Entropia Universe Version Updates

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.2
2009-10-29

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RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

A new scientific breakthrough has been made: a safe, practical tool for extracting the life essence known as “Vibrant Sweat”. By emitting a low-energy field for harvesting the essence, the tool focuses vibrant sweat and encodes it into a suspension fluid. Vibrant Sweat can then be refined together with Force Nexus to produce Mind Essence.

To operate the VSE Mk 1, move within 30 meters from the target, aim carefully and pull the trigger. Keep the tool aimed at the target until the sample is collected.

Note that the VSE works only on animals and not on mutants, robots or other colonists.

NEW AND RETURNED FUNCTIONALITY

* Teaming is back! Again you can go hunting with your friends and share both the fun and the loot with them.
* Sweating is back! And this time, it’s point and click – no more concentration, just pick up your new handy tool VSE Mk 1, aim it and start sweating! This tool is a gift to all players, old and new, for gathering sweat. The VSE Mk 1 is free for everyone and does not decay.
* Mouse-only navigation is back! Want to go there? Just double-click there. You can also press and hold both left and right mouse-button to move forward. And no, we have not turned off the old FPS style – aim and shoot is still there. If you lost it, it’s under Options-Controls-Enable Aim Mode.
* Auto navigation is back! This includes following another avatar, run to creature and shoot when within range, and run to creature and loot when in range.
* Mouse buttons can be mapped! Actions can now be assigned to mouse buttons 3-8, using the Keyboard Map GUI. The mouse button map is to the right just below the Keyboard Map GUI. You can’t map mouse buttons 1 and 2 (left and right mouse buttons); they are locked.
* Live audio streaming is back on Club Neverdie! Bop till you drop!

FIXED ISSUES

GUI Issues

* Optimized GUI performance
* Adjusted icons for several items
* Adjusted several action book icons
* Fixed issues with Action Book and Blueprint Book GUIs
* Actions Target Body, Target Face, Target Eyes and Target Mouth were removed pending the return of the Beauty system as they did nothing
* Scrollbar should no longer be visible when a full Private Chat is minimized
* Private Chat, Team Invite, Society Invite and Add as Friend are no longer subject to range
* Chat window and text input fields now support copy/paste
* Selected text should be easier to see
* You should now be able to select the status bar when the player is out of range
* Fixed issue with dragging the status bar
* Fixed issue with land area message GUI
* Keymapping actions is now triggered on key release rather than key press
* Fixed issues with the scroll bar on the location list in the Map UI
* You should now be able to see all pages on the tab Won auctions when there are more than one page
* Double-click on a selected item in Auction now works

Ad System Issues

* Fixed issue when starting a preview of an ad before the previous preview had ended
* Fixed issue with not being able to create more than 5 sequences

Terrain and Location Issues

* Landed some flying buildings in Minopolis
* Fixed some terrain issues

Apartment Issues

* The Billgren wallpaper in Billton Towers 1 and 4 is back

Item Issues

* An extra shot effect is no longer played when switching from FAP to weapon
* Inventory should be updated when equipping a personal avatar
* Markup graph of attachment now shows the graph of the attachment when equipped to an item, rather than the graph of the item
* Fixed issue with Fast Aid Packs losing animations and effects after successive rapid uses

Miscellaneous Issues

* Improved stability
* Auto loot range decreased to previous range, and auto navigation is used instead

The servers will be temporarily unavailable while we implement the version update 10.2. The servers will be taken down

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.1.2
2009-10-22

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RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

Imperial Zoological Scouts have observed several flying and hovering creatures, including Aetherex, Hiryuu, Kingfisher, TskTsk, Diripi, Igni and Pupugi in the skies over Calypso, as well as Rippersnappers in the water.

The mall in New Oxford has been demolished. The building, a relic from the old colonization phase, was condemned after it was discovered that it had structural damage from the blast of Typhon’s impact. After it being infested by Calypsian concrete worm, Colonial Administration saw no other choice than to tear down the building.

RETURNED FUNCTIONALITY

• Apartments are back
• Televators are back
• Estate maintenance fee expiration time is extended to compensate for the time when apartments were not available

FIXED ISSUES

Manufacturing Issues

• When using Auto Mode for crafting, the automatic idle log out is disabled
• Manufacturing progress bar no longer interrupts chat

Mindforce Teleportation Issues

• Mindforce has a tutorial message added
• Home locations are shown in the location list if the teleport chip is capable of teleporting home

User Interface Issues

• Added a “Toggle Auto-Use Tool” action to the Action Library
• Fixed issue with improperly drawn inventory icons
• The beeping mining claim sound should now stop properly
• Long Estate descriptions are no longer clipped in Estate UI
• Teleportation UI again shows areas when location list is visible
• Personal avatar is displayed in items info for pads
• Fixed issue where the message “The item you are trying to use is damaged” didn’t show when it should
• Land management UI should now close when the avatar dies

