Entropia Universe Version Updates

New Features

Client Loader

• You can now prioritize planet download order in the Client Loader:
• Click the Tools button to open the Tools window.
• Select the Dynamic Content tab. Follow the instructions there to set desired settings.
• The web page displayed in the Client Loader will reflect the planetary system you are located on when you log out.

Dynamic Content Download

• Included download on demand for terrain textures. This feature will be used the next time you download new terrain objects.
• We have decreased the amount of data needed to be downloaded before you can enter a planet. This will have a larger effect for new participants, but will also affect current participants.

Grace Period

We have implemented a grace period after logging in or teleporting. During this time you do not attract mobs and cannot be damaged by them or other participants. The grace period is stopped after 45 seconds or if you move, use a tool, equip a garment or a tool.

This period is visualized with an effect.

If you are trying to damage a participant who is in this grace period you will trigger the damage text Unreachable and a chat message that this participant cannot be damaged right now.

Mining

• Mining claims are displayed on the radar. This icon also indicates if the claim is at your level, above you or below you.
• Added Reach All Mining Claims action. With this you can reach claims that are located at inaccessible locations:
• You can only summon claims if you are located where mining is allowed.?
• Summoning a claim takes 30 seconds and during this your movement is locked.?
• The mining deed displays the claim's vertical placement.
• To avoid unreachable claims, mining is disabled when your attempted survey placing differs too much from your placement.

Miscellaneous

• Vehicles can now be added to the keymap or the desktop. When used, they trigger the spawn vehicle action. These icon shortcuts will be disabled when the vehicle is spawned.
• Added loot sprinkle effect on corpses lootable by you.
• Improved creatures AI in general. Also activated special AI behavior on the Feffoids.

Future Features - Implemented but not Activated

This category includes information on new features and systems that MindArk has included in the platform with this release. This means that our Planet Partners now can choose to include the following features on their planets:

• Added functions for caves; possible to enable spawning of creatures and mining claims in caves.
• Special AI behavior on creatures can be set.

Improvements and Fixed Issues

Client Loader

• During planet content download, the information will now state which planet you are downloading, not just "planet content", as before.

MindForce

• Improved accuracy when MindForce teleporting.
• In Item Info for teleport chips, instead of displaying the efficiency, the accuracy is displayed in percentage. For example: Accuracy: 65%/234m.

Mining

• Added chat message for when you are within an area that does not permit mining.
• If the mining size and type is unknown the deed now also displays unknown for size and type. Once the excavation is started and the deed's Item Info reopened, the Item Info is updated with values for size and type.

Miscellaneous

• Improved client stability.
• Improved how objects fade in and out.
• Fixed client crashes caused by some items.
• Added a one-minute cool-down period after spawning vehicles.
• Fixed autostacking when at least one full stack exists in Inventory.
• Changed behaviour: When steering a vehicles while holding down both left and right mouse button the vehicle will move towards look target. In addition, this feature no longer cancels auto move when released.
• Tool tips have a nicer look.
• Tool tips are now visible in the Login UI.
• Improved error information when failing to connect to the Internet or the download servers are offline.
• Latitude and longitude on radar now corresponds to those Map values.
• You can now target any object even if it is behind the notification UI.
• You now have to confirm ignoring another participant's request.
• Fixed issue where changed resolution could result in faulty placed log in screen.
• Fixed issue with being thrown out of vehicle when entering a zone that does not allow vehicles.
• After teleporting to another planet, the radar now shows the correct planet.

Land Grab and Events

• Main fort gate no longer blocks targeting when destroyed.
• Now, the Main Chat only displays the points that you got, not all other teams' and avatars' points.
• Lowered force points received when destroying fort turrets from three to one.
• Increase force field shields from 500 to 750.
• Land Grab: Changing density and maturity settings in the fertilizer terminal of Land Grab areas now works correctly.
• Added Autobalance Forces option when creating a Fort Event. By default, the option is enabled. It balances on maximum health and number of participants.
• Land Grab: Teleporting rules within Land Grab Area during battle:
• Landgrab fort battle: Only defenders can teleport into and spawn vehicles in fort area.?
• Landgrab marker battle: No one can teleport into or spawn vehicles in fort area.?
• Land Grab: Vehicle spawning rules during Land Grab:
• During the fort battle, only the defenders can spawn vehicles within the land are fort zone.?
• During the battle of the Claim Marker, vehicles can no longer be spawned within the land area fort zone.?

Known Issues

• Since the system is unstable, particiapants may encounter disruptions in their Entropia Universe experience. We are currently working on a solution to make the system stable again.
• Not all land areas are visible in the Map UI.

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Improvements and Fixed Issues

Event

• Enhancers now decay less frequently while participating in a Fort Event.
• Limited items now tier correctly while in Fort Event.
• Abort Event button is now only enabled for promoter.
• Promoter can now see which force a participant wants to switch to when requested.

