Planet Cyrene 2020 Map Update

Hey guys,

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I wanted to fill everyone in on the upcoming map update for Planet Cyrene.

As I mentioned over in this thread >>LINK<<, there were going to be some changes coming, both laying the ground work and letting us fix some errors with the models/terrain.

For starters, you many notice there's more land area than before, which we plan to utilize for player benefit. There is now a dedicated mining area for Universe Ores and Enmatters, for example. The majority of areas have been increased, allowing for more play space and lets the Imperium or A.R.C. forces try to establish bases, or perhaps be overrun by some new kind of threat on Planet Cyrene.

In the southwest corner we've started to lay the ground work for New Janus: which will become the estate capitol on Cyrene. Once it's finished, when players enter the planet they will arrive in New Janus. However, as the workers were sort of terraforming and surveying, they seemed to be a bit shaken by some of the findings, but it's probably nothing.

For the 1st VU of 2020, we wanted to put the foundation for things that are coming this year: an updated n00b area, New Janus Estate area, Improved mining areas, and bringing back the dynamic area.

With this map update, we've also briefed all the current NPCs on Cyrene, so they will now give out the correct coordinates to players on missions. If you find out any of them are slacking off make sure to report it to me so they can be reprimanded severely.

Please feel free to post any comments/questions/concerns in this thread about the map.

Cheers,

Kris

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map and The Next Planet Parter VU

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map and The Next Planet Parter VU

Hey guys,

I wanted to give everyone an update about what's been happening with the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map and how it's effected by the next Planet Partner VU.

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map
So we'll start with the Dynamic Upgrade Map - it's been a minute since we've had an update to this so I wanted to address this and say that we have been keeping this up-to date internally and making sure that everything is being counted. In the future we will keep players more apprised and keep everyone in the loop. That being said, around the same time as the VU/Mini Patch we'll put out the next update to it here on the forums.

Onto the changes themselves, there wasn't as much activity in some areas, that we as developers thought there would have been, though 3 areas managed to perceiver and move to rank 2: Robot Base Z.R.Q., Great Plains, and Zyn Forest. Congratulations to all Cyrene players for unlocking more of the upgrades!

However, in the next Planet Partner VU only the Robot Base Z.R.Q. and Great Plains unlocks will be coming with the next Planet Partner VU. We feel that releasing the Zyn Forest Upgrade, otherwise known as Epic Chain Mission 3, shouldn't come at this time as Epic Chain Missions 1 and 2 need to be more polished, add more high level items to the final bosses, and feel over-all more complete for players until we can move forward. It will still be unlocked, and will remain so until it is released, only this upgrade has been pushed back.

Next Planet Partner VU
Now we had quite a lot planned for the next update, some of it I personally teased on here early in its development cycle. In a post I had made I outlined a few of the things we wanted to accomplish for the next VU in a post here: >>LINK<< , however, sometimes in development things don't always go according to plan. While some of these thing were achievable, others have been put on hold due to reasons outside of our control. I'll touch on what panned out and will come in a future VU.

Kris | Cyrene said: ↑

- A big update to the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map
Yes - This is coming with the next Planet Partner VU, along with 2 of the 3 unlocks that were achieved.

Kris | Cyrene said: ↑

- Hub progression - Cypher of Ryvox Chain Finale
No - This is coming in a future Planet Partner VU, I can't get into specifics but the real stopping issue is that final reward/reward system is in limbo.

I would like to mention that there will be a small improvement to the Hub-Side Proving Ground coat that will be a start to something that I hope everyone will like. Lilmc will talk a bit more about this in another post.

Kris | Cyrene said: ↑

- Continued Improvements and Quality of Life Updates
Yes - This is coming in the next Planet Partner VU, as with every VU we try to improve whatever aspects of Cyrene that we can.

Kris | Cyrene said: ↑

- More recipes in the Cyrene Blueprints Book
No - This is coming in a future Planet Partner VU, however, we are working with MindArk to make sure that all recipes currently available can more easily be discovered on Planet Cyrene.

Kris | Cyrene said: ↑

- Mission continuation for: S.I. Heart, Neff's Stim Pack
No - This is coming in a future Planet Partner VU, similar to the Cypher of Ryvox Chain Finale, the real issue is the rewards are in limbo. Although, there is one point to mention:

It will be easier to create the combine for Zorra's HK. A reduced material cost and removed the part from Lazidol that seems to never drop.

There are still several other new things coming in next Planet Partner VU, and one of my favorite is the new leaks, who will get their own missions and have reasons to be hunted outside of chain missions as well.