Item Issues

• Added warning message to over-full Resettlement Storage Containers
• Resettlement Storage Container containing items is no longer sellable in Auction
• Scope zoom no longer resets when another avatar dies

Location Issues

• When teleporting to Twin Peaks Shopping Mall it should not be possible to appear in a wall.
• Improved performance at certain locations

Skill Extraction Issues

• Fixed issues with Payn-Inc Implant Inserter
• Numbers, numeric keyboard and arrows are no longer locked when the Skill Extraction UI has focus

Miscellaneous Issues

• Improved stability
• You can now make deposits using Ukash vouchers from Canada, Cyprus and Uruguay

KNOWN ISSUES

• Doors on apartments do not have an animation (aka will not open) but you can go through them
• Billgren wallpapers are missing in Billton Towers 1 and 4

The servers will be temporarily unavailable while we implement the version update 10.1.2. The servers will

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.1.1
2009-10-08

***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

• Constraints in avatar re-creation are removed for participants that are granted to re-create their avatars
• The limit for maximum amount of skills you can extract has been adjusted to 9.4 levels. No skills have been lost due to this issue.
• The limit for the minimal value of skills that can be extracted has been removed
• Fixed issue with stone texture blueprints
• Improved stability

The servers have been taken down and will be temporarily unavailable while we implement the version update 10.1.1.

Downtime will be approximately 30 minutes. Content information will be published after the update.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

https://account.entropiauniverse.com/support-faq/pages/2009/10/08/5095/index.xml

Version Update 10.1 Content List

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.1
2009-10-06

***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!***

RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

It is now a month and a half since Calypso opened for resettlement. During this time, teleportation have been restricted to the use of large-scale fixed teleporters because the heavy neutrino radiation from the drive core of War Titan Typhon induced a great risk for teleporter misrelocations. The fixed teleporters are adequately shielded to compensate for this; MindForce TP chips are not.

RDI have monitored the neutrino radiation, and deemed that the level has decreased enough for MindForce TP to be safe. Based on this recommendation, Colonial Administration has decided to enable this service again, effective immediately.

Despite several sabotage attempts against the Oil Rig, and thanks to the brave colonists defending it from the Wastelanders last week, the Imperial Mining Office crews have finally completed and tested the Oil Rig. It is back online again and producing oil!

FIXED ISSUES

Reintroduced Systems

• MindForce TP back in simplified form (see below)
• Oil Rig producing oil again
• Skill extraction is back (see below)
• Land Area Management is back (see below)
• Fruit, Dung and Rocks are back

Text Updates

• Updated the text in the avatar name selection UI
• Improved and more accurate tooltip for Condition in Item Info
• Confirmation window for Reset in Options of the Entropia Universe Login window is now localized
• Estate and Land Area Issues
• Expire time for estates extended with the time that the estate wasn’t available

Land Management Issues

• Fixed edit tax settings issue on land area management
• Fixed issue with the claim button on Land Area GUI
• Improvement points will be spent again, and are no longer frozen
• Improvement points and improvement point costs have been multiplied by 20 to reflect the number of Energized Fertilizer. If you had 10 IP before, you have 200 now. If you had to pay 5 IP before, you pay 100 IP now.
• Added terminals to Asteroid Control Room for Land Management
• Added icons for DNA, Land Area Settings and Land Area Management
• It is again possible to edit the welcome message of society-owned Land Areas

User Interface Issues

• Land Area Select menu at Club Neverdie is now sorted
• Land Area names are now correctly shown in Society UI
• Max size of main chat window has been increased
• Fixed issue where incoming PM was not displayed
• Fixed issue where the first line in PMs was not displayed
• Fixed issue with wrong error message when trying to take a bank loan using a mannequin pad with items still on it as security
• Estate name is shown in Bank UI title

Manufacturing Issues

• Added new checkbox in the Manufacturing UI, Auto Mode. When checked, the Construction Machine goes on manufacturing until stopped.
• Fixed issue with manufacturing Trutun texture
• Fixed issue with the progress bar in Manufacturing sometimes being invisible
• The Manufacture button should now reappear properly when the progress bar disappears

Item and Weapon Issues

• Scope zoom speed increased
• Rockets from rocket launcher should now travel the correct range as stated by items info
• Scanners now have Range listed in information

Miscellaneous Issues

• Constraints in avatar creation that were removed in 10.0 are now back for new accounts
• Client Loader now saves windowed mode setting
• Patch download is integrated into the Client Loader main window
• Stability improved

REINTRODUCED SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONS

Simplified MindForce TP

A brief manual of how to use Simplified MindForce Teleportation:

1. Equip MindForce Teleporter chip (right click on item in inventory and select equip).
2. Use tool. You need Mind Essence to do it.
3. After a delay for charging, the map UI opens.
4. Select a position within the teleport area (shown as a circle around the player).
   
