Question About The Notes ...

This one is real simple (I think) ... I've read all the threads about the notes, and the threads about chat log translations ... even participated in the gathering in the caves beneath New Oxford, and one mini-adventure escorting Adrijanna to a Feff Camp where something was to happen, BUT ...

I'm either having a purple moment, or I'm not alone in thinking that none of the activities surrounding the note decoding and chat log translations have really led anyone anywhere .. have they? It seems that each decoding or translation points to some kind of event or activity that's supposed to take place, but really doesn't. Or if something does happen, it's yet another mystery leading nowhere.

If I'm missing something, and there really is some kind of valid whatever to all of this, then please clue me in, because so far ... all I've seen is everyone chasing their tails. My apologies ahead of time if I'm wrong, but I would like someone to tell me the bottomline here. What has all of this really done for our EU community?

Right now, I am hard pressed to determine any valid benefit the community has derived from all of the activities thus far. Note deciphering is fine, and perhaps fun for some, but what has it all led to?

Please know, that this is not an attempt to disrespect anyone else's opinion about this, nor to bash MA in any way, but rather to get clarification as to what all of this has meant in our virtual universe, and how any of us have benefited ... that's all. Several who have taken part in these activities are special friends, and if I'm just not getting it, then please give me an explanation that might help me to understand this better.

Thank you!




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Excellent question! What's the point of all that?

I translated the second conversation's French and Spanish words as a brief intellectual exercise. But, I'm not too interested in the soap or the event itself. It's pointless. In my opinion, your question is most pertinent.

Until it's answered, most of the community members will continue to regard it as a minor event instead of an official one.

I think you could ask the same question about alot of things. Why do people do crosswords? Why do they play EF?

Essentially, some people find the puzzles entertaining. To me it makes alot more sense than spending hours blasting away at Argo's or Troxes (which I do alot).

I don't know, did that answer the question?

Very excellent question MindStar9. I've been thinking along the same lines myself. It seems that all we have thus far is encouragement to stop spending peds

It kind of feels like something really cool could happen and all the loose ends of various unfinished story lines could converge but I fear it could just as easily fizzle out into steaming crappiness.

I personally love the idea of the "event" and wish that we could see much more of this sort of thing. Very cool to see the community working so well together to solve the puzzle. I just hope it actually goes somewhere astounding after all the build up.

As I see it, the notes and stuff was/is briefly in Entropia. It is a big plot that goes way beyond our universe and belongs to the swedish tv show called "Sanningen om Marika" (or something like that). I Guess MA saw this as a great oppurtinity to get some free publisity about themselves as both the show and the tv thingy is hosted in sweden. I hope and think that the entropian players participating in this "event" will get a little something for their effort. But I think that the main focus about the whole event is something that will not be solved inside EU. I have watched the tv episodes on telly, and i understand that EU will get some more ppl from it beacuse they show some gameplay now and again even if it is only for Swedish and Norwegian to see. (maybe Danish and Finnish too. I don't know)
For all you people from the rest of the world, I sincerly hope there is something from you to gain too, and I guess that will come from helping solving the riddles (notes) in entropia. As for the full answere I do not think that will ever be revealed on Calypso unfortantly, but Hey! maybe I am wrong.

ReadBird said:

As I see it, the notes and stuff was/is briefly in Entropia. It is a big plot that goes way beyond our universe and belongs to the swedish tv show called "Sanningen om Marika" (or something like that). I Guess MA saw this as a great oppurtinity to get some free publisity about themselves as both the show and the tv thingy is hosted in sweden. I hope and think that the entropian players participating in this "event" will get a little something for their effort. But I think that the main focus about the whole event is something that will not be solved inside EU. I have watched the tv episodes on telly, and i understand that EU will get some more ppl from it beacuse they show some gameplay now and again even if it is only for Swedish and Norwegian to see. (maybe Danish and Finnish too. I don't know)
For all you people from the rest of the world, I sincerly hope there is something from you to gain too, and I guess that will come from helping solving the riddles (notes) in entropia. As for the full answere I do not think that will ever be revealed on Calypso unfortantly, but Hey! maybe I am wrong.

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Halloween masks!

Seems that a lot of what has transpired so far are just bread crumbs to lead ppl to the next gathering. However, there seems to be a lot of extra information that is being amassed as the puzzle unfolds. I usually just read Pepper's posts whenever something happens and then go back to hunting.

My question for ppl who have seen the show is, are they using footage of the gatherings in the show, or just generic scenes from elsewhere in the game?

You're right, they haven't (so far) led to anything much or any real results. The notes have got people together in a certain place at a certain time so that they can witness some kind of (rather weak) plot development.

