Release Notes Sum-Up Since the release notes are pretty extensive, here you have them in short: The Entropia Unvierse Official Game Site is Updated - check it out: www.entropiauniverse.com. Voice Chat Expansion and Updates - proximity voice chat available for you all. Push to Talk - actively choose when your microphone is on. Markers - vehicle markers are added and there's now additional information when targeting participants and creatures. Mining Update - All bombs, all detectonators, all excavators and all refiners can now be used to find, extract and refine any type of resource. In-World Support Service - send support cases through Entropia Universe. Improvements and Fixed Issues- for example, we have added a relation between the strength attribute and max carried weight before speed is affected. Policy Updates - Voice Communication Service - Terms of Use is updated, due to the voice chat expansion and updates. The Entropia Universe Official Game Site Have you seen our complete remake of www.entropiauniverse.com? If not you should definitely check it out. There's the buzz,a blog-like function where we will post information regularly, the media section, with both concept art and screenshots from Entropia Universe, some basic beginner's guides and more. Especially check out the latest buzz and the addition to the beginner's guide for Voice Chat (http://www.entropiauniverse.com/entropia-universe/beginners-guide/interaction/). New Features Several new features are included in this release: Voice Chat Expansion and Updates Push to Talk Markers Mining Update In-World Support Service Voice Chat Expansion and Updates In 11.3.0 we released the first part of the Voice Chat system that is developed through a collaboration between MindArk and Ericsson. Today we release the second part with the following expansions: Proximity Voice Chat. This is included in the Basic Voice Package which is a voice chat based on proximity, available for all participants for free. Create a voice team (Premium Voice Package). ...and more voice chat features are in the pipeline. Basic Voice Package - Proximity Voice Chat By using the Basic Voice Package you will be able to speak and listen to other participants in your vicinity. The participants' sound volume will differ depending on how close you are to them. Also, you can hear which direction the sound is coming from. This feature is disabled by default, but you can easily activate it: In the Main Chat UI, use the volume icon as a button to open the Options UI for Voice Chat settings. Select Enable Proximity Voice. Accept the changes and close the Options UI. Premium Voice Package The Premium Voice Package includes the following features: Private Voice Chat, where you call people on your Friend List when you are in-world. Note: The participant you are calling must also have the Premium Voice package. Create a voice team with a maximum of 6 members, including yourself. Increased sound quality, compared to the Basic Voice Package. This affects the sound quality when listening to other participant's proximity speech, no matter which voice package they are using. Team Voice Chat With a voice team you can hear the whole team, as if they are within 2 meters from you, even if they are spread out over different planets in Entropia Universe. Note: You can only initiate a voice team if you subscribe to Premium Voice Package or Premium Voice Team Package+. However, the rest of the members only need the Basic Voice Package. If you are in a Voice Team and target one of your members, you can see if that member has their microphone and loudspeaker activated or not. You will still be able to hear other participants based on their distance to you and they can hear you in the same way. Premium Voice Team Package+ The Premium Voice Package can be upgraded to Premium Voice Team Package+ which includes the following features: Create a voice team with a maximum of 12 members, including yourself. All features in the Premium Voice Package. Subscription The subscription is based on a fee that is paid in beforehand, allowing free usage of the system for the coming 30-day period. At any time you can choose to deactivate the fee-based services and then that subscription is put on hold. You can either downgrade a service or select the free Basic Voice Package in the Desired Service option. If you have a valid subscription of the current Voice Chat service, you will access the Premium Voice Package for the rest of the 30-day period. After that, if you wish to continue using the Premium Voice Package you have to activate that subscription. Otherwise you will only have access to the Basic Voice Package. Note! The Voice Chat does not longer have its own PED balance. From now on, if you have accepted a fee-based voice service, your subscription fee is drawn directly from your PED Card. If you wish to pause your subscription you need to actively do so. Basic Voice Package The Basic Voice Package is available for all participants without any subscription fees. Premium Voice Package The regular subscription fee for the Premium Voice Package is 15 PED per 30 days. Premium Voice Team Package+ The