Project Entropia
I was surfing on Blog Explosion again to waste some free time and came across Geek Blue. An article was posted about a virtual item bought for $100,000. The article went on to say that someone had purchased a space station in an asteroid belt.
I had never heard of this game and searched for it on the internet. I found the website for Project Entropia. I found the following information on the website about the purchase of an asteroid space resort.
The ASTEROID SPACE RESORT was today, 24th of October 2005, bought by avatar “Jon NEVERDIE Jacobs” for a sum of 1,000,000 PED (100,000 US Dollar)!
The screen shots looked OK and best of all, the client was free to download and install. There are no monthly fees. I had to confirm my email address and for some odd reason, they wanted to know what town I was born in.
So what is the catch? It is hard to make money in the game. At least, so far it’s been hard for me. If you want the easy way out, you can use a credit card and buy some PED’s. I’m trying my luck at sweating. Sweating is the process of extracting sweat from weird animals that attack you. Every animal is hostile. You can’t fight the animals unless you equip a gun, but guns cost money as well as bullets. You can’t sell the sweat to NPC’s or terminals, so you are left to depend on other players who wish to purchase it. There are usually players at a teleporter advertising that they are willing to buy.
The game reminds me of Star Wars Galaxies. It’s in the future, has lots of weird animals and plants, and the world is just huge. After an hour and a half, I found the port of Atlantis on my own. I found that the Eudoria Geography site helped me out on this adventure. I followed the coastline from Troy to avoid monsters. I was killed once with only one hit from something that looked like a tyrannosaurus rex. Another site that is helpful is Entropia Pioneers.
The interface of this game is hard to figure out at first. I’m still stumbling over things. Just today I learned how to divide stacked items by double-clicking them. People in the game have been willing to help me out. One guy even lead a few of us for free to another town (Twin Peaks) about thirty minutes away so that we could have a second teleporter on our maps. Teleporters are great for avoiding long journeys. Another guy traded me a gun for some bottles of vibrant sweat that I had collected. Of course, it needed a lot of repair and bullets as well.
Every time I look at prices of things, I think of it in real-world currency. Since the gun needed over five PED of repairs, I just thought of it as costing me fifty cents to fix it. I would have to collect a lot of sweat to trade for that kind of money.
The biggest plus to this game is that you can make money from it. You can cash out your PED’s into real money through the game. So here you are with a free game, making money, and can make a living in the real world as well - just by playing. The only problem is that it probably would take a lot of hard work, free time, and effort to make a living like that.
November 13th, 2005 at 12:05 am
[…] I had discovered a free MMPORPG game called Project Entropia. Recently I got paid in real life, so I was able to sink a few dollars into my Project Entropia account to get access to some PED’s. I got some armor and also invested in a home of my own. I found that the cheapest apartment was about 175 PED ($17.50 US Dollars). […]
May 15th, 2006 at 12:51 pm
I got this game the other day with my freind. It sounds like a great game, but im not very good at it. I dont get this sweating business. I need help. 1 time i will get the sweat and other times it shows up with “the sweat aquring has failed. Then i get them attacking me and i can’t kill them. How am i supposed to do good if i can’t get sweat in the first place. Please will someone help. my email is tim@foot-workproductions.com
May 15th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
You can only gather sweat successfully from a creature 3 times. This includes successful sweats from other players. If you buy a gun or an axe, you can start attacking them. In the beginning, I usually just let them attack me and run for the city guns. This helps build up your defense skills. Learning to attack is expensive in your early days, as repairs cost money.
September 8th, 2006 at 5:29 am
After playing entropia for 8 months, the latest VU (version update) has really kiled the game …. allow me to explain. The first thing a player does in Entropia is collect sweat from animals and sell it to other players and indeed is how I started the game. The latest VU has taken the cap off this activity - resulting in nobody buying the players sweat. I have seen new players trying to sell for 3-4 hours, logging off and never returning. Result new players leaving very quickly and the starting town “Port Atlantis” looking like a ghost town.
Secondly the new VU has made everything — harder— crafting,hunting,mining— resulting in older players leaving daily. The ones who are stll playing have raised their prices on tools, weapons, etc, that are bought by players of lower lvl coming into the game, to keep their costs covered. The result is that prices are becoming untennable - MA hve priced them out the market.
The other reasons people are leaving (including myself), are the following….
a) - Over the last 6 months prices for raw materials have increased on average 10%-15%.
b)- With increased raw material costs and lower crafting success rates, this has resulted in items within the game increasing to incredulous prices.
c)- Auction rigging, reseller madness, and scamming are becoming common place now- as unseeing players try to cope with the increasing costs within the game.
Currently no new players are staying around, prices are constantly going up, older players are leaving daily. The main increase I noticed was for space flights to the asteroid. at first the price was 16 PED(1.60US one way), then 20 PED, and now advertised at 25 PED…. all witin 6 months.
RIP Entropia — The Gamers Lost- Beggerman ;-(