Planet Calypso Review

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• Ever since I read the novel Halting State, I began to truly wonder about the future of MMORPG gaming, and digital economies. With each passing year, our real-world economy gets more and more tangled up in the “fake” economies of the digital realm. Enormous value is being assigned to objects, ideas, and things that do not corporeally exist as anything but a string of code.

  It is now called \'Planet Calypso.\' OK, I have played this game a few times over the last few years. Each time it is interesting, but the game-play is so sluggish that it is hard to get into it.

  If you tell the average person, who probably knows what World of Warcraft is, that the same game raked in millions of dollars in pure profit by simply charging players a relatively small fee for a make-believe, in game item, they’d likely gawk at you and/or call you a complete liar. Or they would lament the impending end of the world as they know it.If there is any herald to that apocalypse of the olden days of value and profit, Planet Calypso is certainly one of them. In any game world where an individual can mortgage their house to pay for a large chunk of virtual real estate, and then turn a handsome profit back on their investment, all bets are off. The old ways have are officially in their twilight years. Step One: Make AvatarThe Planet Calypso experience starts out harmlessly enough. Download the client, which isn’t all that large, from the developer’s website. Create an account (beware, the user name is case sensitive, which can be confusing at first when logging in), and get into the avatar creator.

  Set in and beyond the 24th century, Face of Mankind is a first- and third-person sci-fi MMO from Duplex Systems and NeXeon Technologies where \'players have full control over their gaming. Face of Mankind. Aug 05, 2008  Multiple players on the Face of Mankind server emulator. Website coming soon. For Face of Mankind on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled \'The game is alive and well - in an emu form.\' Face of mankind emulator.

  You’ll find that creating a character isn’t much like creating a character, per se, it’s more like creating a blank, lifeless clone that you will soon possess and take control of. You choose their appearance, and their clothing. No skills or anything else. Strangely, choosing the clothing is pointless, as when you spawn in the obligatory noob-central area, you are assigned a nice suit of camo pajamas, making you look like an oversized toddler commando. Step Two: Create GoalsSo, here you are, a freshly arrived colonist on a distant, hostile planet. The story in Planet Calypso is that humanity has colonized outer space, and these colonists just recently finished fighting a long, brutal war against some kind of rogue robot species.

  Now that the robots have been driven back, it’s up to fresh-faced colonists like yourself to rebuild and vitalize the new world. The question becomes, how exactly do you intend to do that? Never alone lady antebellum lyrics. Are you going to pick up arms and go hunting for wild beasts? Are you going to be a trader, investing in a vehicle and the ability to get stuff from A to B? A plastic surgeon, modifying other player’s avatars? A tailor, designing clothes?

  A harvester, prospecting? If you can imagine it, you can profit from it, and like the real world, profit is king in Planet Calypso.

  It\'s all about profit.Playing the game, at first, is a little confusing. It looks gorgeous, for one, using the Crytek engine (of Crysis fame), but it plays somewhat awkwardly at times. I decided I was going to go hunting, and after talking to all the NPCs I could find, I set out to bag myself some alien wildlife. I ran out into the wilderness, with what I thought was a gun in my hands, and approached the nearest beast. The animals in this game look terrifying, like some kind of nightmarish cross between a reptile and an insect. I sat still, being bitten and clawed, while I thought I was attacking it. As it turns out, I was actually just harvesting sweat from the beast with the harvester in my hand.

  

  It struck me, then, that some people in this world might actually make their living harvesting perspiration. I found a gun later, but if this doesn’t illustrate the many strange and forked paths available to you in Planet Calypso, I don’t know what does.After your path is chosen, your number one goal in this game is to enhance your ability to make money from it.

  Whether it’s training up your combat skills through usage and practice, or investing in a speedy transport, at the end of the day, it’s all about being in the black. The game uses a currency called PED, which has a very real exchange rate between itself and USD. The ratio is 10:1, and yes, it goes both ways (hurr). You could theoretically make money, maybe even a living, by playing Planet Calypso. The economy works fairly simply; PED can only be bought from the developer of Planet Calypso. There is no other way to get PED, unless you get it from another player, who ultimately got it from the developer.

  Mobs and objects in game drop items, whether it’s hides, sweat, ore or other goods harvested, and whatever else. These items can be used to craft other items, such as armor, guns, construction materials, etc. Step Three: Profit(???)In this way, the game follows the tradition MMORPG formula of “beat up monsters, get bigger sword, use bigger sword to beat up bigger monster” ad infinitum.

  It goes on endlessly, and there is apparently no shortage of big monsters to beat up, and big swords (or guns) to make or find. The similarities end when players begin assigning PED value to these objects within the game.