The two rendezvous so far haven't really led to anything other than that, plus a wait for the next set of notes to drop. A few people have gained a few PEDs from the ABC guys, but not much to speak of.

It's what used to be called Interactive Fiction, but the interaction is largely irrelevant because the concept depends on the clues being solved. If we couldn't work out the answers to the puzzles, the concept would fail, so they need to seed extra clues to make sure that doesn't happen, which renders the exercise worthless.

They seem to be playing on the fact that the uniqueness of this is the multiple media element (game, TV, web) but actually most 'reality' and 'celebrity' shows have been doing that (albeit with much less involved interaction) for several years.

What they've done, so far, is like sending tickets for a TV show recording to some people picked out of the phone book, without telling anyone what they are coming to see. People will come. But when they aren't impressed with the first show, less will bother with the second.

I'm keeping an eye on events but I'm getting rapidly bored and I certainly don't expect there will be any big result for anyone in the game other than 3 seconds of fame when they are mentioned on Swedish TV

As an aside, as far as I'm aware, no-one has been asked permission to allow their names/avatars/words to appear on TV, and I'm not sure if any have appeared, but if any of this more personal stuff is getting onto national television without the express permission of the players then that raises some difficult legal questions on privacy and intellectual property. If, for example, they are using dialogue from EU avas - e.g. a broadcast of part of our conversations with ABC or Adrijanna - then they ought to be getting clearance for that. I for one would be extremely unhappy about being named or quoted. Perhaps anyone who's seen the TV show could let us know about how they are handling this.

Thank you to those who have contributed so far ... I know that there will be differences of opinion, and I have respect for them all. I guess I'm just confused, because it all seems to be just so unorganized, and aside from the fun (I guess) for some to unravel the notes and hidden meanings, I can't quite figure out "for what" ... and that's where my dilemma is, if you want to call it that.

One thing is for sure ... it did bring the community together in an effort to crack code and try to make some sense out of it. The fact that it seems to be for a soap opera on Swedish TV kinda leaves a good portion of the virtual globe outta the picture. If all of these activities were merely for EU exposure and to add something out of the ordinary to a TV program script, that's kind of cool I suppose, but right now, the end (or are we in the middle) result is rather empty at the moment.

Here's my question ... what do all the notes put together tell us? My head swims from all the data collected at this forum, but I invite you to do some critical thinking about the data, and report where it has really led us ... how do all the pieces fit together thus far? ... or do they? Are you any closer to anything? Is there any semblance of understanding whatsoever? And ... how long is this going to drag on? Perhaps we should ask how long the soap opera season is if all of this is being used for TV script and EU marketing.

Just please don't get me wrong ... I'm genuinely interested in what everyone has to say, because my own critical thinking about this comes up with the same thing over and over again, and I feel I need to step back from it a minute and hear what all of you have to say. Not that I need to hear it for any specific reason, but I'm still a part of this virtual universe, and if this is a big event of some sort (which I don't see that it is right now), then my thoughts are that maybe it should be a bit more organized and far more reaching than a Swedish TV soap opera. To me, it has no relationship to EU whatsoever, other than a variety of activities that seemingly go nowhere other than to feed a script, and get MA some exposure. Not that exposure isn't a good thing, but I just have a sinking feeling about this for now.

I hope somehow I'm proven wrong ... and that all the efforts that everyone brilliantly contributed will not be for naught.





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MindStar9 said:

I hope somehow I'm proven wrong ... and that all the efforts that everyone brilliantly contributed will not be for naught.

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Alas! I don't think you can be proven wrong on this one, MS9.
Indeed, we're all expecting this will become ironically clearer once the event is over; so we can laugh at our ourselves and our wacky theories once we see the simplicity of the answer.

Wait... that only happens at the end of good novels written by good writers...
The event's future doesn't seem too bright, does it?

I made a summary of what happened with the notes till now in another thread:

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1041062&postcount=1050

sahel said:

Noteset 1:
Notes gave date, time, and coords to the abandoned umbranoid village between Jason's and Twin.
At given location and time Adam Bravo and Cassandra (i'll call then ABC Guards from now) gave out notes and held a coded speech. They spoke about the umbranoids disappearance.
At the end of the speech Kerberos Stalkers and Mutated Chirpies spawned.


- Strange statue was found on the big mountain between Orthos and Hadesheim. Lateron the statue disappeared.

- Strange black orb was found west of Minopolis.



Noteset 2:
Notes gave out a new date, time and location.
At the feff camp north of tethys the ABC guards showed again and held another coded speech. Seems they are asking us to boycot ped usage comming week (5~11 nov).


