot of the big players are hoping to off load.

What’s more we don’t know if BIG-I will make a bid, or Buzz. Both have done exceptional well this year I would imagine, or if there is another one or two big money spenders waiting in the wings.

It’s one thing making a bid with in game made peds, it’s quite another depositing a shed load of NEW cash to make a bid for the moon.

On one hand it’s good that this sale will soak up a huge amount of floating peds in the game, on a negative side MA might not get any fresh cash unless those big guns support their bids with deposits, or their supporters deposit.

I’m sure there are loads of backers for each camp. The more I think about it, I would not be surprised to see it go for over 5 millions peds. (easily 3 million ped).

You see the moon is all about ‘ego’, “We can sell it better than MA”......and there’re a lot of very big egos in EU at top level. So....Let the games begin.

The big question is, can they all sell their big assets in time? none seem to be desperate enough to accept bargain offers right now.

One thing is for sure, the more it sells for the more effort the new owner will have to put in to make a decent return. So from that view point I hope is sell for 10 million peds.

Rick
 
Entropia Universe announced today that it will be auctioning a newly discovered moon starting on March 21, 2013
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what is the current bid?
(cant login today)
 
Also Note, they put it at 7 days not 2 weeks.
 
KlowN said:
Also Note, they put it at 7 days not 2 weeks.
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When listing estate deeds, our NPC avatars use the same auction interface as participants, with the same auction duration limitation of 7 days. Very shortly our database engineers will extend the auction end time to April 4, as specified in the original announcement.
 
Would it be a better PR trick getting the media's attention before this-thing-which-doesn't-yet-exist is sold than after it is sold. But maybe this isn't your first priority as you haven't yet even named the auction item.
 
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