Planet Calypso: For those tho like their Colons...

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Sorry been unwell today... a "virtual walk" was about as much as I could manage effort/concentration wise.

Sorry for terrible photoshopping of MA's tagline. I couldn't make the effort to do it without a decent webresource today.

Wistrel

 

yup there is a fair amount of uneven editing in Entropia but I do feel the "polish person" is still employed as tweaks appear now and then to seemingly insignificant things. I found some pretty cool alien trees that are not your standard CE (actually quite a lot of the trees don't look earth like). This was a sort of cone like thing with 4 branches at the top that glow green at night. I rather liked it.



I know we've disagreed before on this which is fine. I'm complemented too that you say I'm making something out of nothing. Maybe you are right - perhaps I just take a good picture. I do take a lot of pictures though.

hehe it was Foul (I note one of the mobs that has had a pretty good update - I now find them even more unpleasant/scary than I did in the old days [creepy big eyes]). I also found er... Caperon? Which I'm not sure I've ever seen before, although I know they are very old. Very high level though so I'm avoiding that tentacle. I don't think that mob has been updated though.

Going back to what McCormick says. Yes it all could be more alien but there are areas that are. I rather like this intermixing of a more familiar forest with the alien plant life. As a counterpoint though these days we are getting better land relief (RT was very good for that - none of this "mostly flat with bumps milarki", RT seemed to be based off real height maps), rocky features, denser vegetation and CAVES.

The thing I still really miss though, as I'm sure others do, is the remainder of old wreckage from the robot wars. There is NO REASON why this couldn't be put back, even if it just a few broken robot mobs half burred in the ground as a starter. On top of this a lot more could be done with creating missions or content around such models. Nothing wrong with a good story/exploration mission.

I guess, as with all things, it is time and I suspect MA simply don't have enough writers/artists to populate the landscape with incidental "details" content. This said, I hate to think what has been spent on consulting these so called crypto currency experts or, dare I say it, compet. If I ruled the world, I'd hire some artists with the remit of "go forth and explore, make notes on where you feel something is missing/could help, then make cool stuff to find".

Ah well, we can continue to dream

Wistrel

 

Arrrgh! I can't see the wood for the Caperon!

 

See my new thread "Everything wrong with MindArk in one Screenshot" - this is precisely the sort of thing I'm talking about. It's common sense that if you are going to have a mission system, you keep a record/database of every asset/location that said mission directly or indirectly depends on. Then if you change anything, it should be a simple case of looking it up and seeing what the knock on effect could be.

It must be that time of the year again - I think I only do this rant once a year now.

Wistrel

 

Great post notAdmin! You really captured it. I sure miss the umbra village for example even though I was too noob to go in there. That mine... I think it is still there actually (unless you means Thorkells Tomb - which should NEVER have been scrapped) - you mean the one at Twin Peaks right?

I've always wondered what might have lay behind that door, and so many other doors on Calypso that stayed resolutely shut all these years.

Ah well.. "That'll do"

Wistrel

 

Ah you lot... look one you've gone and made me do... CUE NOSTALGIA TIME!

The Mine at Twin Peaks, back in the day.



I think these 2 arty numbers were from a McCormick or maybe a Jamira?




Some old incidentals you would find as you walked about:




(don't think I took this one incidentally... don't recognise it)



Speaking of doors that never opened...



ah well... I can keep on dreaming... (that is, if MA would bloody well let me lie down again of course!)

 

It seems to be at least 2 years since I deposited now - judging by my memory of christmas presents that is