- Big argonauts and two new subspecies (Ludark and Mesis, like the Rarkesh) spawned at the strange black orb.



Noteset 3:
Now dropping.





PS: I tried to make a small as possible overview. Maybe I miss something here. So much threads to keep track off

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Notes and following events seemed to happen just as the protests about the 2pec equip tax were reaching a creshendo. We are now no longer bothered by it (or so it seems...)

Distraction techniques anyone? And we being a guilable lot fell for it. Again.

The events that have occured around the notes have resulted in massive, unplayable lag is all. nothing special looted, no follow on. And being encouraged not to spend peds? Hmm....


This is not a whine, just an observation...

I have tryed to keep up with everything round the notes. And only thing it has done for me is that I play less, waiting for the next ABC show. IMO this event is a bit crappy since it's not designed for the whole playerbase. And every happening is kind of lame since nothing really happens. At least in an event there used to be some cool stuff looted, but that has not happened in this one.
One thing is that the latest place has connections to the Egg! So it could be that this is the closening of the Egg event.
What makes me wounder is that an event like the Egg should take so long, or all events take long time, when Marco says that the average player stays for about 6 to 12 months. So in reality almost no one will stay for the events to end....

Rumsponge said:

Seems that a lot of what has transpired so far are just bread crumbs to lead ppl to the next gathering. However, there seems to be a lot of extra information that is being amassed as the puzzle unfolds. I usually just read Pepper's posts whenever something happens and then go back to hunting.

My question for ppl who have seen the show is, are they using footage of the gatherings in the show, or just generic scenes from elsewhere in the game?

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Regarding EU photage in the show there where some in the first episode, a girl running round I think it looked like it was east of Billys, team hunting berrys. And the fotage was done pre VU9. So didn't show to much. But if you visit the conpsirare website where the core of the roleplay happens there is some ad texts about EU.
The new things is the roleplay is that Adrijanna was kidnapped by Kerberos security. So I doubt she will show tomorrow, but anything could happen.

sahel said:

I made a summary of what happened with the notes till now in another thread:

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1041062&postcount=1050

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I think you have missed some stuff regarding this third part;

That is suposed to happen tomorrow 10th at OP Nus Lull. We still miss the time since one note that has been looted is not put out in public, instead the holder tries to sell it.

I hope that the time will show during today, in worst case MA has to put it up on the ad screens. So keep your eyes open. If not, we just have to park our avas at Nus Lull OP and log in once every hour to see what happens.

To be honest I think we are a little too accustomed to events leading to nice/new items being looted...and this may not end that way since it's not 100% a MA storyline.

The notes are great for those who enjoy decoding them and those chats with ABC ...but personally I would put money on the ball if I were aiming for a decent event out of the blue.

The full story of both notes and ball will be interesting to finally discover, I hope it's as well thought out as the cryptic clues have been so far.

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Maybe someone should try and talk to A, B, C and/or the other cryptic chick about the Black Ball next time they show up. Ask them if that is the "grey pulse" or whatever they mentioned earlier.

Do they answer such questions or do they just stick to the script and ignore what anyone else says?

The Black Ball interests me much more than their incoherent nonsense but I'm assuming they're part of the same story.

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Maybe someone should try and talk to A, B, C and/or the other cryptic chick about the Black Ball next time they show up. Ask them if that is the "grey pulse" or whatever they mentioned earlier.

Do they answer such questions or do they just stick to the script and ignore what anyone else says?

The Black Ball interests me much more than their incoherent nonsense but I'm assuming they're part of the same story.

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I was in personal chat(after trade, got 10 PED) with C (I think) the last time. And she did not respond to anything I said. IMO they just stick to the preset script. No interaction at all, except the personal trade where they said "This is all lies" and handed you some PEDs.


Regarding Black ball, I'm on to the explanation that it's just a test thing for breathing motion in our avas.

The more interesting thing is the mystery statue that disapeared short after it was found. Was it an accident that we found it or was there some information. Maybe MA did cover it cause it will be used later in the story line.

Ilga Beck said:

Maybe someone should try and talk to A, B, C and/or the other cryptic chick about the Black Ball next time they show up. Ask them if that is the "grey pulse" or whatever they mentioned earlier.

Do they answer such questions or do they just stick to the script and ignore what anyone else says?

The Black Ball interests me much more than their incoherent nonsense but I'm assuming they're part of the same story.

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I was in personal chat(after trade, got 10 PED) with C (I think) the last time. And she did not respond to anything I said. IMO they just stick to the preset script. No interaction at all, except the personal trade where they said "This is all lies" and handed you some PEDs.


