Entropia Universe Dev Tracker

Discussion with MindArk about the current direction of Entropia Universe

Community relations manager My Antonsson sits with Mindark's CEO and COO, discussing the current direction of Entropia Universe.

Watch the interview on the Entropia Universe official Youtube Channel.

Changes

• The engine sounds for Motherships have been updated.
• The turret sounds for Motherships and tanks have been updated.
• The minimum zoom for Mothership turrets has been reduced.
• The damage type for Quad Wing weapons has been changed from Burn to Electric, in preparation for more general upcoming changes to space combat.

Known Issues

• The "Zorn Compound A Blueprint" is preventing players from being able to use the crafting machine.
• Buffs on attachments are not working properly.
• Not possible to enter Crystal Palace "Aurli Cave" due to iron mission prerequisite missing.
• Scanners not displaying attributes for players or info for creatures.

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues...

University of California Riverside & Next Island Partnership

Greetings Entropians!

As originally mentioned in the preliminary announcement in June 2020, Next Island has partnered with the Social & Spatial Cognition Lab at the University of California Riverside to recruit Entropians for a paid research opportunity. 

In the finalized rendition of this experiment, all parti...

Toulan and Monria | A New Beginning

It is with great pleasure that we can announce a new and exciting partnership between Monria and Planet Toulan. We are delighted with our new beginning, and henceforth Virtualsense will be responsible for all Development Operations, Marketing and Community Management of both Planet To...

Fixes

• Fixed an issue where the CPU usage would dramatically increase in some scenarios

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved.

Yog Pet Buff Issue

In this announcement we’d like to provide a further update on the pet buff issue that was addressed last week.

Understandably, there has been intense community interest in this issue since the bug was corrected last week, in the form of forum discussions and support cases. We have had time to dig deeper into how the buff issue happened, why it was not caught by our normal testing procedures, and how it was able to persist for so long without being corrected.

The initial bug that allowed all tools and weapons to benefit from the reduced delay buff (rather than just excavators, as intended) arose in September 2018, approximately 6 months after the Yog pet was introduced. Subsequently over the next few months, several support cases were submitted describing the issue with varying degrees of detail.

Unfortunately, these support cases were not escalated to the testing and development teams and/or flagged with a sufficient leve...

Summer Mayhem Update

A pet buff issue was identified earlier today, which allowed an avatar to receive an unintended attack speed buff beyond the normal buff limits.

This issue has been corrected in a server hotfix that was implemented during the past two hours.

Our team was able to identify a small number of Summer Mayhem participants who had this unintended buff active, and their Summer Mayhem scores have been reset. This affected only a small number of avatars: 5 participants in Summer Mayhem Annihilation, and 7 participants in Summer Mayhem Assault.

We appreciate your patience during the unexpected downtime caused by this issue.

University of California Riverside & Next Island Partnership

Pre-Survey Announcement for all Entropians

Greetings Entropians!

Next Island has partnered with the Social & Spatial Cognition lab at the University of California Riverside and we will be sharing paid opportunities to be involved in scientific research with the Entropia community soon. But first, we want to find out what other online games Entropians regularly play. As a reward, Next Island will issue a uniq...

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing global event missions not to trigger correctly. Summer Mayhem Annihilation timers and point accumulation should now be working correctly.
• Various server improvements.

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved.

Summer Mayhem Annihilation Issues

There is currently an issue with the Summer Mayhem Annihilation instance timers and point accumulation.

These issues will be corrected in a hotfix scheduled for tomorrow, Thursday, June 11. Until then, the Annihilation instances have been disabled.

Apologies for any inconvenience these issues have caused.

Changes

• Adjusted drop rates for Garnet, Opal, Emerald, Ruby and Diamond.
• Memory usage is now capped at 4 GB for textures, models, animations, particle effects etc. Entropia.exe could still use more than 4 GB total
• Mankini is now only usable on Next Island and Ancient Greece

Fixes

• Corrected an issue where 1 Stamina was given instead of 1 Intelligence at Attribute Token Traders
• Use speed of healing tools with SIB bonus have been corrected. 
• Corrected an issue causing some items to have an incorrect Max TT
• Several Server optimizations

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If...

