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[mrproper]

Originally Posted by Deathifier

Mondi Virtuali - A book on MMOG Communities

"Project Entropia / Entropia Universe has found its way into a recently published book called Mondi Virtuali, authored by Mario Gerosa and Aurélien Pfeffer.

This will be of most interest to the Italian section of the Entropian community as the book is written in Italian only."

Visit the link for a description of the book, it's quite nice

- Deathifier

I was puzzled about the post until I red this

In sintesi
Nel dicembre 2004 David Storey, un australiano di 22 anni ha comprato per 26,500 dollari veri un'isola che non c'è, che esiste soltanto in Project Entropia, in un mondo virtuale. Ogni sera migliaia di persone si danno appuntamento in locali fantasma, per ballare e cantare sul monitor, abbracciandosi stando a migliaia di chilometri di distanza. Un cinese è arrivato a uccidere nella realtà per uno sgarro commesso in un mondo inesistente. Qualcuno ha deciso di unirsi in matrimonio per interposta persona, tramite il proprio avatar, l'alter ego virtuale, che drammaticamente può anche invecchiare. Il libro raccoglie esempi di realtà virtuale che sembra essere diventato un mercato molto reale.

I feel sorry for the non-Italian readers

Originally Posted by BabelFish

In synthesis In the December 2004 David Storey, an Australian of 22 years has bought for 26,500 true dollars a island that not is, that Entropy only exists in Project, in a virtual world. Every evening migliaia of persons gives ghost appointment in premises, in order to dance and to sing on the monitor, embracing itself being to migliaia of distance kilometers. A Chinese has succeeded in to kill in the truth for one sgarro store clerk in a nonexistent world. Someone has decided to join in wedding for interposed person, through just avatar, alter the virtual ego, than dramatically it can also age. The book collects examples of virtual truth that seems to have become a market much real one.

[Paolo]

Thanks mrproper and its Babelfish, but I hope you don't mind if I wasted some spare time to make a manual one

Originally Posted by Mondi Virtuali's book description

In sintesi
Nel dicembre 2004 David Storey, un australiano di 22 anni ha comprato per 26,500 dollari veri un'isola che non c'è, che esiste soltanto in Project Entropia, in un mondo virtuale. Ogni sera migliaia di persone si danno appuntamento in locali fantasma, per ballare e cantare sul monitor, abbracciandosi stando a migliaia di chilometri di distanza. Un cinese è arrivato a uccidere nella realtà per uno sgarro commesso in un mondo inesistente. Qualcuno ha deciso di unirsi in matrimonio per interposta persona, tramite il proprio avatar, l'alter ego virtuale, che drammaticamente può anche invecchiare. Il libro raccoglie esempi di realtà virtuale che sembra essere diventato un mercato molto reale.

Originally Posted by Translation by Paolo

In syntesis
In December 2004 David Storey, a 22 years old australian, bought for 26,500 real dollars an island that doesn't exists, that exists only in Project Entropia, in a virtual world. Every evening thousands of people meet up in ghost places, to dance and sing on the monitor, hugging while being thousand kilometers away. A chinese got to kill in the real world for a problem in an inexistant world. Somebody decided to wed through their avatar, the virtual alter ego, that drammatically can also get old. The book gathers examples of virtual life that seems to have developed in a very real market.

Not much indeed from a first glance, but if Deathifier wants to order me a copy of it, I'll make a nice review in my baaaaad ingrish :P

Jokes apart, I'm going to have a look at the nearest bookshop and see if its worth buying :P
Will keep you informed (not too soon, tho, it's 3xx pages :P)

Paolo

[Deathifier]

On the TI website (linked at the top of the post) is a description by the author, in English.

Guess I didn't make it clear :/

The book itself looks good - it covers several MMOG's and even though I can't read italian it comes across as a good read for someone interested in MMOG communities

- Deathifier

[Deathifier]

Full Moon 2 - Beach Party!

Join us this Staturday, May 13th, at the One Eyed Billy Bar on Treasure Island for Full Moon 2 - a Beach Party!
It starts at 2100 MA time (UTC) and goes till late - so if you can't make the start, drop in later!

The party is free and there are various prizes for the best (and craziest) dancers.
For full details on what you can win, along with how to tune in to the music, check out the event page on Entropia Directory.

To get to the bar head northeast from the central teleporter - it's just to the east of my mansion and sits right on the edge of the lake.

Hope to see you there!
- Deathifier

[Deathifier]

Foul rampaging around TI North

"For the past 12 hours a number of very large Foul have been rampaging around the northern section of Treasure Island and, with little to stop them, have settled in an area covering approximately 1.5 square kilometres.

It seems the Foul are content to remain in this area for the time being and no other creatures have been spotted with them. The islands fertilizer system has already adapted to the Fouls presence and taxation remains at 4%.

I'd also like to thank the many people that have supported bringing Foul to Treasure Island - it took more than three months of waiting for MindArk to release the parts and I know a large number of you were hunting them heavily in that period of time. I'd like to congratulate everyone who actually found some DNA material and in particular Cobra, from Groene Draeck, who delivered the final parts and was there to watch them be introduced "

Enjoy!
- Deathifier

[bigkahuna]

i had good luck on foul today so i think ill be making a trip to TI soon to try to get some good loot over there.... btw death, the castle is very nice

[Lykke]

Originally Posted by Deathifier

Foul rampaging around TI North

I'd like to congratulate everyone who actually found some DNA material and in particular Cobra, from Groene Draeck, who delivered the final parts and was there to watch them be introduced "

awww He saw the small baby-fouls?

Big gratz on the new "pets" - am gonna try and hunt some down, if I'm able to. Since you say they are "very large", can you give us more information (are they like the once just spawned on cND?) ? Or is that only to be experienced by oneself?

/Lykke

[Deathifier]

Originally Posted by Lykke

Big gratz on the new "pets" - am gonna try and hunt some down, if I'm able to. Since you say they are "very large", can you give us more information (are they like the once just spawned on cND?) ? Or is that only to be experienced by oneself?

They're mostly warriors, hunters and leaders, so similar to what ND added it seems.

Plan is to start them out big and beefy and then shrink them in line with what the hunters prefer, but they won't shrink until next week at the earliest

Bye,
Deathifier

[Nea]

thanks Deathifier, i'm definately gonna check those suckers out

[Muskito]

Here are some stats of those huge fouls:


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