Regarding Black ball, I'm on to the explanation that it's just a test thing for breathing motion in our avas.

The more interesting thing is the mystery statue that disapeared short after it was found. Was it an accident that we found it or was there some information? Maybe MA did cover it cause it will be used later in the story line.

MS9 I have been asking myself the same question... I had such high expectations that there was gonna be a proper event following the storyline... solving the egg mystery, or maybe another Robot Invasion...

Instead we see yet another wired story that seems more like an advertising and marketing stunt to me ... I see no point in this at all ...

Maybe I have the wrong vision for EU... Maybe I expect EU to be something different than what MA has in mind. I don't see what this real life soap opera from Sweden has got to do with the original Sci-Fi story about the citizens of calypso who have to defend themselves against the Robots to finally live in peace on their planet...

I fear that the introduction of the chinese trade planet will ruin the whole game for good. If we see more of this real life stuff in EU, more advertising, more e-commerce with real life items, well then EU might turn into a magnificent new virtual Universe with planty of activities for users to entertain themselves but that said, that is not the EU that I got to love and the EU that I want to play. It's probably just me who thinks like that but if that really happens (and I honnestly hope not) then it's time to pack my bags...

Atm MA are spending all their time and resources to improve optics but the game play has not seen any improvements at all, the events led to nowhere. it's as if we had 10 event managers in the last 5 years... and each one of them started out from 0 again ...

Nirfu said:

I have tryed to keep up with everything round the notes. And only thing it has done for me is that I play less, waiting for the next ABC show. IMO this event is a bit crappy since it's not designed for the whole playerbase. And every happening is kind of lame since nothing really happens. At least in an event there used to be some cool stuff looted, but that has not happened in this one.
One thing is that the latest place has connections to the Egg! So it could be that this is the closening of the Egg event.
What makes me wounder is that an event like the Egg should take so long, or all events take long time, when Marco says that the average player stays for about 6 to 12 months. So in reality almost no one will stay for the events to end....

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Considering that this event is not directly related to EU (why i seriously doubt we will get any news about the egg) i don't see why it is a big problem that no one gets an uber item from the event. (hey... the event is not finished yet ffs, so how can you be already judging it from the item drop pov?)

This is a different event! (I've seen people complaining in the past that MA events where boring due to the mass hunt a mob->loot an item nature!)


On an answer to the questions MS9 makes, the fact that there are no conclusions is the nature of the event.

I would recommend, if you have not yet, reading two links originally posted by Pepper here:

The Background

The Search

The whole event is the search for Maria. Progression in the event is made by following the clues, that generally leads to other clues

There has been little to conclude as the search still goes on, i would make a wild guess and say that there might be a small conclusion inside of EU and then a clue leads to a RL place.

This is just a sort of an alternate reality game passing by EU, months ago another game made headlines as the conclusion involved a cash prize awarded to the person who solved the last puzzle.
I'm sure a few might have already read about Perplex City.
http://www.perplexcity.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perplex_City

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternate_reality_game
Short:

Wikipedia said:

An alternate reality game (ARG) is an interactive narrative that uses the real world as a platform, often involving multiple media and game elements, to tell a story that may be affected by participants' ideas or actions.

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This event has little to do with EU or MA, so i would not expect great things in terms of EU items or so. Anything that comes is a bonus from MA. (i would also take a guess that the orb is a side thing from MA)

Personally i would wait and see, it is not like it is hurting anyone? Or is it? From certain people's posts it looks like that.

Thank you again for all of your input ... it really is appreciated. There seems to be a common theme in thinking, except for one or two, but everyone's perspective is valid here.

To clarify a couple of things ... it's not that all of the activities are "hurting" anyone, but rather ... why are they really taking place? Also, please don't redirect me to any other threads at this forum to read about the notes and the black orb because I've read every single one of them, and therefore, why I created this thread. If you check my thread creation, you'll see that except for the last few videos I've done, I haven't created any discussion threads, but I did so with this one because I'm genuinely interested in trying to understand the "why" of it all.

I have to agree with AJack on this one ... it all seems like advertising and marketing without a seeming plot or storyline within EU. I too have no clue what a Swedish soap opera has to do with our historic existence, or where we're supposedly heading ... but on that note, let me offer you a walk down memory lane that has been brilliantly put together by Epic in his Entropia Gateway blog ...

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Entropia Universe Time Line Phase 1

I hadn’t written anything you might call “fan fiction” before I started playing Entropia Universe and I even considered such efforts a little pathetic. But after reading the creative back-story and fictional news stories posted by MindArk, I became a big fan. To condense it into one sentence: in the future mankind colonizes other planets, but when we reach Calypso an evil force takes control of our technology and uses it to wage war against us.