  Most players will likely barter, exchanging goods for goods and hoarding their precious PED for as long as they can. Others, most notably the veritable in-game tycoon I mentioned in the introduction, will be willing to start working the exchange rate to their distinct advantage. In these ways and many others, it is possible for a lone monster hunter (perhaps yourself), to make real money by doing what they pay someone to do in another game. It goes without saying that, because it’s listed on this website, Planet Calypso is completely free to play.

  Final Verdict: GreatWhere else can you find an experience as singular as Planet Calypso? The game is an adventure, and with a relatively large community and a very flexible engine at its disposal, it could grow into something quite stunning, and perhaps even unprecedented. The game’s storyline calls for pioneers and brave souls to come and invest in the riches of the new world. In this age of the digital frontier, that story just seems like a very clever metaphor.

  Will you be one of the pioneers to head into a game like Planet Calypso and make a real profit? It’s probably best to start sooner than later, while the old dinosaurs running the world still aren’t thinking to tax operations like this.

  

  Get to it, and good luck!

  Entropia UniverseMindArkMultipleReleaseJanuary 30, 2003,Mode(s)Entropia Universe is a (MMORPG) designed by the software company, based in.Entropia uses a business model, in which players may buy in-game currency (PED - Project Entropia Dollars) with real money that can be redeemed back into at a fixed exchange rate of 10:1. This means that virtual items acquired within Entropia Universe have a real cash value, and a participant may, at any time, initiate a withdrawal of their accumulated PED back into U.S. Dollars according to the fixed exchange rate, minus transaction fees; the minimum amount for a withdrawal is 1,000 PED. The Entropia Universe is a direct continuation of Project Entropia.Entropia Universe entered the in both 2004 and 2008 for the most expensive virtual world objects ever sold. In 2009, a virtual space station, a popular destination, sold for $330,000. This was then eclipsed in November 2010 when sold a club named \'Club Neverdie\' for $635,000; this property was sold in chunks, with the largest sold for $335,000.In 2014, Planet Arkadia started selling 200,000 Arkadia Underground Deeds (AUD) valued at US$5.00 each (50PED), making the Arkadia Underground valued at $1 million. Contents.Gameplay Cost to participate The game can be played for free, but spending money on the in-game currency allows significant additional options like purchasing items, skills, deeds/shares, and services from other players.Nearly all of the main in-game activities (such as hunting, crafting items, mining, etc.), require expendable resources (ammunition, probes, guns, finders, extractors), which must be purchased from vending machines (or other players).

  These items are either expended during each try (ammunition, probes), or they decay with use and will require repairing eventually (ranged and melee weapons, mindforce weapons, mining equipment). Many items are now (L) - meaning they are limited and cannot be repaired causing the player to have to buy another when it is decayed to the extent it can no longer be used.This decay and expending of consumables encourages people to craft the items other players may need, promoting a thriving market in the items and ingredients needed to craft. However, currently it is difficult to craft items (XX% return in TT costs of the ingredients, but a much lower chance of successfully creating an item depending on skills and the Quality Rating of the blueprint).The three main activities (hunting, crafting and mining) have loot returns which appear random, but have been confirmed to be influenced by the equipment, skills and activity (mob, blueprint, area), of the avatar. The better matched the skills, equipment and area of the activity, the more likely the player will have a \'success\' - determined as either a hit, an evade or dodge, a successful craft or the finding of an ore or enmatter.Skills are gained from either hitting, being hit, healing (using various healing equipment), crafting or mining.These skills are extractable and can be sold to other players.There is no account fee or connection charge. Retrieved 2010-06-23.

  Retrieved 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2010-11-20. Multiplayer Online Game Directory. Archived from on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.

  Multiplayer Online Game Directory. Archived from on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013. Retrieved 2012-09-25. 25 October 2005.

  Retrieved 3 January 2010. 9 November 2005.

  Retrieved 3 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010. Neha Tiwari (October 10, 2006). Retrieved 2009-03-17.

  Gamedaily.com. ^ (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-21. Some may say they are like pawn shops, but in Entropia they are banks. There is no other way to get money forwarded or loaned securely.

  ^ Chloe Albanesius (2007-05-09). Retrieved 2010-05-21. ^. Retrieved 2010-05-21.

  May 13, 2007, at the. ^ C. Albanesius (2007-05-25).

  Retrieved 2010-05-21. SOURCE: Planet Calypso (December 8, 2009). ANP (December 30, 2009). Entropiaplanets.com (December 28, 2009). (PDF).

  Retrieved June 16, 2010. Johnson, Stephen (2010-10-28). Retrieved 2012-09-25.

  November 16, 2011.External links. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website.