regular subscription fee for the Premium Voice Team Package+ is 10 PED per 30 days. Note: The Premium Voice Team Package+ is an add-on to the Premium Voice Package. Therefore, a subscription to the Premium Voice Team Package+ also requires a subscription to the Premium Voice Package. Main Chat Three icons are added to the Main Chat due to the addition of the Basic Voice Package: Loudspeaker icon: Button to enable and disable incoming voice sound. As default, when you log in, the loudspeaker is always enabled. Microphone icon: Button to enable and disable your microphone. As default, when you log in, the microphone is always enabled. Volume icon: Button to open the Options UI for Voice Chat settings. This icon also indicates the outgoing voice level. Communicator The Communicator UI is used for selecting service type and setting up payment for selected services. Current Service - Displays the highest service currently activated. Time Until Renewal - Displays the number of days and hours until your subscription needs to be renewed. Desired Service - Roll-down menu with available services. This is also where you can deactivate a subscription. Fee - Fee, in PED, for selected service in Desired Service. Package Details - Information about what is included in service selected in Desired Service Bandwidth Connection Settings If you want or need to change your bandwidth settings you will now do it through the Tools in the Client Loader. Note: The voice chat is affected by your bandwidth settings. For efficient use while using voice chat we recommend 256 kb/s-1Mb/s. Genesis Genesis, the starting area for new account holders, also has free proximity voice chat. Push to Talk You can use the feature Push to Talk to actively choose when your microphone is on. This way you won't constantly transmit your background noise. Enable (or disable) Push to Talk in the Options for voice chat. You find the action Push to Talk in the Action Library and then you can choose to bind it to a key on a keyboard set. Markers Vehicle Markers Each spawned vehicle now has a marker placed above it when you have it in your field of vision. When the vehicle is located outside your field of vision the marker is placed on the border of the Desktop. The marker's size corresponds to how far away the vehicle is, the larger the marker is the closer the vehicle is to you. Note: You can only see vehicle markers when you are sitting in a vehicle yourself. By default, the whole marker is blue. The bottom part of the marker can have a different color to reflect your relation to the vehicle driver: Light blue - The vehicle driver is in the same team as you are. Green - The vehicle driver is your friend (on your Friend List). Dark blue - The vehicle driver is in the same s ociety as you are. Yellow - The vehicle driver is in the same force as you are. Targeting Participants and Creatures Additional information visible when you target other participants: Effect over time. You will see if the targeted participant is affected by any MindForce effect that lasts over time. Grace period. You will see "Arrival Safe" when targeting a participant during his or her grace period. Additional information visible when targeting creatures: Effect over time. You will see if the targeted creature is affected by any MindForce effect that lasts over time. Danger level. Each creature's danger level is set in relation to other creatures' levels. Unreachable. Creatures will have unreachable state visible if they are unreachable. Mining Update All bombs, all mining amplifiers, all detectonators, all excavators and all refiners can now be used to find, extract and refine any type of resource. Note: The new refiner tool also includes tailoring refining. When you search for resources it is possible to configure what kind of resource to search for. Therefore, the detectonator UI is now opened as long as you have it equipped. You can also search for more than one type of resource concurrently. This will require the amount of bombs needed for selected resources and the tool will be deteriorated accordingly. Any gained experience while using mentioned tools will be in the profession related to the found resource. Background Considering earlier input and future expansions on the mining system we have merged several individual tools within the same usage span into one tool instead of separate tools. The goal with doing this is to simplify the usage of them. With the merge you will have to carry less tools and you don´t need to switch so often at the same time as you can search for a wider range of resources. Since we aim to expand the mining system with more items and categories along with our Planet Partners, the old system did not scale well and the complexity would be excessive. You can already see some new indications in-world of what is coming. To maintain the balance when doing this merge we have thoroughly evaluated each individual tool's characteristics, considered market value and blueprints. All in all we believe that these changes are necessary and will make the system easier and more powerful to use, providing a flexible, viable and stable part of the