Armor Deterioration Changes

[Nirfu]

Originally Posted by psychnosiz

RoFL
kudos for coming into the eye of a storm, and thanx for listening.
Didn't think there would be changes this quickly

Since MA reacted this fast they understand what a fuckup they did. So I think we have a fair chance to make them do this the right way.

I will NEVER hug Marko, even though I am secure in my sexuality

I do find the 1 pec armour similiar to the 2 pec, It's as many as stated before the idea behind it thats wrong, not the aount of money.

Regarding clothes decay, OK they can decay, but why do u need to repair above 90% to get them look good, IMO 50% should be enough. Yes you did wrong when having a status bar for the clothes for several years without using it. So maybe adopt the the feeling the community have about this, repairing cost for some persons is redicilous. A tailorer, I talk about the mid lv that doesnät earn so much as the ubers, has to lock a lot of PEDs in repaired clothes to be able to sell the stuff he makes.

A lot of people have said that you have made hunting les profutable by changing the clothe thing, this also adoptst to the paints, yes they drop more, but the price also drops in the same speed. And I have actually managed to use just ONE can of paints to color clothes with a paint I don't have enough skill to use. This kind of kills the coloring business IMO and I hope that this was not your intention. I had hoped that the changes to the colroing should hae made it easier to skill in coloring, iex, not so many clicks to color an item. As it look snow, it's harder/cost more to skill.

I hope that you did spend as much time as me when reading ALL of the posts in this thread.

And I'm still woundering about the players that not uses EF, do they know what's happening and shouldn't there be a better way for you to communicate with us than through a "fan" owned forum. Please introduce a official forum on the www.entropiauniverse.com site.

Please confirm that when you move to the CryEngine that we do NOT need to recreate our avatars again. There must have been some way for you to actually give us the OPORTUNITY to change our avatars in VU 9. Now it was forced, not an oportunity.

[GullyFoyle]

Originally Posted by Nirfu

Please confirm that when you move to the CryEngine that we do NOT need to recreate our avatars again. There must have been some way for you to actually give us the OPORTUNITY to change our avatars in VU 9. Now it was forced, not an oportunity.

Every critics is welcome but pls keep realistic...
I think it´s impossible to implement a new engine without a forced avatar recreation and at the time when that is the worsest thing in whole EU I´m a very happy man.

[Arc0]

wow marco you look like a politic with those answers...
its easy to say all that when you are on the other side, ever been on the players view? Apply for an account and start from zero and you will see why most of us players complain about.

And for the drop rate on the foot guards if for an example 1k drop whats that on a 600k player base, its pure nothing, what do the other players that don't have the foot guards do hope that the mob doesn't hit the feet :\

[Nirfu]

Originally Posted by GullyFoyle

Every critics is welcome but pls keep realistic...
I think it´s impossible to implement a new engine without a forced avatar recreation and at the time when that is the worsest thing in whole EU I´m a very happy man.

So u say that no idea to "invest" in new buty before CryEngine.....
Not the worst part, one of the parts.

[GullyFoyle]

Originally Posted by Nirfu

So u say that no idea to "invest" in new buty before CryEngine.....
Not the worst part, one of the parts.

I don´t say that but that is propably the consequence...
I´m not going to use a beauticians service anyway.

Just get me right. I think it´s impossible to implement CryEngine without a avatar recreation. It´s not that I want a recreation. I´m satisfied with my ava. On the other side I hope there will be more possibilities in the ava creation with the new engine so it ´s going to be very interesting imo.

[Kirov]

Originally Posted by GullyFoyle

I don´t say that but that is propably the consequence...
I´m not going to use a beauticians service anyway.

Just get me right. I think it´s impossible to implement CryEngine without a avatar recreation. It´s not that I want a recreation. I´m satisfied with my ava. On the other side I hope there will be more possibilities in the ava creation with the new engine so it ´s going to be very interesting imo.

Yea, it is very improbable that they can keep the same avatars with a new engine, so spend your money wisely. The graphics in CryEngine are quite a bit better, should look very cool!

[timmmers]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

On average in the MMO sphere as a whole, yes. Entropia participants actually stay longer than average, mainly because there is no subscription fee associated with keeping the account living.

No doubt the stats are about right for MMO generally, but I think that the reason we stay longer here has almost nothing to do with it being free (long term players know it isn't free for them and constantly say so after all).

Let;s find out for EF members at least
Why do you stay in EU, is it 'cos it's free ?

A "living" account that never logs on or deposits I wouldn't personally count as staying at all really anyway.

Slightly off topic while we have Marco's attention here, is running speed staying reduced, and is there a reason for that reduction coming up that we can't see ATM ?

Thanks for listening Marco and for explaining some of the reasons behind this VU changes, it's always appreciated.

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[skunkjunk]

Originally Posted by slither

Make it bad then a little better so we'll be happy - BS, get rid of the crappy decay totaly.

If you want to encourage the use of L armour then make it better. This is just like u did before, taxing auction to make shops apear better but doing nothing to make them better.

This type of taxing is the last resort of an unimaginative mind.

yup it is

[EyeContact]

Originally Posted by Marco|MindArk

Clothing removal when equipping

We are working on a confirmation message box when you wish to equip an item that will remove another item from your body, so there won’t be any surprises when items are unequipped.

A confirmation message will only make it more annoying. Not only the part is removed but you have to click away the message too. It's not like you really have a choice
So, if you make this message to make users more aware of the fact that certain clothes will be removed that's fine, but atleast give the option to "not show message again".

[skunkjunk]

QUOTE
Armor Deterioration Changes
15 Oct 2007 Following an evaluation of the changes in VU 9.0, recent armor deteriorations have been revised for VU 9.0.2 due on October 16.

The 2 PEC deterioration of 'Limited' armor parts when equipping them has been removed. This will encourage the use of this armor type even more.


Armor Deterioration Changes
The deterioration of 'Unlimited' armor parts has been reduced to 1 PEC per equip. MindArk wish to differentiate between Limited and Unlimited armor series. Hunters now have the added dimension of weighting the advantages and disadvantages of using an all-round protective armor which doesn't need to be changed as often, or using special armors that protect against specific damage types. This compliments the economic balance MindArk strive to achieve in regards to armors.

The new abilities to 'Hot Key' armor parts will result in extra lag if abused i.e. participants repeatedly changing armors in crowded areas. This potential exploit is to be curbed. As the fee has now been reduced, an increased delay of 0.5 seconds is included when equipping armors. END/quote


why should MA try to make L armor more populaire might be mistaken but issent that a market issue something the player can decide themselfs?
this is intervering with the free market eco in game and degrading (highly priced) equipment a lot of us payed good money for pasted a little part of a bertha bot post

quote
To have seven body parts was part of, and still is, the original vision of Entropia. MA does not wish to make footguards rare and the drop rate is high. Nor does we want them to be hard to find – something the “Newly discovered”-section in the Hall of Fame also shows. There will be a lot of foot guards in the market by the time VU 9.1 arrives. Of course MA cannot directly control what happens to foot guards on the ___open Entropia market__, but that is true for all items on the market. end quote

notice how they mention 'open' market
MA ya mest up fix it before everybody leaves . people in my soceity are hardly on-line and defenetly wont hunt. stop the equiping decay totally en take following tread serius it completely exsplains how most feel now Open Letter to MA following VU 9.0 +++++rep to ajack10600