Planet Cyrene: Cyrene March VU Preview

NotAdmin · Mar 5, 2013

Today, EntropiaPlanets is happy to bring you a nice little exclusive VU preview, courtesy of Kris from Planet Cyrene.

Kris, take it away!

Greetings!

It's me, Kris, I'm the lead designer of Planet Cyrene (/wave). Admin (Peter) contacted me a couple weeks ago and asked me if I could share some info about the upcoming March VU for Planet Cyrene, so without further ado...the info!

There are some major things happening in this VU, one of the biggest (and first of it's kind of change on Cyrene) is the first dynamic upgrade has been unlocked! Players have helped Requisions Officer Wilco and the Lt. Johnson (as well as killing creatures in the nearby area) enough to warrant an improvement. Not only has the base been fortified and given that terminal upgrade it desperately needed! Not to mention that new missions have been unlocked to help further additional skill increases for all players.

I'd like to point out that some people have asked, “Which areas are dynamic and which aren't?” and there isn't an area that is not dynamic, it is based on what the players do as far as hunting, questing, and playing in general. If we see one area continue to be neglected, then those monsters may migrate somewhere else or even evolve and become more difficult and over run more land. If nobody visits a certain base, that base may become over run or become rundown. The players will shape the layout of Cyrene based on their interests.

The next major update in the VU is the fact that a major storyline character as been added: Zora Winters, the people who have read any of the MS9 Cyrene Adventures will recognize this character as the leader of A.R.C. She'll start you on the first part of the “Epic Quest” to win the favor of the Zyn'Kimbro tribe to help A.R.C. fight back against the Imperium. She's in the A.R.C. Head Quarters next to her custom Fenris Armor. It won't be easy to win over the Zyn'Kimbro, and you'll need more than their help to stand a chance against the Imperium.

Another thing coming in this VU is a new set of component blueprints from the Trade Terminal. These blueprints use the very basic materials from Cyrene: Lysterium Stone, Crude Oil, Yellow Crystal, and Zorn Star Ore. Crafted in different ways into Imperium Cube Components 1 – 5, these cubes are then refined into 1 Imperium Cube.

Players can then take 3 Imperium Cubes and some Imperium Tokens to create an Imperium Key Cube. The Imperium Key Cube is used in many different things: from part of the epic quest chain, to an unreleased Cyrene instance and future quests! The idea behind these components is to give new players and miners something they can get easily which is needed by higher level players for many different things.

The last thing I'll touch on is in this VU we've rebalanced the majority of blueprints and increased the size and density of the mining areas. We know that economy is huge part of Entropia Universe and we're trying to get ours up to speed. We are still actively tweaking the loot lists as well trying to get the right balance (with help from our partners at MindArk). Not to mention squishing any bugs that come up and addressing problems and complaints from the community. (Insert shameless plug for CyreneForum bug report thread here).

I hope this shines some light on Cyrene and and gets people excited for the next VU for Cyrene! If there is interest enough for me to come and share current development of Cyrene again I'd be more than happy to.

Cheers!
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We were also given a few screen-shots of the upcoming content.

These three pictures show Craggs Point West:

And the Epic Quest granting NPC Zora Winters is shown in her full glory here:

leeloo · Mar 5, 2013

sweet.

just one question:
>>Another thing coming in this VU is a new set of components from the Trade Terminal. These components use the very basic materials from Cyrene: Lysterium Stone, Crude Oil, Yellow Crystal, and Zorn Star Ore. Crafted in different ways into Imperium Cube Components 1 – 5, these cubes are then refined into 1 Imperium Cube.<<

I guess you mean the blueprints are available at TT and not the components themself?

MindStar9 · Mar 5, 2013

I am SO glad that Zorra is finally making an appearance, this is great news for sure.

Thank you for taking the time Kris, updates are always appreciated.

And as an FYI to everyone ... Zorra Winters is introduced and secrets revealed in the first episode of the "Covert Ops Series" that I collaborated on with Ed called - "Cyrene - Secrets and Covert Operations" - this particular episode appeared in the June 2011 issue of the EntropiaTimes magazine.

Ed and I had a great time working on this series, and I have 4 of the 5 episodes of this series published at MSM - I will be adding the 5th on Tuesday. The episodes can be found under "Planet News/Cyrene/Covert Ops Series" - each episode reveals more about Cyrene, and were written prior to the planet launching.

Enjoy!

Nor Alien · Mar 5, 2013

The last pic looks like a small mech armor!! :D

MindStar9 · Mar 5, 2013

Nor Alien said: ↑

The last pic looks like a small mech armor!! :D
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The Fenris Power Armor is badass ... love it.

Lykke TheNun · Mar 5, 2013

leeloo said: ↑

sweet.

just one question:
>>Another thing coming in this VU is a new set of components from the Trade Terminal. These components use the very basic materials from Cyrene: Lysterium Stone, Crude Oil, Yellow Crystal, and Zorn Star Ore. Crafted in different ways into Imperium Cube Components 1 – 5, these cubes are then refined into 1 Imperium Cube.<<

I guess you mean the blueprints are available at TT and not the components themself?
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You are of course right, and it's fixed =) Thank you for eagle eyes ^^

Wistrel · Mar 5, 2013

The cube stuff sounds like a plan. So often in the past there has been no encouragement for new players to join in the crafting side of things since the items were worthless. Its good to have something that will hopefully have some point

Wistrel

PS that Armour Zorra has is pretty cool! What is it?

MindStar9 · Mar 5, 2013

Wistrel said: ↑

PS that Armour Zorra has is pretty cool! What is it?
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Fenris Power Armor

Puck · Mar 5, 2013

Dynamic scenery based on player involvement and interactions... brilliant! :)

Goldmoon · Mar 6, 2013

Believe she was asking about the Green Armor she's wearing, not the Power Fenris behind her. :)

MindStar9 · Mar 6, 2013

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Believe she was asking about the Green Armor she's wearing, not the Power Fenris behind her. :)
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Ahhh ... got it, and in that case, I'm not sure.

Archman · Mar 6, 2013

Any idea when the update is coming?

RAZER · Mar 6, 2013

Well, we thought last week, then we thought this week and now we just don't know :)

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