  ...'>Planet Calypso Review(28.04.2020)

• Ever since I read the novel Halting State, I began to truly wonder about the future of MMORPG gaming, and digital economies. With each passing year, our real-world economy gets more and more tangled up in the “fake” economies of the digital realm. Enormous value is being assigned to objects, ideas, and things that do not corporeally exist as anything but a string of code.

  It is now called \'Planet Calypso.\' OK, I have played this game a few times over the last few years. Each time it is interesting, but the game-play is so sluggish that it is hard to get into it.

  If you tell the average person, who probably knows what World of Warcraft is, that the same game raked in millions of dollars in pure profit by simply charging players a relatively small fee for a make-believe, in game item, they’d likely gawk at you and/or call you a complete liar. Or they would lament the impending end of the world as they know it.If there is any herald to that apocalypse of the olden days of value and profit, Planet Calypso is certainly one of them. In any game world where an individual can mortgage their house to pay for a large chunk of virtual real estate, and then turn a handsome profit back on their investment, all bets are off. The old ways have are officially in their twilight years. Step One: Make AvatarThe Planet Calypso experience starts out harmlessly enough. Download the client, which isn’t all that large, from the developer’s website. Create an account (beware, the user name is case sensitive, which can be confusing at first when logging in), and get into the avatar creator.

  Set in and beyond the 24th century, Face of Mankind is a first- and third-person sci-fi MMO from Duplex Systems and NeXeon Technologies where \'players have full control over their gaming. Face of Mankind. Aug 05, 2008  Multiple players on the Face of Mankind server emulator. Website coming soon. For Face of Mankind on the PC, a GameFAQs message board topic titled \'The game is alive and well - in an emu form.\' Face of mankind emulator.

  You’ll find that creating a character isn’t much like creating a character, per se, it’s more like creating a blank, lifeless clone that you will soon possess and take control of. You choose their appearance, and their clothing. No skills or anything else. Strangely, choosing the clothing is pointless, as when you spawn in the obligatory noob-central area, you are assigned a nice suit of camo pajamas, making you look like an oversized toddler commando. Step Two: Create GoalsSo, here you are, a freshly arrived colonist on a distant, hostile planet. The story in Planet Calypso is that humanity has colonized outer space, and these colonists just recently finished fighting a long, brutal war against some kind of rogue robot species.

  Now that the robots have been driven back, it’s up to fresh-faced colonists like yourself to rebuild and vitalize the new world. The question becomes, how exactly do you intend to do that? Never alone lady antebellum lyrics. Are you going to pick up arms and go hunting for wild beasts? Are you going to be a trader, investing in a vehicle and the ability to get stuff from A to B? A plastic surgeon, modifying other player’s avatars? A tailor, designing clothes?

  A harvester, prospecting? If you can imagine it, you can profit from it, and like the real world, profit is king in Planet Calypso.

  It\'s all about profit.Playing the game, at first, is a little confusing. It looks gorgeous, for one, using the Crytek engine (of Crysis fame), but it plays somewhat awkwardly at times. I decided I was going to go hunting, and after talking to all the NPCs I could find, I set out to bag myself some alien wildlife. I ran out into the wilderness, with what I thought was a gun in my hands, and approached the nearest beast. The animals in this game look terrifying, like some kind of nightmarish cross between a reptile and an insect. I sat still, being bitten and clawed, while I thought I was attacking it. As it turns out, I was actually just harvesting sweat from the beast with the harvester in my hand.

  

  It struck me, then, that some people in this world might actually make their living harvesting perspiration. I found a gun later, but if this doesn’t illustrate the many strange and forked paths available to you in Planet Calypso, I don’t know what does.After your path is chosen, your number one goal in this game is to enhance your ability to make money from it.

  Whether it’s training up your combat skills through usage and practice, or investing in a speedy transport, at the end of the day, it’s all about being in the black. The game uses a currency called PED, which has a very real exchange rate between itself and USD. The ratio is 10:1, and yes, it goes both ways (hurr). You could theoretically make money, maybe even a living, by playing Planet Calypso. The economy works fairly simply; PED can only be bought from the developer of Planet Calypso. There is no other way to get PED, unless you get it from another player, who ultimately got it from the developer.

  Mobs and objects in game drop items, whether it’s hides, sweat, ore or other goods harvested, and whatever else. These items can be used to craft other items, such as armor, guns, construction materials, etc. Step Three: Profit(???)In this way, the game follows the tradition MMORPG formula of “beat up monsters, get bigger sword, use bigger sword to beat up bigger monster” ad infinitum.

  It goes on endlessly, and there is apparently no shortage of big monsters to beat up, and big swords (or guns) to make or find. The similarities end when players begin assigning PED value to these objects within the game.

