I know, nobody asked for it, but here is some Forum history for the newer players:
In the very early days of Project Entropia from 2002 on there has been the very first legendary soc called
Entropia Pioneers.
(I miss having you around, Dino! *sniff*)
Entropia Pioneers had a soc forum and offered a public forum part for some communication with players who were no EP members.
The open forum part then rapidly developed to be
the place to be for forum communication about Project Entropia, because there were just no other forums at all and MA did not offer an own forum for the players to talk about the game, to learn, to share information and to discuss.
So EP forum grew big and most players had an account there. Countless gems of wisdom about the game and jewels of discussions got shared there.
More or less all the basic knowledge about game mechanic, armors, damage types, guns, tools and mining maps got discovered and shared there, because MindArk kept them all secret and MA's lack of communication got sold as part of the game, to let them players to discover...
In 2005 PCF got founded as an alternative forum without a society binding like the EP forum was.
Many players, including me, were torn between both forums and which forum was worth the love we had to share.
PE forum had all the knowledge about guns and armors and items, empirically collected by dozens of players in thousands of hours of work at priceless costs spent.
Both were privat forums, none was official and MA still fended off to host an official game forum, because this would mean to foster and cherish their own paying customer base, at which MA never was a role model.
Some players were unhappy to be on the EP soc forum, due to the lack of alternatives. They were unavoidably stuck on a forum that did not represent their own soc.
Now there was the newly founded PCF.
PCF had no soc binding and wooed away those players from EP forum.
It took years for PCF to collect and build an own database equal to the one EPF had, and alot just got stolen and copied.
Over the years a userbase established on PCF while EPF grew old with the soc, with mainenance neglected.
A loss of database due to some server problems finally killed EPF and EPF could not recover from that blow even after some recovering of lost data later.
MA got pushed for years to take some responsibility for their playerbase to host an own official game forum.
In the end PCF just got badged to be something like "official", the private host 711 gets paid a little and MA provides the server space now.
If i remember correctly then 711 also hosts wiki now, or at least provides some serverspace, since the original providers left the game and refused to pay for the wiki space and traffic years later. So 711 stepped in here. Thank you 711. So there is a connection which can be helpful for
@stinger98_98 .
