Q&A Answers (Aug-Sep 06)

[Solaris]

ok FaQ

nice to know a little about thoughts and plannings in the Goteborg headquaters

[rupie]

* What is the average cost to play EU for an hour? average cost per month?

MindArk's business plan states that we aim for a cost of 1 USD per hour.



I missed 1 question; Will MA hire more people to faster implement all these ideas that you want to add.

[psychnosiz]

Originally Posted by Amnesia

Nobody would play blackjack in a casino if the dealer was allowed to shuffle the cards behind a curtain.

maybe he doesn't know how it works, it's prolly nothing more then a string of code containing a dumb formula. if it would get out, it would mean a lot of players with more time then me could skill up the appropriate skills in a matter of days and completely drain the lootpool. i don't think it s very controlabe either, it's just something you "trigger" ...

Originally Posted by Marco

With a system as open as the Entropia Universe you are going to experience the full range of human behaviour. Resellers and the like are able to exist because people allow them to exist and provide them with the means to exist.

wicked quote

good evasive answers which come down to: stick around to know the amount of time he's talking about. the longer you stick around the more valuable skills you get and the more probability you may have taking part in the events that lead up to there. with a grasp of the total vision, One may lose interest too much and decide to switch game as it would be reduced to straight-to-goal instead of exploring. And if the ultimate HoF would be mobloot, who would mine ? craft ? chat ?

Thanks alot for the interview and Marco for spending time on them. Now I again have some goals in mind for my future ingame life...
- See a new planet (hopefully UNtaxed as it s ... UNdiscovered)
- See those Megacorps and getting a bigger job in them as I do in RL
- Get a whip. And skill up some Ferocious Chirpy Old Alpha as backup

[Kaiser]

Originally Posted by ViagraFalls

No worries. As soon as my last items and skills are gone, so am I. Though that reply about politicians will most likely have me not delete my avatar completely



Oh, and as your (for today) personally appointed secretary, I have for you one comfy chair, one footrest, one cigar, a glass of 'ngac, and one important meeting.

And no, I refuse to dive under your desk to check for anything major

lol VF ill miss ya man

[thoreau]

* Can the community have a definitive answer about trapping creatures (such as araneatrox) and what will MA do to stop this as clearly they allow it to happen and ATH HOFs to result.

MindArk are always working to curb abuse inside the Entropia Universe. Obviously abuse is not a desirable situation for MindArk or the community and in the interest of correctness and fairness we can only move forward with an increased commitment to detecting and dealing with abuse.
We’ll never be able to predict every exploit that people will come up with, but we can move swiftly to stop the situation when it arises.

I laughed so hard when I read this answer. I mean fell out of my chair laughing.

Perhaps someone should clue Marco in to the fact that he didn't answer the question.

[Euhura]

One question that I would like answered is "Are we going to see kilts in the future??" Kilts?

[Joat]

A lot of interesting info there. I want areas with disable radar, and it seems
some sort of system for it is planned. *Hopefully* the system will not be
messed up so only those with money can buy and operate parts used
in that system, and those without money gettin sittin ducks. That would
be a failure to a interesting gameplay...
EDIT: Forgot to say before: Very nice idea this with the Q&A.

[Jim Monkay Boy]

my eyes hert.. well thanks for micro for answering some of the question.. cant wait till i can have a little Danki at my side helping me in battle.. lol

[gekkegerrit]

lol, are you growing a beard marco

[TommyDaGreat]

Originally Posted by McCormick

What I dont get is... we already doing space travel and have never ever seen Amethera before from the shuttles window !? :P

There are three possible reasons for this. First of all, everyone is sitting in a chair while the autopilot takes them up there. That way noone can look out. (The only window I know if that you can see through is the cockpit one, which is always pointing towards the planet anyway. On the way down everyone must be sleeping or something.)

The second reason could be as simple as the reason why the doctor in Simpsons never discovered the pen in Homer's brain before... Maybe everyone always had the hands on the wrong position of the windows to actually see anything else?

The third reason could be massive fog forcing you to swim all the way. This would make sense since it's pretty hard to swim past Eudoria since the end of the world says that there is no server there :P
Must have been a noob too dumb to see the server edge that discovered amethera :P