Found EntropiaTimes magazine in second hand shop

On Thursday I was looking through a pile of old books and comics of all kinds in a second hand charity shop in London and I discovered a magazine called EntropiaTimes with 'EntropiaPlanets presents' along the top. It says December 2010. The proprietor wanted £1.75 for it, so I bought it. I did ask how he came by it and he said it was donated along with other things.

 

Thanks for the 'Like' Tass! I've been reading through it end to end and there's stuff about John Bates and David Simmonds of Mindark and an interview with someone called Jon Jacobs who started Planet Rocktropia and who sold some gear to help pay his morgage.

 

I thought the little easy peel-off label with £1.75 written on it was a bit over the top, but I got it because I immediately recognized 'EntropiaPlanets' and because there was something about the front cover I liked.

 

Looks like I have a bit of EntropiaPlanets publishing history then, so thanks for the interesting info on how it was produced. I also wasn't aware that EntropiaPlanets had been around for so long.

 

Tanks for the list. I'll see if I can download the PDFs for the other issues.

 

I've been reading through the EntropiaTimes issue that I got some more and they're all great articles, but the one that's really got my attention is the Rocktropia story, as it seems that was the first new planet after Calypso, is that right? Also I'm intrigued as to what gear he sold to pay his mortgage in the States and how he was able to draw out the peds quickly enough.

 

That would be quicker than going there in a VTOL, last time I went to Rocktropia it took about 30 mins, but I can see how 25 peds to get there wouldn't have been popular.

 

Is that the hangers in N/W and N/E of Eudoria sunk into the ground? I've seen a few of those but they don't seem to be used for anything.

 

Thanks, so that must be what he meant when he decide to refinance the house, but before that, according to the article at least, he sold some stuff to someone called Stryker to pay the mortgage on a cottage in Miami - and I'm just wondering how he was able to convert the peds into US$ quickly enough.

 

Seems he was definitely 'in with' Mindark and it's funny how the servers went down very conveniently to prevent a bidding war.

 

Maybe Stryker paid him out-of-game in $ and not in-game in peds. Just saying. I mean, going by stories I've heard, it takes a while to actually get MA to transfer the real-cash equivalent.