15.2.1 Vu Released. Bugs and more bugs squashed.

A few days ago MindArk released another small update for the Entropia Universe to fix a couple of bugs that were plaguing the system ever since the 15.2.0. Below is a list of issues that were fixed and some known issues that are still not fixed.

Issues that were fixed:-

• Some minor graphical changes were made to the Pet status interface.
• You can now see what passive buff can be unlocked at what level in the list.
• You can also see what is required to unlock a certain passive buff for your pet.
• There was an issue where the player lost focus when hovering the mouse over the creature being tamed. This issue has been fixed now.
• The new dialog interface buttons now activate on mouse release instead of mouse press.
• There was an issue where the avatar wasn't relocated to an alternate serve during heavy server load periods. This issue has been fixed as well.
• Roctropia Panther not spawning on other planets issue has been fixed as well.
• Fixed an issue which caused incorrect data to be displayed in the Pet status interface.
• Fixed an issue where the Create Set Action did not offer a label input field.
• The checkbox label text in the Merge all stacks dialog has been fixed.
• A bug causing an issue with the Galactic Transport Auction dialog to be blank was fixed as well.
• The issue causing the "Sexy" and "Restless" emotes to be mislabeled has been corrected.

Known Issues to be fixed:-

• On random occasions your summoned pet will stay spawned inside the world when you log out. This issue causes you to see double pets when you log back into the game. In order to avoid this issue MindArk has requested players to dismiss their pets before logging out.

Well that was all for this small version update. Lots of bug fixes and hopefully we will see a better performance...in game..

Taming System Updated

On March 17th 2015, Entropia released a new Version Update for their universe...bringing with it massive changes to the taming system. There were also bug fixes and some client changes made. So let us take a look at the new changes brought to us by MindArk.

New Features:-

• The skill interface gets revamped...we can now see the total amount of Avatar skills as well as the total for each skill category.
• Improvements were made to the appearances of conversation dialogs as well as confirmation boxes.
• You can now track your pets status and progress with the newly implemented Pet Status Interface.
• Animal Essence has been added to the game. Animal Essence is a new resource that can only be obtained by compressing the life energy of a pet. This can only be obtained from tamed creatures and its main use is to unlock new taming system abilities as well as features.
• The new Pet Center management system allows Stable Owners to select from a variety of buffs to offer their customers. MindArk has stated that the current variety and cost of the buffs can be changed in the future releases for balancing requirements.
• Pets have a rarity of their own...and you can view these in the pet status window.
• The last feature for this release is PASSIVE abilities for Pets...Pets can unlock various passive abilities when certain criteria is met. On another note each tamable pet has a different set of unlockable abilities but only one ability can be active at a time.

Changes made:-

To avoid confusion with similarly-named taming system effects, two existing Mindforce effects have been renamed. ‘Metabolic Acceleration’ now refers to increased pet food consumption. The avatar run-speed buff is now known simply as ‘Acceleration’. ‘Metabolic Deceleration’ now refers to decreased pet food consumption. The avatar run-speed debuff is now known as ‘Deceleration’.

• Metabolic Acceleration Chip I has been renamed to Acceleration Chip I. Higher level mindforce chips imparting the Acceleration buff have been renamed similarly.
• Metabolic Inhibition Chip I has been renamed to Deceleration Chip I. Higher level mindforce chips imparting the Deceleration buff have been renamed similarly.
• Reimplemented several previously existing avatar emotes, including Vain, Feminine, Masculine, Sporty, Happy, Shy, and others.
• Client launch has been optimized to reduce startup time.
• Optimizations have been made to reduce load time of items placed in estates.
• Death effect now only plays once when an avatar dies.
• The Voice Chat system has been deactivated for technical reasons. A secondary effect of this change is that the maximum team size will now be 12 for all participants.
• Based on data obtained from several stress tests performed during the past weeks, optimizations to the platform infrastructure have been implemented, with additional improvements which are planned in the coming releases. Thanks to everyone who assisted in these efforts by participating in the stress test events.