So, I started to write some short stories and even a full-length novel in which I was the main character who battled a nasty conspiracy between the evil robot forces and mutant Argonauts. In order to do this, I needed to sketch out a timeline of the back-story that MindArk provided and attach dates to it so that I could have my characters refer to the events. I began by assuming that the current year on Calypso is 5007. Adding 3000 to our own “real” year makes it easy to calculate dates. Also, as I thought about the amazing technology developed in the story and the huge distances between solar systems and other planets, I felt that 3000 years was appropriate.

I want to share my timeline with the readers of this blog. Calypsoan historians divide the timeline into four main phases.

Phase 1: The Odysseus Project, “Man’s Greatest Quest”

2800 A.D. - Federal Empire of Earth is born. Global mega corporations begin replacing the concept of national countries and receive Colonial Contracts to develop new planets. The three biggest companies are:


* Genesis Star Interstellar, also known as “Masters of Progress”

* Chikara OmniWorld Corporation, with their slogan “The power to shape worlds”

* Omegaton Industries, known as “The Survivor”

2850 A.D. - Seven original Odysseus Probes are sent out into space to establish a communication and transportation network of Space Gates. Their mission is to erect Base Matrices that will transform uninhabitable planets into suitable places to live for humans. The plan is to follow these Space Gates with Jump Rails, which can transport larger vessels across the enormous distances.


Entropia Universe Time Line Phase 2: Calypso Discovered

3500 A.D. - As new generations of Odysseus Probes move across the galaxy, a myste-rious planet is found in the Omega 16 Reticulum star system. OmegaTech (a division of the larger Omegaton) is given the contract to colonize this world by the Supreme Imperial Chancellor. Curiously, the Odysseus Probe that found this planet remains stationed there for several years before finally moving on.

3505 A.D. - The planet is named Calypso after this mysterious event. OmegaTech launches the enormous Exodus, filled with human settlers bound for Calypso.

3514 A.D. - People in the Federal Empire finally hear from the Calypsoan settlers, years after they expected to. The settlers report that they are constructing an area called “New Eden” and that Calypso is, indeed, a paradise.

3517 A.D. - OmegaTech launches a second great project called Operation Prometheus in a mission to understand what happened to the Odysseus Probe that found Calypso. Prometheus follows the path taken by the Odysseus Probe and arrives at two colossal planets named Akbal and Cimi. These planets are now home to several robot installations created by the Akbal/Cimi Base Matrix. Receiving a storm of high-density signals that are not recognized, OmegaTech decides to transmit the signals to the Base Matrix back on Calypso.

This turned out to be a catastrophic choice, as the Base Matrix turned on its human op-erators and ordered its robots to mercilessly kill them. Some space drones sabotaged the Calypsoan Space Gate, rendering it useless, while the rest attacked settlements on Calypso. A few lucky survivors managed to organize and build a massive fortification around the New Eden area.

3520 A.D. - Not satisfied with their destruction, the evil Base Matrix orders its robots to spread massive radiation all over the surface of Calypso. This event will create a number of mutant species of human over the next millennium.

3600 A.D. - The Exodus spacecraft, 95 years after arriving to colonize Calypso, is transformed into an orbital military space station. A plan is made to use a small Jump Rail to send a probe out past the robot swarms in order to send a desperate plea for help back to the Federal Empire. Their hope is that they can activate the Space Gate for a long enough period of time to receive reinforcements and supplies.

3602 A.D. - The Federal Empire receives the desperate plea and forces OmegaTech to split from Omegaton Industries and to sign their colonial contract back over to the Empire. This partnership is named OmegaTech Incorporated. They prepare officers, scientists, engineers, and the latest technologies and equipment for the rescue mission to Calypso.

3700 A.D. - The Calypso settlers finally accumulate enough antimatter to activate the Space Gate. Mercifully, the preparations by OmegaTech Incorporated are ready and waiting and they rush through the gate. Over the next centuries, these vital reinforcements are used to fight the continued Robot War and create a number of new cities.


Entropia Universe Time Line Phase 3: War Escalates, Battle Over Calypso

4600 A.D. - Nearly a millennium of war has passed. During this time humans develop more towns, gain small victories, and learn more about their enemy. The human settlers build ships and prepare to launch their entire fleet for a full-scale assault on the evil Akbal-Cimi Base Matrix.

4700 A.D. - An Odysseus Probe, the very same one that originally found Calypso, returns to Calypso 1,100 years later. It transmits the heartbreaking news that its goal is to capture the planet on behalf of the evil Base Matrix.

