Entropia Facebook App - Entropia Emissary Progam Q&A with Sage|Socialtype

Recently we reported that the Entropia Universe Facebook App created in cooperation with Socialtype is online. Yesterday Sage from Socialtype introduced herself and the Entropia League of Planets to a small selected fraction of the Entropia Universe Community.

Today there's a little Q&A available already. You can find both the introduction and the Q&A below.



Sage's Introduction

Greetings Entropians,

Sage here from the newly formed Entropia League of Planets (ELP), to act as your Emissary Program Liaison. I will attempt to answer your Pre-Launch questions to start, and than begin a dialogue with you post-launch to help make the Emissary Program all that it can be moving forward. I think we would all agree that it is in the combined best interest of all of Entropia Universe to spread the word about the game and attract as many new quality players as possible. To do this we have built our first Embassy on Facebook, because like them or not, there are 800+ million potential colonists residing there, and to my knowledge there has never been that many people doing anything together in Earth history!

Becoming an Emissary is completely voluntary, but will require that you have a valid Facebook account. Once you do, you will gain access to an ongoing depository of articles, quizzes, videos, and other unique content, as well as an Emissary Point system that will allow you to redeem points for certain In-game Items.

Content found throughout the Embassy is for your enjoyment. You may find an article posted there about the future of robotics, or you might challenge yourself with a series of Mob Vs. Mob challenges designed to test your knowledge of Monsters on various planets within EU. Enjoy the content yourself and than you decide if you wish to share that content with your friends on Facebook, either as a post or an individual In-mail. We are basically handing you a recruitment toolkit with the aim of placing EU in the best light possible for potential colonists.

As we go, new content, features, feeds, and rewards will be continuously added, and I will be reviewing your comments here so that the collective voice of The Emissaries can help inform that process.

I look forward to having many of you sign up shortly, and plan on giving you a firm launch date soon as we put the finishing touches on the first Embassy!

Cheers,
Sage

Q&A with Sage|Socialtype


Q. What is the access code?

A. The access code is only there to prevent access until we launch. Once we launch no access code will be required.​

Q. When do you plan on having it up and running?

A. No promises. But less than time than it takes to grow a proper beard.​

Q. What program was your avatar created in?

A. That's a secret.​

Q. Who are you? Are you one of these guys? http://www.socialtype.com/team/index.html

A. Misao, forgive me if I humbly treasure my anonymity as much as I respect yours. My position is part of my job. I will gladly tell you that Yes, I do work for Socialtype, and No, I am not part of the Executive Team, and since I am Female I am certainly not one of the "guys" : )​

Q. How much experience do you have with Entropia Universe? Do you currently play EU?

A. I have been playing Entropia Universe for a little over five months now, ever since EU and Socialtype decided to work together, learning the game so that I could be a part of the team that would help shape the content you are about to see revealed in the Embassy. I am certainly not an expert, especially since I found it necessary to jump around from planet to planet to know the game in the broadest sense possible, so I expect there will be times when a veteran will step up with some advice for me, and I will certainly take that advice to heart, and funnel it through the proper channels at MindArk with those who are experts, whenever necessary. If it is my qualifications in an MMO you are concerned with, I have been working as a game writer / director of MMORPGs other than EU since 2006 and I feel quite at home here. EU is a beautiful world and I am very happy to call it my new home, and quite pleased with my new role here. Together, I hope we will cause the population to skyrocket.​

Q. "articles, quizzes, videos, and other unique content" Are these provided to you by MA or do you create this content?

A. Good question. The videos are trailers made by MindArk, and I believe one of them was made by Neverdie. I hope to initiate a player created video trailer contest in the near future specifically for use by Emissaries with a gynormous reward ; ). I have selected many of the articles myself and you will see they are not EU content, they are real world scientific articles we all agreed were relevant to Entropia Universe (ie. Robotics, Space Travel, Super Novas, etc) that players might find interesting, and also be interested in posting. The idea is that if you "Love" an article on space travel, and post it to your friends, some of your friends that you might not even realize also love space travel might read them, and than come to you and say, "Hey, I liked that space article, and while I was reading it I noticed you were playing some space-related game... what is that?" And if that happens you might be introducing them as a player... so why not also get some points for doing that which help you grab some shadow armor, right? Ooops, did I write that out loud? Sounds like a win-win situation to us, but we'll let you decide once you have a chance to try it. I also wrote some of the quizzes, yes, as did other members of our combined Socialtype / MindArk Team. We have been working very closely for the past 5 months, and having a blast I might add.​

Q. Ahhh, finally, some clarification as to what the FB thing is all about. Thanks for finally clearing this up as there's been a lot of speculation recently (some of it NOT good).

