English Stephen
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- Joined
- Jul 30, 2006
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- 71
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- UK - Liverpool
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- Sterling & Moss
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- Stephen "Steve" Winterman
Hey,
So it's been about 4-5 months now since I returned to Entropia.
First of all - I am 28 now. When I first played PE i was 12 years old in 2002. I used to deposit using splash plastic which allowed me to top up with cash at any paypoint in the UK and then deposit. I am saying this because my experience may be different from most, because I couldn't just as easily deposit as some can (not a rich family either). I used to put birthday and pocket money into this.
I cashed out early 2007 - sold most of my skills and equipment and made a $580 withdrawal.
Anyway. I just thought it might be interesting for me to put into writing the things I have observed in the 4 months I have been back.
If you want evidence I am that old of a player, all I have is an old hof image post going back to 08-2006. I was a member of the society "Sterling and Moss" run by "Gabriel Aziphrazel Stone" which was a well known/trusted trading corp back in the day with small membership.
Observations:
I'm sure I have a lot more and I'll update it as they come to mind. Just figured this might be interesting to everyone.
Good luck!
Steve
So it's been about 4-5 months now since I returned to Entropia.
First of all - I am 28 now. When I first played PE i was 12 years old in 2002. I used to deposit using splash plastic which allowed me to top up with cash at any paypoint in the UK and then deposit. I am saying this because my experience may be different from most, because I couldn't just as easily deposit as some can (not a rich family either). I used to put birthday and pocket money into this.
I cashed out early 2007 - sold most of my skills and equipment and made a $580 withdrawal.
Anyway. I just thought it might be interesting for me to put into writing the things I have observed in the 4 months I have been back.
If you want evidence I am that old of a player, all I have is an old hof image post going back to 08-2006. I was a member of the society "Sterling and Moss" run by "Gabriel Aziphrazel Stone" which was a well known/trusted trading corp back in the day with small membership.
Observations:
- It's a lot harder to make a huge profit now. Everything seems weighted on initial investment and you wont get a rags to riches loot anymore. I can see why MA did this but it does take away from the excitement and experience I had back in the day.
- It's a little easier to break even/make a small profit. Especially if you go full eco on puny mobs.
- It feels like amped mining is a necessity if you want a global/hof now which is a big risk for players with a low bankroll
- The missions are a great way to add value to a hunt - some of the skillpoint gains i get from both the codex and missions are awesome and it's really good if your a laser gunner because you can pick blp/gauss/explosive gains and gain a huge amount of skills in that
- The spawnrates are ridiculous and they shouldn't be able to spawn within a certain distance of a player. I've had 2 mobs spawn right on top of me while i'm dealing with another one and it's just BS tbh.
- Very disappointed with the devaluation of old classics like the FireForge DAR 9300. I can imagine a lot of old players had stocks of original weapons and to see MA mismanage their ingame economy like this by shitting on their oldest players is sad. I understand the impetus for (L) weaps but there had to be a gentler way, maybe even an amnesty of sorts. I really feel gutted for players who saved good weapons only to be shafted by economy 2.0
- Auto-fire/aim is great, I love it
- Often your servers are laggy as hell and its unacceptable given how much money is involved. You're not Tibia - sort it out.
- You need to do better at incentiveising players congregate in different areas of the game. So many places are barren now, never a player around. This wasn't the case when I used to play, even the most backwoods tp would have a few people standing around. Now it's just a few hubs per planet and it ruins the immersion.
- On a network level, stop treating mobile service centres as separate places from their geographical location. The load in is ridiculous and will turn a lot of new players off.
I'm sure I have a lot more and I'll update it as they come to mind. Just figured this might be interesting to everyone.
Good luck!
Steve