This VU brought a lot of controversy to Rocktropia, and to all of the major Entropia related forums. I had been looking forward to this VU as it was announced to be the release of new characters (more mobs,) missions, and more blueprints. We got all of that and more.
The new content.
New Characters: Not only were there lots of new mobs but also the local flavor of characters who are the equivalent of mission brokers. New mobs that I have seen included different names of guys around the same areas as the vixens and seem to be the male equivalents of the vixens. The most humerus one being the "Forum Troll" which is obviously a stab at the people who have been unchecked in their attacks on Neverdie, NDS, and the choices they have made for their planet. Basing mobs on current in game (or game surrounding forums) is kind of a cool idea in my opinion. There are also sharks around the bamf land areas and possibly more, I haven't fully explored it yet. There was also a special maturity of alot of the mobs named Legends or Kings which were super high hp and low dmg versions of the normal mobs. Apparently once killed the Legends didn't re-spawn so whoever found them first got to kill them. The one dragon was reported to have had a million hp which is pretty crazy.
The Missions: Seem to have been pretty well laid out, and although I haven't had time to do all of them have really liked the story line and set up with them so far. Interesting to note is that one of the first missions rewards you with a cell phone which is required to use any of the teleports on Rocktropia. This really made City of Dreams a bottle neck of people arriving, and although I think it is a fun and good idea, it really pissed off a lot of "ubers" who came up to hunt and didn't want to mess around with "noob" missions.
New Blueprints: Really a disappointment so far for me personally. The first day of the VU no one looted any Rocktropia Records which were needed to even click the new print received in the mission. I was told that a couple of mobs were dropping them and have tried hunting them but received none in loot so far. Hopefully they will become more common and I am waiting for that before I hunt or purchase them to craft. (well ill probably still hunt :P )
The Controversy:
Old school crafted scanners, fap-90s and a LOT of low level armor including the rare pieces needed to finish a lot of the low level unfinished sets started dropping with the new VU.
As soon as the ubers from Calypso found out about it, they showed up in force. City of Dreams was crazy that day, so many people my computer was having trouble keeping up. (I really need to get a new one)
The armor and faps don't seem to have upset as many people, but the scanners have really caused a riot.
The ES500 scanners were selling for around 7kped a few weeks ago, last I checked auction they were around 1k and dropping fast. Obviously this will upset people who have invested in them before.
From what I understand though they have gotten upset at the wrong people. They blame Neverdie for putting the scanners in the loot to "screw over" the Calypso investors. It has been stated time and time again though that Neverdie Studios is only the graphics studio and that they can suggest stats for new items to Mind Ark, but that Mind Ark has the final word on everything as well as loot balancing. Obviously this was an issue with loot balancing, so I really don't understand why people are angry with ND or Rocktropia when similar things have happened on Calypso in the past.
The other item people were upset about was the JUELZ ultra gun that was looted with very high damage per second and very low skill requirements. (profession lvl 3 required to use)
Again I don't really understand why they are upset when there are similar guns on Calypso which haven't affected the economy at all. The anti-material rifles on calypso are one example of such guns already in existence. The truth of the matter is that MA wouldn't let guns like that drop frequently enough to affect anything. It turns out that the gun was looted from a special maturity of Mob that doesn't re-spawn once killed. So basically right now we have a couple of those limited(L) guns in the game, and people on the Calypso Forum are acting like they are the end of hunting as we know it. Honestly though, it appears that the guns would last less than an hour of hunting, and with the markup they will demand would be very unpractical to hunt with. They will be a novelty or PK only weapon that someone will overpay for because of its stats. Grats to the looters I say.
It will be interesting to see how many people will stick around after the rush. I know of several people I have talked to that have mentioned they might stick around a while because the planet was nicer than they expected.
When it gets quiet I will do the missions and enjoy them. Until then I am mining and crafting Dragon Plates for our visitors.
Good Luck Everyone, and Have Fun
narfi
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