   ?If selecting a location from the location list (i.e. a city), the position is automatically set to the position within the teleport area closest to the location.
   ?If selecting a home and teleport to home is enabled by the chip, the position will be set to the terminal outside the home, even if outside the teleport area.
   ?The selected position needs to be on the same planet.?
5. 5.Click the teleport button.

Skill Extraction

How to extract skills:

1. Attach an empty skill implant to the implant tool (drag and drop the chip on the tool).
2. Equip the implant tool.
3. Use the implant tool. The skill UI opens.
4. Select a skill to be extracted.
5. Click the Extract Skill icon.
6. Choose the extracted amount in the window that just opened.
7. The Loot window opens with a new chip containing the extracted amount.

The value of the empty chip is adjusted accordingly.


How to implant skills:

1. Attach a skill implant with a specific skill to the implant tool (drag and drop the chip on the tool).
2. Equip the implant tool.
3. Use the implant tool.
4. A confirmation window will open. Click Yes to insert the skill.
5. The skill is inserted.

The servers will be temporarily unavailable while we implement the version update 10.1. The servers will be taken down at:

2009.10.06 12:00 UTC

Downtime will be 1-2 hours. Content information will be published after the update.

We apologize for any inconvenience caused.

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.1
2009-10-06

***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!***

RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

It is now a month and a half since Calypso opened for resettlement. During this time, teleportation have been restricted to the use of large-scale fixed teleporters because the heavy neutrino radiation from the drive core of War Titan Typhon induced a great risk for teleporter misrelocations. The fixed teleporters are adequately shielded to compensate for this; MindForce TP chips are not.

RDI have monitored the neutrino radiation, and deemed that the level has decreased enough for MindForce TP to be safe. Based on this recommendation, Colonial Administration has decided to enable this service again, effective immediately.

Despite several sabotage attempts against the Oil Rig, and thanks to the brave colonists defending it from the Wastelanders last week, the Imperial Mining Office crews have finally completed and tested the Oil Rig. It is back online again and producing oil!

FIXED ISSUES

Reintroduced Systems

•MindForce TP back in simplified form (see below)
•Oil Rig producing oil again
•Skill extraction is back (see below)
•Land Area Management is back (see below)
•Fruit, Dung and Rocks are back
Text Updates

•Updated the text in the avatar name selection UI
•Improved and more accurate tooltip for Condition in Item Info
•Confirmation window for Reset in Options of the Entropia Universe Login window is now localized
•Estate and Land Area Issues
•Expire time for estates extended with the time that the estate wasn’t available
Land Management Issues

•Fixed edit tax settings issue on land area management
•Fixed issue with the claim button on Land Area GUI
•Improvement points will be spent again, and are no longer frozen
•Improvement points and improvement point costs have been multiplied by 20 to reflect the number of Energized Fertilizer. If you had 10 IP before, you have 200 now. If you had to pay 5 IP before, you pay 100 IP now.
•Added terminals to Asteroid Control Room for Land Management
•Added icons for DNA, Land Area Settings and Land Area Management
•It is again possible to edit the welcome message of society-owned Land Areas
User Interface Issues

•Land Area Select menu at Club Neverdie is now sorted
•Land Area names are now correctly shown in Society UI
•Max size of main chat window has been increased
•Fixed issue where incoming PM was not displayed
•Fixed issue where the first line in PMs was not displayed
•Fixed issue with wrong error message when trying to take a bank loan using a mannequin pad with items still on it as security
•Estate name is shown in Bank UI title
Manufacturing Issues

•Added new checkbox in the Manufacturing UI, Auto Mode. When checked, the Construction Machine goes on manufacturing until stopped.
•Fixed issue with manufacturing Trutun texture
•Fixed issue with the progress bar in Manufacturing sometimes being invisible
•The Manufacture button should now reappear properly when the progress bar disappears
Item and Weapon Issues

•Scope zoom speed increased
•Rockets from rocket launcher should now travel the correct range as stated by items info
•Scanners now have Range listed in information
Miscellaneous Issues

•Constraints in avatar creation that were removed in 10.0 are now back for new accounts
•Client Loader now saves windowed mode setting
•Patch download is integrated into the Client Loader main window
•Stability improved
REINTRODUCED SYSTEMS INSTRUCTIONS

Simplified MindForce TP

A brief manual of how to use Simplified MindForce Teleportation:

1.Equip MindForce Teleporter chip (right click on item in inventory and select equip).
2.Use tool. You need Mind Essence to do it.
3.After a delay for charging, the map UI opens.
4.Select a position within the teleport area (shown as a circle around the player).
?If selecting a location from the location list (i.e. a city), the position is automatically set to the position within the teleport area closest to the location.
?If selecting a home and teleport to home is enabled by the chip, the position will be set to the terminal outside the home, even if outside the teleport area.
?The selected position needs to be on the same planet.
5.Click the teleport button.
Skill Extraction