The Exodus is moved to the other side of the planet to avoid destruction and act as a last resort in the event that all Calypsoan residents need to be evacuated from the sector.

4700 A.D. - The Battle Over Calypso ends in a victory for the humans, as the massive Odysseus Probe is finally destroyed. Its wrecked parts fall through the atmosphere like shooting stars. Human vessels that were also destroyed in the epic battle fall to the surface of Calypso, distributing money, guns and other loot, which is consumed by monsters, robots, and mutants before it can be recovered.

4999 A.D. - The past 300 years have seen a number of developments. Rumors of Odysseus Probes gone mad spread throughout the Colonial Frontier, prompting panic and fear. The Federal Empire responds by installing its imperial fleets between the colonized sectors and the Calypso system (renamed from the Omega 16 Reticulum system). The Empire manages to rebuild the Calypso Space Gate and Jump Gate and send a small fleet of imperial spaceships to join the battered fleet in the Calypso system.

The evil Akbal-Cimi Base Matrix has recovered from its loss at the Battle of Calypso and continued to wage its war on humans. It has managed to reveal the secrets of dimensional “deep space” travel and uses it to transport robot ships and equipment directly to Calypso.


Entropia Universe Time Line Phase 4: The Present

5000 A.D. - 5007 A.D. (current times) - Facing a multitude of problems caused by the evil Base Matrix, the Federal Empire works with the military leaders of Calypso to create G.A.I.A. (Global Artificially Intelligent Advisor). This system works with the imperial central super computer of Earth to develop the controversial “Project Entropia.” This project aims to allow a certain amount of robot invasion and activity for the purposes of using robot technology against them.

Mass colonization of Calypso begins with the goal of using this technology to create super warriors that will be able to penetrate Akbal-Cimi. New warriors arrive at the Crystal Space Station and are teleported down to one of the modern cities. The hope is that the increased number of people can take resources from mining, hunting, and crafting and create enough wealth to develop more ships and enough quantum bombs to destroy the evil Base Matrix.

Notable historical events of this period include:

* The development and opening of a second continent called “Amathera”
* The purchase of Treasure Island by a colonist named Deathifier
* The purchase of an asteroid mining operation named Club Neverdie by a colonist named Neverdie
* Operation Scarecrow, in which vital pieces of technology are recovered from robots
* The finding of the first unique artifact ever on Calypso when an Atrox, who had killed billionaire Amerank Wackt was slain by Igor “SWAT” Piv. He found the unique Roman Ram sword valued at 25,000 PED.
* The second unique artifact is found by brave colonist Cedric Dreicc Hafgolf who killed a Thorio Warlord that was using his clans to attack human settlements. He found the one-of-a-kind artifact — the Unique Legend War Axe — which is a formidable weapon with a proud history.
* Enormous Mining Bots are discovered in northern Amethera
* Large migrations of Eomons, Armax and Exarosaurs begin their long trek to pastures in north-east Eudoria.


Entropia Universe Time Line: Epilogue

I hope I have helped clarify the four major periods of Entropia Universe history. There are still many questions that MindArk have not answered. For me, the biggest mystery remains the nature of the “evil force” residing in the Akbal-Cimi system. Is it alive? Is it an animal, vegetable, or mineral? Why is it so evil? How did it twist the purpose of the original human technology?

When the “robot ship” instanced zones were introduced a year or two ago, the story line behind it involved Lord Telleton and this same character has been mentioned in relation to some attacks on Calypso. He seems to be a top member of the administration of the robot forces, so he should have some relationship with the evil master in Akbal-Cimi. I want to know more about him and the other officers.

What will the future of the story bring? If there are to be numerous new planets as part of the deal with the government of China how will they be integrated in the story and the galactic war? Will some of these planets be “evil” and some “good?” Will they change alliances over time? Will enhanced space travel allow us to fight the war ourselves by blasting robot ships in space? Is the Federal Empire of Earth’s G.A.I.A. supercomputer still active?

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I now invite you to revisit my questions! ... and MAJOR kudos to Epic for his excellent job in pulling this together. Other EU bloggers are doing a fine job, but I consider this to be the best entry yet, because it gives the outside reader a very clear picture of our sci-fi existence, and quite frankly, I have no clue whatsoever how a RL soap opera fits into it.

Until something more concrete is developed, I will continue to think this way. I see no real EU storyline here whatsoever, and for now, sorry MA, but 3 words come to mind ... advertising, marketing, diversion. Please prove me wrong, because I also agree with AJack that PE/EU was something incredibly unique ... and going somewhere ... until the storylines kept falling by the wayside. For any egg conclusion to be now over a year makes absolutely no sense to me whatsoever, other than to give the community something to joke about.

