A Tourist-Tour to Entropia Universe after one and a half year absence

Day 1

Well, time to take a look for our old universe after 18 months absence. (As Tass suggested, folks should post more here at EP!) Summer hole even ...

I thought I should do the journey clockwise and keep Calypso as final candy. That means Monria became my first target. First of all I had to do some preperations: Buy a Quadwing and fuel and repair material for a longer journey, put my remaining make-up materials to storage, buy sunglasses for a cool look and such. Finally I had to deposit 20 Euro to make it possible. A laughable amount compared to usual 250 ±50 Euro per month for several years when I was active ... and kk the sunglasses arn't Malachi Ash - as it would be common for me - but only some Arkadia sunglasses. I did this all at Calypso. First impression: MA fucked us with graphic issues. Somehow they implemented texture-loading-delays with REALLY unwanted previews with plain colours. Alas ...

I started at North Space Base as usual. The very first thing I saw after arriving at Calypso Space Station was a red triangle. It changed to white immediately ... no clue what this means. I flew to the station, switched the game to window-mode and played Spider Solitair for 15 minutes. After that delay I flew to Monria without problems. Near Monria I logged out and in again. It blowed me to Monria Space Station. I chosed Cthulhu of course because I lived there once in one of the luxury apartments I made for Akoz once.

All NPC at the shopping area at level 9 were wearing undies only. Oooops, I thought, Akoz removed everything before he sell the Monria-stuff. But I was wrong. After a relog all NPC weared clothes. Monria has still issues with the light. Maybe they wanted to have a "special moon light"? It's shitty, the shadows of my window frames are broken as well.

My old apartment is not for public meanwhile but I checked another one and a few shops. MA placed a strange red ball at second and third level. It is labeled "Replace me". LOL! These balls are there since ages. No clue if they vanish if I would buy it. But since I don't trust MA after soooo many bad experiences with apartments I would never buy such an apartment. Apart from that I enjoyed a bath in the pool ;-)


Empty :-(




"Replace me" ... I don't trust MA


Light issues


I still love it! Imagine you could do such things IRL!

P.S. A fashion note: I would have deposit more money if I were able to buy jeans and some make-up materials. But the market for such items is really down :-(
P.P.S. See the broken shadows ...

 

Day 2

Oha! last entry at Monria start screen is from November 12th last year :-(


And yes: right now there is a Malachai Ash at auction at Calypso ;-) But I can resist!


Lateley there was a discussion if Monria belongs to Calypso or not. Well, I think the start screen for Monria tells it:


Well, nothing more of interest at Monria. Some shops there with low offers. No people. I decided to leave it. The route between Monria and Rocktropia should be save. So I flew straight to NEVERDIE's baby.


ROFL! That's NEVERDIE's world. I love it!


Lately I bought a MX-5 irl. That's pretty amazing.

Pure fun ... same ingame but a bit better. I can still use my old Imperium Spec Lancer. Would be cool to be able to color it in British Racing Green ;-)

But it's late. I will continue tomorrow night. Except of "The Thing" Rocktropia never atracted me. Neither the apartments nor the clothes. Only a few small Atrox. Let's see how it looks nowadays.

 

YEAH! Nothing against zombies. I have a lot of them at Elder Scrolls Online ... zombies, other undeads, ghosts, skeletons and such. I stopped Ulla Braun a few days ago (veteran level 3 meanwhile) and started a new sister there: Paula ;-)

No Rocktropia tonight. I got a small job for the next two days. So I can't spend the night in EU but have to hit my mattress soon because I have to get up in the middle of the night at 7:00. And I watched an old classic Steve McQueen-movie: "Getaway". Kinda sarcastic to post such a name here - lol.

 

LOL YEAH! Committing suicide in fear of death ...