Changes to item Tier Increase Rate (TIR)

• All items now have a single TIR value, instead of one for each tier level.
• For non-(L)imited items, the TIR value is always in the range of 1-200.
• For (L)imited items, the TIR value is usually in the range of 1-200 but can reach as high as 4000.
• Each point of TIR increases the base chance for an item to gain a minor tier increase by 0.5%. This means that an item with a TIR of 0 will gain tier increases at normal base speed, an item with a TIR of 100 gains tier increases 50% faster, and an item with a TIR of 200 gains tier increases 100% faster.
• All existing items have had their new single TIR value set to the item’s highest remaining (unreached) TIR value. The result of this change is that all existing items have had their TIR value increased overall.

For example, a Tier 5 item with the following remaining TIR values:

Tier 6: 45...

Mindark's First Ever Video Interview About a New Version Update!

Community relations manager My Antonsson meets two of the product owners of Entropia Universe in an informative interview to talk about the upcoming version update release 17.2.

Watch the interview on the ...

Arkadia Moon Deeds - Limited Edition Cyborg Suit

A new series of Arkadia Moon Deed packs are now available. The brand new 50-pack features a Limited Edition Cyborg Suit of unprecedented style that will make any avatar stand out in the crowd. 

The new Moon Deed packs also feature Hacking Devices that can b...

Fixes

• Fixed an issue causing incorrect market history for unlimited blueprints.
• Fixed an issue causing incorrect quantities to be displayed in the auction for unlimited blueprints.
• Fixed an issue causing Quality Rating to interfere with auction orders for unlimited blueprints.

Improvements

• Server optimization for mission handling
• Server optimization for item weight calculation

Known Issues

• Auction offers for unlimited blueprints created before Release 17.1.2 will still display quality rating as quantity.

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If ...

Official Policy Regarding Participant-Organized Events

Recently, certain types of participant-organized events in Entropia Universe have become increasingly popular that include a raffle, sweepstakes or other randomized or chance-based component.

Because the marketing of such “raffle” and “sweepstakes” events has become more aggressive over time, and the events have an increasing emphasis on random selection of prize winners, it has become necessary for MindArk to announce and enforce a detailed policy for such events and activities.

Section 8.14 of the ...

Introducing Skrill

MindArk is pleased to introduce Skrill Wallet as a new deposit method for Entropia Universe. Skrill Wallet is now available both as a regular deposit method and in the Entropia Universe Webshop at https://account.entropiauniverse.com.

By u...

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue that caused tool enhancers to affect amplifiers attached to the same tool.

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved.

Fixed Issues

• Fixed an issue that caused Blueprints to display markup as a percentage instead of Trade Terminal(TT+) value
• Fixed an issue that made it possible to buy Unlimited Blueprints with QR 100 from Technicians
• Fixed an issue where “Could not execute” text would appear when crafting

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Entropia Universe is not enjoyable, please wait until the mini-patches have been released and any last minute issues have been resolved.

Fixes

• Fixed an issue allowing blueprints to be looted in PVP areas. Any blueprints looted in PVP after the VU 17.1 release earlier today have been transferred back to the original avatars. The looting avatars have also received compensation.
• Fixed an issue causing instance gates not to work as expected, resulting in avatars becoming stuck in the instance.

Known Issues

• Market history for UL blueprints displays in percentages instead of PED values.

MindArk and the Planet Partners strive to ensure a smooth and problem-free Version Update. Nevertheless, even after extensive testing some issues may arise after release. Such issues are often addressed via mini-patches directly after a release and in subsequent patches. If you feel that the possibility of encountering minor issues or bugs directly after a Version Update affects your gameplay to an extent that Ent...