Bugs fixed:-

• Fixed an issue causing distance to waypoints to flicker while in space.
• Fixed an issue preventing pets from being summoned after teleporting.
• Fixed an issue causing sticky notes to be cleared when the text length limit was exceeded.

With these new changes new business opportunities open up for the players of Entropia universe...and how this will effect the economy..we will just have to wait and see. :-)

Entropia's Mining Mania!!!

Entropia Universe presents another event for its players...a universe-wide mining event which happens to be open to all players on all planets throughout the wide Entropia universe. It starts on Friday the 13th of March at 16:00 UTC and will come to a close on March the 16th at about the same time 16:00 UTC.

The rules are simple..any participant who claims a mining loot closest to 150 peds on each of the qualifying resources listed below while the event is in effect will be awarded one of Mining Mania's eight reward packages. Let us take a look at the resources first before we go into the rewards.

Resources that qualify for the event:-

• Alicenies Liquid
• Belkar Stone
• Caldorite Stone
• Crude Oil
• Gazzurdite Stone
• Lysterium Stone
• Narcanisum Stone
• Zinc Stone.

Reward packages for the Mining Mania contains the following items:-

• Mining Skill Implant (20 Peds worth)
• Level VIII Finder Amplifier 'Athene' (L) (208 Peds)
• 1x Neurobiotic Booster M5 10mg (10 hours - 50% Increased Mining Skill gain)

That is not all as a bonus they have added an extra reward as well....the colonist according to Entropia with the highest single mining loot on any of the resources that qualify for this event during the event will qualify for a Level 7 Finder Amplifier (Repairable).

So what are you folks waiting for get out there and mine yourself to victory!!! The awesome prices await.

Arkadia Underground Deeds and Webshop

MindArk's most successful planet partner Arkadia recently announced that their Arkadia Underground Deeds will now also be available for purchase from Entropia Universe's web shop. So how does this help?

As you know Arkadia announced that they would be released a total of 200,000 Arkadia Underground Deeds to be sold to players at a price of 50 P.E.Ds per deed last year. It seems since the sales of the deeds in game weren't going as they had planned...the planet partners decided to work closely with MindArk and have the deeds also available to players through their web shop. Players buying the deeds from the web shop sadly won't be able to buy them per piece though. They will be in bundles of 5, 10, 25, and 50. Also as an added bonus the planet partners also decided to give out incentives to those players who will exclusively use the web shop to purchase their Deeds. Below is a list of incentives given according to the bundle and the bundle prices.

1. Arkadia Underground Deed, 5 Pack - 25 USD
   Materials - Treasure Map 1 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 2 (1)
   Money and Deeds - Arkadia Underground Deed (5)
2. Arkadia Underground Deed, 10 Pack - 50 USD
   Materials - Treasure Map 1 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 2 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 3 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 4 (1)
   Money and Deeds - Arkadia Underground Deed (10)
3. Arkadia Underground Deed, 20 Pack - 100 USD
   Materials - Treasure Map 1 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 2 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 3 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 4 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 5 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 6 (1)
   Money and Deeds - Arkadia Underground Deed (20)
4. Arkadia Underground Deed, 100 Pack - 500 USD
   Materials - Treasure Map 1 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 2 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 3 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 4 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 5 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 6 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 7 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 8 (1)
   Materials - Treasure Map 9 (1)
   Money and Deeds - Arkadia Underground Deed (100)

Hopefully this new move by Arkadia Planet Partners would help boost sales of the Deeds and allow for the economy on Arkadia to further stabilize. In the past the price of one Arkadia Underground Deed when bought from a player ranged somewhere from 46 to 48 P.E.Ds but the current change has allowed the price to go up to at least 51 P.E.Ds. We will just have to wait and see what new changes this might bring to the game.