Booths

The last thing I wanted to touch on was the Booths, and while we've had a plan in place for booths for a while now >>LINK<< it's not as easy as it may appear to have a system in place like the one we're envisioning. We're still working on the best way to get these into the hands of the right players, as well as improving the overall look of the Booths and Shopping areas.

There are other things happening behind the scenes, but nothing that I can share more about at this time. Please feel free to leave any and all questions in this thread and I'll do what I can to get them answered.

Regards,

Kris

Valar Morghulis and Entropia Universe

Valar Morghulis

Yes, you got it right – I was busy last few months reading the books of A Song of Ice and Fire. If you don’t know this is the book version of A Game of Thrones. That’s 4273 pages of names and dead people.

And before I start writing for Entropia Universe today may be I have to make disclosure. It is possible that at the time you are reading this I am making money from this game. Ok, now let’s start.

But I was still keeping an eye on Entropua Universe news. And there is both a lot new stuff and still everything is how it was. Depends if you are optimist or pessimist. Pessimist will see that Planet Cyrene and Planet Toulan are about 4 years late on the hard launch date. Soft launch was when small portion of the planet was released after few years of development and hard launch was promised to happen soon may be in 2012-2013. It didn’t happen. You can wonder if someone decided to stop the project to minimum or to wait until the planet is in perfect condition to go for hard launch with massive advertising campaign and everything. And not much to see in the opposing direction. Planet Cyrene is moving forward with the dynamic map upgrades, but it is very slow development speed.

Pessimist will see that Calypso Land Deed (CLD) ROI is going down and this is the primary indicator for the health of the game. There were also weeks with 0 CLD payment. In contrast to this all Arkadia Underground Deeds (AUD) were sold and their price went up by 40%. That means that people voted with 1 million from their US Dollars that they like Planet Arkadia and believe the Underground will do better and better.

Also the development of the citizen system goes extremely slow. You can grab your plot in 2015 and you will have to wait 5 years before you can do anything with it. Good news is that it will be available on other planets too and will make players feel more at home when they actually build some structure in the game.

Monria failed to get on Steam and later was sold I think on loss. Not much else happening there, but let’s hope the new owners will have more passion and money to continue development of the Moon.

Planet Arkadia as always is the golden bow of Entropia Universe. Making unique content and actually make you feel like you treasure hunt on the planet is fresh feeling that most people that watched Indiana Jones as kids like. You have plenty of opportunities to hunt for treasures there and get your daily dose of endorphins.

Planet Rocktropia as usually get some negative comments for its content, but it is the planet that connects Entropia to Hollywood and Neverdie makes a lot of stunts to get the game in the news so he does good job in the end. And if you don’t like shooting zombies just don’t go there.

Space as always is pushed for the next year for development, but what can you do. May be if more people spend their peds there it will get more attention from the developers.

MindArk provide Entropia Platform to some online casinos and this is good news for me. Even if they are on loss from the game they will not shut it down if they make enough money from the platform they provide to other companies.

And let’s not forget the ComPet game is coming after 2 months. One more game to play in the office and hopefully more players will come to Entropia Universe.

This got too long, let’s stop here and continue tomorrow with State of the Universe Address 2016.

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map - May 22nd 2015

Introduction:

This is the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map. This will show the progression of the different land areas based on player activity here on Planet Cyrene. As the areas progress through their levels they will undergo upgrades or unlocks based upon their level. If any particular are stagnates or has low progression there will be some side effects in that particular area as well.

So, in short, if you want an area to change:

- Complete missions

- Interact with creatures

- Mine for resources in it

The following shows the current available land areas and their level 1 and level 2 available upgrades. Additional upgrades will be available in the future at higher levels.

Land Areas:

Great Plains

Level 1 - New Mang Chang & Rhino Beetle maturities - Already Unlocked

Level 2 - A new scavenger hunt mission unique to the Zyn.

Ice Plateau

Level 1 – Zyn’Nix come out of hiding with additional story and daily missions.

Level 2 – Summon the lord of the Ice Crystal Golems in a boss summon event.

Imperium Fortifications

Level 1 – Dedicated Imperium Officer spawn.

Level 2 - Imperium Trials wave spawn event.

Isle de Zel

Level 1 – Additional Zeladoth maturities.

Level 2 – Zeladoth wave event and associated with a mission.

Mer Beach

Level 1 - Additional Merfolken Gladiator maturities - Already Unlocked

Level 2 - An underwater Mefolken hunting ground.