foundation in the Entropia Universe economy. Note that the tier levels on mining tools are maintained. In-World Support Service You can now open a support center UI in-world and handle your support cases through it. This functions just as the web interface for support cases, which means you can create cases, check both your active and closed ones and communicate with support through here. However, if you wish to upload files to explain your support case you have to submit your support case through the support web site. Improvements and Fixed Issues Health Points When you increase or decrease your maximum health points, you will receive a notification. When clicking on a Health Update Notification the Skill UI is opened with the Attribute category selected. Max Caried Weight We have changed the max carried weight before speed is affected. Additionally, strength attribute points can raise your limit for when your weight is affected by speed. When your max carried weight is updated you will receive a notification. Miscellaneous MindForce implants can be inserted again. You won't be able to drop items when in a vehicle anymore. The in-world account details will now show the correct gender. When scanning a vehicle you can only get scanning skill when somebody is inside it. Policy Updates Updated or added the following sections in the Voice Communication Service - Terms of Use: Added Rule of Conduct. In short, the addition stipulates the following rules: You may not broadcast copyrighted material. You may not make disturbing noises that may compromise the experience for other users in Entropia Universe. Updated Termination of Subscription or Services Updated or added the following sections in the Voice Communication Service - Terms of Use: Services Provided by Third Party Subscription Fee Service Level and Support Termination of Subscription or Services Cooling-off Period Additional Terms Note: The Voice Communication Service - Terms of Use is referred to from the Entropia Universe Account Terms of Use, which you have to accept before you can log in to Entropia Universe. Continue reading...
Wow ... that's some list of release notes. I'll have to sort through it later in the day to make sense of it.
The mining update .... It seems a little strange, when dropping a charge you drop 1.50 ped worth of charges (3 x 50pec probes) to search for both Ore & Enmatter. What happens if your using a OF and bombs worth 1 PED each, you can't drop one and a half bombs. Or did they make bombs and probes a x10 divisision, so 1 PED of bombs is 10 bombs and 1 ped of probes is 20 probes.
mmm ok so there goes the markup 4 my rare finders and extractors of +300 400 ped each so how do we get compensated tahts well over 1200 ped markup...gone?
LOL @ "You may not make disturbing noises that may compromise the experience for other users in Entropia Universe.".
Not sure what to think about the mining update or even how it works (confused me a bit) but then again, I'm not a miner ;) I really hope they will specify "disturbing noises" to us in the near future. Some people may think that Frans Bouwer is disturbing, but I listen to him all the time ;) (kind of a Dutch joke there)
@RAZER - Just so you know. Playing Frans Bauer in the Schmitz home is reason for instant removal of the premises and a good slapping ;)
There are no longer any bombs, only probes which are worth 5pec each. 1 ore drop consumes 20 probes (1ped) and 1 enmatter drop consumes 10 probes (50pec) or if you drop both at once (have both ore and enmatter selected on your finder) then you will drop 30 probes (1.5ped) Your amps have changed names as well, and can be used for both ore or enmatter, I think they decay 1/2 as much per enmatter drop as per ore drop, but im not positive about that yet. I did a 50 drop run this morning to test it. 75ped(1500 probes) I have shots left as my display, so when i started my run it showed 50 in the 'shots remaning' counter. With both ore and enmatter toggeled on (the treasure toggle isnt selectable, I would assume its only usable on Arkadia) I got double claims several times where dropping a double ore/enmatter drop got me both claims. I had a partial oa-104, oa-103 & ma-103 each of which was converted to the new amp numbering system. I used the 104 first and it was amping both ore and enmatter, when it broke i switched to the 103, etc... I can see this new amp system being very beneficial for someone like me who has to buy amps in bulk for mining on other planets. I can buy just one type and use it for everything. I can see this potentially hurting some crafters who have an amp that sells at a higher markup than its equivalent of the opposite type. In the end though it gives us more options which is nice. The feel for mining is more fun now since you can get fewer nrfs dropping both types at once. (sure returns may be just as bad, but the 'feeling' is better since you get rewarded more often. just my thoughts, im sure ive missed a few points. narfi ps. oh.. if anyone has stats on the new 106 finder let me know, my wife is borrowing my mf-105 which was converted to the 106 but I wont be home to ask her about it till tonight.