  Most players will likely barter, exchanging goods for goods and hoarding their precious PED for as long as they can. Others, most notably the veritable in-game tycoon I mentioned in the introduction, will be willing to start working the exchange rate to their distinct advantage. In these ways and many others, it is possible for a lone monster hunter (perhaps yourself), to make real money by doing what they pay someone to do in another game. It goes without saying that, because it’s listed on this website, Planet Calypso is completely free to play.

  Final Verdict: GreatWhere else can you find an experience as singular as Planet Calypso? The game is an adventure, and with a relatively large community and a very flexible engine at its disposal, it could grow into something quite stunning, and perhaps even unprecedented. The game’s storyline calls for pioneers and brave souls to come and invest in the riches of the new world. In this age of the digital frontier, that story just seems like a very clever metaphor.

  Will you be one of the pioneers to head into a game like Planet Calypso and make a real profit? It’s probably best to start sooner than later, while the old dinosaurs running the world still aren’t thinking to tax operations like this.

  

  Get to it, and good luck!

  Entropia UniverseMindArkMultipleReleaseJanuary 30, 2003,Mode(s)Entropia Universe is a (MMORPG) designed by the software company, based in.Entropia uses a business model, in which players may buy in-game currency (PED - Project Entropia Dollars) with real money that can be redeemed back into at a fixed exchange rate of 10:1. This means that virtual items acquired within Entropia Universe have a real cash value, and a participant may, at any time, initiate a withdrawal of their accumulated PED back into U.S. Dollars according to the fixed exchange rate, minus transaction fees; the minimum amount for a withdrawal is 1,000 PED. The Entropia Universe is a direct continuation of Project Entropia.Entropia Universe entered the in both 2004 and 2008 for the most expensive virtual world objects ever sold. In 2009, a virtual space station, a popular destination, sold for $330,000. This was then eclipsed in November 2010 when sold a club named \'Club Neverdie\' for $635,000; this property was sold in chunks, with the largest sold for $335,000.In 2014, Planet Arkadia started selling 200,000 Arkadia Underground Deeds (AUD) valued at US$5.00 each (50PED), making the Arkadia Underground valued at $1 million. Contents.Gameplay Cost to participate The game can be played for free, but spending money on the in-game currency allows significant additional options like purchasing items, skills, deeds/shares, and services from other players.Nearly all of the main in-game activities (such as hunting, crafting items, mining, etc.), require expendable resources (ammunition, probes, guns, finders, extractors), which must be purchased from vending machines (or other players).

  These items are either expended during each try (ammunition, probes), or they decay with use and will require repairing eventually (ranged and melee weapons, mindforce weapons, mining equipment). Many items are now (L) - meaning they are limited and cannot be repaired causing the player to have to buy another when it is decayed to the extent it can no longer be used.This decay and expending of consumables encourages people to craft the items other players may need, promoting a thriving market in the items and ingredients needed to craft. However, currently it is difficult to craft items (XX% return in TT costs of the ingredients, but a much lower chance of successfully creating an item depending on skills and the Quality Rating of the blueprint).The three main activities (hunting, crafting and mining) have loot returns which appear random, but have been confirmed to be influenced by the equipment, skills and activity (mob, blueprint, area), of the avatar. The better matched the skills, equipment and area of the activity, the more likely the player will have a \'success\' - determined as either a hit, an evade or dodge, a successful craft or the finding of an ore or enmatter.Skills are gained from either hitting, being hit, healing (using various healing equipment), crafting or mining.These skills are extractable and can be sold to other players.There is no account fee or connection charge. Retrieved 2010-06-23.

  Retrieved 2010-11-13. Retrieved 2010-11-20. Multiplayer Online Game Directory. Archived from on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013.

  Multiplayer Online Game Directory. Archived from on 1 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2013. Retrieved 2012-09-25. 25 October 2005.

  Retrieved 3 January 2010. 9 November 2005.

  Retrieved 3 January 2010. Retrieved 3 January 2010. Neha Tiwari (October 10, 2006). Retrieved 2009-03-17.

  Gamedaily.com. ^ (PDF). Retrieved 2010-05-21. Some may say they are like pawn shops, but in Entropia they are banks. There is no other way to get money forwarded or loaned securely.

  ^ Chloe Albanesius (2007-05-09). Retrieved 2010-05-21. ^. Retrieved 2010-05-21.

  May 13, 2007, at the. ^ C. Albanesius (2007-05-25).

  Retrieved 2010-05-21. SOURCE: Planet Calypso (December 8, 2009). ANP (December 30, 2009). Entropiaplanets.com (December 28, 2009). (PDF).

  Retrieved June 16, 2010. Johnson, Stephen (2010-10-28). Retrieved 2012-09-25.

  November 16, 2011.External links. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website. – Official website.

  ...'>Planet Calypso Review(28.04.2020)