Estates on the wiki

It might be too big of a project, but as far as I know, no one has ever really tackled it yet. Can anyone answer how many apartments are any given planet - right now, I don't think so, and even the developers may not know.

nice start of a list there. It'll have to be able to have more added later since CLDs will turn in to land plots of some type?

Booths are another type. Not sure on classifications, but I guess you also have mall shops vs apartment shops... but I think some planets might blur the lines a bit from the way Calypso had it all set up. Number of item points per estate is also important, especially since the upgrade potential is there for them and some estates have been upgraded.

Most of what I know was copied in to the thread over at http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...6-Shop-Guide&p=3020848&viewfull=1#post3020848 and then some of the links over there off of that...


If you wondering about this stuff, basically it's a little of a niche on info that I started studying before I bought my estates. Back in those days the information available was even more sparse than it it is today. I fondly remember going through the archives at entropiaforum way back in 2008 or 2009 and literally PMing every shop owner I could find any info on to try to meet them in game to find out more about the estate side of things before actually buying an estate. I've learned a lot since then but really most of what I've learned is just basic to where my own in game estates are. There's a bunch of estates all over the place that no one avatar is super knowledgable on... and so I think, No, I KNOW for a fact that estates are selling for crazy prices, both high and low because people really don't have a clue on how to price them either from a seller or buyers perspective.

 

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...ve-Shop-List&p=2865606&viewfull=1#post2865606 - that's the link to the 'active shops' that Rowan is keeping. Might help give you some info to fill in some blanks.

Not sure that there's many estate owners here at ep, but if so, links to profiles so that PMs can be sent to estate owners might be a neat feature... of course, would have to an opt in I guess since some folks might not want to be bothered with private messages, etc.

 

Thanks.

 

Not sure if that would be accurate. Although they share some similarities space ship deeds have a separate auction category and are classed as different. Also I don't think they have an estate terminal like normal estates with the usual options. I may be mistaken on that haven't visited my ship for a while and can be forgetful...

 

That Rowan guy on pcf who categorised all calypso shops with details of location, what it sells etc could be the right person to help out here...

 

I should probably delete my shops from the 'residence' page since it's now on shop pages (originally put it there in residence since that was the page that existed prior to these little updates). I think (will have to check later) estate areas have to do with size of the place in square meters or somethign like that. I'll have to make some screenshots of my deeds for you in a bit since I have 3 different types of deeds at the moment - a booth, a shop, and apartments.

Floor plans... There's some old ones in the shop tutorial page on pcf.... Some info is outdated but not completely as the layout of the floor plan is pretty much the same as it's always been so far.

Let me find the link...

here we go - see the pics over at the following link:
http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/f...6-Shop-Guide&p=3020848&viewfull=1#post3020848

 

As far as history goes, etc. I still haven't figured out how to use the gallery thingy over here yet much lol. Is there a way to upload pics instead of just linking to them? What I'm thinking would be cool would be like an archive that we the community creates of screen prints of the estate terminals that get time stamped, etc. so that it's clear which estate the pic is talking about and there's 'proof' (even if photoshop still could be used to alter it) of who owned an estate when,etc... or at least who claimed it since deeds don't auto update estate terminal as you have to claim it to really use it.

I don't have a ton of estate terminal pics but do have some from a while back when there was an estate bug... look at this crazy max, lol:


Those stats above and what they mean:
Item Trade available is yes or no. Shops and booths = yes, apartments, houses, etc = no.

Max mr of guests = I think the max number of people that can be on guest list. I have not done much with guest lists before... but I think it allows access to the place when it's set to private for those on the list? Never tested it much.

Item points indoors: item points inside of the place

Item points in display area: this is item points in the displays.. Displays for apartments are hallways. In apartment basement shops display is the area in window (brick wall) outside of building., In malls I think it's hallway slots.

Item points in additional area: Not sure on that or what the heck it is for.? Maybe it's for Land areas or something?

Additional area: yes or no value - tied in to item points on additional area, whatever the heck that is?

Maintenance fees no longer exist on Calypso, but might on other planets?...

As far as that little bug goes... hee hee... this pic is classic bit of history, lol. Took me a few hours to get that:

 

just spent about an hour recording every floor of estate terminals on Delta Tower where my estates are. If/When I have more time and put forth some effort I'll record some other buildings. I'll link to the youtube videos when I get a chance. Sorry for the piss poor quality on them. I had to set graphics on low so that I didn't loose frame rate. Bandicam and Entropia running at the same time uses a lot of memory and you get invisible walls and stuff if you go too high on the quality settings. At least the estate terminal info is very readable on these settings even if the glance in to some of the places set to public doesn't look very good as it's all washed out due to the low setting.

Basement of Gamma building is all still owned by Marcus. I have an old video of that from a while back. Will link to that from this post soon. Not sure if linking tot he vids in the wiki is a good idea, but it might not be a bad idea... do the floor video links when it's set to private or when we don't have an individual video with higher quality, etc. Then update link or add second link when there is a better video... I probably will go back and hit the public set ones later when I have more time, etc. unless someone else hits it before me.

Will have to do some research... I used to own Caz's place in 1A but I can't remember the date sold. I'm thinking about buying it back but not sure on that one yet.

 

found it... this is the gamma building's basement as of 4/18/2012 (still no owners on it as far as I know - there was a support ticket I had in on this video and I was told by support that no participants have ever owned any of the shops shown in the vid)... Eventually, I think Mindark might sell em off, but they still have not since the broken promise in 2007...

http://www.planetcalypsoforum.com/forums/showthread.php?66126-Q-amp-A-Answers-(May-07)

The above 2007 promise was waay before Medusa Head.... but we still have crap like this entire Gamma basement empty in 2013!

 

Estate Terminals for Omegaton Delta Tower:

- 1st floor

- 2nd floor

- 3rd floor

- 4th floor

- 5th floor

other floors are still in the process of being uploaded at the moment. Will post more links later as they become available. Feel free to add info on the terminals in the video to the wiki. I feel this info is 'published' sort of since it's available to all avatars that visit the terminals in game, so you should be ok to use it. If someone objects to their estate being listed, maybe they can take it up with Mindark to have the way terminals work changed or they can manually delete their estate from the wiki later or whatever?

I'll try to hit more estates later as time allows. Can't promise it'll happen every day, once a month, or whatever, but as time allows. If others in the community start doing sort of similar in their neck of the woods, we, the community will be able to figure this complicated stuff out. Heck we might even be able to figure out when deeds change hands as all of that info is somewhat published too in the auction being available to all of us.

 

- 6th floor