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Project Entropia: Land Grab A Success

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MindArk Entertainment is reporting that their recent land grab event was a big success.  Here is the press release:


(Gothenburg, Sweden) - Project Entropia, a rapidly growing virtual world utilizing a real cash economy, today announces that the first phase of the land grab event turned out as a great success. "The launch of the land grab went smoothly and as planned." MindArk CTO Mattias Sundström says. "It was great fun and excitement seeing the Project Entropia participants struggling for control of the valuable land areas".

During the event phase, which lasted some 20 hours, participants from all over the world, ranging from Canada, USA, Australia, Belgium, Sweden, to China, fought each other using various more or less successful tactics. It was a sight to behold the fighters, carrying equipment with a real life market value exceeding more than 100,000 USD in a single battle. While the phase lasted, an ingame news update service was active, supplying all Project Entropia participants, regardless of their ingame location, with speedy up-to-date news. The lucky winners now have large land areas, which they can manage and tax to their delight.

The land grab continues with the next phase, where twice the numbers of land areas will be ready for conquest, starting Saturday the 23rd of October, at 16.00 UTC. More information about this can be found at https://www.project-entropia.com  

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

- MMORPG.COM Staff -

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Comments

  • NorticusNorticus Member Posts: 2

    I really had a great time::::28:: I protected the cK claim and we had some great fights.

  • GhostmanX1GhostmanX1 Member Posts: 3

    Hi!

    I have perticepated in PE for 10 months now and like it  allot but the landgrab so far has ben for the rich people the smaller societys that has skilled allot to be able to get a litle land for there soc have no chance so far to get any land.

    It's a bit sad that alot of people leave because MA seams to just care for the top 10-20% of pe particepants.

    If you dont have uber gear you will have same chance to get land as a snowball has in hell.

    This makes me sad because the game wont last whitout the  midlevel player that allways end up loosing while the rich socs  get richer  the balance of the game is sadly geting worse and worse.

    I trouly hope PE will change direction because as it is now people could just as well put money in a slot machine.

    Now in the 2nd fase of LG they relese 8 pices  and the big socs will take em all as the onece who got land in first fase can continu to take new pices in this phase=smaller and mid lvl socs  will just wast money trying to get land and end up whit no land and no money.

    I am strongly considering leaving the game because as new player you have to invest 1000 and 1000 of USD to be a player to count  whit , and yes you can be in the game for free no monthly cost but in the end this is whit out a doubt the most expensive game ever.

  • ColdfreezeColdfreeze Member Posts: 5

    The whining about high level chars are the same, regardless of game. In EQ you can purchase a high level char over Ebay. In PE you decide yourself what kind of stuff you want, and it is built into the system.

    The LG was cool, even if I didn't fight personally. The news update service was cool, feeling like listening to a hockey game on the radio.

    PE is a great game, with the largest feeling of freedom of any online game. The lack of box fees and subscription fees means you play when you want, and you don't get any frustration when you cannot play, as it doesn't cost you anything.

  • ignitorignitor Member Posts: 30

    here is the summarize from the first phase..

    Summary of the first Land Grab phase 14 Oct 2004
    The first Land Area Battle phase was an intense and exciting experience! Several societies fought hard and a lot of personal courage was shown at the most critical periods during the claim challenges.
    Desert Rangers, who held on to the LA-1 area, had quite a troublefree experience, as most challengers were dismayed by the rhetoric (or threats) of Jor. Desert Rangers held the area for 12h straight and was the second area claimed.

    Over at the LA-2 area, plenty of combat erupted during the course of the phase. RedCell Corp held the area valiantly for several hours until the repeated attacks from various societies broke them. Warants, after failing to take the cK controlled LA-3, managed to secure the area, even after several counter-attacks in which Warants lost the area for some time. One memorable moment was when Skalman of Warants single-handedly, Rambo-style, wiped the entire defence force.

    The most fierce combat was the LA-3 battle, where the cK Coat Killers society managed to hold the defense in an assault from Warants which carried on in waves during almost three hours. Several tactics where used by the attackers, some of which was deemed of questionable honor by the defenders. Angel of cK was disturbed after the final assault, but the tension later dissolved once they started playing PEC tic-tac-toe as relaxation.

    The LA-6 area was first held by Reservoir Dogs, but they were defeated by the Calypso Conquerors. The CC managed to hold the land for quite some time, despite being attacked over and over, especially from the White Tiger society. Solders of Fortune aided CC, while Imperial Dreams supported White Tigers. VVV and NZR, of opposite sides, fought long and hard during the waves of assaults.

    Summary of phase one:

    LA-1 – owned by Desert Rangers
    LA-2 – owned by Warants
    LA-3 – owned by cK
    LA-6 – owned by Calypso Conquerors

    STERLING&MOSS ASSOCIATES(PE)

    STERLING&MOSS ASSOCIATES(PE)

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