How to extract skills:

1.Attach an empty skill implant to the implant tool (drag and drop the chip on the tool).
2.Equip the implant tool.
3.Use the implant tool. The skill UI opens.
4.Select a skill to be extracted.
5.Click the Extract Skill icon.
6.Choose the extracted amount in the window that just opened.
7.The Loot window opens with a new chip containing the extracted amount. The value of the empty chip is adjusted accordingly.
How to implant skills:

1.Attach a skill implant with a specific skill to the implant tool (drag and drop the chip on the tool).
2.Equip the implant tool.
3.Use the implant tool.
4.A confirmation window will open. Click Yes to insert the skill.
5.The skill is inserted.

PLANET CALYPSO VERSION UPDATE 10.0.14
2009-09-24

***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!***

RESETTLEMENT UPDATE

Surveyors from Imperial Mining Office have located survivors from the Great Winter, colonists that for one reason or another had not been evacuated before the impact of War Titan Typhon. The survivors are a band of individuals that have scrounged resources to survive during our five year long absence. The band, settled near the Oil Rig and in the contested and contaminated zones did not rejoice at the reunion and used force to drive the surveyors off.

Calypso Law Enforcement Administration speculates that these wastelanders may be the bandits that have scourged the area around the Oil Rig in the recent past.

Surveyors were also surprised to find a streak in the desert near the oil rig that the wildlife seemed to avoid. On further analysis, it was due to the presence of toxic and radioactive substances in the sand. These had apparently been placed there on purpose to drive off dangerous creatures from the area. The perpetrator has not been identified, and although IMO admits that these streaks are practical for them, they deny any knowledge and blame the wastelanders, claiming that they probably want a clear path to the rig in order to raid it.

Imperial Zoological Scouts report that Foul have suddenly changed appearance. The phenomenon seems to be related to the Atrox' change of appearance, and scientists are moving away from the hypothesis that it was an adaptation during the Great Winter. Scientists are not ready to give an alternative explanation as yet.

FIXED ISSUES

Sound issues

• Fixed issue with sound effect of Vivo tool
• Improved playback of simultaneous sounds
• Improved creature sounds
• Improved excavator sound
• Added night ambient sound to Amethera
• Added PvP alert sound

Map and UI issues

• Fixed a lot of names in the Map UI
• Optimized icons
• Fixed typeface in login UI

Terrain and Landscape Issues

• Fixed several pits in the landscape
• Fixed some tears in the landscape
• Grounded some flying objects and buildings
• Adjusted land areas in CNDs domes
• Fixed an incorrect water surface
• Fixed the end of a bridge at Twin Peaks
• Heavily rugged terrain in and around Land Areas on Amethera has been leveled out

Land Area Issues

• Temporary SGA terminals added to LA17
• Claim marker at LA39 is now operational

Building Issues

• Fixed issues with indoors vegetation and rocks
• Shopping mall auction rooms have been moved compared to their location in 9.4
• Added terminals to New Oxford bank
• Improved lighting in the character definition room
• Fixed the floor in the basement shop in CND
• Fixed issue with dome walls
• Fixed some issues with Skipper building
• Fixed issue with the club house at Cyclops
• Adjusted light intensity in different settings
• Added catwalk to New Oxford

Teleporter Issues

• Fixed issue with teleportation to Athena Spaceport
• Fixed several nameless teleporters
• Fixed some issues with CND teleporters
• Fixed issue with some teleporters not having any effects

Graphics Issues

• Fixed some vegetation incorrectly shining at a distance
• Fixed head texture issue
• Fixed issue with strange bubble cluster when diving
• Increased minimum ambient light indoors for medium and low settings
• Fixed some missing textures

Creature Issues

• Fixed issue with Furor
• Trilomite removed from substitute list
• Corrected spelling of Boorum Male/Female Beserker to “Berserker”

Item Issues

• Dark Green Paint Cans and normal Green Paint Cans no longer swap colors
• Fixed issue with Mining Claim Rod animations not playing
• Fixed issue with Christmas reindeer animation not playing
• Adjusted hand positions on some weapons
• Paladin Face Guard and Hero Mask can no longer be equipped at the same time
• Bolt blueprints “Hardened Bolt”, “Reinforced Bolt”, “High Grade Bolt”, “Basic Bolt Blueprint”, “Hardened Bolt Blueprint”, “High Grade Bolt Blueprint” and “Reinforced Bolt Blueprint”, renamed to refer to nuts instead of bolts

Miscellaneous Issues

• Fixed issue with objects not being selectable after placing them on the walls of a participant’s shop
• Fixed some localization issues
• Content optimization mainly around Port Atlantis in order to increase performance