A. We're all gamers ourselves working on the Embassy and we're going to do our best to make sure this is the kind of program players will want to use, in ways that can actually attract the right kind of new players, with rewards all around. We're giving you what we hope you will view as interesting content, and you get to decide if and how you want to share it, and with whom. Some of you will probably just hang at the Embassy and check new stuff out as it drops. Others will want to share with their friends. Some will think it's lame. Some will just be interested in the cool Rewards. We get it. It's all good. It's a tool you can choose to use or choose not to use. We'll start out with minimum content and keep adding more as we see what works and what doesn't, and we'll gauge your reactions and listen to your suggestions, with the end goal of bringing more and more colonists into Entropia Universe!​

Q. When will we find out what rewards are available, and will they be (L) or unlimited?

A. Oleg, I just peeked in at our first batch of Rewards and they are all (L), which is not to say that some of the future Rewards, and they will change frequently, may not be unlimited.​

Q. Do you have an ETA for the tool? so that i can prepare for it and spam everything i know untill they create an account

A. Now now Stagger. As you will soon read in our Best Practices on recruiting section in the Embassy, spamming is not an activity becoming an Emissary. If an Emissary attempts this, there are multiple safeguards in place, and expulsion is even possible. Why? Because we want to put the best face forward for Entropia Universe. This aint Farmville. You don't hope to get a player to click "Accept" or "Like" using the Embassy. You use it to begin a dialogue where you discover a friend you maybe did not even know was a gamer to check out the game, and if they like it, you guide them to download, to install, to play, you meet them in game, you mentor them... and it's only going to work with people who like to play games in the first place. We're not into creating spam. We're into giving players the right tools to help them recruit new colonists to grow the game, and rewarding them when appropriate. Every Emissary has a chance to make the game shine or potentially hurt the game's image. It's a bold step, and I'm being completely honest when I tell you I need all Emissaries to be cooperating and utilizing best practices to reveal EU in the best possible light to make this program work! I hope many of you are up to it and will at least give it a try.​

Q. Sage is your current in-game avatar name a secret? If it is do you plan
to make a official Socialtype|Sage avatar and make appearances?

​

A. Misao, I will have a proper in game avatar called Sage soon. And who knows, there may be an in game Embassy one of these days. But good idea, lets all meet up in game once things are rolling.​

Q. Will this be useful items or decoration items?
Useful: weapon, armor, finder/driller
What I'm basically asking is will people who dont like FB and that thing be at a disadvantage in this real cash economy service.

A. Jenny ferr, there are currently weapons and armor offered as Rewards, yes. Will people who don't like FB be at a disadvantage? Hmmmm. I think I might ask the question in reverse. Will players who choose to take on the task of Emissaries be at an advantage in recruiting new players using the Embassy tools? Yes. Will that gain them In game Rewards they might not otherwise afford. Yes.​

​

If more answers become available they'll be added here.

All the info will be collected on the wiki page: Entropia Emissary Program.

.

 

To me Sage seems to be a professional. That's great, maybe some professionality will even rub off on MA.

I have 2 questions too:

A couple of marketing guys working for half a year, a facebook app, content, rewards for emissaries, ... that must cost a million PED for sure. When do we expect to break even? When will new players acquired by this program have spent enough PED to cover the expenses?

Can we have one example of a reward and what has to be done to get it? How often would I have to share a "new hubble discovery" article to be awarded a real-world Nusul plushie?

EDIT: Oh, almost forgot it: Thank you very much Bjorn|MA for all your efforts to cooperate with all the community websites working as multiplicators. And great you give everyone the option to ask questions, not just the few people regularly frequenting one single shitty EU website. Your marketing skills are really impressive!

 

Hands have been chopped off when MA relaunched EU.com and 'updated' the Calypso CL.

There's nothing to loose.

 

Aah, I'd be really happy if there was a can of worms to open.

But if this can does exist somewhere it must be well hidden behind an 'iron curtain' made of ignorance, stupidity or even really rotten motives.

Damn, I tried really hard not to comment on the pile of shit anymore...

Hm, why not just a couple of more questions...

When the people sharing marketing material with a Facebook app will be rewarded in game items, what will the people be rewarded that have spent hundreds of hours of volunteer 'work' already and will continue to do so?

Why did MA decide to ignore and even hamper the efforts of all people running community websites but support the business of one single person whose policy regarding community websites is either getting them on his server or repressing them hence working against the community and merely for his very own personal gain?