[B]ENTROPIA UNIVERSE VERSION UPDATE 8.11
2007-03-20
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VERSION UPDATE FEATURES [/B]
Akmuul Island
A whole new island has been opened up for PvP combat excitement in southern Amethera. Akmuul Island holds a few surprises for everybody, with new areas and settlements to explore, undiscovered native inhabitants, undiscovered raw materials and even two new land areas available for sale.
PvP combat has also been enhanced to make better use of a participant’s accuracy.
Market Value
The Market Value history of items is now available to all in the Entropia Universe. When opening an Item Info panel, a new Market Value icon, in the lower right corner, allows any participant to see the value history of an item based on data taken directly from the official Entropia Universe Auction. The new icon has also been added to the Action Library.
This free service will allow participants to examine both detailed and average trends at daily, weekly, monthly, yearly and even decade intervals. More information is available in the updated Auction Guide.
Resolution
The Entropia Universe can now run on higher resolutions depending on your Graphics Card and Monitor capabilities. You can select desired resolution for Windowed and Full Screen modes in the Login Window Options dialog. Please see the updated Start, Login & Connection Guide.
Participant Content
A new property has been added to Participant Content capable items, displaying the name of the avatar that last modified the content. This will help in verifying the authenticity of art works exchanging hands within the Entropia Universe.
Graphics
Light & Shading
Light and shading improvements continue with shading of the avatar in the inventory view, item shading in the item info view, and the introduction of bump, specular and reflection textures on ingots, precious stones, Atrox and a robot model to begin with.
Numerous other small graphical improvements have also been made including:
General graphical improvement of Icons like having their corners rounded and a little shading added.
Adjustments have been made to the close and help icons of the Keyboard Mapping system and the small buttons on the HUD.
Several ingots have received new appearances to increase variation.
Palms Corner has received some attention: The Shop Container and storage terminals now work. The rock on top of the teleporter has been relocated and some flickering textures have been fixed.
A number of lamps have been adjusted as they were not giving enough light. Fireplace light has also been adjusted to give a warmer glow.
New Items
A range of new items have been added including a new TT Medical Kit and new TT Mining Tools. Other new items in areas like combat and manufacturing have also been included.
Basic Properties
Items now have their basic properties (M, F, L, C, D and PC) included in their Inventory view.
Sound
New outposts and new equipment have new sounds.
Other Enhancements
The Split Item interface has been redone.
Manual rotation of Items is now available in the Item Info View Controls. Disable auto-rotation first and use the mouse wheel to zoom in/out and rotate in any direction.
The PvP anomaly inside the Trade Center at Rei’s Defense has been cleared up.
The revival terminal has been moved closer to the Gun turret at Nea’s Place.
