Marco speaks!

Words from Marco Behrmann,
Director of Community Relations

2005-11-29

Hello all! 2005 has been a great year for Project Entropia and MindArk PE AB. 2006 looks even better! There are so many exciting things we have in stock for next year:
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[li]The team expands. The expansion from 2005 continues, with experienced new staff members coming, in every area of the company from programming, marketing, support and graphics. I really look forward to the massive increase to the graphics department, which will be almost tripled in size.[/li][li]Advertising in Project Entropia. The use of ads within the virtual universe will greatly enhance the experience and the flow. Anyone who wish will have the opportunity to disable the advertising feature, this action will result in the colonist receives normal loot levels as before.[/li][li]New content across the board. More new content systems will be added that influences both newcomers and veterans alike, preferably is the systems linked to one another. Major systems like the event system, factories for mass production and an employment system will create new diverse approaches to Project Entropia.[/li][li]New looks. With the added power to the graphics department several areas of Project Entropia will receive face-lifts to accommodate the virtual universe to the visuals expected for an online experience anno 2006. It will be a massive work but I believe the effort will be well worth it.[/li][li]More options. Effort will be put onto giving the participants more control over Project Entropia settings, to allow for a smoother experience based on the client hardware present.[/li][/ul]

Don’t forget to pick up your copy of the official PE Magazine, ā€œThe Entropianā€ from the auction. I am sure your will find its content exciting, fun and enlightening. Also, this is probably going to become a collector’s item. Note the contest exclusively open to The Entropian owners which include unique items

This is the decade of the gamer!

-Marco PS. If you want to discuss this entry, please do so at the forums; www.entropiaforum.com and Entropia Pioneers.

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Roll on 2006 :slight_smile:

Looking forward to some visual improvements, hopefully including bug fixes as posted here

[QUOTE=ViagraFalls]

[li]Advertising in Project Entropia. The use of ads within the virtual universe will greatly enhance the experience and the flow. Anyone who wish will have the opportunity to disable the advertising feature, this action will result in the colonist receives normal loot levels as before.[/li]
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So with ads enabled in the future, bigger loots??

[QUOTE=MaidMarion]
So with ads enabled in the future, bigger loots??
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That would be what he is implying there. Personally, I’ll take anyone else’s ads who turn theirs off! Heck, make my dashboard a billboard! :laugh:

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well that means that MA can devide players into groups. nice to know.
I wonder what loot group im in. My loot sucks..

[QUOTE=Maxton]
That would be what he is implying there. Personally, I’ll take anyone else’s ads who turn theirs off! Heck, make my dashboard a billboard! :laugh:
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LOL wel yeah, if ads will garantee a HoF now and then, count me in :wink:

Sounds very nice. I’m in favor of making it more and more like a virtual world and less like a ā€œgameā€.

:slight_smile:

[QUOTE=ViagraFalls]

[li]Advertising in Project Entropia. The use of ads within the virtual universe will greatly enhance the experience and the flow. Anyone who wish will have the opportunity to disable the advertising feature, this action will result in the colonist receives normal loot levels as before.[/li]
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hmmm ā€œcrappy lootsā€ toggle switch, didnt see that coming :slight_smile:

nice to see some communications coming from MA thx Marco :slight_smile:

Great news. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens.

:wise:
wait and see .
with MA you never know.

[QUOTE=tip]
well that means that MA can devide players into groups. nice to know.
I wonder what loot group im in. My loot sucks..
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weeeelll they use this Formular

And then they just take the list from A-Z… and plug in people. They can change the factors of ā€˜no’ and ā€˜yes’ depending on the gamer … I believe Rain Man discovered the lootsystem here … Simple but effective :smiley:

BBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[QUOTE=MaidMarion]
LOL wel yeah, if ads will garantee a HoF now and then, count me in :wink:
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Heck, I’m not greedy. Just let me make enough back to get close to covering ammo and decay or to replace probes and decay and I’d be a happy boy.

[QUOTE=Marco]

[li]Advertising in Project Entropia. The use of ads within the virtual universe will greatly enhance the experience and the flow. Anyone who wish will have the opportunity to disable the advertising feature, this action will result in the colonist receives normal loot levels as before.[/li][/QUOTE]

Oh, haha, thats hillarious =) ā€œNormal loot levelsā€ So if you choose to disable ads you’ll get 5% return in loot instead of 30% ? :laugh:

See this is why PE is better then any reality show on TV!

[QUOTE=tip]
well that means that MA can devide players into groups. nice to know.
I wonder what loot group im in. My loot sucks..
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Yeah, makes you wonder. I want to be in the ā€œATH enabled loot groupā€ too. Ah hell I want to be in the ā€œloot enabledā€ group atleast. :wink:

ROFL… Enable crap loots toggle, i’ll tell ya. For suffering a few ads posted around in various towns for some better return, I’m all for it.

[QUOTE=GHILL]
ROFL… Enable crap loots toggle, i’ll tell ya. For suffering a few ads posted around in various towns for some better return, I’m all for it.
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Yeah, me too, how bad can it be? All internet is plastered with ads, why should PE be different. Bring it on.

[QUOTE=GHILL]
ROFL… Enable crap loots toggle, i’ll tell ya. For suffering a few ads posted around in various towns for some better return, I’m all for it.
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well lets hope is not quite as intrusive advertising as it could be "IE loot window opens with hof sound, BUT splashed over it as a special Coke Santa theme with a new ā€œcoke is itā€ type hof jingle and the message "kygon has killed a creater and recieved 500peds, sponsored by Coke ā€œdrink cokeā€

Im a little synical BUT this is the kind of thing companies will pay big ā€˜loots’ for lol

I’d MUCH rather see some sensible descrete stuff IE wow ā€œI’ve looted a 12 pack of cokeā€ coooool could be traded and when ā€˜withdrawn’ your posted a gift voucher type thingy

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[QUOTE=e-lite]
Oh, haha, thats hillarious =) ā€œNormal loot levelsā€ So if you choose to disable ads you’ll get 5% return in loot instead of 30% ? :laugh:

See this is why PE is better then any reality show on TV!
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:rofl:

You think they’d actually code something to give MORE loot? .. I doubt it.

Chances are those that ā€˜disable’ the advertising, get a special automatic 10% loot tax (like an LA tax) but anywhere they hunt, and on any loot they get.

So the 30% return they get is taxed 10% :laugh:

thx marco for the news update, lookin forward to it :slight_smile:

[QUOTE=kygon]
well lets hope is not quite as intrusive advertising as it could be "IE loot window opens with hof sound, BUT splashed over it as a special Coke Santa theme with a new ā€œcoke is itā€ type hof jingle and the message "kygon has killed a creater and recieved 500peds, sponsored by Coke ā€œdrink cokeā€

Im a little synical BUT this is the kind of thing companies will pay big ā€˜loots’ for lol

I’d MUCH rather see some sensible descrete stuff IE wow ā€œI’ve looted a 12 pack of cokeā€ coooool could be traded and when ā€˜withdrawn’ your posted a gift voucher type thingy
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Hey now thats a great idea. Loot a 12 pack of coke, and receive a voucher that is worth some money off a 12 pack of coke from Coca Cola themselves.

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