News: Arkadia CEO Interview -PART 1

[GillianDoveWillims]

Atlas Haven Radio live interview with Arckaia CEO about coming updates

Arkadia Interview 25 Nov 2011 CEO (13.00-15.00MA)

"Aim to be the premier planet to creating a world class environment"

Next weeks VU
New IFN missions
Big Skill reward for completing top lvl 10,000 kills
13 creatures with full missions

One New Mob

New large structure at Quarry, land changed old building removed.
New outside terminals at the Quarry

Muscle oil will now be dropped and other generics


In January VU
new manufactured clothes unlimited
boots
sunglasses
top shirt
etc

Loads of Noob missions

Oritan to be a later story driven missions level quests

June VU
player assisted story missions, with sights and sounds as possible clues.

Treasure Hunting
No set date yet, but maybe June but hopefully sooner
Going to be main thrust of Arkadia, with RL rewards,
Going to be premium cost, items like stackable ores but also items like swords and Armor.
Miners will be able to get big Mark up items.
will be able to use a standard finder
Lots of new crafting Blue Prints 200-400 new BPs that use treasure.

Hardware rewards
Mice still to drop, if you mine may drop before Christmas
TT value 1pec as a true Extra Bonus.
Equal chance for miners or hunters

Arkadia Underground
Will come after Treasure hunting at end of 2012.
under 8 Coins,
will be able to drive and fly in Underworld

Caves
8 coins to have more Caves and missions

Blue Prints
Local Blue Prints hope to be more likely to drop in the future MA hoping to resolve "sooner rather than later"
over 800 Blue prints so far

[Xander Zan Catman]

Impressive... I wish all the planets could have information flowing like this... if they do, I havn't found it yet...

Gratz to the interviewer & Ark CEO

XZC

[GillianDoveWillims]

40 new swords on Tuesdays VU able to be looted

New BLP long range weapons in January

new weapons to come when treasure hunting starts

Smuggler Unlimited versions looted only items March VU

New FAPs soon maybe Tuesday (dependent on MA approval)

Single seater hoverpod Vehicles with a reasonable TT possible release in January, texture and colouring also customisation bumpers etc
hope to have a noob version of the Pod, picture to be in newsletter tomorrow.

4 wheel drive vehicle, maybe!

LONG TERM Idears
Tax paying on entry small areas to be owned by players!
New ways of owning small areas
USA $1,000-$5,000 range

Event System

No new PvP for a while

JANUARY
rookie mining gear to come in January like the Calypso Rookie equipment
Rookie First Aid, finder, Vehicle and Gun.

[GillianDoveWillims]

No Alternative use for sweat
maybe other use for paint

Ancient ruins story line to be extended middle of 2012
3 main ruin sites to become fully functional city's
Dig sites to be transformed next year
new forts

New RL items will come
Arkadia Caps and T-shirt hope to be massed made.


LOT of marketing to follow the January VU especially for new players and the newbie system update.

New mob on Tuesday VU will be North of 8 coins, Medium level Mob Scarrya (not sure of spelling)


Forum Questions

DNA use maybe later next year but need to have private areas of land
will see new mobs available in new land areas.

More planets next year will give the players the best

Most current new development is on new player missions

Robots will come

Economy struggling but in time it will grow especially with each new VU

Expect as new planets come online for there to be players that move from planet to planet for events.

player numbers are key and we need more marketing

"Next year will be a land mark year for Entropia" "Bright future"

David's comments
Address new player issues
Q1-Q2 treasure hunting
Updates to townships

new weapon coming
combat FAPs
mixed spawns will come
No plans to make space vehicles MA own space

No new plans for Mind Force, but some more MF chips will drop in loot
Team MF Chips would be nice.

Chinese New year Gifts possible

[GillianDoveWillims]

Sea Port would be a good idea, Q3-Q4 2012
and water based areas

Motor bikes, hover boards would be cool
Hover Pods will be fun and low cost great for racing

Loot is more spread out than on Calypso.
The RL loots like laptops are big loots but not shown in the HoF

Separate Auction history for each planet to see the local Mark Up, would be good.

Go Read the Background story

Looking forward to the VU


GREAT INTERVIEW

THANK YOU
DAVID
and Atlas Haven Radio

[Norbert]

Really good interview, and very candid and open responses to the questions asked. Very informative and i was greatly impressed by the "straight up" nature of answers - it was a breath of fresh air .


Just a big thankyou to Ark Team, Dave Dobson and ofc Zume for this meeting at the quarry.

Very impressed

[cute781217]

thanks you so much for the detail of interview

[Lee]

Thanks for this, no one has yet had the time or patience to post a similiar highlights thread on the Ark forum. Zume, who did the interview, has put up an edited version (with the music etc cut out leaving just the interview) to be downloaded HERE if anyone is interested in hearing it. The full show (a long one as David is a big talker ) is also online to just listen HERE.

Exciting times ahead on Arkadia

[Cuilwenevey]

yea Zume did a great job in the interview.. and i believe she has a link to the recording of it .. for those that want to listen to it on the Arkadia Forums.

http://arkadiaforum.com/showthread.p...Interview-here