At least RT's site is halfway up to date:

Good old Freyr still active ;-)

 

Day 3

After log in today at Rocktropia:


The best story ever in Entropia Universe was "The Thing":


Me and many others enjoyed it so much. So this was my first choice to visit at RT. First of all: I'm not longer in undies there. But I miss the fur clothes. They are long gone and it seems to be impossible to get new items of this kind:

Funny: the fat boys at training center!

At least it was really desolate there. I was alone:


And I got video issues while moving the camera:




I will move back to zombies and apartments soon.

 

Day 4

Well, zombies. Yawn!


There is this old dome in Zomhattan as well. But its empty.


Somewhere I found a subway racing track. But no competitors.


I searched for the old Ballistar Building with apartments. On my way to New Harlem another graphic issue:


Finally! YEAH, the chicks:




Took a bad end ... ;-(


Finally I found it:


A poor chick at the inhouse auction:


And yes! There was really an apartment for sale:


I decided to have a look for it if something has been changed. But no. Still the old boring cuboid rooms without windows. Not to speak about balcony or pool.


I left the building just to find a TP in front of it. It surprised me with the option to move to NEVERDIE's old ressort at Next Island. But unfortunatelly it didn't work. Will have a look if that ressort still exists at NI too.




I went back to the party area at laguna. What a pitty! The old wonderful leather chairs and sofas are gone. I asked ND once if he could make craftable or lootable items of them so I could use them for my apartments. He told me that he would have a look into it later. But that wasn't his biggest worry at that time I think. The dancing DJ is gone as well - probably ND didn't pay enough ;-)


Well, good bye than, Rocktropia. I am off for Howling Mine.

 

---Rocktropia Appendix---
Well, just to close the file Rocktropia (file Monria was closed long before): I found this - from 2010. Okay, five years ago and many cracked dreams. Just a detail: You can't dance anymore as it was possible when we had the big parties with music streams and live radio shows from other colonists ...

Jon had tons of good ideas and did the biggest job for MA to bring EU to public. Kinda two or three years ago I talked to him if he was unhappy meanwhile. He answered reluctant and didn't blame MA. I think MA wasn't able to see, embed and use this potential. Another missed chance. Rocktropia is a relict meanwhile - shrinked and abandoned. Does anybody remember Tina Lieu?

 

I don't think they are lazy or stupid at MA. I think they are anxious and narrow-minded. Visions and open concepts, strange ideas and help from outside arn't welcome in Gothenburg. One of the best examples is Howling Mine - the current place of my tourist trip. It's a little masterpiece. Well done 3D-design for a si-fi online game, containing such a wide range of potential of possible stories and quests. Imagine a space-pirate's base and a base camp of skooma smugglers (that's ESO-speech. It means: Beer and whiskey smugglers.), recievers, illegal workshops and crafters of special parts for tuning spaceships, illegal materials from space, nightclubs, bars and prostitution and ... and ... and ...

I am pretty sure that would attrac a lot of folks. What's the trick with video games? You can do what you would never do in real life. But here comes the lame thing that lasts in EU since years, useless, abandoned ... deplorable even.

 

Day 5

Arriving Howling Mine:


When I landed at Howling Mine I was really surprised to see a green dot on my radar. Crazy!
In the end I discovered they shrinked the mine dramatically and downgraded it to a place for a stupid quest-giver for stupid grinding quests.


But there is a place wich reminded me to Blade Runner. Imagine what NEVERDIE could do with such a location! A nightclub with dancing chicks and music stream and fixed dancing emotes, a shop for illegal items and cigarettes and Beer/whiskey, a workshop for tuning parts, replicants to find and kill (quests) ... Maaaan! GTA5 told us how to use all this!


And there is a TP to go to nowhere:




Really boring. It seems that's all about Howling Mine. I am off for Toulan than ...

 

Nice pic! I love it. What does it tell? Wistrel Poncahontas with flame thrower?

 

Day 6

Well, Toulan.
I had high hopes when it was announced. To learn more about another culture and religion, meet arabian folks. I was ready to accept their way of life as long as I visit their area (clothes). Toulan was prepared with some comic strips and an interesting story. For now neither I couldn't fly straight to th planet nor could I use Toulan's space station.