Miscellaneous

• Improved client stability.
• Reduced weight on ammunition as well as mining probes and bombs.
• Fixed an issue with certain ambient sounds not being played correctly.
• Fixed an issue with 'Sit down on' action not working from keyboard shortcut.

Known Issues

• Amethera is yet again currently a PvP zone. We are working on solving this issue. Note that if you manage a Land Area there and do not want PvP on it, you have to perform the workaround once again:

1. In your Land Area Marker Settings, activate PvP and click Accept.
2. In your Land Area Marker Settings, disable PvP and click Accept.
3. Managed Land Area is not a PvP zone now. However, you will have a yellow PvP symbol on the Radar since the surrounding area is still PvP.

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Improvements and Fixed Issues

• Improved client stability.
• Attached vehicle weapons now have correct deterioration in Fort Events.
• Added notification when Fort Event ends.
• Vehicles now stop on the border to areas where they are not allowed.
• Fixed an issue with the radar not always being visible.
• Fixed an issue with getting wrong start position when a new Fort Event round starts.
• Fixed an issue with incorrect sort order in Global Event List when switching between tabs.

Known Issues

• Workaround for disabling PvP on a Land Area you manage on Amethera:
  1. In your Land Area Marker Settings, activate PvP and click Accept.
  2. In your Land Area Marker Settings, disable PvP and click Accept.
  3. Managed Land Area is not a PvP zone now. However, you will have a yellow PvP symbol on the Radar since the surrounding area is still PvP.

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New Features

Landgrab Battles are Back!

Once again it is possible to gather your society and fight for the control of a land area. These battles will be more frequent than before, and also have a new twist.

Each land area that can be taken over by a society has a fort on it. If the area is managed by a society when a battle is started, they can try to defend the fort for a given time period. If successful, they will keep the land area for another management period (around a week).

However, if the attackers manage to destroy the fort's main control room, the Land Area Marker is unlocked. Any society can then claim (Operate) this marker and try to defend it with their lives. They need to keep at least one society member alive within a 30-meterrange of the marker until the given time period expires. The society that achieves this wins the battle and can manage the land area until the next Landgrab battle.

For info about upcoming Landgrab battles check the Landgrab tab in the Event List (under System in the action menu).

Fort Event Battles

Now it is possible to fight between Forts in the Ticket Event system with the new Most Fort Points Win rule.

If two forts are located within an event area it is possible to start Fort Events. Join one of the forces and wait for the event to start.

May the best force win!

Basic Battle Rules

When the event starts you will automatically be placed in the fort that your force needs to defend. Take part in the offensive actions and attack the other fort or stay and defend your home fort. You can spawn vehicles, mount the Fort Defense Turrets or be part of the infantry - all in the interest of winning this battle.

Use the Force chat channel to communicate strategies and tactics within your force.

Follow the objectives and try to get deep inside the enemy fort. There you will find important objectives to destroy. If you destroy the Main Control Room of the enemy fort, the current battle round is won and a new round of fort battle will begin.

During Fort Events, ammo burn is 10% of the ammo burn at regular usage and deterioration is also 10% of its normal value. Such low deterioration value is valid for weapons (including attack/strike MindForce chips), FAPs (including healing MindForce), armor, vehicles, repair kits, MindForce speed/slow and focus chips.

Friend or Foe

Units are color-marked to easily see who is in your force and who is in the enemy force. Red units are enemies and should be attacked, while green or yellow units are friendly and should be defended, healed or repaired. These colors are used on objectives, your targets, status bars and on the radar.

Force Points

Your force gathers Force Points by destroying parts of the enemy fort, taking out enemy vehicles and killing enemy avatars. Depending on the importance of the destroyed objects or the SI of the destroyed vehicles, your force will receive different amounts of Force Points.

You can also gain Force Points by repairing destroyed fort parts (those that can be repaired), such as destroyed Defense Turrets.

Participant Points

You receive Participant Points by damaging enemy structures, vehicles and avatars, healing friendly avatars and repairing friendly vehicles and structures.

Winning

The fort battle is won by the force that has received the most Force Points when the defined event time expires.

Reward

1. Force reward: If your force wins, all members of your force will share the PED value of the accumulated ammo and deterioration used by BOTH forces during the battle. The winnings will be divided among the force members depending on how much Participant Points each participant have gathered.
2. Individual reward: The event rules can be set to award the top three participants in the winning force.

