ComPet & Taming & Co. - History

ComPet :
-2013 Compet mentioned in financial report (http://arkadiaforum.com/threads/compet-app-deeds.10684/)
7 months later
-July 2014 Annoucement
1 month later
-Aug. 2014 "MindArk is proud to announce that the auction of ComPet deeds is going very well..."
7 months later
-March 2015 "Start earning from compet activity is about to start..."
WebInterface to be announced ready in week 2 of march. (with more infos)

Taming:
-2005 1st stage of taming
Approx. 4 years later
-2009 Taming got removed, we never got Stage 2
3 years later
-2011 Taming will return in 2012
2 years later
-2013 "State of the universe 2013"
"Many of our more patient participants will be happy to hear that a completely redesigned taming system will be developed in 2013."
1 year later
-Fall 2014 Taming re-introduced + Stables Auctioned.
6 months later
-Feb. 2015 "some emotes and buffs added"

Fishing System :
-2008 Trigger Targa Blade looted the 1st Fishing Rod
4 years later
-2012 Timkrans Jr. said "Fishing system ready and it will be diffrent then anything else"
1 year later
-2013 Timkrans Jr. said "Fishing system only exists on paper...no more ETA"
2 years later
-2015 nothing

Beverage - Food System :
-Beverages / Food are in the texture folders since the year 2001. The bartenders always told us that they expect a shipment soon.
14 years later
-2015 no beverages

 

That hurt... O_O

 

When they introduced gangnam, MA had some employees left. Explains the 0,5 hours.

Probably fishing and drinking wont make MA enough income, thats why its not there.

I post this since 2004. 1 beverage 1 PED. 1 funny/usefull effect. Thats like 6000 PED daily, MA.

Make fishing rods decay on fishing, introduce different bait that only works on choosen fishys...introduce Hall of Fishing...just dont mess with the game (anymore) ;p

 

Hey, I Iike pets, since 2005.
Twin Peaks flooded with rabbits ? I love it ! It really adds the final touch to Calypso ! Fix space ? Fix pvp ? Contact CLD owners ? Political & Housing system ? Hangars ? Fishing ? Beverages ? Maybe at least fix the wrong emotes of current tamed pets 1st ?! Hell, what for ?

We defenitly needed a revamp of Icarus and HalfMoonBay 1st, before turning all the towns, that are now shopcontainers only, into towns again.

We all bothered MA for like 5 years about taming...now that is back, they add super cute rabbits and new "funtions" on top of it, before fixing old stuff.
It has always been this way and ya, Im aware fixing 2 old things may bug 5 other (unbugged) things.

The problem is, suddenly MA wants Entropia to be everything but Entropia. Suddenly they want it all packed into one single MMO, no matter the cost/bugs.
They are doing this since 2000. Since 14 years. Add half ready things...introduce even more stuff, to abandon it as well...just to announce even more stuff that wil lnever be complete. Be it buildings, areas or storyline.

My basis for the amount of effort ? Look at all the love and small details that went missing. All these empty buildings. All the towns that turned into shopcontainers only.
Stuff like Space or PVP that should be on higher priority then...rabbits...

Or what about the updated Athene/Zephyrus areas ? Months of annoucements.
It looked awesome ! And 1 year later they said it got canceled 2 months after the initial announcement.

Or what about the gigantic golf course ?

You think it took months to change terrain height and add a windwheel and or landing platform to HalfMoon Bay ?
And if it indeed took months...wtf...isnt there more serious stuff that needs to be taken care of 1st ?

Ya, this is MA. Most of us oldies still around, idle, more or less, but New Arrivals arent aware of MAs business conduct. Most dont even go to a forum. Everyone turned into ego monsters that want to pull the arm of the bandit. What about a true community ? Mass skilling / farming on hogglos...that is when we all get together...so sad...

 

Well, if this is what everbody was waiting for, please enjoy.

I was expecting to ride pets and use them in combat or as walking storage. *poof*

 

The most awesome thing about Pets and Combat is, that mobs already did attack each other in 2004.
It was very, very(!) rare though.

Ive watched a Daikiba young fighting an Atrax Old. It was a fierce fight. I forgot about sweating and ingored the teamchat for like 50 seconds.
The Daikiba died and the Atrax went on as if nothing had happened.

That was way cooler then any taming, buff, animal essence, compet stuff we have today...