Return to Next Island
The movement works like Entropia now - yay! Plus things seem a bit more finished. I am currently trying to run to a place north of a revival terminal but keep dying over and over and over... One time I was within a short distance of it.
Finally swan around to it. Unlike Entropia (as far as I've seen) there are no monsters in the sea, so swimming is safe (but come onto the shore and they are all over you). I'm up to the 'kill 10 Paroos' bit, but they need to be small, weak, sickly Paroos.
One revival place has no automatic gun towers and a Paroo was standing there when I rezzed and killed me a few times. 'Hey, not fair!'
Above: Warming our hands in the warmth of the Tiki-styled automatic gun turret.Everything is Entropia-esque but in a funny hat. About half or more of the players I saw today were from Entropia. There was a space craft (or at least a mech-y vehicle), and people healed me out of the goodness of their tiny, Entropian hearts.
Labels: Entropia
- 21 April 2011
A virtual world with quests and time travel, Next Island is part of Entropia.
Seems obvious after the fact that time travel would be a good idea.
So far I:
- Tried to tp there using my Entropia acct but it demanded 40,000ped ==:O
- Thought beginners couldn't be killed; got killed
- Fell off a waterfall
- Stumbled into a house
- Accidentally found a more advanced quest and accepted it
- Gathered some sort of plant (????)
- Now I'm sort of lost heh
- Their movement controls are supposed to be like Old Skool Entropia (click and go) but Entropia doesn't use that (they use both MB = better) so it doesn't work and they don't have the new system apparently
- As everything is, it's harder if you have one hand
- It reminds me of There (jungles/monkeys/ruins) crossed with Blue Mars (Cryengine, fashion), and its palette is rather unmodulated
- Ready-built houses must be for rent
Labels: Entropia, Introduction to Time Travel
Entropia
I got my (usual) email from MindArk saying to play or die, so I downloaded the patches (PE is 11g atm) and went running about :-D Entropia doesn't let you alter your av when you like, however occasionally after a big change there's the opportunity - which I have now. In about 2003 or 4 I had sticky-up yellow/green hair which interfered with shooting a bit, then I had a chestnut bob and looked normal. ATM I have green hair knobs and I'm Black, and I dunno what I'll change to.
I stumbled into a PvP zone and just had to keep running - Entropia doesn't let you tp from any but fixed teleporters. Even logging out takes time so you can't escape death/looting that way either.
Labels: Entropia
22 June 2010
Hah! Here's Fauxvia in 2004!
2004 - The areas seemed to be more individual, in a way. It definitely looks much better today, yet I wonder if I could find any of those old, unique settlements. Maybe they are there but spiffier.
2004 - buying ammo or something, I suppose.
2004 - crude avatars.
Entropia has changed a lot.Labels: Entropia
Chasing Emma
Entropia got kick-ass vehicles today, and company representative Emma zipped around the world giving them to a select few at each stop. Vehicle fever was high and scores of players teleported around madly in search of the elusive woman.
Nice. As with everything in Entropia they'll be expensive to run, though.
Players making an offering to the MindArk gods. Car! Cars! Cars!
Found! Emma is under the mob and I'm just about to crash (it was laggy wherever she went).
Vehicle Commissioning Terminal
At last it ends. I never managed to snag one, but it was fun nevertheless.
Fauxvia had an admirer :-D
Labels: Entropia
28 October 2008
Merry ChristmasJust dragging around unable to focus, so since I can't do anything anyway I decided to go into PE for 5 seconds to keep my account alive. It's been a long time - well, I logged in to a jolly xmas uh... MindArk gift window.
What IS that, anyway? I suppose I'll have to go back and see :( (Update: It's a doll.)I was given a something or other for Christmas and a pair of horns for Hallowe'en. I think males got wings, to judge by everyone I saw. Yes, PE players have wings, now, but it's all a fake as they can't fly.
Things were a bit different - well, they looked funny. I just took out a bit about forgetting the UI since actually I hadn't forgotten it, even the kb shortcuts, but it just feels like I SHOULD forget it heh.I don't mind the beasts but I mind other players for some reason (well, I've been killed by other players). There's a lot of ruthless attempts at scamming, and it has always seemed a training ground for sociopaths to me, but the scenery is nice. Another thing I've always found amusing is the levels; a player strives and raises himself up many levels to be mediocre.
Took FAR longer to write about than to visit.
Labels: Entropia
27 April 2008
I ran around Eudoria, in Entropia Universe, for a while. After leaving Fort Ithaca I steered past a lot of monsters but went past another player who shot me (he had to use a lot of ammo - hah, you bastard) :( I was sent back to Fort Ithaca to be revived. I teleported to another place, and struck out for the coast at a run, but was attacked and killed by something very big and lumbering. In part I was killed as I was trying to get a picture and wound up stopping instead of evading.
That sent me back to where I had been, and some dude ran up and healed me, and sent an invitation to his group. I thought a minute and declined, then he resent so I thought, "Well, perhaps I'll go and see," but upon receiving a TP I thought better of it and hit cancel and just logged out. Really, the odds of having someone run up and invite me to do something not dangerous to me are about one in a million in EU.
Labels: Entropia