Radar and Dashboard

• Radar UI and Dashboard!UI are decoupled now and can be placed anywhere on the screen.
• Radar UI can be resized.
• Added icons to the Radar UI. The icons present details of the area you are currently at. Area properties you can view are if the area is a PVP zone, is toxic, and allows vehicles or you to enter. These icons can be viewed in three levels (colors): green, yellow or red.
  • For pvp/toxic: green means the current area is pvp/toxic free, yellow means you are close to a pvp/toxic area and red means you are currently in a pvp/toxic area.
  • For you/vehicles: green means that you/vehicles are allowed in current area, yellow means you are close to area that does not allow you/vehicles, red means that you/vehicles are not allowed in current area.

Creatures

• Terrain alignment for dead characters.

Improvements and Fixed Issues

Vehicles

• Reduced texture memory consumption.
• Smoother loading of multiple vehicles.
• Increased degree of freedom to the VTOL pilot weapon.
• Tank treads now correspond better to the wheels.
• The tank (Megingjord), the helicopter (Gungnir) and the combat boat (Naglfar) is now customizable.

Sounds

• Sound improved for all vehicles.
• Alert PVP sound changed.
• More sounds included for different terrains when walking and jumping.

Ticket Events

• Participating avatars will revive inside the event area when the event is active, if it contains a valid revival point.
• Non-participating avatars cannot enter active event areas (not by foot, driving, teleporting, mindforce teleporting or through revive).!!
• Non-participating avatars will get a warning on the radar when close to an active event.
• Non-participating avatars will be moved to closest revival point outside the area if logging in inside an active event.
• Fixed issue where Max vehicle SI!was set to 100 instead of 1000 if no alterations was made in the Create UI.

Miscellaneous

• In the Inve ntory, when dropping items at the bottom of the grid, the grid is automatically expanded again.
• Avatars will revive within the current land area (green in map) or ticket area (white in map). If the area do not have a valid revive point the closest one will be selected, as before.
• Fixed issue since 11.6 where desktop icons and chat was incorrectly repositioned if you logged in with a different resolution than you logged out with.
• Tools and weapons placed in the world now show their attachments.
• The top section on the Tron Column Display can be used again.
• It is no longer possible to walk right through kitchen furniture.
• Issue with not being able to place items on pedestals has been fixed.
• The white "screen door" graphics glitch in Service Centers has been fixed.
• The HD resolution, 720p, or 1280x720 is now selectable in Options. Only applicable if Windows reports it as a screen resolution.

Planet-Specific Releases

Integrated Planet Calypso content into Entropia Universe.! See!http://www.planetcalypso.com/home/ or more information.

Known Issues

• All Amethera is currently a PvP zone. We are working on solving this issue.
• Radar disappears. You can fix this by resetting your settings: click L (default button) and then click the Reset Default Action Settings button.

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The content of this release is covered in the Entropia Universe 11.8.0 Release Notes.



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Improvements

Improved client stability.



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Improvements and Fixed Issues

Miscellaneous

• When unlocking achievements while the Achievements UI is open, the UI is now automatically updated, without the need to close and reopen it.
• Fixed issue where you could not teleport to a planet when the download was set to pause, even though all content was downloaded.
• Fixed issue with incorrect limitations in the Beauty System.

Payment Providers

• Changed the in-game minimum withdrawal amount for NETELLER accounts to 500 PED.
• Added Ukash for Estonia.

Planet-Specific Releases

Integrated Next Island and Rocktropia content into Entropia Universe. SeeÂ!http://www.nextisland.com/ andÂ!http://www.neverdie.com/content/ respectively for more information.



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PLANET CALYPSO CONTENT RELEASE 2011.1.1
2011-02-22

***PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT IF YOU FIND SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY IN PLANET CALYPSO! IT MIGHT PROVIDE THE INFO YOU NEED BEFORE CONTACTING THE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT!***

FIXED ISSUES

• Added outpost close to the dried lake north of Port Atlantis
• Fixed a few terrain issues
• Warlocks have been sighted in Hadesheim
• If you can’t unlock the achievement “’Porter” because you have completed the mission Understanding the teleporter, talk to the Immigration Officer in Port Atlantis to unlock the achievement
• Auctioneer added to Athena Spaceport

KNOWN ISSUES

• The annual FOMA Furniture Fair ended in a bit of a chaos, and Genesis Star Home Design forgot some of their new furniture at the FOMA stand. Unfortunately, they are bolted to the floor at their current position to prevent theft.
• The janitors also forgot a few inertia-locked anti-grav floating signs at FOMA and also forgot the code to unlock them.
• There is a teleporter malfunction in the FOMA VIP stand, making it one way only. Luckily, it’s “out”.

SEE ALSO

• Platform release notes

PLANET CALYPSO CONTENT RELEASE 2011.1
2011-02-16

***PLEASE READ THIS DOCUMENT IF YOU FIND SOMETHING OUT OF THE ORDINARY IN PLANET CALYPSO! IT MIGHT PROVIDE THE INFO YOU NEED BEFORE CONTACTING THE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT!***

NEW FEATURES

Achievements

Have you done something incredibly cool and want to brag about it? The Achievement System allows you to: each time you achieve something, you get an achievement. If people are nearby when it happens, they can see the icon and title when it happens.

