About maintenance fees

I think the (10PED a month?) fee for the apartments was a fair compromise. At the time of launch estates were fairly few and cost some thousands of PEDs. The apartments were an initial outlay of 300PED IIRC? or possibly different prices depending on size. The reason therefore for the fee was to discourage someone buying them all up. In short, it was a way for players who genuinely wanted to enjoy a small home to do so without great initial expense. Sure there might have been better ways to do it, in fact I'm sure there are but it did the trick at least it was intended to.

I should clarify Apartments means the big twisty ones on Amathera (Treasure Island only?). There are apartments at Medusa's head and I think somewhere else maybe too? that don't require fees. Not sure what the deal with apartments on FOMA Fortuna is or Monria...

To find out about shops... I'd be tempted to find some active ones, check the owner and try PM'ing the owner to see if they'd be willing to talk to you.

 

sure you can! I believe there are Moship owners who still run free trips to other planets. There is a guy called Black (John Knight Black?) I think who does trips around the solar system. Also I think the people who run Next Island do a Sunday trip or something...

 

fees were removed many years ago. It is possible that any planet partner can bring them back though. Right now no estates require maintanence fees.

There is some thread in pcf where the mall owner at that time requested the removal and Mindark agreed finally. It was kind of a historic moment in the game.

Oh, Rocktropia dungeons under the shops is another thing all together...

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/...d-what-are-the-coords-etc.252200/post-3500884

Shopkeeper fee is currently 10 pec per sale minimum sale price is tt+1 which is really tt+1.02 with 2 pecs for the taxes. The decay fee means shopkeepers are not worth as much as real shops due to the extra cost and hassle of repairing them. Study the wikis and you'll find the original shopkeeper decay formula, which was very different.


similar estate related thing is signs, etc.
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oh, and stables... those do have fees as you cannot put buffs in them as owner without a cost.

bit outdated but here's a nice link on shops
https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/shop-guide.205064/post-2994042

auction fee listed there may be outdated?

http://www.entropiaplanets.com/threads/mall-shop-and-other-shops.19247/#post-113158 is a shop price thread and there's some website that is linked to from main forum that tracks prices in auction and posts it but I'm not sure on link at the moment.

Price on Foma and CP should be about 2-3 times higher than Spawn estimates with recent change to put them in non-lootable space right outside of the space station, especially given the number of item points vs other places planet side.

 

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/shop-guide.205064/post-2994043 is probably most relevant link...

in general when it comes to item points they are all over the place.
Tangerine District places like the U on Rocktropia and shops there have highest number of item points per estate in game. Cannot remember penthouse numbers but it's way up there. I used to have a couple of places on first floor there. Rock also has a new shit hole that only has about 10 item points per estate which is ridiculous. It's also stupid that auction won't tell you number of item points in any estate so you'll have to visit them to find out or just know ahead of time before you bid, or cross your eyes and fingers and hope for the best before you bid.

For the view Ark apartments are nicest with the big windows.

Calypso apartment places all have same design and are pure copy/paste. Same with most other places in game more or less to some degree.

Monria is a bit different since shops are technically on the middle floor instead of lowest floor.

Calypso shops in apartment basements are pure crap after vu 10 since Mindark left weeds everywhere as they don't know how to connect buildings to floor correctly like a regular low paid dev should.

Half or more of estates are empty and/or have never been actually sold from estate broker yet. If you get an error message on a terminal I don't think they even created a deed for that yet for the estate broker to hold.

Toulan apartments and shops are in a super secluded corner of the map and way overpriced at current rates that many are asking imho. One exception to this is the stable which is a shop and stable combo and is right next to the new tab tab taming daily thing so it's actually nicely located but like everything else probably overpriced (pretty sure current owner isn't selling out any time soon)

I think Cyrene and Next Island are starting to release more estates recently. However those shitty little booths they auctioned off on Next Island had a start bid far higher than actual value those places are worth and that's the same with most estates in game honestly to a degree.

Monria/Toulan is handing out estates left and right in events and Cyrene did some gambling event not long ago to hand out some booths. It was pure gambling but Mindark approved it so in the future other planets could potentially install casinos as gambling is now officially approved more than it has been in past years as long as the planet partner is running it instead of a normal player (even though most planet and moon owners are to a degree normal players at some level, etc.)

If you are going to do some running around to other planets I'd suggest doing it around Christmas since we are in December now and most planets do some type of free gift thing.... oh and buy an apartment somewhere before you do since the gift thing typically is 3 tiers... one for everyone, one for those that deposited over a certain amount, and one for estate owners, so if you hold even one apartment deed you qualify for the third gift package or at least do so historically. Some planet partners didn't do gifts last year. Others doubled up...

https://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forum/index.php?threads/gift-list.231336/post-3284721 is most accurate list of gifts that I think is out there...

 

it'll be interesting to see what happens when Entropia is on Steam with the new game engine. Mir 4 has crypto stuff where you can smelt so many dark steel in to draco coin and then sell it in the real world. The npc that allows the smelting isn't in the steam version of the game. Mindark may need to remove a lot of stuff from steam to make it work like strong box keys, etc.

 

They've advertised a tiny amount in the past but never tried that hard really. I think they realise the platform just isn't up to a large unflux of players. It's not like the old days of the original Space Station Sale when Az slashdotted it and the planet was raining oranges for a few days. Good times those. Really enjoyed looking after the newbies who were landing randomly all over the map.

 

Well... it could be they are just a small handful of individuals that wish to maintain their lot. Maybe their aim is not to grow but to remain comfortable and sustainable.