I got the same problem with NPC like it was at Monria. Naked by arrival and dressed after relog.


First of all: I can run around there in undies. How insane is this for an arabien planet?


Second: I can't use vehicles. Am I in the past like at Ancient Greece? No, I can still use modern weapons.


The enviroment is interesting but not really exciting. The clothes are cheap and ugly. No estates to buy. This is by far not an arabian planet. It is kinda swedish (western-europe) Disneyland with silly fancy dresses. Another missed chance! Too sad!

That was a quick visit! I am off for Next Island.


Wait! "Barton's Corridor"? Why isn't that area named in an arabic way? That's Toulan's space hunting ground, isn't it? Okay, okay I give up. It's another part of the arabian Disneyland. I understand. I am a nitpicker.

Oh btw. I saw five green dots on my trip so far. The last one at Toulan. Yes, unbelievable but true: There are folks who go to Toulan. Okay, I was there too - lol!

I landed at Shepherd's Beach and teleported to Crystal Bay. Just to end up stuck under the TP.


Finally I arrived at civilization at Crystal Center. I had a look at the "Developer Shop".


Well, tbh I didn't expect significant more than 0/20 items ;-) Except this both all staff in undies again. But I was too lazy to relog to solve it this time. At auction I found 5/6 offers from ONE guy.


Fortunatally I had some 170 Time Travel Crystals at my local storage. So I could concentrate to a tourist flight with my Cyrene convertible.

First of all I killed some Mountain Boars. Fortunatally I don't need any armour for such small mobs anymore. Good idea to don't sell skills! Even my brave Katsuichi Honor does a good job. Allthough I knew other damage from the times with my Niflheim ;-)

After all the impressive animations in Skyrim and ESO I was really pissed of the ONE SINGLE move with my sword. It's stupid. Simply no fun. But well, I'm a tourist only ... no worries.

What I especially love on my Spec Lancer is the ability to use it under water. Unfortunately it became night at Next Island. So let's have a break for now and have a look for Ancient Greece later.

 

LOL! Me had the clothes issue too ... finally that fur jacket was pretty nice. But it didn't persevere much time. That was another thing I asked NEVERDIE for. Alas, it's all gone.

 

Day 7

I flew around a bit and found an undocumented servicestation.

No big deal. I decided to go to Ancient Greece. My beloved place!
Teleporting to Orpheu's Way trapped me under the wooden floor of it's TP. Wanna see my teeth?


FINALLY! Ancient Greece! Wait ... what's that?????????


Really? Yes, really!

I can use all my stuff there now: vehicles, armour, blades and guns.




Well, from my point of view they killed the wonderful concept of this part of EU. Congratiolations MA! You are soooo stupid.

Okay, no need to stay here. Just a last look at my sister Kristin's dream home at Mount Diete.


Aaaaaaand now I'm able to take a photo using my Spec Lancer.


THAT would have been a nice home! Even with a landing platform - lol! Imagine this nice home equipped with modern kitchen items and a (functional!) shower from Calypso, aparted by glass walls from Arkadia, wonderful oriental carpets and accessiors from Toulan, great old club stile leather armchairs from Rocktropia, pictures and carpets at the wall and a Spec Lancer in english racing green from Cyrene. OMG!


I'm pretty sure Kristin would have paid more than 5k or 6k PED for it.

Well, time to leave the destroyed EU-area. Very frustrating! I didn't expect much from Next Island/Ancient Greece. But what I saw today makes me feel blue. That was a stitch to my heart. This experiance makes it harder to continue with my tour.

Okay, far well beautiful and promising Next Island ... thumbs up again to NEVERDIE.


On my way to Arkadia ...

One tricky part could have been to be able to buy cigarettes and whiskey at Hermes Space Station ... alas, forget all this story thingies. I fly straight to Arkadia.