The stuff that I miss about Entropia Universe ...

I may not be as old and grey haired as some of you others out there, but I do have 3 years on my neck within EU. What I miss the most is pre-vehicles. I joined EU a few months after the implementation of CryEngine, and the most fun I ever had in this game was running from TP to TP, preferably with my unofficial mentor (who has quit the game) or some random I met in the game, while hunting. A favorite memory of mine is when I ran from Twin Peaks to Jason Centre, trying to survive those blasted argos best I could. Other favorite memories: swimming far, far, far to reach New Switzerland and being amazed by its beauty, or when I finally reached Fort Ithaca also through swimming and died several times before a nice guy in uber (to me) Gremlin armor saved me as the hero he was and made sure I came safely to my TP.

Arkadia should implement much better ruins, like religious symbols, texts written upon stone, and so forth. The only word I can think of when it comes to Arkadia's ruins is "soulless" - perhaps the second word could be "boring".

Overall I do agree with you. EU becomes dangerously boring without the small stuff.

 

ahhh the exploring ..
ye I loved too to run around discover

 

Lolz :) I used to find useless things before VU10 as well. The weirdest one I found was a huge black box looking like a tower-pc on this island W of eudoria that I bumped into by fluke in a hovercraft.

 

Good thread... I remember there was a house that I think had something to do with the notes story.. someone had left a little offering there too :D

I DO miss the battles scared littered feeling of Calypso and the dino skellies etc.

The occasional interesting pile of rocks
Those little bits of love were the fun.

While I feel the ark ruiins could do with a little more attention to detail they are not bad. I'm exploring that planet at the moment and found a cool ruiin on a hill while on a mission. I climbed up to it and found massive skeleton bones so big I could camp for the night in a skull ! only I couldn't cause some prat made them un-walk-into-able despite the hole being big enough (Note I HATE that).

Its interesting you ask for less info in the VU posts though... it used to be people asked for more info... ma used to be very hap hazard about them... or was that marco.

We used to get threads called "undocumented vu features".

As for the vehicles its as I always said. Make something more convenient/easier and you take away the fun/challenge.

I think vehicles were delayed for so long for exactly this reason. There are some questions really still to be answered - does it make sense we can't shoot mobs with vehicles... not really but from a balance view it makes sense.

I think there is a way to make areas that are challenging even in vehicles though. like "fall damage" we need more "environment" hazards and some no fly zones perhapse.

I like this thread but and it has definite value but I think things are better than they used to be still. I would say there is room for the "charm" to come back though for sure!

Wistrel

 

OK hands up who tried to climb the pandora tower ? (me!)

Also about vehicles and less fun exploring. I actually will counter that. I avoided them for a very long time cause of not wanting to wreck exploring. However I then discovered its just another way of exploring. You get a different experience whether you are on foot, ground based or flying vehicle. I'd even say its dependant on the type of vehicle cause of the view they give (if you use first person).

I think it gives choice and I alternate a lot. While I realise that hazards are easier to avoid in vehicles in some ways this is good. It means I can explore more without dying so much. Less dying = more exploring = more fun.

I DO want to see some "foot only" zones though. Like you said Greece had that going for it but it was RATHER large to be on foot always (it was a tad empty too... needed "the love" ie little things to find along the way, maybe some NPC's). I wanted "Icarus Wings" ;)

Wistrel

 

On that note.... why don't we have moving NPCs? I like the idea of a tracker mission where there is an NPC out moving around who you have to find.

 

I miss the pre CE Swamp Camp and Hadesheim city... hell i miss the whole Calypso.
They could offer a time travel to old planet Calypso for us to visit when we feel nostalgic :)

 

reminds me of real world watertowers around here.

 

It used to be N of Pandora's Box TP, I used to go there a lot to hunt Atrax only it was difficult to tell which of the huge four support pillars they were lurking behind.

 

I thought it was some sort of model rendering test only MA forgot to remove it afterwards. Even more mysterious is that there was no island showing on the map and that a powerboat arrived just seconds after I had left it to get back to the mainland. I had the impression that hadn't arrived there by fluke like I had - too much of a coincidence.

 

chasing NPC sound like a cool funny mission Wistrel!

 

Just added the "Nova Light" to my blog. :'(


It was interactive, available in every bar and had a TT value 0 of 100 PED. I wonder how the 3% limit would have affected its function. Thank god MA removed it many, many years ago. Fuck the free fun !