lots to unpack here, ill do my best:
Bits in bold - this is where you are alienating me and others when you use words like "We" I mean when you use such wordings you make people think things and speculate as to your reasons and motives.
i use "we" because "we" the players have far more power together than ND does by himself.
ND went out of his way to make sure I understood that he was
not actively managing the planet
ND told everyone that no meaningful development would happen on RT other than
maybe a few events here and there
ND said other than
maybe a UL arctic parka set as event prize there really wasn't much he was going to do
and that is perfectly fine !
"we" run events, "we" own and run shops, "we" hunt, mine and craft on the planet, "we" are having one HELL!!! of a party on RT.
WE are trying to make this a fun place where you actually want to hang out for a while, if even just a few days.
but you will not be on the planet long because it is very empty most of the time and with broken missions and no codex it is not a great tourist attraction until those things get addressed
Third week in and not planning to leave anytime soon, other than to do some shopping here and there, but I appreciate the concern!
Regarding the broken mission, I know about the "Diesel in Distress" one that cannot be started, but other than that I have been able to take and complete all other missions I have taken. Some dialogs are off or appear out of thin air and some quirks need to be ironed out but additional details would help me out tremendously to try and get things moving again. we might not have codex for ROCKtropia mobs, but we have repeatable missions for a lot of ROCKtropia-specific mobs which give great rewards, and you can hunt any shared mob with Calypso and simply redeem your codex rewards while on ROCKtropia.
You have to realize implementing Codex on ROCKtropia means a whole revamp of most missions. I am not sure MindArk would be too keen about allowing ROCKtropia to offer both repeatable mission AND codex for the same mob and it is one of the many reasons why we cannot "just" have the Codex on RT, it involves a lot of balancing which MindArk is not willing to do because there is not enough demand for it. If only we could get more players involved with ROCKtropia, I am sure MindArk would be more willing to lend us an ear and listen to what we would like for our planet.
So listen I know your new and your enthusiastic but honestly I think you should visit NI that planet is more active and also recently Arkadia devs got back to updating their planet as well. Toulan is small planet loads to do the first few weeks but then once you done everything you can it is kinda boring there after that. I love Toulan it is my fav planet. Lack of mob variety and fact the planet is tiny made me decide to part ways with that planet until they increase the planet size and add more mob variety and more missions etc.
I did visit Next Island, and you are right it is a great place! Great, active community I am happy they are doing well for themselves! Same for Arkadia, heard it got some development done after years of inactivity and that is music to my ears! I have not played much of Toulan because the overall theme just wasn't for me, but I'm glad it is getting some love from players!
The Universe is big enough, I am not dismissing other planets nor trying to undermine them in any way, shape or form. There is a planet for everyone in the Entropia Universe and if ROCKtropia is not the one for you, please go out there and visit them all so you can find a place where you really enjoy yourself.
It is not a contest of popularity between planets. ROCKtropia has everything to win from the success of other Planet Partners, and vice versa.
you will start to realise this thread will probably not garner you to get any extra people maybe only a handful perhaps but they will only be flying visits.
this thread was a complaint to MindArk about the state of ROCKtropia in the first place. this thread is not and was never meant to become a place to attract more players to ROCKtropia, so you are probably 100% right! It will not get us any extra people. It does however tell me that players care. I can feel the frustration from many of you who have been burned in the past. I hear it loud and clear. I do not wish to repeat that. We are not making any promise. But the simple fact that players are engaging in the conversation, telling about their experiences, telling about how they wish ROCKtropia was more developped...thats exactly what we need more of ;-)
Yes the attraction to that planet could have been so much better if ND stuck around. But alas he did not, it is very sad really, also to touch on the fact you knew about his asteroid purchase many years ago I take it you googled about ND and you found that info out? at the end of the day not just ND but many others have invested huge sums in this game as well they just invested it in different ways and not the way ND invested it. ND just had other motives and ideas some that came to tuition and some that never saw the light of day (Planet Michael) for example. Super glad that never happened. ND has constantly came up with so many things and about 75% of them never happened.
agreed, i too wish he stayed. but he didnt. so what!?
his name might be everywhere on the planet, but its not like we
NEED him to do our own stuff. all you got to do to create an event is to walk to a land area marker, click it and plan away. no special skills required!
ND always has been a dreamer. People fail, then get back up.
ROCKtropia did not fail. ROCKtropia is still online, is still getting some love (and hate!) from the EU community. ROCKtropia introduced so many cutting-edge features that are firsts in this Universe, its very easy to remember everything that went wrong, it takes more effort to remember everything that went well.
I wish you good luck my friend but I have said all I want to say now.
Thank you for the good luck wishes, and thank you for the comments. all i hope for is that one day, if you ever happen to fly by during an event, just come and say hi. we dont bite
(although Vampires and Zombies do.... and werewolves.... oh and Vixens... aww sh*t yeah I now realize we have an issue! ;D
I decided to go to the dungeon Crib Raid. I bought a key [Lockpick Kit I]. I reached the end of the dungeon and a window with statistics appeared. I was thrown out of the dungeon and ... absolutely no reward. Where did I go wrong, or did someone else go wrong?
this
SUCKS! no excuse.
@Ludvig|MindArk @NEVERDIE any chance you could have a look at the underlying issue? its a shot in the dark, but if you haven't already please send a support ticket... the more details you give the merrier, without it its going to be hard to attract MindArk's eyes on the problem...
But i can see that priority for ND is to give you guys unl parka in few months
Priority for ND is to address ROCKtropia pipeline issues with MindArk. He stated multiple times that until that was done nothing would or could happen other than
maybe a few events here and there. one player asked if UL arctic parkas would be available again, to which
@NEVERDIE offered us to farm warm thing bloods and he would try and craft a few sets as event prizes. Again, no promise. But its also him just being kind and doing it for the sake of doing it with no "hidden agenda" behind it. I personally appreciate it and it is going to be pretty much my only chance at that gear ever, worth a shot, the event is free... i don't see what there is to complain about on this one i'm sorry
damned if he does, damned if he doesn't isn't it? ;-)
I conscientiously killed all the hooligans and undead. It's demotivating . I want at least some kind of reward
you absolutely should get the reward you deserve. might be a dumb question but, you did click the loot chest at the end....right?
phew, sorry for the long post. hope to see more and more of that player interest, keep them comments / questions coming! See you all on ROCKtropia, I hope ;-)