As someone who fell in love with PE/EU from the git-go, I am respectfully requesting MA right here and now to please bring us something relative to our existence and moving forward ... even finishing some hanging storylines ... and be more discerning in your choices for advertising and marketing of our beloved virtual universe.

Ok, I'm done ... for now anyway! Thanks again for your comments!




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Cougar said:

Considering that this event is not directly related to EU (why i seriously doubt we will get any news about the egg) i don't see why it is a big problem that no one gets an uber item from the event. (hey... the event is not finished yet ffs, so how can you be already judging it from the item drop pov?)

This is a different event! (I've seen people complaining in the past that MA events where boring due to the mass hunt a mob->loot an item nature!)


On an answer to the questions MS9 makes, the fact that there are no conclusions is the nature of the event.

I would recommend, if you have not yet, reading two links originally posted by Pepper here:

The Background

The Search

The whole event is the search for Maria. Progression in the event is made by following the clues, that generally leads to other clues

There has been little to conclude as the search still goes on, i would make a wild guess and say that there might be a small conclusion inside of EU and then a clue leads to a RL place.

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I think you should read MY posts here:

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=85938 About the roleplay and how I try to tell EF memebers that this is a crossevent between Swedish TV and EU.

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=87720 Ongiing EF event where you can win 1K EFD and also get the latest info about the latest Notes info. (also has links to my other 2 notes related EF events)

You can aslo read my posts in Conspirare forum (usr name Patrick), you see that it's mostly me, Pepper and Predden that keep in contact with them.

Or you make a visit to the public parts of PhoenixOmega forum here: http://www.phoenixomega.eu/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=612
http://www.phoenixomega.eu/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=617
http://www.phoenixomega.eu/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=616

where you find my explanations and information for my non Swedish and non EF reading soc mates.

BTW PhoenixOmega made big efforts the last time to get Adrijanna and here friends from Conspirare to the Feff camp, and most of the persons who helped didn't even understand why they should help, but they did anyway.

And maybe while you do this take a deeper look in all other notes threads and see my contributions made.

I think I have a very clear picture of this.

Only thing I think is bad is that this event requires EF (fan made forum, not official or linked to MA) and that the event's take place in non US time and also that it's mostly is carried out in Swedish.

The notes was fresh in the beginning, yes it was fun to solve how to read them and so on. But now when the techique is known it feels like it stretched out to much to be really fun. But even if I don't like this event I keep my self updated and discuss with others about what will happen and I will try to be at the right place at the right time since even if I don't really like it I will not like to miss an opportunity if there will come one.

I do only write this since you had quoted me and the answer I read looked like it was ment for someone who didn't get what the note's about.

No hard feeling and try not to read inany anger in my post since I'm a glad ad happy person.

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I am in the belief that the thing we see in EU is just a small part of the Conspirare plot and have grown bigger than MA intended. Or it might be a way for MA to close the bag and come to a conclusion of open events as the Egg.

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to AJack10600 again.

EDITED3: Forgot this question

MindStar9 said:

Here's my question ... what do all the notes put together tell us? My head swims from all the data collected at this forum, but I invite you to do some critical thinking about the data, and report where it has really led us ... how do all the pieces fit together thus far? ... or do they? Are you any closer to anything? Is there any semblance of understanding whatsoever? And ... how long is this going to drag on? Perhaps we should ask how long the soap opera season is if all of this is being used for TV script and EU marketing.

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The TV DRAMA (not a soap) is in 5 pieses and this sunday they will broadcast the third part. So my conclution is that it ends the 25th November.

Nirfu said:

The TV DRAMA (not a soap) is in 5 pieses and this sunday they will broadcast the third part. So my conclution is that it ends the 25th November.

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Thank you for clarifying that for me ... I guess since the term "soap opera" has been used so often when referring to this TV broadcast, it's what infiltrated my thinking and understanding ... so I appreciate the correction.

Has anyone actually watched the tv show?

It's funny, all the swedes I know in game haven't bothered despite the assumed EU connection. I expected to see people discussing the actual show on EF, but unless I missed it, nobody has said much.

Centech said:

Has anyone actually watched the tv show?

It's funny, all the swedes I know in game haven't bothered despite the assumed EU connection. I expected to see people discussing the actual show on EF, but unless I missed it, nobody has said much.

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I did see the recorded second one yesterday. And it's not that interesting. It has replaces Sopranos... So if I compared with what I used to get at the same chanell and the same time...