In this release, over a hundred achievements have been introduced. You can look at your achievements through the action library and through the context menu under My Avatars-Achievements, and you can also look at other avatar’s collection of achievements through the context menu under Avatar-View Achievements.

FOMA Stadium

A stadium has been built at FOMA Fortuna, where avatars can play with their vehicles and hunt.

New Iron Challenges

CFA representatives Emanuel Gonsalez and Morgan Drell host four new Iron Challenges at Shinook Jungle. Morgan Drell hosts Allophyl/Estophyl and Atrax Iron Challenges, while Emanuel Gonsalez hosts Longu and Neconu Iron Challenges.

Rent reimbursement

The opportunity to file a support case to claim reimbursement of rent paid in advance after December 8th, 2011, has now run out. Any further claims will be invalid.
We expect that the reimbursements for valid claims will be completed by Friday February 18th 2011.

FIXED ISSUES

General World issues

• Mobs should no longer spawn in walls in Port Atlantis
• Tweaked night and day settings on the FOMA asteroid
• Fixed some vegetation issues
• Snow and Christmas trees removed
• Optimized vegetation around Memorial Island and Sissipahaw Water Plant
• Added waterfalls to Memorial Island
• Removed intersecting vegetation in the Beta building in Omegaton West Habitat
• Cleared vegetation from the roads around Twin Peaks
• Fixed some rocks bending in the wind
• Landed Fertilizer Terminals and Land Area Marker
• Fixed a lot of terrain issues
• Added turret to Omegaton West Habitat

Medusa’s Head issues

• Adjusted land area borders on Medusa’s Head
• Updated some waterfalls on Medusa
• Apartment and shops
• Fixed an issue with item points in apartments and shops
• Fixed an issue with all Medusa Estates

Mission issues

• Scouting missions for old Iron Challenges have been updated to use waypoints
• Fixed typos in quests

Miscellaneous issues

• Optimized the tomtebloss
• Removed all vehicle commission terminals
• Fixed an issue with fog indoors in Port Atlantis main building

SEE ALSO

• Platform release notes

New Feature

NETELLER

MindArk introduces NETELLER, a new payment service provider for Entropia Universe. Participants are offered the opportunity to deposit and withdraw money using their NETELLER eWallet. Withdrawing money from your NETELLER account is possible after you have made a deposit through it.

The smallest deposit amount is 10 SEK, 1 USD, 1 EUR or 1 GBP respectively, when using your NETELLER account. The withdrawal is instant up to 1000 PED over a 30-day period while higher amounts can take up to 30 days.

Rates and Fees

• The regular exchange rate is 3,4%.
• Each withdrawal through Neteller will be charged with 100 PED or 1% (whichever is the larger amount).

Improvements and Fixed Issues

Achievement System

Implemented the Achievement System:

• Added the option "Share achievements" in the Privacy section in the Options UI. If you choose to share your achievements everyone can view all the achievements you have received on the planetary system you are located on at the moment. Also, when you unlock a new achievement, other avatars in the near area will be able to see this through a target text above your head. By default, this option is enabled.
• On the My Account pages (Interconnect Services) you can select to post social media feeds when you unlock an achievement.

Auction

• Added four sub categories under Vehicles to facilitate for you to find the type of vehicle you are looking for. The new sub categories are Air, Amphibious, Land and Water.
• Added a warning if you bid more than 95% of your PED balance.

Blueprints

• Adjusted slots in the blueprint book Weapons (Vol II) to be 58.
• Fixed issue with the level not displayed on armor blueprints' icons.

Miscellaneous

• Fixed issue with giving a Waypoint to yourself (writing /pos in the Main Chat) when used from a vehicle.
• Fixed issue where you could not attach amps to certain weapons .
• Bank Tellers can only be dropped inside a bank.
• An Estate Deed now displays complete address to the estate no matter which language you have chosen (English, German, Spanish or French).
• Fixed issue where some foot wear caused the cross hair to be misaligned with the actual weapon aim.
• The Equip action is disabled when in a vehicle.
• You can now drag clothes back to the Inventory from the Coloring UI.
• The Quest/Mission Log now only displays active and completed quests belonging to the planetary system you are currently located on.

Movement

Improved the feeling and response when you move around:

• You now strafe as fast as you run straight.
• You now run faster backwards.
• It is smoother and quicker to move from side to side (strafe left and then right).
• Your speed is maintained when running straight and strafing at the same time.

Planet-Specific Release

Integrated Planet Calypso content into Entropia Universe. See!http://www.planetcalypso.com/home/ for more information.



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