Ngu Volcano

Level 1 – A dedicated spawn of Old Jack.

Level 2 – A new magma chamber opened to explore.

Panton Jungle

Level 1 - Paneleon Kill Point mission.

Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Robot Base Z.R.Q.

Level 1 - Additional Skyshatter maturities.

Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Turrelion Desert

Level 1 – Additional Living Vortex maturities. - Already Unlocked

Level 2 – Duster Gang Item Spawn PvP Area.

Zyn Forest

Level 1 - Pet maturities of Mang Chang and Rhino Beetle - This has been unlocked for the next Planet Partner VU.

Level 2 – Zyn Pyramid Spirit Shaman mission.


Some areas can only be upgraded through other areas progression; these areas are called Meta Areas. The requirements to upgrade and the level 1 upgrade are listed for the following.


Meta Areas

A.R.C. Staging

5 Areas are at least level 1.

Upgraded staging area and Turrelion Area with additional content.

Miner Isles

All Areas are at least level 1.

Special Mining Zone with Additional Mining Missions.

Sky Labs

All Areas are at least level 2.

Animal Behavior and Modification Laboratory Instance.


Closing:

Keep in mind that other changes to the Planet Cyrene will happen that are not part of the dynamic upgrade map. These changes will happen independent of other new things that will come, like missions, items, and events.

Planet Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map - April 17th 2015

Players unlocked 'Zyn Forest Level 1 - A new scavenger hunt mission unique to the Zyn' for the next Planet Partner VU.

Introduction:

This is the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map. This will show the progression of the different land areas based on player activity here on Planet Cyrene. As the areas progress through their levels they will undergo upgrades or unlocks based upon their level. If any particular are stagnates or has low progression there will be some side effects in that particular area as well.

So, in short, if you want an area to change:

- Complete missions
- Interact with creatures
- Mine for resources in it

The following shows the current available land areas and their level 1 and level 2 available upgrades. Additional upgrades will be available in the future at higher levels.

Land Areas:

Great Plains
Level 1 - New Mang Chang & Rhino Beetle maturities - Already Unlocked
Level 2 - Pet maturities of Mang Chang and Rhino Beetle (although the details are still being hammered out with MindArk)

Ice Plateau
Level 1 – Zyn’Nix come out of hiding with additional story and daily missions.
Level 2 – Summon the lord of the Ice Crystal Golems in a boss summon event.

Imperium Fortifications
Level 1 – Dedicated Imperium Officer spawn.
Level 2 - Imperium Trials wave spawn event.
Isle de Zel
Level 1 – Additional Zeladoth maturities.
Level 2 – Zeladoth wave event and associated with a mission.

Mer Beach
Level 1 - Additional Merfolken Gladiator maturities - Already Unlocked
Level 2 - An underwater Mefolken hunting ground.

Ngu Volcano
Level 1 – A dedicated spawn of Old Jack.
Level 2 – A new magma chamber opened to explore.

Panton Jungle
Level 1 - Paneleon Kill Point mission.
Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Robot Base Z.R.Q.
Level 1 - Additional Skyshatter maturites.
Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Turrelion Desert
Level 1 – Additional Living Vortex maturities. - Already Unlocked
Level 2 – Duster Gang Item Spawn PvP Area.

Zyn Forest
Level 1 - A new scavenger hunt mission unique to the Zyn. - This has been unlocked for the next Planet Partner VU.
Level 2 – Zyn Pyramid Spirit Shaman mission.

Some areas can only be upgraded through other areas progression; these areas are called Meta Areas. The requirements to upgrade and the level 1 upgrade are listed for the following.

Meta Areas:

A.R.C. Staging
5 Areas are at least level 1.
Upgraded staging area and Turrelion Area with additional content.

Miner Isles
All Areas are at least level 1.
Special Mining Zone with Additional Mining Missions.

Sky Labs
All Areas are at least level 2.
Animal Behavior and Modification Laboratory Instance.

Closing:

Keep in mind that other changes to the Planet Cyrene will happen that are not part of the dynamic upgrade map. These changes will happen independent of other new things that will come, like missions, items, and events.

Any discussion about this can be done so here: >>LINK<<

Thanks for reading and thanks for playing on Planet Cyrene.

