Next Island featured over at MMORPG.com

Nice. Does anyone know what they are talking about when they say players can "farm"?

 

Quick! We must defend our banana trees from the evil papoos!

 

I assume, from the context, they mean crafting. however, I guess it could apply to sweat gathereing, as that close to what 'farming' is considered in other games when it doesn't mean to grow crops.

an interesting point is at the end: 'scheduled for release in february'. this means they're a month behind their original schedule. perhaps, this is why we haven't seen an update.

 

I noticed a slight new influx of new players last night, so this article may have had that effect. I'm curious about the stated launch date as well, assume it must have come from the NI team or the writer wouldn't have just picked it out of the sky. It really is completely confusing for those already playing for many weeks now lol.

The farming? I would not be at all surprized if a future plan is just that, since David Post has made it clear the target audience for this game is the 'casual' and 'female' gamer, those who play games like Farmville on Facebook and Second Lifers etc.

I just want to know when time travel is implemented or if it is already and we just haven't figured out the 'mystery' yet ;)

 

I wouldn't mind if the farming was growing crops. it might be interesting. however, I can't see how that would work. I guess you'd have to have a field someplace.

the article mentions that the time travel element will be added after the launch with destinations every 4 months or so. the first two being greece and china, I believe.

 

this is a quote from Entropia Universe General Article: Next Island at MMORPG.com

"Calypso players could come for a holiday and never leave, and Farmville players will find themselves in a far more immersive world which provides them farming mechanics just as, if not more fun."

Are we going top have tractors, harvesters and seeders? ha-ha I hope not but I would like to see some form of farming introduced, something that doesn't cost much so the new players would have an additional source of income.

I found this somewhere on that same site: "The Ice Age, Ancient Greece, and the Amazon seem to be what the first ones will likely be."

 

Since all of the article including the release date is referred to in the future, I'd say the author got some sort of press pack before NI existed and just pasted something together. This does little to prepare potential players for what to actually expect upon launching the game. Farms? A new time travel destination every 4 months? A vibrant economy? Comedians performing at Caroline's?? Caroline's is pretty inside, and it has a chair on a stage, but until the barbot actually sells drinks I doubt there will be too many standup (or sitdown) comics booking gigs.

Articles like this should say right up front "This information is promotional material from the developers as this gaming environment is not yet open to players."

I did learn one thing, that Caroline's is supposed to be a reference to some real world comedy club or chain. I hadn't heard of it.

 

caroline's is a stand-up comedy club in new york city. they use to have a television programme I use to watch when I was a kid.

if you go in the next island location, you'll find a little stage and a microphone.

the comedy club has been part of next island promotional material since even before they partnered with mindark. I've always wondered how exactly the club would work. perhaps, it would be some sort of live feed from the actual real club.

I don't want to imagine "open mic" night with the entropia universe participants.