Planet Calypso: To click or not to click? The veteran new player experience

Everything has been said twice...uh, I mean, to thousand times.

Sums it up nicely.

 

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Why would it be deleted?

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...r-experience&p=3683856&viewfull=1#post3683856

 

Didn't Skyrim and fallout 4 and even fallout 76 also use the aging ganebryo engine?

I think upcoming Bethesda titles will still use it. It could partly mean the end of Bethesda

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creation_Engine

 

I think if Entropia didn't make the move, they wouldn't be here today. Many of you in here would rather play the old game, but it's gone.
The article nails a lot of what"s wrong with our crappy game. But it's still here. It cannot be said about a lot of fancy gfx mmo's that had a large, well payed dev team.

 

The interesting part is, that Boring_player could sum it up in this precise way after 100 hrs of gameplay only. Thumbs up!

Wouldn't be helpful. Many of us are old school Entropians. Boring_player wasn't player when we started. He doesn't know our love for the old Project Entropia, the old community and all the good experiances. He clearly explained that he won't stay longer in EU because the minuses prevail the pluses for him. What else should he add? As McC wrote: Good summary but all has said before a thousand times.

 

I know most here still pine after Gamebryo but I still think moving to cryengine was a good move for Entropia. Where they went wrong though was that it feels like they were not tough enough on themselves about keeping up to date with the engine development or fixing problems. It felt like they moved and then sorta lost their way as regards development and priorities. What they did with CE2 regarding adaption was pretty impressive given it was a level based engine but the mistake was stopping development. So much stuff languished in "that'll do land" and instead we got BATSIM and COMPETS and DERPCOIN and not even any frikkin statues for years.

OK we got missions which could be considered at best "a good START" to a mission/instance system but again, seems to have developed at a snail's pace. Another was the creature control system. Developed to "hey this is a fun thing" level but never to the point that it could be used to control a mech or something (which is what Cyrene wanted). Space is another, so much effort into creating cool spaceships but never continued work into how to improve/finish/fix bugs.

 

the mistake wasn't to stop development, it was HOW they developed their things. i think they did it in a way that crippled the codebase and prevented easy future cryengine upgrades ... and over the years we kinda learned how their development feels for us players, quality and success wise.

 

"multi-year shitshow" :D will have to remember that one XD

Yeh ND did do a great job with Hunt the thing generally, and the mission system was used in the most imaginative way seen to date. Even then, I felt what he did was just the start of what could have been done with a longer multibranching mission. I remember a bit with a machine that was a cool demo of how to use it well.

Anyhow, while I like the go here or go find something thing it often feels like whoever is in charge of them has zero creativity (most of the time - there are moments of "spark" for certain I'll grant you).

What MA should do is:

1. Give a toss
2. Take the story mission at PA
3. Add Neverdie's level of interactivity/interaction from HTT
4. add some go here, take this to NPC X
5. add a LITTLE shoot that
6. add a LITTLE craft this
7. add a LITTLE mine this
8. add the need to travel somewhere that can only be reached with a vehicle (e.g top of an un climbable mountain)
9. add a go here, that is somewhere difficult to get to (because to the terrain) with vehicles disabled
10. add some stuff like the puzzles in the enigma keys
11. add some code breaking stuff like they did for that TV event years ago
12. add some stuff relating to the diaries ;)

or...

13. hire me to do it for them :D

 

Remember the old feffoid traders?

Bring them back. But this time, put them in the middle of an area where: vehicles do not work, it's very misty so you don't see much, radar is off, teleport chips do not work. the area around the safe middle is filled with atrox marauders, araneatrox stalkers.

the feffoid traders do not trade with ped, but with feffoid trader tokens. You can find them in all creatures, from punies to the highest levels of mobs. The problem is not finding enough tokens, but getting to the middle without dieing. The mobs that protect the feffoid traders should do around 1000 damage, so even the highest ubers in this game will have trouble surviving. The idea is not that you can survive them, the idea is that you die if you meet a mob. So to get to the middle will take all your evasive manouvers that you can possible think of.

Tactics like going in with 30 people to protect the one who may finally reach the middle.
4 feffoid traders will have an unlimited supply of lower midlevel (level 0 - level 20) unlimited weaponry. one with melee, one with ranged, one with mindforce and one with mining equipment/blueprints. You can trade with each of them one time for one item, then they become unresponsive.

 

Is the Hunt the Thing place still visitable?

I think I still have some stuff in storage there (if it is takeoutable)?