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map - February 27th 2015

Great Plains
Level 1 - New Mang Chang & Rhino Beetle maturities - Unlocked for the next Planet Partner VU! 10 of March 2015

Mer Beach
Level 1 - Additional Merfolken Gladiator maturities - Unlocked for the next Planet Partner VU! 10 of March 2015

Turrelion Desert
Level 1 – Additional Living Vortex maturities. - Unlocked for the next Planet Partner VU! 10 of March 2015

Updated Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map 19 December 2014

Updated Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map 19 December 2014

Hey guys,

I just updated the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map here:

It ended up being 7 and 1/2 weeks between the initial posting of the map and the update due to the first few weeks of reports missing data and subsequently waiting for that data to be retrieved again.

You can expect another update in approximately 3 weeks from now (the first full week of January 2015 (between the 5th and the 9th).

For now we'll keep the discussion of the map centered here.

Some things that we noticed and why we thought they occurred:

Ice Plateau and Panton Jungle - both areas were lacking in unique spawns. Since the VU the unique spawns have been added to the Ice Plateau area and we've added another TP to Panton Jungle. We'll also be focusing any event spawns in Pantone Jungle.

Ngu Volcano - this area might be too focused on only high level mobs, or it might be the way that the spawns for the Vlanwing and Protocores were when the VU launched initially. Since the VU the spawns for the Vlanwing and Protocore have been adjusted to be more separated as well as making sure that the Ancients can be spawned there as well.

Great Plains and Turrelion Desert - these zones ended up having more progress than we anticipated. The creature diversity and popularity in these areas are both high, which probably caused the additional 20% +/- of progression above the other zones.

We'll be keeping an eye on the reports that come down and adjusting accordingly, I think that now that we have many more universal ores and enmatters it will balance everything out a bit more.

Cheers,
Kris

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map - October 28th 2014

Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map - October 28th 2014

Before everything let me just say Cyrene hard launch is sheduled for the end of 2014. How cool is that.

Introduction:

This is the Cyrene Dynamic Upgrade Map. This will show the progression of the different land areas based on player activity here on Planet Cyrene. As the areas progress through their levels they will undergo upgrades or unlocks based upon their level. If any particular are stagnates or has low progression there will be some side effects in that particular area as well.

So, in short, if you want an area to change:

- Complete missions
- Interact with creatures
- Mine for resources in it

The following shows the current available land areas and their level 1 and level 2 available upgrades. Additional upgrades will be available in the future at higher levels.

Land Areas:

Great Plains

• Level 1 - New Mang Chang & Rhino Beetle maturities.
• Level 2 - Pet maturities of Mang Chang and Rhino Beetle (although the details are still being hammered out with MindArk)

Ice Plateau

• Level 1 – Zyn’Nix come out of hiding with additional story and daily missions.
• Level 2 – Summon the lord of the Ice Crystal Golems in a boss summon event.

Imperium Fortifications

• Level 1 – Dedicated Imperium Officer spawn.
• Level 2 - Imperium Trials wave spawn event.

Isle de Zel

• Level 1 – Additional Zeladoth maturities.
• Level 2 – Zeladoth wave event and associated with a mission.

Mer Beach

• Level 1 - Additional Merfolken Gladiator maturities.
• Level 2 - An underwater Mefolken hunting ground.

Ngu Volcano

• Level 1 – A dedicated spawn of Old Jack.
• Level 2 – A new magma chamber opened to explore.

Panton Jungle

• Level 1 - Paneleon Kill Point mission.
• Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Robot Base Z.R.Q.

• Level 1 - Additional Skyshatter maturites.
• Level 2 - A new creature with maturity range and Iron Missions.

Turrelion Desert

• Level 1 – Additional Living Vortex maturities.
• Level 2 – Duster Gang Item Spawn PvP Area.

Zyn Forest

• Level 1 - A new scavenger hunt mission unique to the Zyn.
• Level 2 – Zyn Pyramid Spirit Shaman mission.

Some areas can only be upgraded through other areas progression; these areas are called Meta Areas. The requirements to upgrade and the level 1 upgrade are listed for the following.

Meta Areas:

A.R.C. Staging

• 5 Areas are at least level 1.
• Upgraded staging area and Turrelion Area with additional content.

Miner Isles

• All Areas are at least level 1.
• Special Mining Zone with Additional Mining Missions.

Sky Labs

• All Areas are at least level 2.
• Animal Behavior and Modification Laboratory Instance.

Closing:

Keep in mind that other changes to the Planet Cyrene will happen that are not part of the dynamic upgrade map. These changes will happen independent of other new things that will come, like missions, items, and events.

Any discussion about this can be done so here: >>LINK<<

Thanks for reading and thanks for playing on Planet Cyrene.