BTW, the drama also has sublime messages cut in to it. Kind of other leads in the puzzle. Helps to solve another puzzle hold at www.spektaklet.eu

But if you like you can go here:
http://www.svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=1656&lid=film_ochamp;_drama&from=menu
And press the green camera. next to this text:"Se andra delen" and you will be able to see booth of them + debates after.

If you aren't that good in Swedish I think you have to follow these links and do some training:

http://lexin.nada.kth.se/bildteman.html (Picture themes)
http://www.skolutveckling.se/vaxthuset/bildteman/ (animations with sounds)
http://www.skolutveckling.se/vaxthuset/lexinanim/ (more animations with sounds)

Good luck!

Centech said:

Has anyone actually watched the tv show?

It's funny, all the swedes I know in game haven't bothered despite the assumed EU connection. I expected to see people discussing the actual show on EF, but unless I missed it, nobody has said much.

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I watched the first episode, and it just maked me laugh. And the most sad part, after the episode there was a "live debate" about the show and the"real story about Marika". Marikas friend Andrijanna was there to criticise SVT for doing an show that are based on a girl that still is missing.

And man, i have ever seen so bad actors, i had to turn the Tv off. But if you want to laugh, watch the show

MindStar9 did put these questions in my event thread, so I answer them where they belong:

MindStar9 said:

This new scenario seems EU timeline related, but how does it fit in with the "TV drama" about a missing girl from 2005? Is the EU storyline being played out in the drama? In spite of this new "event" that is supposedly taking place tomorrow sometime, I find it interesting that there is now quite a bit of consistency with how jokingly people refer to these events, and use these opportunities to be comics, rather than impart any type of sincerity regarding a possible outcome.

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The storyline in the drama starts in 2005, the roleplay looks like it started late 2006(at least many of the sites used is registered at those dates) and the conspirare site got wind during summer 2007.
The EU photage in the drama has nothing to do with the event here in EU. The information from the EU event is discussed in the conspirare forum and I think they somehow will help them in there roleplay. But there are many different leads and EU is just one of them. Most of the things happening in conspirare roleplay takes place in the real word. For example, kidnapping of Adrijanna, strange visits to an abandoned tower, leads from web cam at TV chanell etc.
So IMO this is just a small part of the conspirare and maybe it got to big her at EF. But then the event at 31th was so far from noob ground that none of the conspirare people could join, we where only 30 people there and friends from my soc tryed to help them get there with wormholes and other swedish players tried to help them run there. Later in a PM to me from Adrijanna she said to me that I should say thanks and that she was willing to actually pay for help if the cost of the helpers where to big. But now, since she is kidnapped the conspirare people have to run to Nus Lull by them self, or swim since this is the safest way there.

MindStar9 said:

Your efforts are appreciated Nirfu, and the reporting at least gives us an indication that perhaps something is going to take place, but if this supposed event ends up being just like the rest, I'm afraid that there will be more joining forces with those who now think it's a joke.

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IMO, it's allready a joke, but I will try to be there anyway if there will come proof that I'm wrong. Last time most of the people bet on the floating Orb and didn't listen to where the note clues actually led, this time I think there will be more people there since most has understand that the orb is not really connected to this.

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I really and truly hope MA proves us wrong ... but then ... MA hasn't spoken about any of this at all, right? Usually they put out a bulletin about strange happenings within EU, but have done nothing of the sort with all of this. I find that rather strange, and why I'm sitting on the fence with all of this, but more and more leaning toward the side of ... how does this serve EU?
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The only thread where MA, Marco, has said anything is in the floating Orb thread. That kind of prove to me that the orb has nothing to do with this.

I see three groups her,e four if you count us players:

1 - Ord Serpentis/Kerberos security/ABC - The bad guys who make people disapear and hacked EU and bring in notes and ask for a boycott.

2 - MA, the good guys that tries to fight the ABC with spawning Mutated Chirpys, Ambu Stalkers and what else they did throw in at the 25th.

3 - Conspirare, the other good part who tryes to fiend there lost friend Maria and following leads in to EU from the real world. Adrijanna did tell us that the ABC chat was important, if she hadn't said that, no one would have recorded what they said since they all speaks rubish (untill translated).

Who will win in the end we don't know.

And the big question is: HOW THE F**K DOES THIS FIT IN TO OUR FUTURE SCI-FI PLOT??????????????

Is Maria taken from Sweden in 2005 and transfered though a yellow door and ended up in year 2500 on another planet? Is MA just a front for timetraveling kidnappers who kidnaps people and put them inside a virtuall future world?

Thanks for all the input ... I guess we'll find out eventually what happens, and whether all of these activities are connected, disconnected, or really lead anywhere.

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It will all will be revealed...