Noob questions thread

The past ~4 years I 've just logged in EU every couple of months, mostly to check something out, kill a few mobs and leave again. I'm now back for a little more than that but have to re-learn pretty much everything :)

So here some noob questions. If someone has noob questions too feel free to add them to the thread.


1. As an old avatar can I still do the newbie missions at Half Moon Bay? If yes, where do I start?

2. I've entered The Gauntlet Stage I once to record data for mapping the instance... Now at the Gauntlet Organizer if I click to enter stage I or II the dialogue closes without anything happening. Is this as designed or is there something wrong?

Probably many more to come :)

 

Thanks, but I really really don't go to PCF :)

Entropiawiki is basically a copy of game data which can be very useful but in this case we need the meta data :)

But that's where Entropia Planets Wiki can fill the gap. It has (hopefully) all release notes related to The Gauntlet: http://www.entropiaplanets.com/wiki/The_Gauntlet#The_Gauntlet_History

Looking at this statements it should work like this: Every avatar with at least 1 combat profession on level 10 will be able to enter both Gauntlet stages once, below level 10 indefinitely. The statement "Changed the Gauntlets to require exactly 2 players" from early June 2018 is obviously incorrect or not precise because I entered Stage I for the first time earlier this week and I was just 1 player. And I did receive the rewards, the release notes and in-game info were not clear about this.

Regarding question 1., this is solved now, the best chance for starting this is obviously at the landing platform at the beach at Camp Icarus. There should be a popup with a "Welcome to Camp Icarus!" dialogue mission thingie suggesting to talk to Sergeant Saana just a couple of meters north of the landing platform. In the dialogue with Sergeant Saana you need to choose to go to Half Moon Bay. On arrival at Half Moon Bay, with or without talking to Sergeant Saana at CI, you get another popup dialogue mission thingie leading to the next NPC just a couple of meters away.

The problem might have been that I still had the predecessor mission from the NPC (Captain Hayes iirc) that was replaced with Sergeant Saana. After aborting it, relogging, CI back and forth, I finally got the expected popup. \o/

 

So after looter professions and Loot 2.0 with all the info on weapon efficiency what does the loot return formula look like approximately?

 

Great, so the next question would be what the efficiency formula does look like :)

Regarding the efficiency chunk and the looter professions chunk this note comes to my mind: "Accounts created in 2017 have enjoyed returns of 96.94% on average since the changes implemented on Sept. 11" Dev Notes 14

That was before the looter professions, so if separate from efficieny there should be a noticable drop in loot return for everyone but especially for the group of newly created accounts.

If not separate that would mean a further dramatic reduction of the importance of efficiency, actually making many of the "eco" weapons look even more overpriced.

 

Another noob question: The Berycled Nest, is it repeatable?

 

Sorry, it just wasn't noticed. There's a spam filter for messages with links from accounts with less than 10 posts. I've approved it now.

There are currently no plans to sell EP totally overpriced to MindArk, have it administrated by scammer, liar and notorious rule breaker and suppress people's opinions ;)

 

Thanks. I was assuming it's repeatable. I did it ~3 weeks ago and I've planned to record a video of it. But whenever I go there it's just as a I left it, eggs destroyed. There's no message saying when it will be available again like for every other wave event. That and the fact that The Gauntlet is inaccessible for me too makes me think that something is seriously wrong.

 

And let's put them on the map as well. The development could be paid for by an craftable Advanced Mapping Device that adds info like this on your map. It could be further upgradable to show spawns and other stuff too. Or let's just have an general EU info system listing wave event status among pretty much all other info. ETA: 2022

Back to topic, I got cooldown messages for The Pit before I did it, after a wave timed out because I was too slow and still after I've finished it multiple times. For Berycled Nest I never got any message. When I entered it first the location was added to the map and I received a new mission (The Berycled Nest). I've finished the event in that turn since then the situation is as described.

I just hope new players don't have to wade through all this shit.